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

Li Chi, a Cinnabar Necklace by Caprilicious Jewellery

12/2/2018

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Hello good people, how are you today. It has been a cold week in the UK with snow flurries and freezing temperatures. However, I've had a couple of days off and have spent them at home, keeping warm and staying out of mischief. 
​The last couple of weeks have been exhausting, traipsing up and down to Manchester, and then being on call at the weekend, so this was a welcome respite.

Li Chi

I got the story of Li Chi, The Serpent Slayer from a website called Rejected Princesses, about "women too awesome, awful, or offbeat for kids' movies". It celebrates women who are unbiddable. "Part art project, part standup routine, part book report, this site imagines what if we made animated musicals about the women of history and myth who refused to behave."
Li Chi was a teenager who, at the age of thirteen, volunteered to become a human sacrifice to a serpent who lived in the hills above her village. The serpent demanded a young girl to eat every year as a price for leaving the village alone for the rest of the year. She proceeded to slay the serpent and release the villagers from slavery with a little sword.
​Do read the story on the website. Jason Porath writes well, with a lot of humour. I've only given you the bald outline of the story as I cannot improve on Jason's telling of it.
Li Chi, a cinnabar pendant with bone and turquoise beads by Caprilicious Jewellery
The cinnabar pendant came from China and has a serpent/dragon on it appearing to reach in to sniff the fragrance of a peony. The intricacy of the carving is beautiful and I added bone beads, hand carved into chrysanthemums, and bone discs dyed black, with characters etched into them. A few turquoise beads provide a pleasing contrast, as do the bronze lost wax cast brass beads from Kenya.

Li Chi, a cinnabar pendant with bone and turquoise beads by Caprilicious Jewellery
Li Chi, a cinnabar pendant with bone and turquoise beads by Caprilicious Jewellery
Li Chi, a cinnabar pendant with bone and turquoise beads by Caprilicious Jewellery
Li Chi, a cinnabar pendant with bone and turquoise beads by Caprilicious Jewellery

Citrine and smoky quartz necklace

Customer photograph of a citrine and iolite necklace by Caprilicious
This necklace was commissioned by a lady who saw another one worn by  customer. Unfortunately I had too few of the beads from the original strand left and sent off for others. As the first strand had come back with me in my suitcase from Jaipur, I couldn't find the same ones, but the ones I did find are pretty too. The lady requested smoky quartz spacers instead of the iolite I used in the original necklace.

Citrine and smoky quartz necklace of Caprilicious Jewellery
Citrine and smoky quartz necklace of Caprilicious Jewellery
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I sent a parcel to Australia last week with a courier and spent hours tracking the package all the way from Nuneaton to Victoria. The parcel was given a bar code which I had to print off and stick on the front - so why oh why can't the couriers scan the damn thing at every stage as it moves from place to place? Surely that's not too much to ask! I spent hours staring at my phone, waiting for the parcel to move - sometimes it didn't move at all for two days, and then whoosh, it had moved miles and miles.
​ I feel like someone who has spent a day watching a spin dryer, my brains are completely scrambled. Add to that mix an anxious customer and the levels of craziness rose exponentially until the parcel reached its destination safe and sound, it was opened, and the jewellery admired and worn. I wonder what would happen if I had a number of international parcels all going out at the same time - I'd probably have to be sectioned!

That's me for this week folks. We have tickets to the ballet - Sleeping Beauty, at the Hippodrome in Birmingham and were going up on the train to make a day of it. Have a wonderful week and I'll catch you next Friday, same time, same place.
Until then
​xx
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Divya N link
17/2/2018 03:44:30 pm

I vaguely remember the story that you have written about about how a little girl killed a dragon but the ending seems to be a bit different here. I have had the same trouble with parcels lately and I dreading Monday when I have to post two international parcels to opposite ends of the globe

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