Working on some new commissions lately has come up with some challenging options....... The best way to deal with these ideas is to sometimes use modern technology such as Computer Aided Design. I love this approach to jewellery making. It definitely has some major pros, such as giving people the opportunity to see what their design will look like before it goes to the final stages. This ring has been 3d printed and then cast in sterling silver. The ring has been made so it w

I've been fairly quiet on the whole blog front lately! Its been busy with commissions, designing and also coming up with some new designs!! I love working with colour, and trying to come up with designs and ways to create colour can be quite a challenge. So this week I have been experimenting with resin, also know as cold enamel. What did I learn? I LOVE IT!!!! It is a more modern take on silver jewellery and creates big bold colours in a unique way. Resin has to be quite acc

So christmas is almost upon us!!! Its been the time of year when its go, go, go!!! This week we finished some absolutely fabulous rings, which I must say I am thrilled with! Our beautiful clients at Flossy and Jim HQ wanted two engagement rings (after all, why should just the woman recieve such a fab ring! ;-)....). These were quite challenging for a number of reasons. Finding the most fabulous unique stone fo these two wonderful characters took some time and debating, but we

Over the past four weeks I have been working on afew remodelled pieces of jewellery! This lush ring was made up of the cliends old rings, with a diamond and afew rubies.... From old jewellery, the stones were all removed and the gold was cast into the shape of a band! From this, it is then sent off for hallmarking. Once returned it is time to finish tidying it up and setting the stones! We decided to add afew more stones to even out the ring, includnig some pretty yellow sapp

So, this week has been a far from productive week, I must confess! It began with a stinky horribe cold and ended in a terrible chesty cough!!! So whilst we had all good intentions to get work done, it just didnt seem to happen! Today was the newton Abbot rock n gem show so we spent the morning looking at all the lovely shiny beads!!! Purchases were indeed made! And we have some serious gorgeous bits :-) ...... It was an expensive weekend to say the least but wil hopefully lea

The fasination with 3d printing happened just over a year ago when researching about how 3d printers work at college. I got to experiment with industry software such as rhino and decided to purchase it. :-) And to say I love making jewellery, learning how to use rhino software has been amazing! The software is just fascinating and takes away limitations you could have from mulitple solder lines, or just not 100percent how its going to work.... The beauty of this type of print

Today was a lovely day working with an amazing couple in the unit next door. The crazy and loveable couple are Flossy and Jim! A pair of Illustrators who work on some super fun designs including The palladium puppy club which consists of "4URAQT nails" puppy milo, their lovely pup Olive and our own crazy mascot Bailey! Its a really fun illustration we all love! :-) Well, its been a day of sitting around with Jim brainstorming and looking at some incrediblly beautiful stones.

This is a design I have now been working on for some time. It looks simple enough.......a load of circular shapes and you just solder them together....well, its definately turned out to be a learning curve! One massive piece of advice I could give you is make sure you learn from your mistakes! Whilst some designs turn out to go according to plan, others take trials and tribulations before you get them right, just like this troublemaker!! Working out how to join a necklace or