February 2024

Have you been feeling the love? There's imagery everywhere you go around the months of February and March, evoking thoughts of romantic love expressed on Valentine’s Day and maternal love we celebrate on Mother’s Day, and this has inspired my jewellery making with symbolic hearts and flowers to represent these emotional bonds of our most cherished relationships.

Hot off my Workbench

Here are some of my recent makes. Lovingly handcrafted from recycled sterling silver, and natural gemstones. Perfect as gifts that are as stylish as they are sustainable, because when it comes to accessorising, why choose between style and responsible when you can have both?

Heart Studs

Delightful open heart-shaped silver stud earrings. Perfect when you're off to a casual lunch or a glamorous evening soirée, these versatile studs are your go-to choice for effortless chic. ​

Heart Dangly Earrings

Beautiful heart-shaped purple fluorite gemstones, set in recycled sterling silver, capturing the essence of enduring love. Versatile earrings, ideal for everyday wear or special occasions, effortlessly complementing your unique style with understated charm.

Flower Dangly Earrings

Slightly quirky and simply elegant hammered silver flower earrings. Wear them any time to add a fun touch to your look.

Amethyst & Flower Necklace

Elegant, eye-catching pendant necklace with a cute quirky hammered silver flower suspended from a beautiful purple amethyst. Another anytime piece you’ll love to wear! 

Making Jewellery

I love my workbench days, working on my jewellery creations. Every piece of jewellery I make goes through lots of processes. I thought you might like a little glimpse behind the scenes of my work in progress. Here's how I make a simple silver ring:

Sawing

In this picture I'm cutting a piece of oval silver wire by sawing with a jeweller's piercing saw.

Filing

I use little needle files to smooth the sawn ends to get them perfectly flat and clean to ensure I will get a good solder join. ​

Soldering

Next I form the ring by bending the wire to align the ends and then solder the join using my blow torch.

Shaping

Once it is soldered I hammer the ring on a mandrel until the ring is perfectly round, using a rawhide hammer so it does not mark the silver.

Next I have to clean up the ring to remove fire scale caused by the blow torch, sanding with various grades of sandpaper to remove scratches and finally lots of polishing. It's a laborious process, but worth all the effort to bring you unique handmade jewellery pieces that you can't get anywhere else.

Upcoming Events

I’m looking forward to my first craft markets of 2024. Always good fun hanging out for the day with a bunch of other makers. Plus it’s a chance to show and chat about my jewellery creations with the lovely people who come along to see us. ​

Sunday 25th February 2024
10am - 4pm
Makers’ Market
The Makers’ Space
Longbarn Village
Alcester Heath
Alcester B49 5JJ

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Saturday 23rd March 2024
10am – 1:30pm
Craft Fair
Greig Hall
Kinwarton Rd
Alcester B49 6AD ​

You’ll find a list of all my 2024 events on my website. This is being regularly updated as new bookings are added to my diary, so please keep an eye on this if you want to know where you can find me:

As always, thank you for reading and for supporting my small business. I welcome your feedback. Do get in touch if there's anything I can help you with. 

With very best wishes,

Paula ​