Ideas / Advice / Jewellery Making and Sustainability Tips / Random Thoughts…

Welcome to my blog! This is the place where I write all the stuff I used to share on Social Media before I decided to take ownership of what I write and bring it all home to my own website! If you’d like to keep up with my weekly-ish thoughts on my world, please either follow the RSS feed (not really sure how that actually works but it’s the little link below)…or…sign up to my mailing list to receive my witterings direct to your inbox.

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Am I A Terrible Business Person?

Yesterday, I was reminded of a couple of things… 1. Artists can often be terrible business people, and 2. My “job” is so much more than just something I do to earn money….

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The Design Process…

Hi and I hope you’ve been having a good week. As I start my new round of commissions, this week for me has been mainly about client meetings and drawings. So much so, that I haven’t had much of a chance to think about my blog, or post on social media. I’m determined to keep up my “blog-momentum“ though …

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Where Can I Find My Gold?

As you probably know by now, I’ve made the decision to only use recycled metals that I know have come from your own old jewellery. But what if you don’t have any old jewellery?

Well, you do still have some options if you’d like me to make a special piece for you…

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Do I really need to do events?

It’s that time of year when the summer and next autumn event booking emails start to land in my inbox and if I’m honest, I’m in a bit of a quandary about what to do.

Selling / promoting yourself at “event’s” is just the default “done thing” when it comes to creative small business, especially one in the jewellery industry, but is it really necessary or even the right thing to do for “my” business?

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How Much Does A Commission Cost?

I’ve just sent out my second (and last) commissions reminder ready for my list opening again on Friday. You need to be on my mailing list to receive the commissions link, but I included some useful pricing information(correct for February 2025) in the email that I thought I’d also share here for anyone that might be thinking of a future commission.

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What if Meta Disappeared? (and some finished jewellery)

I’ve been thinking a lot about my social media accounts recently, and I know I’ve written before about this, but something happened this morning that made me want to just get on and start using my own website, where I’m in control of everything

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Kintsugi

A few moths ago, a client came to my studio with both arms in casts, having suffered an accident on holiday. This was obviously bad enough in itself, but unfortunately her platinum wedding and engagement rings needed to be cut off, and as usual, making a neat job of this wasn’t really the hospital’s priority!

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