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Growing up in New England, Rick Mungeam spent a lot of time on the beaches of Cape Cod. As a teenager the embers of his now successful professional sand sculpting company might be glimpsed in the life-size Porsche he created in 1974 on Martha’s Vineyard, Ma. Rick’s passion for design and his enjoyment of technical drawing drove him, as a young man, to pursue a career in architecture. For almost 40 years, Rick Mungeam as RGM Design, created custom upper-end homes in many resort communities and exotic locations such as Lake Tahoe, Hawaii, Whidbey Island, WA., Tiburon and Napa, CA., and numerous projects in Colorado ski towns.
The economic changes that were experienced in 2008 caused the profession of architecture to be rendered nearly extinct. Selling their home in Colorado, Rick and his wife, Capri, set out on a traveling adventure. Their quest for warmer weather brought them to the beaches of South Padre Island, TX, where Rick first met Master Sand Sculptor Andy Hancock. Hancock’s easy instructive techniques fanned Rick’s forgotten ember for sand sculpting into a small spark. As they continued to travel, Rick spent much of his beach time playing in the sand, honing his newly acquired sand sculpting skills. One evening after creating what has now become known as “HeartCastle” on GraytonBeach (Florida Panhandle), a wedding party asked if they might incorporate the castle into their ceremony and wedding photos. That same night a number of families asked to use the castle as a backdrop for their beach family portraits. The answer was “yes”, however these events caused the entrepreneurial minded Mungeam to begin considering the prospect of becoming a professional sand sculptor, and the flickering spark became a flame.
Since that fateful day on Grayton Beach, (Florida Panhandle), Beach Sand Sculptures has become a thriving business offering a variety of professional sand sculpting services; sandcastle lessons to corporate team building events, marriage proposals and wedding sand sculptures, table- top entertaining performance art pieces that draw crowds to multi-ton projects off the beach, indoors and out of doors.
The Mungeam’s Beach Sand Sculptures has reached a record high not only in business contacts and awareness of the benefits and thrills of sand sculptures but also in social media. The BeachSandSculptures.com facebook fan page recently received their 1,200 “Like” in less than 9 months and Tripadvisor reviews have placed them as the #8 Attraction in Destin (Panhandle of Florida) in the same 9 month span.At first Rick was a bit disappointed by the idea of creating real architecture for nearly 40 years to seemingly only build castle in the sand. A question from his wife caused a paradigm shift in his mind. She asked, “Could it be that you were an architect for 37 years SO THAT you could be a really great sand sculptor”?
Now Mungeam embraces his new career by telling people as he looks down to his bare feet in the sand, “I changed my work shoes, and these are a lot more comfortable”.
Rick Mungeam, architect turned professional sand sculptor can be reached
@ 303-681-2631 on facebook, Twitter and
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A Sweetheart SandCastle for Valentine’s Day
Conversation sand hearts for Valentine’s Day
Create a Valentine’s Day Memory
Roses are red, Violets are blue,
AND
a diamonds are a girl’s best friend,
but NOTHING says I Love You like a Sweetheart SandCastle!
Valentine’s Day is here again. Last year you brought her flowers, the year before it was chocolates, and you have even found her a beautiful best friend (aka a diamond), so what’s left? It needs to be romantic, beautiful, something that will create a lasting memory in her mind – but also in her heart.
Sweetheart SandCastle by BeachSandSculptures.com
Girls and women alike LOVE Beach Sand Sculptures. SandCastles delight a special place in a woman’s heart. Nothing says I Love You in such a romantic way. This Valentine’s Day give her something no other girl she knows has ever received . . .A Sweetheart SandCastle from BeachSandSculptures.com: because it’s not just a castle made of sand . . . it’s a memory!
Table-top SandCastle from BeachSandSculptures.com
BeachSandSculptures.com can create sandcastles on the EmeraldCoast beaches as well as unique table-top sandcastle to be used as a decoration or display in the home or office. Contact BeachSandSculptures.com to schedule your 2013 Valentine’s Day memory!
Florida: The Perfect Climate for BeachSandSculptures.com
BeachSandSculptures.com embrace Orange Ties and Sand Sculptures
Florida has just begun a new campaign to attract business to the Sunshine State. “The branding campaign will feature orange-colored neckties, strategically-placed sand-sculptures and the slogan: “Florida: The perfect climate for business” reports The Buzz from the staff of the Tampa Bay Times.
BeachSandSculptures.com found GOLD in Florida: The perfect business climate
Florida: The perfect climate for business is exactly what Rick and Capri Mungeam of Beach Sand Sculptures discovered first hand over the last couple of years. Their business, BeachSandSculptures.com is a professional sand sculpting company based on The Emerald Coast of Florida. “We could have launched our business on any coast, but we chose Florida for a number of reasons” stated Mungeam, as a matter of fact.
A business is very much like a sand sculpture. Initially you have to choose where you are planning to build. A marketing sand sculpture would not be created on a remote beach; exposure is critical for success. Beach Sand Sculptures has discovered year round activities in Florida, making it the perfect location to build just about any business. The next important consideration when creating a business or sand sculpture is the foundation. It is an established fact that a strong foundation can make all the difference in the overall outcome of every endeavor. The Florida economy is the 21st largest economy in the world, that’s a great foundation on which to build a business. What sets apart Beach Sand Sculptures from the average sandcastle builder on the beach is their ability and capacity to create a sculpture that will stand taller than the rest. Businesses need room for growth and expansion. Florida’s residence and Florida’s tourism are two built in providers of growth for the businesses that make Florida their home. Heaven is in the details. When the unnecessary sand has been cast away it is the intricately carved details of the masterpiece beneath that cause people to say, “WOW!” The collective details of emerald green water, family friendly environment, warm climate, friendly locals and tourists alike, and the beautiful sugar white sand beaches create the enchantment of Florida’s Emerald Coast. It was this magic of combined details that caused the Mungeams to say, “WOW!” this is the place to start our business. Whether you are building sand sculptures or looking for a place to start, grow or move your business; Florida is the perfect climate!
This talented couple has literally carved out a niche for themselves by teaching sandcastle lessons to creating impressive corporate sand sculptures. Beach Sand Sculptures professional sand sculpting services include marriage proposals, weddings sand sculptures, corporate team building events, corporate logos, demonstrations and performance art, tabletops sand sculptures for the home or office, on the beach or bring the beach to you, say it in sand – hear the results. To learn more go to www.BeachSandSculptures.com or www.facebook.com/BeachSandSculptures.com
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Richard G. Mungeam
Lead Sand Sculptor and Instructor
by Anne Bennett
Lovin’ a Sandcastle Lesson @ Lovers Key
In a former life Rick Mungeam was renowned residential architect traveling extensively designing custom resort homes showcased in several architectural publications. But the economic changes of 2008 resulted in Rick and his wife, Capri, selling their home in Colorado to begin traveling.
South Padre Island, Tx, late 2010, under the tutelage of Andy Hancock, Master Sand Sculptor, Rick learned the basics of sand sculpting. By mid 2011 Rick was honing his sand sculpting skills on The Emerald Coast of The Florida Panhandle, near Destin, along Scenic Hwy 30A, when his sandcastle with a romantic heart was used for a wedding, and later for several family portraits, Rick realized his talent might develop into a business.
Nov. 2011, Rick won the Pro-Am Division of The World Championship of Sand Sculpting to further exhort his talents. 2012 watched BeachSandSculptures.com became the reigning Sand Sculpting Champions and a visible and known presence along Florida’s Emerald Coast.
Their boys are grown now, but through home schooling their two sons Rick and Capri learned creative teaching skills that Rick now utilizes as he offers design services in the form of sand sculpting creations. From 30A and Santa Rosa Beach business advertisements in sand to corporate team building at WaterColor or Seaside, a private party on the Dune Allen Beach to corporate events at the ritzy Sandestin resorts, Alys Beach wedding proposal or a Rosemary Beach wedding sculptures, and inspirational sand castle on Grayton Beach or sculpting lessons at Topsail State Park, Beach Sand Sculptures can create a sculpture to meet your needs and exceed your wildest imagination.
Capri Mungeam
AKA Aqua Woman, Sand Sculpting Apprentice, Marketing
They say, “Behind every successful man their is a successful woman”, this is often said to emphasize that a man’s success often depends on the work and support of his wife. That may or may not be the case with The Mungeams, but one thing is for certain, they’ve been a successful business team for nearly 30 year now.
Initially sand sculpting was definitely Rick’s forte, Capri talk with the people on the beach, handed out business cards and promoted Rick’s Sandcastle Lessons. But over the last couple of years she has watched carefully and slowly absorbed many of the finer details of sand carving. She still feel like she has much to learn, but the alligator she sculpted on the Topsail Hill State Park Sand Sculpture caught the eye of many a “Gators” fans as one said, “that’s a good lookin’ gator”.
The design development is Rick’s department. “Rick is really the artist”, Capri is fond of saying, “but I come up with a lot of ideas and sometimes their pretty good”, she said with a smile. Typically when they begin a project Rick shovels and Capri hauls the water from the nearest water source – usually The Gulf of Mexico. They methodically work together to build their sculpture foundation and fill the forms. The couple has worked out their individual roles while they create a sand sculpture in order not to “step on each others toes” if you will.
The other major role that Capri takes is the “behind the sands” marketing. “I’m getting my marketing degree through Social Media. There is much to learn”, . With the ever changing advertising/marketing innovations and technology The Mungeams realize, that today, if you aren’t communicating with your the world via Social Media you are frankly “dead in the sand”. When BeachSandSculptures.com on Facebook received it’s 1000th “Like” in less than 6 months, Capri knew they were onto something very unique. They’ve even incorporated offering media and social media services to help clients to gain the maximum PR out of their Beach Sand Sculptures.
Advertise in Sand
SAY IT – IN SAND HEAR - THE WOW! SAY IT – IN SAND HEAR – THE WOW!
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Beach Sand Sculptures are captivating works of art
providing a fresh and unique MARKETING SOLUTIONS
CORPORATE LOGOS PRODUCT DISPLAYS TRADE SHOWS ARCHITECTURAL REPLICAS CARICATURES/LIKENESS NATURE SCENES LIFE SIZE WALK- THROUGH SCULPTURES FESTIVAL DISPLAYS PERFORMANCE ART SANDCASTLE DEMONSTRATIONS HOLIDAY DISPLAYS MALL CROWD PLEASER MEDIA MAGNETS & EVENTS LONG-TERM IN-DOOR DISPLAYS GRAND OPENINGS
On the beach or on location
small table-top pieces to 100+ tons of sand
Add THE WOW! Factor to your Marketing
What makes us different
Beach Sand Sculptures offers something VERY NEW and INNOVATIVE in Marketing and Advertising. We are a truly unique company with a personalized service that can provide sand sculptures to enhance and promote various events and activities, or supplement your traditional marketing plan. Our specialized services take an artistic approach to creating a one-of-a-kind sculpture to draw attraction to your Emerald Coast business or event.
“WOW” is what you will audibly hear!
Committed to THE WOW!
The perfect mix of innovation, technology, talent, dedication and hard work makes us a professional sand sculpting company offering our customer’s access to THE WOW! THE WOW! tantalizes your customers heart; enriching their lives and builds delight in your brand. It’s our passion for THE WOW! that drives us to create detailed awe-inspiring sand sculptures. We know it’s only when we consistently deliver THE WOW! that you will come back for more. As one of the few professional sand sculpting companies in the world we decided early on to set the bar for integrity and technology in our industry.
THE WOW! + Media
We are always looking to better our sand sculpting skills, to build a better sandcastle if you will. But our services don’t stop there; you can continue from advertising in sand -> straight into technology with Beach Sand Sculptures. After all, you want a sand sculpture to draw attention, right? Working together with your company and contacts we can prime the media with a pre-event press release, this might be the first step. We have discovered through the use of social media, such as Facebook and Twitter, we can create a media stir with pictures and/or video of a sand sculpture. In fact we are the pioneers in the sand sculpting industry to utilize technology to promote sand sculptures – real time! But be prepared, because a sand sculpture can draw crowds and media coverage you might not have expected!
Location, Location, Location
The Emerald Coast Beaches; Pensacola, Navarre, Fort Walton Beach, Destin, South Walton (SoWal) Beaches, Seascape, Sandestin, Miramar, Dune Allen, Santa Rosa Beach, Blue Mountain Beach, Grayton Beach, WaterColor, Seaside, Seagrove, Watersound, Alys Beach, Seacrest, Rosemary Beach, Inlet Beach, Carillon Beach to Panama City are the optimal location to take your marketing plan to the sand. With advanced notice we can sculpt sand anywhere in the world.
SAY IT – IN SAND
HEAR the RESULTS
“WOW”!
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Emerald Coast Sand Sculpting Champions bring the “WOW”
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The skills of local sand sculpting couple, Rick and Capri
, have gained them two prominent sand sculpting wins, making them the 2012 Sand Sculpting Champions of the Emerald Coast and they bring their “WOW” to area events.
Santa Rosa Beach, FL. Sept. 26, 2012 – A majestically sculpted sand Eagle emerging from a pile of broken concrete with an American flag in his beak, entitled “Born Again”, wowed the beach-goers and the judges and was awarded 1st Place in the Open Division at Pensacola’s Fiesta of Five Flags Sand Sculpting Contest earlier this summer. More recently this creative couple brought awe and delight to the Panama City Beach Schooner’s Lobster Fest when they created a 12 foot Lobster holding a sign stating, “Eat Mor Chikin” in the well-know Chick-Fil-A font, that won them another 1st Place Trophy. From Pensacola to Panama City Beach, this last win marks them as the 2012 Sand Sculpting Champions of the Emerald Coast.
Fortunately for the Emerald Coast, Rick and Capri Mungeam take their artistic flair to the Emerald Coast beaches and beyond. If you can’t make it to the beach, their professional sand sculpting company, BeachSandSculptures.com, can bring “the beach” to you. Sand sculptures are intriguing and can complement any special event or business promotion. The ability to create smaller “table-top” sculptures increases their versatility, whether it’s a birthday, anniversary, graduation, promotion or any other party you could imagine. In your home, office, showroom or event venue, a captivating and uniquely personalized sand sculpture can create a long lasting memory as well as some pretty cool pictures.
Realizing the unique fresh approach to marketing generated by sand, BeachSandSculptures is involved with larger corporate projects such as logos, branding, advertising, and displays. Sand sculptures attract attention, captivate the mind and thrill the soul. Used as a performance art, they draw large crowds and increase traffic flow to your event. BeachSandSculptures.com can create the “WOW” and “AWE” you’ve been looking for, whether large or small, on the beach or at your location, this fresh new approach is the perfect addition to your Emerald Coast event. Call 303-681-2631 today, to schedule your event “WOW”.
BeachSandSculptures.com is a professional sand sculpting company providing a variety of services; from Sandcastle Lesson and Sand Sculpting Workshops, through Business Promotions such as branding, logos, advertising, displays and Corporate Team Building, to intimate table-top pieces for home, office or showroom, all the way to 100+ ton projects with birthdays, weddings, marriage proposals, anniversaries, reunions, graduation and any other event you can think of in between. On the beach or at your location, BeachSandSculptures have the “WOW” effect!
Contact: Rick Mungeam 303-681-2631 rick@beachsandsculptures.com Facebook Fan Page www.BeachSandSculptures.com
The Walton Sun Published: Nov 8, 2012 http://www.waltonsun.com/community/sand-sculpting-champions-1.46309
Panama City News 13 SandFish Sand Sculpture
After twice being rained out www.BeachSandSculptures.com TheSandman RickMungeam was finally able to create a sand sculpture for WMBB New 13 Morning Show. Hillary Hutchinson did a great job of interviewing Rick, asking all the important questions in the little bit of time given.
3:00am – always seems to come, well . . . early, and when you’ve been rained out of an event 2 times already it’s hard to be optimistic, especially when you have been hearing the rumblings of thunder for the past hour! Nearly ready to throw in the wet towel, TheSandman RickMungeam decides to give it one last chance and drives to Schooner’s Restaurant on Panama City Beach to create a quick sand sculpture and interview for WMBB News 13 Morning Show out of Panama City, Florida. Fortunately the weather was dry and the sculpting began.
The News 13 Morning Show airs from 5-7am. That gave Rick Mungeam only 2 hours to build and sculpt a sand sculpture – not a lot of time! So the piece had to be relatively small and obviously not very detailed, yet presentable for TV appeal. Hillary Hutchinson of WMBB was very forward thinking when she requested the June Fish she had view at www.BeachSandSculptures.com realizing that people love sandcastles but she wanted to demonstrate to her viewing audience something different.
Rick and his wife, Capri, after unloading their sand sculpting equipment and tools, began mounding and thoroughly wetting the sand. Using plastic forms they pounded up the sand to create the main body of the June Fish. At this point the fish had been dubbed “The News 13 SandFish”. Moving quickly TheSandman began forming the Sandfish while waiting ques from Hillary and camera man, Al, about the program timing and what they would be feeding live from the beach. Just as the sunlight made the sandy scene visible they went live for about 2 minutes, maybe a bit longer. Hillary was so excited the sand sculpting tools and the transformation that Rick was making in the sand.
As Rick continued to work the SandFish became more obvious, no longer just a pile of sand. With skilled technique Rick added the material for the tail then gathered some fine sand for his next step. During the second segment Rick demonstrated the technique of “wet stacking” to create the SandFish’s three dimensional bulging eyes. He also explained about basic tips that help the sand sculpture stand out from the base.
Unfortunately time did not allow for The WMBB logo to be etched into the side of the SandFish until the program was over, but on the last segment Hillary promoted www.BeachSandSculptures and telling her viewing audience that pictures would be posted on the WMBB Facebook Fan Page, then they cut the feed. Rick continued working to sculpt into the side of the SandFish, the WMBB logo. Pictures of the completed “News 13 SandFish” were taken. All in all a great experience and the team was very excited that Mother Nature cooperated this time!
Panama City WMBB News 13 Sand Fish
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