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These can be seen on my website Capricious Crowns and Jewels. http://www.capriciouscrowns.com Items shown here can be purchased from my website. Please email me with any questions you may have.

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Date(s): July 22, 2003. Album by Dinah Taylor. Photos by Dinah Taylor. 1 - 158 of 158 Total. 8493 Visits.

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Just got your order. I went to your links page and web site. Web site looks great.
- Marjan, Wed, 23 Feb 2005 9:55AM

I AM IN AWE OF YOUR CREATIONS. As a novice jewelry maker I am certainly inspired by what you do. Thanks for sharing. Bonnie[Lefia] from the JR.
- Lefia, Tue, 25 Jan 2005 3:29PM

Gorgeous work! How do you do it all?
- Lynne Escoe Richardson, Sat, 1 Jan 2005 10:51AM

Great Photos Dinah - a multi-talented person but where do you find the time with the horses and all! Tell me your secret.
- Carol Laurito, Sat, 30 Oct 2004 7:12AM

Wonderful designs!! Not sure how I missed seeing these before but so glad I viewed them all. Excellent work!
- Laurel in N. FLA, Thu, 28 Oct 2004 11:47AM

1 Mon Abri My little cottage in N. Wales, UK. How I miss it. My sons and I had some wonderful times here.	2 mar4sterlingcuff "Wow! Lovely!" View Comments...	3 mar4sterlingcuff2	4 mar5silvercuffs
5 mar5silvercuffs2	6 mar5silvercuffs3	7 mar5silvercuffs4	8 mar4brassearrs
9 feb16collar "gee, some of the stones in..." View Comments...	10 feb16collarside	11 feb16collarTshortend	12 feb16collarTlongend
13 feb16collaropen	14 feb16collarapart	15 feb16collarmark	16 feb16collarextension
17 ccanecklacestones "This too looks nice with s..." View Comments...	18 feb14fullnecklacestones	19 feb14crownclasp	20 feb14stonecollarneck
21 feb12twocuffscca	22 feb12ccatwohammeredcuffs	23 feb12hammeredcuffcca	24 feb14cuffcarnelian
25 feb14cuffmuranoglass	26 feb12linkcopperbracelet	27 copper linked bracelet Hammered and textured copper heavy gauge linked bracelet. Handmade closure.	28 Copper Linked Bracelet Full view.
29 Copper Linked Bracelet Back view.	30 feb12linkcopperbracelet2	31 Copper Sawn Positive Negative Pendant Will be a pendant with stones	32 feb12ccalinkedcopperwaves
33 feb12ccalinkedcopperwaves2	34 feb12ccalinkedcopperwaves3	35 Lace Textured for Neck Collar	36 feb12ccacollar
37 feb12ccahammeredcollar	38 feb14collarston es	39 Textured Copper for Wrap Bracelet	40 feb12ccacopperswirlcuff
41 feb12ccacopperswirlcuff2	42 feb14beadedcuff	43 feb14dragonbeaded	44 feb14coinnecklace
45 feb14cufflace	46 feb14coinhammeredcuff	47 feb14fullphoto	48 Jan 05- Julane S. Copper Collar with Connemara Stone cross and matching earrings
49 Copper Neck Collar start	50 Jan 05- Julane S. Copper Collar close up view.	51 Jan 05- Julane S. Copper Collar	52 Jan 05- Julane S. Copper Collar
53 copper work Jan. 05	54 Cool Jools My contribution for today's 'cool jools'. Thank you Jan for the wonderful beads! :)	55 Dec. 31, jools for lunch I made the necklace and earrings for lunch with Jan Gaughan today. I wore my DeLizza and Elster brooch and earrings on my jacket. I lost one earring today. I tried to pick up the colors and brillance of the green and AB in my set.	56 Dec. 31, jools for lunch Close up of my set and D&E.
57 Fish and Bubbles Made for Jan Gaughan, Heavy copper formed fish and sterling and crystal bubbles, copper tube and crystal earrings.	58 Christmas Jewels Lunch Copper Parure that I made-Wore it with my Golden yellow cashmere jacket, black suede jeans, and black turtleneck.	59 Christmas Jewels Long Pools of Light necklace Sterling Ring and Swarovski Crystal earrings (I made these) Snowflake Crystal Pin Mexican Sterling and Red and Green swirled cab bracelet (from Morning Glory). Black turtleneck and Black Suede Jeans.	60 Carols Crown At 2:30am I finished and scanned, so it's not very good. Hehehe
61 Carols Crown At 7am, on the porch	62 Carols Crown	63 Carols Crown	64 thanksgivingjools
65 Copper Brooches Stamped copper brooches, 3" x 2 1/2" approximately. One on right with silver inlay and stamping.	66 Copper Brooches Backs, with soldered clasps and sterling pinstems.	67 Sterling Silver Earrings Large 20 gauge squares with soldered 'crosses'., two pair sterling hammered rings with added Swarovski Crystals, one in Peridot and one with Cube and Peridot.	68 silver earrings Peridot and Swarovski Cube. 1" dia.
69 silver earrings 1" hammered soldered rings with Peridot crystals.	70 silver earrings showing both pair.	71 Sterling Silver Earrings	72 Textured Copper Set This will be a necklace, earrings, cuff bracelet. Textured and drilled for Sterling jump rings. Showing different styles of earrings.
73 Copper Cuff	74 copper set close up view. 18 gauge copper.	75 Copper Bracelet and Earrings Pieces for link bracelet and 'tie' earrings (2" long)	76 Double Pendant Copper Textured and smooth necklace with double drop, all curved pieces.
77 Copper Textured More finely textured, rustic necklace and earrings.	78 Copper Set Smaller necklace with formed focal, forged earrings, fine texture.	79 Two Silver Rings Wide hammered and narrow hammered bands of Sterling silver.	80 Sterling Silver Hammered Rings
81 Sterling Silver Hammered Wide Band	82 Sterling Open Ring Unfinished ring on the side is going to be an open top box ring (these are made with an inner and outer ring with two sides, all soldered. I still have to hand saw the inside disk out, saw off the outside bottom plate, add the top plate, saw that off, add the stones, weave and solder the wire through weaving it so that the stones don't fall out. This one will be an open top, with loose stones, and a sterling wire woven top.	83 oct22boxring first side soldered on and inner and outer plate hand sawn off. Then I placed it on the other plate, soldered and sawed it, drilled holes, and finished it before setting amber and wire.	84 10artclassring all finished. Took lots of hand filing to smooth out all the edges.
85 10artclassring2 wire is soldered on one end inside, then pushed through one hole, through the bead, with a half knot and pushed down through the other side.	86 top of ring	87 top of box yellow is reflection of my lamp.	88 lady bug before I had a chance to wipe off the suede on the box..........
89 Netsuke on my little netsuke.	90 copperworkoct Pieces of copper I've sawn and textured for projects for my shop. Upper left is a box top of a bar shoe that I'll be making a brooch out of with a photo of Beanie behind a piece of glass.	91 autumn earrings Three pairs textured, hammered earrings. Chandeliers have 3 strands of Venetian Glass foil beads, single linear earrings of copper with Venetian Glass foil beads, and textured and formed rectangles.	92 autumn brooch Textured brass 2 1/2 x 2 1/4" 16 gauge back with inlaid 18 gauge copper with silver overlay brooch. Texturing reminds me of fall leaves.
93 autumn parure Made for the TX mini, Vintage Czech glass smooth and faceted beads, carnelian and lapis lazuli chips, hand wired on bracelet, necklace and earrings on brass chain.	94 Grover Cleveland High School Queens Crown Swarovski crystals, Czech beads and flowers, cubes, leaves on a soldered frame.	95 Grover Cleveland High School Queens Crown	96 Grover Cleveland High School Queens Crown Taken on horse statue.
97 Grover Cleveland High School Queens Crown	98 Grover Cleveland High School Queens Crown Close up of beads.	99 Grover Cleveland High School Kings Crown made with lots of red and black, rock crystal tumbled beads, black onyx, and 3 pieces of irradiated rock crystal as it comes from mining on a soldered frame.	100 Grover Cleveland High School Kings Crown in a fog
101 Grover Cleveland High School Kings Crown out in yard	102 Grover Cleveland High School Kings Crown From the top.	103 Grover Cleveland High School Kings Crown	104 Two Crowns in Fog King and Queens Crowns together.
105 Two Crowns	106 Two Crowns From the top.	107 Two Crowns	108 Kings Crown from the back.
109 weddingtiara	110 asadkarenrock	111 asadjareb	112 Dice Necklace 1" cube dice with vintage Swarovski crystals, bali findings.
113 Forbidden Fruit Parure Choker, bracelet and earrings of lucite pineapples and green apples with molded glass leaves and glass beads and cubes.	114 Blue Lucite bib Partially finished Blue Lucite triangles and swirled glass beads in a bib formation.	115 01leecaplan2	116 01leecaplan3
117 Twin Cherry Parure Lucite double cherry parure with glass molded leaves and glass cubes and rounds. Necklace, bracelet and earrings.	118 VFCJ Heart choker Close up of 2" x 2" lucite tortoise colored hearts, with Swarovski crystals. Purchased by Lucille Tempesta for the VFCJ Convention 'Color Fund'.	119 VFCJ Heart choker Full view of necklace.	120 VFCJ Katies Heart Lucite triangles in pinks and blue accents with Swarovski crystals. Sold at VFCJ Convention for the 'color fund'.
121 Tangerine , Coral, Serpentine Beads For Sylivie Cohen, Atlanta, GA. Tangerine and green serpentine beads, pink quartz, angel skin coral, and Venetian glass leaves as accents.	122 Woven Brass Wire Cuff This is 2 3/4" cuff, woven out of brass 18ga. wire. I added vintage Swarovski crystals.	123 Woven Brass Wire Cuff Side view. Nice and light, and easily formed around a wrist small to large.	124 Woven Brass Wire Cuff Showing my custom hang tag. Hand hammered Sterling.
125 Woven Brass Wire Cuff Showing twisted wire hook and loop closure.	126 Woven Brass Wire Cuff Front view.	127 Woven Brass Wire Cuff Top view.	128 Karen's Cross Made for my friend and coach Karen Ramsing-Bixler in PA., using Russian Rock Crystal, Chinese Serpentine Beads, Pink Quartz, Swarovski crystals, with a hand hammered cross and glass wired 'flowers'.
129 Karen's Cross Close up of cross.	130 Karen's Cross Close up of beads used.	131 Karen's Cross	132 Hand Hammered Heart Earrings I wear these every day!
133 Pat Rosette-Hutches Necklace I made this for my school chum who recently turned the big 60, using Chinese Serpentine, Pink Quartz, and a hand hammered heart with glass wired 'flowers'.	134 Pat Rosette-Hutches Necklace	135 Pat Rosette-Hutches Necklace Showing close up of heart.	136 Pat Rosette-Hutches Necklace
137 Pat Rosette-Hutches Necklace	138 Stuart Horse Trials Award Cuffs I made these for the 2nd place winners in each of the four divisions for the Stuart Horse Trials July 25-27, 2003. www.stuarthorsetrials.com	139 Stuart Horse Trials Award Cuffs Showing professionally engraved fronts.	140 Stuart Horse Trials Award Cuffs
141 Stuart Horse Trials Award Cuffs These measure 1" wide, and 7" around with a 1/2" opening. Since no one knows until the scores are posted on Sunday after the last phase, they have to be able to fit men or women.	142 Stuart Horse Trials Award Cuffs Showing the insides with my signature. I cut these from a sheet, filed and ground edges and corners, and formed them by hand. These measure 7" around with 1/2" opening, and 1" wide. Since no one knows who will win these until the scores have been tallied at the end of show jumping on the third day, they have to be able to fit men or women.	143 Gretchen's Cuff I made this for my friend Gretchen Butts, who completed her first Rolex KY Advanced 3-Day on her fabulous horse Zydeco, at the age of 50! It is 1" wide, and 7" Sterling-18ga. stock, hand hammered, stamped and formed by me.	144 Gretchen Butts & Zydeco-Dressage Test This is Gretchen and 'Z', in the Dressge test on Day 1. Gretchen admits that 'Z' was wonderful and fluid in the warmup, but when he saw the crowds and cameras, he was a bit of a naughty boy.
145 Gretchen and Zydeco Cross Country This is 'Z's favorite phase, on Day 2, the Cross-Country test. Speeds are run at 570 mpm, and jumps can be 4'11" tall and up to 8' wide. They are all solid, and set on an uneven track of 6000 meters for the 'D' phase. Phase A, B, and C, comprise roads and tracks, and steeplechase, before the actual cross-country.	146 Gretchen and Zydeco Vetting Three horse inspections are done. The first before Dressage, the second before Cross-Country on Day 2, and the third on Day 3, before the Show Jumping. A panel of international FEI Vets and Experts watch the horse jogging on hard ground to insure that the horse is sound and fit enough to compete and continue. Horses that are 3-Day fit, can be a bit of a handful during the vetting, and it's not unusual to see them bucking, standing on their hind legs (frowned upon), and squealing with joy for what is to come.	147 Gretchen and Zydeco Show Jumping The show jumping is on the third day. Many horses, after the cross-country phase are unable to continue because they can be stiff or sore. The ones that have passed the vetting often are not careful, and can drop rails on the show jumping fences, thereby dropping from being in the top 5 to the bottom 5 in standing. It's not over until the horse clears the last fence and goes through the finish line and the timer beam.	148 Pink Heart This was made with vintage Venetian blown glass beads, Swarovski crystals, and a hand hammered heart with wired glass 'flowers'.
149 Pink Heart Close up of heart.	150 Pink Heart	151 Pink Heart Close up of heart.	152 Pink Heart Shown on my horse statue.
153 Pink Heart	154 Pink Heart Ad in American Style magazine for the Fall/Winter.	155 Sterling Hand Hammered Hairpins Three 6" hand hammered Sterling hairpins, two with hearts, one with beads.	156 Sterling Hand Hammered Hairpins Close up of hairpins.
157 Power Necklace-Midge This is made with tumbled and cut Indian Jasper, Arizona Turquoise, cut and tumbled rock crystal, Givre beads, Serpentine beads and Bali Spacers.	158 Power Necklace-Midge 17" long, toggle closure with hang tag, more true to color in this photo.

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