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

Smile, You're Wearing Caprilicious!

17/4/2015

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Hello again, readers, and thanks for joining me this weekend. I have a few fun pieces of jewellery for you this week -  that's what I want my jewellery to be all about - to bring a smile to your lips and a song to your heart as you walk tall and feel great in your Caprilicious. 

Lily The Pink

Lily the Pink was written by The Scaffold in the late 60's and some think that the Beatles' Sergeant Pepper's sound originated from this song. I remember the girls at school singing it at a concert - banging a kettle drum and playing the spoons.
 I used beads made from shells and dyed in a shocking pink - just looking at the beads brought a smile to my face and this song popped into my head and just wouldn't go away. With one of my vintage 'mini' pendants from Afghanistan and a few Czech glass and polymer clay beads, a very quirky and sweet piece of jewellery emerged.
Lily The Pink, with an Afghani tribal Kuchi pendant and shocking pink beads by Caprilicious Jewellery
Lily The Pink, with an Afghani tribal Kuchi pendant and shocking pink beads by Caprilicious Jewellery
Lily The Pink, with an Afghani tribal Kuchi pendant and shocking pink beads by Caprilicious Jewellery
Lily The Pink, with an Afghani tribal Kuchi pendant and shocking pink beads by Caprilicious Jewellery
This week, Ms Muse seems to have gone all African on me - perhaps she spotted my stash of Moroccan beads, and the beautiful orange beads I have been hoarding for over a year.  

Heat and Dust

This necklace was made using polymer clay beads I made myself, using inspiration from a German polymerista who calls herself Margit B - I just love her colourful work and she is a pioneer in the usage of chalks on polymer clay. I mixed in some bright orange lucite beads and added a Berber bead and voila - Heat and Dust! The 'dust' part of the necklace comes from the colours of chalk on the beads which have smudged delightfully into each other.  
Heat and Dust - polymer clay beads and Berber bead necklace by Caprilicious Jewellery
Heat and Dust - polymer clay beads and Berber bead necklace by Caprilicious Jewellery
Heat and Dust - polymer clay beads and Berber bead necklace by Caprilicious Jewellery
Heat and Dust - polymer clay beads and Berber bead necklace by Caprilicious Jewellery
While watching a movie late that night I played with a design for handmade wire bead caps by Iza Malczyk, and a couple of orange - yellow dyed jade teardrop beads that seemed to match Heat and Dust perfectly.
Hand made wire bead caps by Caprilicious Jewellery
Heat and Dust - earrings with hand made wire bead caps by Caprilicious Jewellery

Mombasa Sunrise

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'Twas time to use some of the faux turquoise beads I made using Lynda Moseley's tutorial - Ms Muse had spotted the orange lucite chunks I was hiding from her - I'm not sure why I was hoarding them, it's just a magpie instinct to hoard bright and pretty beads. Anyway, out they came, and I think they are rather effective with the 'turquoise' and a couple of African lost wax beads. 

Mombasa Sunrise - mixed media necklace by Caprilicious Jewellery
Mombasa Sunrise - mixed media necklace by Caprilicious Jewellery
Mombasa Sunrise - mixed media necklace by Caprilicious Jewellery
Mombasa Sunrise - mixed media necklace by Caprilicious Jewellery

Wasabi and Watercress

Wasabi and Watercress by Caprilicious Jewellery
I love the acid green of Wasabi, the Japanese Horseradish. Apparently Wasabi is now being grown in Dorset, by the Watercress company - I think that's what being an entrepreneur is all about - no one who has ever eaten a watercress sandwich would ever imagine that the two of these plants could come from the same soil! Premo makes a Wasabi coloured clay and I teamed it with a blend I made up myself to match the colours in a focal bead I made a couple of years ago. This colour looks so much like watercress, that I decided to name my necklace after the entrepreneurs whose story I found so inspirational.  

Wasabi and Watercress - polymer clay wafer chip beads and a Mokume Gane lentil bead by Caprilicious Jewellery
Wasabi and Watercress - polymer clay wafer chip beads and a Mokume Gane lentil bead by Caprilicious Jewellery
Wasabi and Watercress - polymer clay wafer chip beads and a Mokume Gane lentil bead by Caprilicious Jewellery
Wasabi and Watercress - polymer clay wafer chip beads and a Mokume Gane lentil bead by Caprilicious Jewellery

Berber Sunrise

This one is a remake of a necklace I made earlier with almost similar beads. For the longest time, no one paid Berber Sunrise the First any attention apart from a desultory 'like' when I posted it on Facebook. I took it to my exhibition at Raintree - still no luck.
 People picked it up and then put it back down again and moved on to pastures new. I was beginning to think I had lost the battle design-wise, with this necklace and then..... the very last two ladies at the exhibition almost had a pistols-at-dawn situation over it. It reminded me of my two kittens prowling around a mouse one of them had brought in, making growling, warning noises at each other - I thought fur was going to fly (or beads), when after a major standoff situation, one of them suddenly gave in and handed it to her opponent. 
I loved the piece and had worn it to work a couple of times, and all I got were compliments, so I decided to make another. If lady No 2 is reading this and wants it, I'll be happy to put it by for you - thank you for being so gracious.
Berber Sunrise- lucite and Moroccan enamelled bead necklace by Caprilicious Jewellery
Berber Sunrise- lucite and Moroccan enamelled bead necklace by Caprilicious Jewellery
Berber Sunrise- lucite and Moroccan enamelled bead necklace by Caprilicious Jewellery
Berber Sunrise- lucite and Moroccan enamelled bead necklace by Caprilicious Jewellery
Wire coiled hoop earrings in copper by Caprilicious Jewellery
These sweet coiled wire earrings came from a couple of copper coils I happened to spot lying around in the middle of all my beads. A lot of wire coiling is involved in the making of these earrings and it takes many feet of wire wound around even more wire! I used non-tarnish wire for the first two coils and bare copper for the third, which I then dipped in a chemical bath to darken it and rubbed it with steel wool to get this pretty contrasting effect.  

Fluorite wirework pendant by Caprilicious Jewellery
A friend from work gave me a broken rainbow fluorite wand - 'do something with it', she said - I held on to it for a while and then made a pendant for her with one of the pieces - I've yet to decide what to do with the other piece. She said she loves her little pendant. Fluorite is a very soft stone and prone to cracking and breaking, so I made sure it was caged in a wire surround so it wouldn't get knocked about again.

That's it for this week folks. I have some fabulous goodies just arrived from Turkey today and will probably have them out on the website next week, when I've made them up into pieces of jewellery. Have a fabulous week and I'll catch you next Friday, same time, same place
xx

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Rachel Chitra
17/4/2015 03:45:59 am

Yay!!!! My weekly dose of pleasure!! And Yes!! Huge smile because I'm wearing Caprilicious :-)

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Neena Shilvock link
17/4/2015 05:02:07 am

Aww, sweet!! xx

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Divya link
17/4/2015 04:57:27 am

colorful and surprising treasures as usual! The wire bead caps are a beauty - I cant believe that they are a casual make

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Neena Shivock link
16/10/2015 06:22:25 pm

Thank you so much Divya

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