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

South Western Belle

7/10/2016

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Happy Friday, dear readers, how nice to have your company again this week. I have been busy booking my next holiday - it will soon be January and time to visit my 89 year old mother in India again. I find that I get very depressed after a holiday ends, and the only antidote to that is to book another almost immediately. One does need something to look forward to, don't you think?
A visit to Bangalore means of course, that I will take Caprilicious Jewellery with me and have a little show, once more at Raintree. I've got used to the place and the way they work, and am comfortable with the footfall there.
This time, an old friend from university has a daughter who is to be married in Mysore (two and a half hours from Bangalore) and I am invited. I get to wear my silks and jewellery and it promises to be a grand affair. I love to wear my sarees and walk with a swishy/gliding movement, rather than striding and stomping along like a great galumphing heffalump in my regular trousers and skirts. The family is related to the Mysore royal family and it should be an interesting and lavish affair.
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Indian weddings are crazy, raucous, and a load of fun, where everyone has a good time except perhaps the hapless bride and groom who wear heavily embroidered and embellished clothes that weigh a ton, and sit sweating by a fire in the heat of an Indian summer, their eyes smarting from the smoke, with the weight of their attire, headgear and make up hampering their every move. I've done my time a long time ago, and now it is somebody elses turn.

September is always a manic month in maternity units up and down the country and this year has been no different. Although I had very little time to spare, I played with my beads and braids and an amazonite cabochon caught my eye - I've had it in my stash for ages. Surrounded by hundreds of little tiny Japanese seed beads and strips of soutache braid, this stone sprang to life - I realise now why I let it sit in my stash for such a long time. Set in a conventional manner it's beauty would prove very muted and in my opinion, it​'s colours have been brought out by the South Western colour scheme of the pendant.
South Western belle - an Amazonite and soutache pendant by Caprilicious Jewellery on a wire torque necklace
South Western belle - an Amazonite and soutache pendant by Caprilicious Jewellery on a wire torque necklace
South Western belle - an Amazonite and soutache pendant by Caprilicious Jewellery on a wire torque necklace
South Western belle - an Amazonite and soutache pendant by Caprilicious Jewellery on a wire torque necklace
South Western belle - an Amazonite and soutache pendant by Caprilicious Jewellery on a wire torque necklace
I hung it on a simple torque necklace and covered the back with ultrasuede to keep it clean and tidy.
Earrings by Caprilicious Jewellery, Soutache earrings, pearls
I made a couple of pairs of earrings to match a couple of necklaces I made previously - I personally do not believe in wearing more than one piece of jewellery at a time as I tend to think it dilutes the effect of a statement, but a lot of people are used to this concept and ask for earrings to go with their necklaces. And who am I to argue? After all, the customer is always right!!

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That's me for this week, dear readers. I am due to have yet another busy week and am not looking forward to it. 
Caprilicious Jewellery will have a stall at a Family Fun day in Nuneaton on the 23rd of October in aid of a couple of charities with our maternity unit as a major beneficiary. If any of you are in the vicinity, do come by.
Thanks for joining me today. Have a fabulous week, and I'll catch you next week, same time, same place
​Until then,
xx

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Divya N
7/10/2016 04:25:16 pm

I love the earrings, good luck with your stall at the Family Fun day

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Neena Shilvock link
12/10/2016 12:11:07 pm

Thanks Divya, am looking forward to it

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sridevi senthil link
12/10/2016 11:39:34 am

Beautiful earrings.. Hope you have great fun at you stall on the family fun day

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Neena Shilvock link
12/10/2016 12:12:46 pm

Thank you Sridevi, I have been making earrings all week for the stall and am hoping that people will like them

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'Neena, the necklace has just arrived & I can't find enough of the right words to do it justice. Somehow "stunning" "gorgeous" "exquisite" don't seem to fit the bill! It's definitely a statement piece ..................'                 LJ

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