Hello folks, I hope you are in the midst of a wonderful Easter break. The people in new York are celebrating with their annual Easter Parade where they wear outlandish bonnets - in a tradition dating back to the 1870s, New Yorkers dressed up in creative and whimsical Easter finery on Sunday to take part in the annual Easter parade and bonnet festival in Manhattan, with St Patrick’s Cathedral among the best vantage points. Pictures courtesy of The Guardian. Hubby and I got back from our three week extravaganza in India with colds and coughs and sniffled our way past jet lag, only ..read more

Hello folks, how are you today? I'm up early writing this blog because hubby forgot to shut the bedroom door when he woke up at 4 am to get a drink of water. I'm working later on today, so by the time I'd tossed and turned in bed for an hour, I thought it was a waste of time trying hard to fall asleep as it would soon be time to wake up all over again. Black Ice Black ice, sometimes called clear ice, is a thin coating of glazed ice on a surface, especially on streets. The ice itself is not black, but visually transparent, allowing the often black road below to be seen throu ..read more

Hello folks, it's lovely to be here with you again after a short break. Quite a few people took advantage of the little mini-sale I put on in January and I was kept busy, what with working at the day job, and coming home to pack orders ready for posting out the next morning. There really wasn't time to make any more jewellery and besides, I was leaving it be till I got the perfect idea. Lo and Behold! It came to me in a flash as I looked through a glossy magazine while sitting in the dentist's waiting room.  I picked up a few pieces of bumblebee jasper when I was in Jaipur in 2016  ..read more

Hello everyone, how is 2024 treating you? As far as I am concerned, every day so far has been like a Monday - thank goodness I have something to look forward to later on in the year. The UK is soon to be hit by the second named storm of the year and Brrr! it is really cold out there. We are due to celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary shortly and all I want to do is sit at home and stay warm. I didn't pick up a bead for ages and ages after I got back from India in late December - I decided to go with the flow and let the need to create be the driving force. It wasn't until I was clearing out ..read more

Hello everyone, Caprilicious Jewellery wishes you all a very Happy New Year. May the coming year be full of grand adventures and opportunities and the world be a better place to live in. 2023 has been dire for some countries around the world and for the economies of many. Covid was bad enough, but no one could have imagined that there were lower depths to which humanity could sink. However, here we are at the end of 2023, and many people are worse off than they were after the pandemic.  As a glass half full person myself, I'm hoping for peace around the world this year - it's time w ..read more

Hello folks, how are you? Caprilicious wishes you a very Merry Christmas and I hope you are all having a fun time, eating and drinking and enjoying yourselves. As you know, I've been in India for the last three weeks celebrating a wedding and an engagement with my family. Once I get back I have precisely eight weeks to pack up and go back for the second family wedding, this time hopefully with hubby in tow. Poor Michael had to be left behind on this trip, and unfortunately it was my fault. In the scrum to get all my work done before I left, I didn't check his e-visa as scrupulously as I shoul ..read more

Hello, lovely people, how are you today? It's freezing out doors and I am tucked up under a warm fleece, watching TV and playing with wire and beads.  Mike and I are off to India soon, to my neices wedding, and I'm really looking forward to the warmth of the sunshine and the fabulous colours and food back home. I'm sure I'll have many photographs to show you when I get back.  In the meantime, I had a few pieces I decided to make to take back with me, so that is what I've done all week. I have some people in mind for each piece, so I haven't put them on the website yet. However, if th ..read more

Hello everyone, how are you today? It is getting colder and yet not so cold that the leaves have dropped from the trees - global warming, for sure! The clocks went back an hour this weekend and I am not looking forward to waking up in the dark, spending the entire day in a building under artificial light only to come out into the night all over again. No wonder we are Vit D depleted and depressed!  It's taken me over 4 weeks to make this piece and it was made originally  to showcase the colourful koi fish I picked up from one of my suppliers. However, by the time I finished the ..read more

Hello everyone, I hope all goes well with you and yours. I'm back after a couple of weeks where I've been busy at work and trying to keep my head above water. A few days off this week have helped me get back into the flow. My neice is getting married in India an December and I plan a little trip - I'll have to go in a few days early to get some clothes for the numerous pre and post events that will swirl around the wedding day like a mist - one running into another, exhausting, exhilerating and loads of fun. This week, I started a fresh embroidered piece, but had some time to put together a ne ..read more

Hello folks, I'm so pleased to see you here again today after a long time. Well, it seems like a long time to me - I've been so busy at work and hubby dearest gave me the unwanted gift of the flu - I've been coughing and spluttering all over the place, with no chance of taking time off work. I know it's a bad look when the doctors look more sick than the patients, but with all the industrial action going on, I guess they are happy to see any doctor at all - my health is immaterial. I'm hoping I lose the last remnants of the lurgy over the weekend as I'm on call all week, next week and being be ..read more