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All About Hallmarking
About HallmarkingWe love the history of British hallmarks A hallmark is applied to articles of precious metals (gold, silver etc) - to prove the item has been independently tested and conforms to legal standards of fineness (purity). In the UK it's illegal to supply...
Download Your Christmas Wishlist Here
Start making those Christmas lists... Download our new christmas wishlist template, print it out, tick the boxes and stick it on the fridge! The perfect way to hint at what your perfect gift would be.
We Ship Worldwide!
Absolutely loving the worldwide orders, we're so completely delighted every time we tick off a new country or State. Colouring them in is a huge boost. We’ve now ticked off a few States that we’re very proud of - Alaska, Arizona, Texas, Florida - all around the edges,...
Luxe Recycled Plectrum Earrings Collection
Developing my range of recycled plastic plectrum shape jewellery has been a culmination of over 30 years of using alternative materials in my work. Each pair evolves as I accumulate plastic store cards, often waiting several years to find enough to make up the design....
Pretty French Vintage Grey
Grey - that pretty French vintage grey, worn out and comfortable. It’s everywhere, ubiquitous, very calm and the perfect foil for anything you want to put with it. It comes to me, sleepless in the middle of the night, in a French hotel room, That lovely Paris...
Murky Orange Rainbow?
Murky orange rainbow? It has to start somewhere, has to come from somewhere, I suppose. Lining up the liquorice comfits on the dashboard was my first awareness of it - the nerdy-ness, the tiny flash of the inherited autistic streak that’s in all of us really. Was...
My Own Personal Rainbow
My Own Personal Rainbow - Why do we sometimes become so staid in our choices of colours? Some colours are obviously more wearable than others, depending on our skin tones, hair colour etc, but many of us covet colour and never wear it, are we missing the benefits,...
Greys
Funny that I don’t think of grey, but greys , in the plural And amazing how much there is to be seen in greys. All the facets and nuances that go together to make up the simply staggering varieties of this lovely, calming and absorbing colour range. Soft greys, harsh...
Fiery Red and Yellow
Fiery Red and Yellow. Primary, heartstopping, but of course, this isn’t just one colour, and like the new black, it doesn’t really exist. All in my head, but that’s the point, it’s my version of the colour, or the combination of colours that go to make this up. Ooh...
Baby Blue / Electric Blue
Santorini sea, Guernsey Sky, my grans’ old teapot. Such things make me happy, and thus Baby blue is a favourite. For no other reason than it reminds me of happy places and happy times. The funnel neck jumper that I once blew a weeks wages on (Nicole Farhi, always a...