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The Caprice necklace is made to bring to mind Old World island towns, such as the ones on Capri island, off the coast of Italy.  

This necklace is great for everyday casual wear as it is meant to be worn short, almost choker style. Made from a single hand carved bronze coral reef bead, you can wear it with almost any shirt style. 

If you want to up your elegantly audacious quotient with this necklace, choose the large bead.

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My new Isles collection centers around my hand carved bronze beads.  

For the Pico Azores necklaces, the bead hangs vertically to create the feeling of rising up, much like the volcano mountain these necklaces are named after.  

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Well you are in luck! This week, I am releasing new pieces made with my hand carved bronze beads.  

The beads are called "coral reef" and the first collection with them is called "Isles".  In fact, everyone on my email list is shopping the collection NOW!  

It will be open for you on Saturday.  If you want to be in on the early shopping for new collections, please sign up to my email list by entering you email below.  

Happy New Year!

It's holiday season again.  Time to pull out the classic and fancy clothes.  

But how to accessorize with your art jewelry?  

With basic, classic black for the holidays, you can highlight your favourite artisan jewelry pieces.  

First a shorter, larger copper enamel pendant that stands out against the black and provides a pop of colour.

Or perhaps a longer pendant on a chain.  Here is a handcrafted bronze shell from my personal collection.  On a solid, dark colour like black you could even go longer and have the pendant be the accent for the whole outfit.  

Or, you can let the outfit and jewelry speak for themselves, yet off-set each other.  Like I did here with my new bronze coral reef beaded necklace and earrings. 

The necklace sits on the skin instead of needing the back drop of the black to stand out.  

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I was again playing around with my new bronze beads to create some designs when I noticed that I have not one...

But two...wait not two...

THREE - three pairs of glasses - my everyday pair, my "task specific" pair (for working on the computer at the day job) and my magnifiers to make the small work easier!  

Good thing I don't have to wear them all at the same time...

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Playing some more with potential new designs. 

This time, taking the hand carved bronze beads (I am calling them coral reef beads) and putting them in necklaces.  

And putting various accents with them - in this case a handmade sand dollar in bronze.  

Or for contrast, in blackened steel.  

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I have been neglecting my copper jewelry and it was feeling a bit left out.  

Copper takes enamel wonderfully and the sea greens and blues look great on it.  

You can be boldly beachy with any of these copper pieces.  

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I am loving bronze right now. 

It's warm golden glow goes with almost anything. It's easy to care for and easy to clean - just a wipe with a soft jewelry cloth is all it takes.  

And so versatile:  Dress it up or wear it everyday.   

It has become my go to jewelry.  

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Today I am out and about. I wanted to wear my copper enamel pendant with this sweater because the colours match almost exactly - coppery and greens and a touch of sea blue.  

But you can see that the piece disappears when worn on top of the sweater.  

So I tried my carved bronze pendant instead. You can see it so much better against the green and patterns!

I think this is the best for both the pendant and the sweater.  

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With this big blue sweater, I am loving my bronze carved jewelry. They off-set each other nicely.   

The neckline on this sweater makes it easy to wear the larger pendant over top, so it can be seen.  And there is enough room in this bracelet to put it over the sweater as well.  

And then once I remove my glasses, I can really let my hair down!  

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Today was a great day for geocaching.  

And leaf crunching.

I paired up my bronze bangle and bronze cuff just to see how they would fit together.  Then I went out geocaching, tea drinking and journal writing.  

What a lovely day!  

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No sooner is Halloween over and the Christmas Craft shows start to appear.  I walked over to one at the local church to get in the mood.  

However we are still having beautiful fall weather.  Even though we had one of the coldest Octobers on record, the sun is shining and it does not feel like we are headed into winter.  At least not today.  

Even the show was decked out in fall colours.  

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