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

Happy 5th Birthday, Caprilicious

25/11/2016

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Helloooo everybody, how are you? It is Caprilicious' 5th birthday this week and we are celebrating. Thank you, all of you, those who like Caprilicious' efforts, those who read and/or follow the blog, and those that like wearing my jewellery - Caprilicious and I thank you very, very much!
To celebrate, I am hosting a giveaway as usual on the Facebook page. All you have to do is go to the page, like the picture linked to the giveaway and share it to be in with a chance of winning the pretty freebie.

The Annual Birthday Giveaway

Caprilicious Jewellery 5th birthday giveaway on the Facebook Page
Caprilicious Jewellery 5th birthday giveaway on the Facebook Page
The ornate wire work hearts were originally designed by Nicole Hanna and are made using antiqued copper wire. They are hung on an organza ribbon and could easily be hung on a longer necklace should you so wish.

Patience Pays

Last week, I was trying to make a couple of copper flower pendants from Prometheus copper clay as I posted the blog. I had already managed to break off a bail and had to repair it and put it back into the kiln for refiring. I left it to cool over 24 hours being too anxious to rush to open it. In fact it was two days later that I opened the lid of the steel firing pan to find that I had been successful in making a viable piece of jewellery.
I was so happy when I found that I had done it! The pendants needed to be scrubbed, put into the rotary tumbler, and polished up. In the finish, I had two gleaming flowers that I was very proud of! I couldn't wait to string them into necklaces.
​Having pulled out half my bead stash and taken design guidance and instruction from hubby, I made the first necklace.
Copper clay flower pendants by Caprilicious Jewellery before firing in the kiln
Before
Copper clay flower pendants by Caprilicious Jewellery
After

Georgia on my Mind

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As this particular flower was an experimental piece, inspired by the flowers of Georgia O'Keeffe and Lynn Cobb, I thought the title fitting. Ms. O'Keeffe has many paintings that inspire me and I think I might just be looking at some more of them again, fairly soon. The poppy in the picture was painted in 1927. She believed that due to the fast-paced lives people live, they merely glance at flowers, but never really observe their exquisiteness. She wished to give people who live such rushed lives the experience and the feel of the true beauty of flowers by creating large floral portraits with very little background.

​“Still-in a way-nobody sees a flower-really-
it is so small-we haven’t time-
and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.”
__Georgia O’Keeffe
Georgia on my Mind - Copper clay flower pendant, orange agate slab nugget necklace, hand made wire copper clasp by Caprilicious Jewellery
Georgia on my Mind - Copper clay flower pendant, orange agate slab nugget necklace, hand made wire copper clasp by Caprilicious Jewellery
Georgia on my Mind - Copper clay flower pendant, orange agate slab nugget necklace, hand made wire copper clasp by Caprilicious Jewellery
Georgia on my Mind - Copper clay flower pendant, orange agate slab nugget necklace, hand made wire copper clasp by Caprilicious Jewellery
I thought the necklace was beautiful and was most gratified when a colleague instantly fell in love with it and snapped it up.
​The second flower is a lotus. I ruffled it's layers of petals, in a manner of speaking and the initial beads I chose seemed to indicate that the necklace would be an ethnic style piece. Orange agate teardrops, rudraksh seeds, copper Bali beads, African vinyl trade beads - they all have an Indian flavour, and I thought that this was OK because the lotus, or Tamara is the national flower of India. It was when I went to make the second strand that my subconscious mind went haywire, Ms Muse picked the strangest bedfellows to the first.
However, in the end the whole piece is fun and colourful and seems to work just right! It has a Latin-American feel, probably because of the orange ceramic hearts and blue ovoids.
Tamara - Copper clay lotus pendant, ceramic beads, African vinyl beads, Milagro heart beads necklace, hand made polymer clay inlaid clasp by Caprilicious Jewellery
Tamara - Copper clay lotus pendant, ceramic beads, African vinyl beads, Milagro heart beads necklace, hand made polymer clay inlaid clasp by Caprilicious Jewellery
Tamara - Copper clay lotus pendant, ceramic beads, African vinyl beads, Milagro heart beads necklace, hand made polymer clay inlaid clasp by Caprilicious Jewellery
Tamara - Copper clay lotus pendant, ceramic beads, African vinyl beads, Milagro heart beads necklace, hand made polymer clay inlaid clasp by Caprilicious Jewellery

Christmas Shopping Fair and Charity Event
​Attleborough Sports Club, 27/11/16 - 12pm - 4pm

This is where Caprilicious will be this weekend - the Christmas shopping fair in aid of charity - Birmingham Children's Hospital and the George Eliot Hospital bereavement services are the main beneficiaries. As it is only on till 4pm, I should be home nice and early, getting ready to go down to London on Monday morning for a training session. Nothing ever happens, but when it does, it all happens at once!

If anyone from Nuneaton is reading this, do come and support the charities on Sunday. The last fair I was at raised £5000 in aid of a little garden for the bereaved of the George Eliot Hospital.
 Have a lovely week and catch you next Friday, same time, same place.
Until then
​xx
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