Jewellery Blog

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...

Christmas pudding coins out now

We're very happy to be launching our famous and deluxe sets of sterling silver Christmas pudding coins (charms or tokens) for the festive season. Hooray! Based on an old English tradition, finding...

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 ...

New amulets jewellery range out now

Our brand new Amulets jewellery range is sentimental and full of meaning. The jewellery is all about sentiments of love and care, along with wishes for luck, protection and guidance (whether for yo...

How to Survive Covid-19 in Style

So you're not panicking (I hope), but you are practising a bit of 'social distancing' due to Covid-19 and spending way more time lurking at home than usual. Or perhaps you're officially in isolatio...

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...

Most popular jewellery this Christmas (2019 edition)

One of my favourite things to do each year is checking out which of our jewellery designs have been most popular with our customers over Christmas: it's fascinating. Somehow it always comes as a bi...

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...

Reasons to Shop Small, Local & Handmade

I can absolutely vouch for the fact that a real actual person (that would be me!) does a happy dance when people shop from our jewellery store - and all of the small shop owners I know do the same ...