Jewellery Blog

What It Means to Truly Support Small Shops, Designers & Artisans

A few years ago, I read an article in an Australian magazine praising handmade jewellery. It was positive in tone, but one thing stuck with me: it referred to a pair of Australian handmade earrings...

Christmas Gifts for Special People (2023 Edition)

Part of the joy of this time of year is avoiding queues, staying home with a wheel of cheese and ordering exquisitely handmade gifts for your loved ones. We’ve prepared our own cheat sheet to help ...

About Christmas Puddings & Coins: History & Traditions

We're fascinated by the origins of Christmas puddings and Christmas pudding traditions - and especially about the silver pudding coins put in them for luck. We've been busily packaging our deluxe s...

Top 10 trends in 2022 for jewellery in Australia

Staying on top of fashion trends can be challenging, especially when they seem to come in and out so rapidly. The same goes for jewellery. As always, this year there are a lot of new jewellery tren...

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...

Quick & Easy Christmas Pudding Recipe

Let's face it, these days many people often think that making a Christmas or plum pudding is just too difficult or too time consuming, while others think that a traditional pudding is a bit too ric...

Outfit Ideas: Sustainable Fashion

We're starting a new blog series featuring outfit ideas combining Simone Walsh Jewellery with clothes, shoes and accessories by designers and brands that we love. For our first outfit ideas we want...

25 Years of Designing & Making Jewellery

It feels a tad indulgent to be writing up a 'history of me', but after 25 years of designing and making jewellery, I think a rundown of how we got here isn't a bad idea. It was way back in 1993 tha...

Watch our silver chain necklace being made

Our elegantly simple sterling silver chain necklace has been one of our most popular jewellery designs for years. Have you ever wondered how jewellery chains are made? We're here to show you. It's ...

Details in Bali: flowers, ornaments, temples and more

Recently we spent some time in Bali - partly for business and partly for pleasure. I thought I'd share just a few of the lovely things we saw. This was my second visit to the island and it again st...

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...