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Beautiful Handmade Statement Necklaces and other Fabulousness from Neena Shilvock - Inspirations and Designs From the Week Gone by

A Take Over Bid - all in the Name of Creativity

13/3/2015

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Hello readers, thanks for joining me once again on the Caprilicious Blog. This week has been a bit of a washout as far as making jewellery goes, mainly because I have been nursing my poor husband through a bout of food poisoning. He probably got it from a dodgy egg that he cooked himself 
and because we tend to eat almost separate meals - me with a bit of spice and Mike eating the blandest food in the house, I escaped the actual symptoms myself. I didn't escape them entirely, however because I lived through them vicariously, minute by minute.  I wasn't spared a single second of them, and I have to say they certainly didn't improve with the telling. I learned one thing through this - I am absolutely not cut out to be a nurse!! 
Love In a Mist, Caprilicious Jewellery
Just before the explosive effects of the egg took over my week, I spent some time sorting out the seeds I had collected from various seed pods in my garden last year. The soil will warm up once Easter is done and I want to sow these directly into my flower beds. One of these is Nigella, or as it more commonly known, Love in a Mist. 

Love In A Mist

Nigella, by Caprilicious Jewellery
Just the thought of these pretty flowers prompted me to unearth all the blue gemstone beads I have in my stash and put some of them into a necklace, using one of the diamanté clasps I showed you last week. As blue is one of my favourite colours, I found plenty to choose from and picked blue agate and jade teardrops to use in this necklace which sits close to the base of the neck in asymmetric beauty.

Love in a Mist - four strands of blue agate and jade with a diamanté clasp and little flowers by Caprilicious Jewellery
Love in a Mist - four strands of blue agate and jade with a diamanté clasp and little flowers by Caprilicious Jewellery
Love in a Mist - four strands of blue agate and jade with a diamanté clasp and little flowers by Caprilicious Jewellery
Love in a Mist - four strands of blue agate and jade with a diamanté clasp and little flowers by Caprilicious Jewellery
Love in a Mist - four strands of blue agate and jade with a diamanté clasp and little flowers by Caprilicious Jewellery
Love in a Mist - four strands of blue agate and jade with a diamanté clasp and little flowers by Caprilicious Jewellery

The Takeover - Inch by Little Inch

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This, readers, was what my conservatory once looked like - a sitting room with cane furniture which we used very occasionally - when it rained in the summertime perhaps, or where Mike puffed on a contemplative stogie while he used the telescope to do a bit of stargazing.

This was well before Caprilicious was part of my life. Once I got involved in writing my website and posting pictures of the jewellery I made, I realised that I had to take a good picture - shoddy, unfocused photographs simply wouldn't do. After all, I was asking people to fall in love with my jewellery without having to touch and feel it - my photographs would have to be the next best thing.
Modahaus tabletop stand by Caprilicious Jewellery, photograph from The Beading Gem's Journal
I already owned a little Canon point and shoot camera and to get the best from it I invested in a Modahaus tabletop stand on the back of a review in the Beading Gem's Journal and a collapsible PhotoBox for larger necklaces. 


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Mike's little keyboard, where he pounds out his five stride jazz when I am at work is slowly disappearing in the detritus of my photography, and the treadmill, which has always been parked in one corner, used only by my eighty-five-year-old mother when she came to visit (shame on us!) three years ago, is no longer visible, hidden behind a backdrop.

Use of the Conservatory as a studio at Caprilicious Jewellery
Use of the Conservatory as a studio at Caprilicious Jewellery
Use of the Conservatory as a studio at Caprilicious Jewellery
Use of the Conservatory as a studio at Caprilicious Jewellery
Use of the Conservatory as a studio at Caprilicious Jewellery
Use of the Conservatory as a studio at Caprilicious Jewellery
And the irony of it all, is that I still sit in my armchair in front of the telly, a tray in my lap with my beads and wire to make my jewellery, while the photography of the finished article has taken over an entire conservatory! I hope you will agree though, that it has all been worthwhile. I know there is always room for improvement, but my photography skills have come on in leaps and bounds.
Kittens from Caprilicious JewelleryMind if I join you, chaps?
That's it for this week, folks. I am working part of this weekend and hope to correct some of the sleep deprivation I have suffered this last week while I (sort of) nursed  my poor husband back to health. Have a fabulous week, and I'll catch you next Friday, same time, same place
xx

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Divya N link
13/3/2015 03:06:43 am

Oh I hope that your husband gets well soon. My jewelry stuff has taken over my couch, dining table, a Diwan and my bedroom. Yours is nothing by that comparison. I lived around them :D

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rachel
13/3/2015 03:37:22 am

It always me feel like "All is well with the world" when I see the Friday blog post..something reassuring that the world is still how it used be, with, beauty & magic just around the corner

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Neena Shilvock link
13/3/2015 05:25:30 am

He is better now Divya, thank you - but still a bit weak from the D & V.
I have tried to contain my jewellery making detritus - my cleaning lady will run off in disgust and horror and then I'll have to do the cleaning myself, leaving less time for jewellery :) - besides that was the point - my jewellery making equipment is more contained now than the photography equipment!!

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Pearl link
11/4/2015 07:40:36 am

LOL! It is an ever constant battle not to let the jewelry stuff take over my house. I do have a dedicated basement room so I try and keep it all there except for natural light photography.

Your pictures are excellent! Glad the Modahaus helps your photography!

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Neena Shilvock link
11/4/2015 08:50:49 am

Thank you, Pearl. And thanks for the heads up about the Modhaus kit, amongst others. Your blog helps a lot of people, and long may it continue, Neena

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