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

Merry Christmas One and All, by Caprilicious

24/12/2021

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Hello lovely people, Merry Christmas to all of you reading my blog. I hope you're all having a good time Covid notwithstanding and that Santa will visit you tomorrow morning with loads of goodies.

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Over the last few weeks, I've been adding tiny beads to a piece of stiff felt, inspired by the agate at the centre of this piece. I added crystals and more beads until I couldn't fit another one onto the piece if I tried. 

One of my neighbours gave me a bunch of rhizomes when she divided her plant up a couple of years ago, and not knowing how finicky they were, I just stuck them in a flower bed and hoped for the best - every year they grew the most beautiful spear shaped leaves, but no more. Fed up with the no-show, I did the work - on researching it a bit I found out that the tops of the rhizomes had to be almost 90% visible to the sun and atmosphere all year round for them to bother producing anything resembling a flower. 
I dug them all up, and put them in a pot - I just placed the rhizomes on top of the soil and was instantly rewarded next spring with beautiful flowers. I must remember to go out this weekend and check that pot again - hubby, who is the chief water provider tends to spray my plants with a heavy hand, and the soil has probably splashed onto the rhizomes and covered them by now. 

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The last picture shows how slim the pendant is, so even though it looks dauntingly large, it weighs next to nothing, being made of just a bunch of tiny beads.
I had a most intriguing parcel hand delivered to my house and hubby refused to tell me who had brought it round - I poked it and prodded it - and then I'm ashamed to say I decided I'd been so good all week I deserved an early Christmas present, and ripped it open. My neighbour, who has recently retired from running a business painted this fabulous picture of Wilfred she must have copied from a photograph I once posted on Facebook, and put it in a little white frame for us. It has been done in watercolour, which is such a difficult medium to manipulate - hats off to her! She's got his expression exactly right - he was sitting on the fence and looking into the kitchen window to check if the person making tea would be prepared to give him something more to eat!
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That's me for this week, folks. Thank you to all of you who sent me cards and wishes for Christmas and the New Year, it is ever so sweet of you. I hope you've all been boostered and are playing it extremely safe.

​Merry Christmas, one and all and I'll catch you next week, same time, same place,
Until then
​xx

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