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

Catching up, by Caprilicious Jewellery

31/5/2018

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Hello folks, it's nice to be back in touch with you today. It has been a very busy week at work and I've managed to cram in a bit of jewellery making in between the rigours of the day job. The weather hasn't played ball and we're back to a questionable British summer after two weeks of glorious brightness - perhaps that's the end of our summer!
Not that I would have had any time to enjoy the sunshine, had there been any, I've been stuck indoors for most of the week.
​ I had a couple of orders for jewellery that have been on my books for a long time, and I've been catching up with them, getting them ready for delivery.
The first one was a necklace requested by a lady up in Scotland - for some reason  Caprilicious has a lot of customers from Scotland. I wonder why that is?? This lady saw a necklace I made earlier and requested one just like it, in time for payday this month - and as the end of the month was fast approaching, I jumped to it.
Necklace of clear quartz teardrop beads with a silver clasp, earrings to match by Caprilicious Jewellery
Necklace of clear quartz teardrop beads with a silver clasp, earrings to match by Caprilicious Jewellery
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I collected a packet of beads when I was in India to be made up for a lady who lives in Dubai. Lisa left them in India with a mutual friend two years ago, and I only got them during this visit to Bangalore. She is Italian, and a very beautiful jet setting socialite, who requested a couple of  sophisticated necklaces made for her to suit her lifestyle. She wanted one of them to be a choker and the second, a lariat. 
Lisa is on Instagram as love.like.lisa and describes herself as '.. a cosmocrat cresting the wave of vitality and ​wellness with oodles of curiosity and oceans of gratitude'. She was the editor-in-chief of NewYou, a premier monthly publication dedicated to Integrative Health, Medical Aesthetics, Holistic Healing and optimal longevity and is now heading The wellnessworld.blog, a portal dedicated to similar topics. She also runs fabulous holistic retreats in Greece among other places, and I hope to join her at one of them some day. She will be in the UK on a visit next month and I need to have her pieces done and dusted, so that I can post out to her while she is here. 
Here's the first necklace I made for her with some of the beads in her stash.

Pearl and smoky glass lariat necklace by Caprilicious Jewellery
Pearl and smoky glass lariat necklace by Caprilicious Jewellery
Pearl and smoky glass lariat necklace by Caprilicious Jewellery
I held back a couple of pearls and made a pair of earrings with silver ear wires that are sleek and sophisticated, raising the game, as it were. I love the tassels on the ends of the lariat, they are so 'in' this year, and I spent an evening making them up with seed beads and a couple of floral bead caps - so much fun! I sent her some pictures and she loved the necklace - boy, did I hold my breath until I heard back from her! However, she wasn't too keen on the earrings as she prefers studs, so I will have to see what else I can come up with instead. As she won't be here for another 10 days, I do have a bit of time, and I still have to make the choker for her.
Jewellery Designer of the Month for June 2018, London Jewellery School, Hatton Gardens, London, UK Jewellery Designer of the Month, London Jewellery School, Hatton Gardens, London
I sent four 0f my showiest necklaces off to The London Jewellery School in Hatton Gardens. They have now been placed in the top shelf of a display cabinet in their foyer, ready for me to be showcased as Jewellery Student of the Month for June. Their manager, Harriet Brooks, was kind enough to send me a photograph of the display.

That's all I have had time for this week folks, have a fabulous week and I'll catch you next Friday, same time, same place.
Until then
xx
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Danielle
1/6/2018 10:03:11 pm

Now there's a familiar sight! I love my glittery little crystal necklace so much - so lovely and whimsical in its own right, and goes with absolutely everything. Your lady from Scotland is sure to enjoy hers.

Am very curious - which was the other necklace you send off to the London Jewellery School in Hatton Gardens? I count three in the display case.

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Neena Shilvock link
2/6/2018 07:24:31 pm

Thanks Danielle, Lainey saw a picture of you in the necklace and fell in love with it!
I sent a fourth wire work necklace with crystal flowers - the one called Flora in my Bling! section. There was no room in the cabinet for four pieces, especially as I sent rather large ones, so she's holding on to it for me - perhaps she'll swap it out mid month?

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'Neena, the necklace has just arrived & I can't find enough of the right words to do it justice. Somehow "stunning" "gorgeous" "exquisite" don't seem to fit the bill! It's definitely a statement piece ..................'                 LJ

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