Jewellery Blog

Different Types of Earrings: How to Wear Your Perfect Earring Styles

Earrings are a perfect way to express your personal style, whether you're keeping it casual or dressing up for a special event. With so many types of earrings to choose from, including in our Austr...

All About Gold: Carats, Karats & Tips For Buying Gold Jewellery

Gold has always been one of the most treasured and valuable precious metals on the planet. Whether you're buying jewellery as a gift or treating yourself, understanding gold as a metal and what dif...

Types of Gold Jewellery: Solid Gold, Vermeil & Gold Filled Explained

If you’ve ever found yourself puzzled by terms like solid gold, gold vermeil, gold filled, or gold plated while shopping for gold jewellery, you're not alone. As a buyer, the jewellery world can ea...

How to Buy Jewellery Safely Online: 10 Smart Tips

Shopping for jewellery online has never been easier, with many Australian jewellers offering stunning pieces at your fingertips. No more hopping from store to store - you can browse and buy from th...

Why Do We Put Coins in Christmas Pudding? A Look at History, Traditions & Meaning

It's one of those odd but endearing traditions: finding a coin tucked inside your slice of Christmas pudding. You're told it brings luck for the year ahead, and everyone laughs nervously as they ch...

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...

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...

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...