Jewellery Blog

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 ...

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...

14ct Party People: Celebrating at Christmas (2018)

We’ve got a whole new range of jewellery at your disposal because – YAY; it’s our 25th anniversary! That’s 25 years of Simone designing the kind of adornments that will set off your ensemble and pe...

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...

What to wear this festive season

Whether you’re luxuriating at home for Christmas, poshing it up or planning a trip, our new & older ranges have some beautiful hand crafted, locally designed pieces to match up with the latest ...

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...

Very intricate sawing for jewellery

... That's what I've been doing an awful lot of in the last few days. And here is the outcome of some of that work - an arabesque pendant in sterling silver with glass beads. If you've ever tried s...

Making a Victorian-style pendant & earrings

Recently a loyal customer asked if we would make a pair of earrings and matching pendant in an older design which is no longer in production in the jewellery shop. The pieces were to be given as a ...

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...