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

Folies Bergère

26/8/2016

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Hello readers, happy Friday to you all. As this blog post goes out, I will be at a Health and Safety lecture at the day job, and riveting it will be too! Oh well, I shall just have to make up for it later on and have a lovely relaxing weekend. I have had a satisfying week creating a few pieces of jewellery so I can't complain. 

Folies Bergère

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Most people go to the Lido on the Champs-Élysées or the Moulin Rouge when they hit Paris as a tourist. However, the Folies Bergère, established in 1869, is still in business, not far from the Moulin Rouge. It was at the height of its fame and popularity from the 1890s and the gaieté girls and their dance routines are legendary. I was lucky enough to go to all three institutions on various trips to Paris and was just blown away by the spectacle they put on. The women are barely clothed in the conventional sense, but their headgear and beads with feathers and sequins and the fabulousness of their routine ensures that it is not in the least bit pornographic, but just amazing.

I made a pendant using solar quartz and colourful soutache braids, with multi colour gemstone and glass seed beads to go with a strand of lapis lazuli slab nuggets that I bought in Jaipur. The stones were so beautiful, I felt compelled to work hard to make a pendant worthy of them and name the resultant necklace after the spectacular dancers at the Folies.
Folies Bergere - a solar quartz and soutache pendant on a necklace of rectangular lapis lazuli slab nuggets by Caprilicious Jewellery
Folies Bergere - a solar quartz and soutache pendant on a necklace of rectangular lapis lazuli slab nuggets by Caprilicious Jewellery
Folies Bergere - a solar quartz and soutache pendant on a necklace of rectangular lapis lazuli slab nuggets by Caprilicious Jewellery
Folies Bergere - a solar quartz and soutache pendant on a necklace of rectangular lapis lazuli slab nuggets by Caprilicious Jewellery
Folies Bergere - a solar quartz and soutache pendant on a necklace of rectangular lapis lazuli slab nuggets by Caprilicious Jewellery
I've agreed to have a stall at a couple of events to support Sophia - the Pregnancy Loss Support Service at the George Eliot Hospital. They are having their fundraiser at The Labour Club, Stockingford on the 23rd of October and possibly another one in December just before Christmas. The ladies who run the group are very compassionate and give of their time and energy freely, and I've agreed to take Caprilicious to both events. I've been making little earrings and necklaces for the stalls.
Here's a sneak peek at a couple of the items destined for the events. 
Flora, lucite flowers, crystals and Swarovski pearl necklace by Caprilicious Jewellery
Wisteria, polymer clay embroidery pendant on an amethyst and fluorite nugget necklace by Caprilicious Jewellery
Flora, lucite flowers, crystals and Swarovski pearl necklace by Caprilicious Jewellery
Flora, lucite flowers, crystals and Swarovski pearl necklace by Caprilicious Jewellery
Wisteria, polymer clay embroidery pendant on an amethyst and fluorite nugget necklace by Caprilicious Jewellery
Wisteria, polymer clay embroidery pendant on an amethyst and fluorite nugget necklace by Caprilicious Jewellery
 The events are also in support of Ariana's Hope, a non profit organisation that raises awareness of Edwards' syndrome or Trisomy 18, a condition incompatible with life. If you have a moment, do click on the links above and even better, if you can, come and say hello and support the events. People with healthy babies can't even begin to imagine the heartbreak that comes with problems like these, so do support the cause and check out their Facebook pages.
That's me for this week, folks. I've made a few pairs of earrings but have yet to antique them and take pictures - perhaps I'll show them off next week. I shall schedule the blog to be posted tomorrow at 10 am, UK time - at that point I will be listening to an extremely riveting lecture at the Statutory and Mandatory update at work - if we don't attend, we are not allowed any other study leave for the year and our appraisal paperwork is not signed off, so there's no escaping it. I just hope it rains tomorrow, I'd hate to spend a lovely sunny day bound to a chair in a darkened room, and anyway the garden could do with a good dousing.
Catch you next week folks, same time, same place, 
Until then
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