Jewellery Blog

What it means to truly support small shops, designers and artisans

A few years back I read an article in an Australian magazine about handmade jewellery which indicated that a price of $19 was decadent for a pair of simple, Australian handmade earrings. The artic...

How to Price Your Craft & Design (part 1)

Pricing your handmade craft or design work can be very complex to get right. It can take years of learning, testing and refinement. You'll find it probably involves a lot of groaning, sighing and e...

How to Price Your Craft & Design (part 2)

In part one of my Professional Pricing article I covered how to calculate your wages, how to determine your annual overheads and how to come up with a mark up percentage to cover these costs in you...

Closing Etsy - but still open for business!

A heads up for those few customers who still shop with us via Etsy: our shop there is now closed. You can, of course, still purchase all of our current designs online in the jewellery shop. When I...

Time for a change

It's a shiny new year and this one in particular I hope to be a very important one for me and my handmade jewellery business. I'm very fortunate in what I do for a living: I get to create beautiful...