Jewellery Blog

How to mix, match and stack jewellery

Are you trying to figure out the best way to mix and match your jewellery for different occasions and situations, so that it suits your own sense of style and makes you feel well put together? We'r...

What to wear: outfit ideas for Christmas & summer

No matter where you are on Earth, it's been a long, bizarre couple of years. With things slowly getting back to ‘normal’, many of us will be scheduling long-awaited catch-ups with friends and fami...

Christmas gift ideas (2021 edition)

Here at Simone Walsh Jewellery, we’re getting our Christmas gift list together and checking it twice as soon as possible. There’s a bit of a bottleneck in Australia’s Post, after much of Australia...

Outfit ideas: mixed & matched jewellery

If you've read our article about How to Mix & Match jewellery and you're looking for some examples to inspire you, here are some selections we've put together of Simone Walsh Jewellery designs....

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...

What to wear: outfit ideas for Christmas

In a year universally panned by critics, it’s time to frock up and shine. Here’s a few suggestions on how to match our gorgeous new amulets range with some of our favourite independent Australian f...

Gift ideas for the women you love (2020 edition)

With borders slowly opening up, there’s still no guarantee that everyone will be home for Christmas in 2020. If you can’t make it, small businesses such as ours can help you send the love you’d pre...

Outfit Ideas: Ethical Australian Fashion

This is the second in our occasional series of outfit ideas to help inspire you to spruce up your wardrobe. This time we're focusing on a couple of Australian brands I love, which also both have a ...

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...

What to wear: outfit ideas for the festive season (2019 edition)

The festive season is fast approaching and quite frankly it’s time to treat yourself to a new outfit. To help we’ve matched our lovely pieces with some of Australia’s excellent independent labels b...