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

Not Snow nor Rain nor Gloom of Night shall Keep me from Polymania!

16/3/2018

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Hello folks, thanks for joining me today, it certainly is good to catch up with you and I'm very pleased you dropped in to take a look at the goings on at Caprilicious. As you read this, I shall be elbow deep in polymer clay, learning new techniques, meeting old frineds, making new ones and having a great time at Polymania in Bristol. I was there last year and had a whale of a time. My only anxiety about this year is that once again on Sunday, when I'm due to travel back home on the train we are expecting bad weather in the UK - oh well, time for the thermal underwear, and I shall keep everything crossed that the trains will run, and run on time.
​ Lugging pasta machines and other heavy articles on a train across the country is not my idea of fun, but the great time I shall have there will most definitely be worth it. We have no less than Donna Kato, Kathleen Dustin and Carol Blackburn teaching us this time. I've been so keen to learn from these ladies for ages and ages, and now my wish will come true!

This week has been a productive one for Caprilicious - I've been trying out Amazon Prime for a month and binge watching movies. Of course while I'm watching all these movies, my hands have been busy with wire and beads. The parlous state of the NHS has meant that elective operations were cancelled and I got to come home early and make beads with polymer clay, and then turned them into a necklace.

Art Nouveau Torque Necklace

I bought a tutorial for a wire bracelet on Etsy from Doras Accessory and decided to use it as a template for a necklace instead. It has been sitting in my document cloud for an year and I finally found the sticking point - it calls for a frame of really thick wire. I didn't want to use copper, as nobody wants a green ring around the neck. Finally, I found 12g stainless steel wire and then had to hunt for a pair of wire cutters that would work as it is a very hard wire to cut without ruining my usual snips. Eventually I used the cutters I have for memory wire, and this just about did the job. A turquoise cabochon was trapped in squiggles and curlicues of wire and embellished with yet more wire and rutilated quartz beads.
Art Nouveau Wire Torque by Caprilicious Jewellery
Art Nouveau Wire Torque by Caprilicious Jewellery
Art Nouveau Wire Torque by Caprilicious Jewellery
Art Nouveau Wire Torque by Caprilicious Jewellery

More Polymer clay beads and another Fiesta necklace

I had some beads left over from the last necklace I made, and they were just sitting there staring reproachfully up at me. 'Use us, please, oh puhleeease', they moaned. Oh well, I'm a sucker for a hard luck story, so I quickly threw a few more into the oven to make up the numbers and made yet another Fiesta necklace.
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Fiesta - polymer clay beads, faux trade beads in a tribal necklace by Caprilicious Jewellery
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I made these two torque necklaces last week, and as they were less than perfect, decided to keep them for myself. I wore one singly to work, and then a couple of days later, wore them together over a roll neck top. I think the torque necklace is great and am happy to wear one any time.
One of my colleagues at work asked me to make her a sun catcher and I made her one with a copper wire dragonfly. She liked it so much, she immediately ordered a couple more. They are very difficult to photograph but the little beads in the wings are made of silver lined glass seed beads and they pick up the light like wet cobwebs.
Dragonfly sun catcher by Caprilicious Jewellery
Dragonfly sun catcher by Caprilicious Jewellery
I love the picture with the sun shining behind it, although it's not the best photograph I've ever taken.
That's all I had time for this week people, have a fabulous week and I'll catch you next weekend, same time, same place.
Until then
​xx
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Divya N link
16/3/2018 02:24:25 pm

I really love your wire toque, it s beautiful. I too subscribed to prime thinking I'll work on my jewelry while binge watching. What I didn't realise was that binge watching on a computer is very different from watching TV. Nothing ever gets done

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19/3/2018 02:00:36 pm

Thanks Divya, I love making torque necklaces, they are my favourite.
Yes, you need the TV to be able to do two things at once - watching movies on a computer screen needs too much concentration

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