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Keishi Pearl Cluster Earrings

22 Jan in Jewellery | Comments (0)

This is my first pair of earrings of the year! I was asked to make a similar pair just before Christmas and that’s where the idea originally came from. I’ve combined the rich cocoa colour keishi pearls with sumptuous berry coloured tourmaline for this pair though. I’ve also used faceted smoky quartz and these are made using only 14ct gold fill.

Stackable Bracelet

09 Dec in Jewellery | Comments (2)

This bracelet was a recent commission. I’ve made it using 3 strands that finish with a sterling silver toggle clasp. The 3 strands are made using faceted Rhodelite, labradorite, baby peacock freshwater pearls and pure silver droplets.

Hope, Faith, Love Bracelet

13 Nov in Jewellery | Comments (0)

Most of the time, the jewellery I make, is something I would choose to wear myself. I am drawn to certain colours and I have a fondness for pearls and semi precious stones. By the time something is finished, I love it, but let’s face it, you can’t keep everything for yourself can you? There are some pieces which I haven’t been able to part with – the Gold Cluster Necklace for example is a one off piece, that I had to have and I wear it a lot.

Some time ago I came across two engraved silver discs . I’ve kept them, and have made a bracelet for myself with one of them – it’s a little “from me to me” and I love it. At the moment I like leather stackable bracelets, with hints of metals and I decided to do something similar with this disc – and so – my Hope, Faith and Love bracelet!

White Keishi Pearl necklace

15 Sep in Jewellery | Comments (0)

Keishi pearls are a serendipitous accident. This happy mistake happens when the oyster rejects the nucleus of the pearl and spits it out before the culturing process has finished. The result is a pearl composed entirely of nacre and so keishi pearls normally have a very high luster.

I bought this strand of little white keishi pearls some time ago and have now strung them into a classic White Keishi Pearl Necklace. I love the little shapes clustered together, they remind me of perfectly white hydrangea petals. Because they are delicate, I have not knotted between each pearl, as I normally do with my pearl necklaces. I did not want to loose the way the pearls fit together, so they are intermittently knotted.

This is my kind of jewellery, something you would love wearing over and over, carrying you from your wedding day, to a day at the office or a white linen shirt with jeans.

Seed Pod Necklace

01 Sep in Jewellery | Comments (0)

Talk has turned to Autumn. We can stop worrying about the weather, we know that from here on, it’s only a matter of time before summer leaves us with just a hint of bronzed skin. It’s time to light candles in the earlier evenings, welcome back boots, hats, scarves and coats. Snuggle by the fire – with red instead of crisp, chilled white and kick swathes of fallen leaves in our wellies.

The latest necklace on the site is the Seed Pod Necklace. It’s made of autumnal seed pods, all browns, chocolate, russet and amber, wonderfully patterned and strung on satin ribbon. A necklace to welcome in the new season.

Coin Pearl Cluster

20 Jul in Jewellery | Comments (2)

The coin pearl earrings have been one of the most popular earrings I have on the site and I was recently asked to make a necklace to be worn with the earrings.

I have bought a strand of beautiful coin pearls, the most I have ever spent on a strand of pearls, but these are stunning, very large peacock pearls, and I have kept them to make some cluster necklaces. So I am pleased to show you the first!

Apart from the coin pearl, I have used freshwater pearls, swarovski crystals and faceted labradorite in this necklace.

The Otter Pendant Necklace

04 Jun in Jewellery | Comments (2)

I recently received an email from a gentleman which went something like this ” Could you make a necklace for my wife? She is turning 50 and I would like you to use white pearls and an otter”

So no pressure then….

You don’t want to get a gentleman’s 50th birthday present to his wife wrong do you?

Here is the story:

White pearls – pearls are the traditional stone for June

The Otter – the lady in question sponsors an Asian short-clawed otter

Pearls, you know me, pearls are absolutely no problem. The otter though was another story. I searched high and low for a silver otter. I literally spent hours trawling the web looking for a beautiful otter. I could not find one….. I did find a incredibly talented silversmith who would be able to make a bespoke one for me – one which could be incorporated into a necklace design I had set my heart on.

But he could not do it within the budget I had been set.

And we were back to square one, and a new design, looking for that elusive beautiful otter. Eventually I found one, an elegant creature perched on a branch! The only problem was that the pendant weighed 12.5 grams and any silver object weighing over 7 grams needs, by law, to be hallmarked by the Assay Office in Birmingham. With a week and a half to go before the birthday date and a bank holiday weekend tucked into that, time was precious. We couriered the pendant to the Assay Office from it’s home in Scotland….. held our breath while the Assay Office (notoriously temperamental) did their thing and then it was couriered on to me. With just a day and a half to string the white pearls and assemble the necklace, I had no time to make any adjustments and had to hope that the idea I had in my mind would translate to the finished item.

I think it did.

An elegant double strand necklace – a string of medium white pearls, traditionally knotted, with a second strand using a silver chain, studded with silver drops holding a handcrafted silver otter pendant.

Lily Pad Bracelet

16 May in Jewellery | Comments (3)

I have a very lovely German pearl man that I meet with a couple of times a year. Pearls are freely available here, but I find that I mainly buy from him. His pearls are always of exceptional quality, the range he sells is enormous, but for me, the main reason is that he always has something a little different, unusual, not run of the mill. He knows me well, and will unwrap these little gems with a glint in his eye, because he knows that I am powerless to resist!

These very large Keishi pearls were part of my last order, in beautiful iridescent peacock colours, but it’s the shapes that make these pearls special, little flower petals, or a whole shy, sweet country bloom, and flat, open lily pads, just waiting for a little visitor.

I’ve used these pearls for the Lily Pad Bracelet. I’ve used lots of them! And tucked in between, hiding away is a little brushed silver disc, cuddling a gold Keishi Pearl. A little hidden gem.

The bracelet closes with a handmade pure silver Rose clasp.

Grey Pearl Earrings

09 May in Jewellery | Comments (4)

I’ve had a request for some pearl earrings using the pearls from the Grey Pearl Necklace. Claire liked the idea of a cluster of crystals – this is the finished product.

Crystals always prove to be a challenge when photographing – these earrings are in colours of grey and ice blue and yet, to me, there are shades of green in my images. I photographed them in direct sun and in shade, perhaps it just goes to show how wonderfully they reflect the light and perhaps the green is from my leafy garden!

This design is now available to purchase on the site – Grey Pearl Earrings

White Pearl Earrings

08 May in Jewellery | Comments (2)

I’ve just added some white pearl earrings to the shop – they are made to match the white pearl necklace . Apart from being made using the most beautiful white freshwater pearls, I like the extra bit of detail the 14ct gold filled wire work gives them. These earrings would be perfect for bridal jewellery too – and you would get lots of wear out of them after the wedding as well!

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