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

Petite Fleur

7/7/2017

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Hello everyone, I'm glad you could join me today. We are bang in the middle of summer and at last the sun was shamed into showing his face - but who knows what next week will bring? Rather than worry about what is to come I decided to make the best of what we have and spent every day of the week splashing paint onto my garden furniture until it was all painted a uniform shade of sunlight yellow.
I'll bet you're thinking what on earth I was doing painting the furniture a 'Hi-Vis' colour. Well hold on, and I'll tell you. There is a method to my madness, I promise.

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We were about to have a retractable poly tunnel like pool cover installed and I wanted to draw the eye away from what I thought would be an eyesore in our little garden. We needed the cover though, cleaning the pool was becoming increasingly a chore as the trees in the surrounding properties shed their leaves and seeds by the lorry load on a daily basis. It was quickly becoming a nuisance rather than a pleasure and something needed to be done, and quick.
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This was the end result, and I think the two go well together. We will be able to extend the number of days we can use the pool and reduce the heating bills besides keeping it clean.

Petite Fleur

I bought a string of coral fossil slab nuggets - I'm not usually one for beige and brown, but these beads are so pretty I couldn't resist them.
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 Corals are invertebrates that are made up of colonies of tiny polyps, which secrete calcium carbonate to form an outer skeleton. We only get to see the exoskeleton part of the organism, eventually left behind once the coral dies, and turn these into pretty beads and jewellery. Most coral is beige, cream, yellow or black and very occasionally pink or red.  .
Millions of years ago, coral lived in warm shallow water. Over time, as plates below the ocean floor shifted, the coral became buried under layers and layers of sediments. As the temperature and pressure changed, the coral eventually fossilised and turned into rock. Fossil corals are actually natural stones that formed when ancient corals were replaced by agate, their hard skeletons fossilising when they were saturated with silica rich water bubbling from limestone. Coral remains were gradually replaced with agate, a variety of naturally occurring chalcedony, or micro crystalline quartz. The fossilised coral typically appears as small flower-like patterns in the stone. You can read more here, if you are interested.

Fossil Coral slab nugget, hand carved bone flowers and turquoise and copper bead necklace by Caprilicious Jewellery
Fossil Coral slab nugget, hand carved bone flowers and turquoise and copper bead necklace by Caprilicious Jewellery
Fossil Coral slab nugget, hand carved bone flowers and turquoise and copper bead necklace by Caprilicious Jewellery
Fossil Coral slab nugget, hand carved bone flowers and turquoise and copper bead necklace by Caprilicious Jewellery
Hand carved bovine bone flowers, copper spacers and a pop of colour with turquoise beads were added to the piece ( I simply couldn't resist adding a bit of colour to what would otherwise be a very sombre necklace) and I think  the necklace is very fetching. A couple of copper beads were left over and I added some bone flowers to make little earrings to match. As the necklace is pretty striking, all it needed was an unobtrusive pair of earrings.
That's me for this week folks. Next week I have a bit of time off and hope to play with a bit of fold forming and metal smithing. I will probably end up with lumps of twisted misshapen metal, or I might surprise us all and make something really interesting - who knows? I will keep you posted, as usual.
Have a fabulous week and I'll catch you next Friday, same time, same place. 
Until then
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4 Comments
Rachel
7/7/2017 04:08:17 pm

Yay!!! Love the website! Love the new look! Still getting used to the new font - but feeling quite happy & at home

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Neena Shilvock link
7/7/2017 11:01:00 pm

Thanks Rachel, I'm afraid to change anything with the themes/fonts - the minute I do that and publish it, the site goes into a snit and goes off air for a bit and I have to contact Weebly and ask for it back again. I hold my breath each time I add something to the site :(
Anyway, this is it for the time being - until Weebly make another update and mess me over again

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Divya link
9/7/2017 08:44:07 am

I love your pool and garden with the bright furniture and the peacocks and even feel a bit envious. The only way to have a pool in your house in India at the moment is to be filthy rich :( It was interesting to read about the fossil corals and they look so chic. Is there something wrong with the site once again? I can see multiple fonts and colors now

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Neena Shilvock link
9/7/2017 09:51:45 am

Thanks Divya, we love the garden too, but living in India has it's own advantages. You are always welcome to come and visit, and I mean that.
As for the site - yes I know it is a bit all over the place - but am afraid to tinker with it until the engineers at Weebly find out what's the matter with it - if I tweak the fonts etc, it seems to disappear on me almost in disgust! It has a mind of it's own just now. I have left the fonts in the navigation menu as they are as people might find print easier to read than the hand written look that I have gone for elsewhere. I will give it some time before I make changes.

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