A customer brought in all her old, broken and unwanted gold to have something made that she would wear and love. Lots of broken chains, single earrings, rings that have been worn out and with stones missing was transformed into a lovely solid bangle with an opal and tiny diamond that could be salvaged from the rings. This is the before, wait for the after!!

This fabulous ring was designed and made by hand in our workshop from a customers old engagement, eternity and wedding rings! She was tired of the traditional solitaire diamond ring and the way that whenever she looked it was twisted round and under her finger, she also decided that she would like some rose gold along with white gold to complement her other jewellery that she wears. Most of all, what she had was not really her style, she wanted something “whimsical”! I came up with the designs for her to choose between and once everything was settled on we made her whimsical dream come true! The finished ring is impressive yet dainty, very attractive and totally unique! Do you have some old jewellery you don’t like or wear? Why not change it in to something you love?!?

Fresh out of the workshop! This gorgeous handmade ring features a stunning blue sapphire that weighs in at over 1ct and is surrounded by over 3/4ct of beautiful marquise shaped diamonds  clustered around the central stone and down the shoulders, but not in the boring old way! As usual I have not been able to capture the best of these beautiful gemstones in my picture, but any of you lovely people who would like a look will be knocked out by the real life sparkle! It’s so “hot off the press” I haven’t even priced it up yet, who fancies a one of a kind stunner??  

A widow came to us and asked for her husband’s wedding ring to be made in to something that she can wear all the time, to keep him close always. We used his wedding band and combined it with hers, added some black diamonds to the white ones she had in her band and set them alternating and flush to the ring so that it will be easy and comfortable to wear. She loved the simplicity of design and felt that it allows her to carry him forward with her.  Such a simple and heartfelt way of expressing her feelings of love and loss, while at the same time celebrating their life together and remembering happy times.

As I said, I’ve got carried away and bought some absolute stunners to get creative with! I tried to take a good picture, but this is the best I could manage, suffice to say they are just awesome in real life!! Pictured from left to right is a lush green Spodumene weighing in at a whopping 22.3ct! This beautiful gemstone is flawless and such a beautiful colour, unfortunately I seem to have got fingerprints all over it!! 😉 The other green gemstone is a 1.75ct green tourmaline in a rectangular “step cut”, a very sophisticated gemstone indeed! The pair of stunners at the front are tanzanite, 1.63ct of AAAA tanzanite to be exact! And last but definitely not least is the huge 29.4ct cushion cut Kunzite, such a beautifully delicate shade of pink with the tiniest hint of purple, just dreamy!!

I’ve only gone and done it again!! I have bought some gorgeous loose gemstones to get creative and make some more stock up for the shop! This picture is of a stunning 2.25ct natural opal that displays a glorious show of colours, from blue and green, yellow and orange and flashes of red. It’s just like watching electricity, what a beaut!! Now, what to make??? 😉

This beautiful delicate pendant was made for a lovely lady in memorial to her beloved dog who she had recently lost, she wanted a heart shaped stone for obvious reasons, and amethyst had to feature heavily as it was his birthstone. We came up with a design to add some twinkle of diamond to the piece, and I’m happy to say she was overjoyed with the result! So much so that she decided to have some earrings made to make up a set to wear always to remember him by. Watch this space!

This gorgeous full eternity ring came to me in a pretty poor way, it was missing nearly all the stones and had snapped through one of the settings because someone had stepped on it! The owner was planning on giving it to her daughter to celebrate a special birthday, so they came in together and we worked out what would look good and work well for her. After a little (ok, quite a lot!) of TLC it is back to it’s former glory with a new lease of life, set with alternating diamonds and emeralds all the way round, with safe and repaired settings and a lovely polish to complete the refurbishment! You wouldn’t know it was the same piece 😉

A lovely young man came to the shop wanting me to make him an engagement ring for his beautiful fiancé. He had seen exactly what he wanted on the internet and showed me a picture, I knew we could make the pretty white gold setting with rich rose gold shank, and it was set with a three quarter carat diamond. I managed to source a gorgeous brilliant cut diamond with certificate to guarantee it’s quality (which was better than the quality of the internet one!) and it was a whopping 0.91ct, so bigger than the internet one! Best of all, I managed to make it for less than the internet one too! It doesn’t always happen that I can beat the price of a mass produced item, but if you give me a chance I will always give it a go and do my best! On this occasion it was Jackey L-1, internet-0!!! 😉

If only I could do this beautiful gemstone justice in the picture! Alexandrite is a colour change gemstone that in daylight and artificial light shows a different colour, in very rare cases the change is from traffic light red to traffic light green! These gems can command incredible prices for such a vivid and complete change, but you can get Alexandrite with a much more subtle change in colour (and some TV shopping channels sell it with none, or hardly a change at all!) The one in the picture is a really good quality stone that demonstrates a definite and beautiful change in colour, albeit not perfect but superb nonetheless. We have just finished a full refurb of the ring including new claws to hold this precious gemstone safely for years to come!