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

Southwestern Necklace - Dancing Queen

25/8/2017

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Hello folks, thanks for joining me once again. I do so enjoy this weekly chat I have with you, my invisible friends. It would be nice if you posted back at me occasionally - are you sure I can't persuade you to leave me a comment?? I read them all and respond, I promise. We are soon to go on a short break to the Cote d'Azure, so I'll be telling you all about that next time. It will be nice to get some R & R for a short while and we are looking forward to it - except WIlfred the cat, who will have to go to prison for the duration.​

Dancing Queen

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I was only sixteen when this song was all the rage, in the Indian equivalent of a sixth form, or pre university college. The songs of Abba always make me shudder slightly as they bring back memories of the late seventies when I was young, diffident, and in a co-ed environment for the first time.
The boys at the college were extremely gauche and unsure of their reception should they make a move on the girls. I know the same is true of teenage boys everywhere, but especially and markedly so at this place, where the boys were in a co - ed environment for the first time themselves, in a fairly repressive society where the segregation of the sexes is the norm.
I was in a group of three girls, and there was this lad who followed us around carrying a portable cassette player in bright red plastic playing 'Nina, Pretty Ballerina' on a loop. We didn't know his name and he was known to us as 'Red Cassette'.
Mind you, at the time, in common with most teenage girls, I was conscious of my weight and felt more like a galumphing elephant than a ballerina.
This lad got on the bus with us every evening and walked 5 paces behind me all the way from the bus stop like a good Indian wife, till I reached my mother's house and went in past the huge iron gates - there was never a word between us in two years and this went on for the whole time that I attended the college. Today, it makes me laugh, but then, at the age of sixteen, it was a bit scary, as I had no idea how this saga would end - as it happened it was a damp squib, but at the time it seemed a lot like harassment. In hindsight, I should have turned around and asked him what the hell he wanted and he'd have probably slunk off, but he could have just as easily got his friends to follow me around making my life hell for the duration, so I was probably wise to leave him alone to his madness.

Native American vibe, boho necklace, turquoise and carnelian, Nepalese beads, necklace by Caprilicious - Dancing Queen
Native American vibe, boho necklace, turquoise and carnelian, Nepalese beads, necklace by Caprilicious - Dancing Queen
PictureNative American vibe, boho necklace, turquoise and carnelian, Nepalese beads, necklace by Caprilicious - Dancing Queen, gemstone clasp, aventurine rose clasp
Native American vibe, boho necklace, turquoise and carnelian, Nepalese beads, necklace by Caprilicious - Dancing Queen
I have a confession, this was originally two necklaces - one with a single strand of feathers and the second, with three strands of nugget beads and Nepalese spacers. I just felt they went together and Ummmed and Aaahed all evening - I went to bed and woke up ready to remake the necklace - I cut them up before I could change my mind. I find that it is often difficult to make the decision to undo my work at the end of an evening when I am tired.  I spend time telling myself that it is fine, and that it will be OK - but 'OK' is not what I'm aiming for and I always end up redoing the piece. I ought to know better and not bother wasting time trying to talk myself out of it. I hope that when it finds it's forever home, the woman who wears it feels like a Dancing Queen.
I've been playing with folding metal, fire, soldering, and patinas with some degree of success. I forgot to neutralise the piece I had left in an acid bath and absent mindedly wiped it on a skirt I was wearing only to find later on in the day that the acid had burned a big hole in my skirt - a bit more respect for the acid pickle is warranted, I think.
Fold formed earring components
Brass Rueger fold earring components
Verdigris, red oxide patina on copper earring components
Copper roses, verdigris and red oxide patina earring components
And no, I didn't make the flowers, they were bought pre made and I practiced sweat soldering them onto the copper circles that I cut with another of my new tools - I love new tools!!
I received a copy of Bead and Jewellery magazine, vol 80 in the post with a tutorial I wrote in it. The beads I submitted will be back soon and I will have to make something interesting with them.
Doodle beads, polymer clay hollow beads, tribal beads tutorial, Bead and Jewellery Magazine, Vol 80, Aug/Sept 2017
Doodle beads, polymer clay hollow beads, tribal beads tutorial, Bead and Jewellery Magazine, Vol 80, Aug/Sept 2017
Doodle beads, polymer clay hollow beads, tribal beads tutorial, Bead and Jewellery Magazine, Vol 80, Aug/Sept 2017
That's me for this week folks. Have a fabulous week and I'll catch you next Friday, same time, same place.
Until then
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loner
27/8/2017 06:02:04 am

did you ever find your cat. i sure hope you did. outstanding artist work with all your jewellery creations. loner

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Neena Shilvock link
4/9/2017 01:42:32 pm

Thanks loner, very kind of you to say so

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