Once we had a design we made a silver version so the customer could see a physical version of the drawings. This allowed them to fine tune the design so it would be what they wanted!

This customer had been looking for what she wanted for so long without success, so she asked us to create it for her instead! We listened to what she wanted, designed the ring with her and her husband’s input, and got them loose stones to choose between….keep watching!!!

A proud Mum decided to give her daughter a very special wedding day surprise gift. We came up with the final design together which we then made up hush hush. It’s a white gold ring with all the birthstones of her family in, which was presented on the big day, just in case it wasn’t emotional enough!!!

Just had a husband bring in his wife on their anniversary, but she definitely wasn’t expecting what she got!! He had secretly got us to make a gold version of a costume ring she had been wearing for many years as a wedding ring. She loved the old ring well enough, but he wanted her to have the real deal, and what a lovely surprise to be given on your anniversary!!

The multi band ring we made for a customer from inherited wedding bands.

We have had quite a few bespoke jobs to do in the workshop over the last couple of months, I think it’s about time I showed a few! This is just a small snapshot of the kind of things we can make, and we start with a lady who had wedding rings from her Mum, Dad and grandma. We made her a ring that she will wear from all three! Here’s the “before”!

A big character needs big jewellery, that’s what she told me! With that in mind, we designed her a pair of drop earrings that would fit the bill, and made them from scrap gold and unwanted gold jewellery she already had but no longer wore. She loves them, and they suit her perfectly!!

A customer found this lovely piece of ancient rock on holiday and decided to bring it home with her! It has a beautiful translucent sheen that she loved and wondered if I could make something of it. My problem was that it is very brittle and flakes easily, so a design had to be made that would protect the stone while still allowing it to shine!! Hopefully she’ll love it when she gets back from her latest holiday, and maybe she’ll have found something else for me to get my teeth into!!!

I have been trying to take a picture of the most amazing fire opal and diamond ring that I have in stock. It is such a rare gemstone, as normally fire opal is just orange in colour (with transparent and strong colour being preferred). This one however, has the normal colour flashes that you would see in “white” opal, within the orange body colour of the gemstone. It is like staring into a fire!! The colours are ever changing, and it hypnotises!! The camera just can’t capture it though!!

When a customer brings in a little pouch of “something and nothing” to the shop, it’s enough to get the creative mind whirring! The pouch contained a fire opal and green tourmaline, which she wanted making into pendants. In addition she had some old jewellery with damage and some stones missing, and wondered if it could all be incorporated in to the final designs. She now has two “something’s” instead of nothing!!