She sells sea shells down by the sea shore.

Actually, she collects them. She wears goggles, sticks her face in the water, and digs shells out of the sand. This is how Tekia spent much of her time in Turks and Caicos.

She also helped save the planet by picking up plastic cups off the beach and using them to hold her shells. Kia preferred to have a helper who could hold her cup, hence Mom floating with a cup in her hand.her treasures

her teeny, tiny "honk" (aka conch) shells