Posted in Jewellery Design, Little Animals on Jan 23rd, 2012
Happy Chinese New Year everyone! To celebrate I’ve decided to design a dragon necklace to go with my other little animals. The first step in my design process is always a mood board, with different ideas of the design I’m working on. This is my current mood board – Dragons tend to be very fancy [...]
Posted in Jewellery, Jewellery Design, News on Jul 8th, 2011
Congratulations to the winner of this year’s Urban Beautiful 2011 European Design Competition: Flavour of the night by Guzel Bakeeva. As you can see from the photo below, it’s a fantastic piece of jewellery and a well-deserved winner. This is what the jury panel had to say about Guzel’s winning design: The jury panel was [...]
Posted in Jewellery, Jewellery Design, Little Animals, New Jewellery on Jun 24th, 2011
I’m very pleased to be able to introduce the newest members of the Little Animals collection. As of a few hours ago these little animals are now for sale and I hope you all like them! The collection has been inspired by my love of woodland, nature and Floella Benjamin’s heart necklace which I fondly [...]
Posted in Jewellery, Jewellery Design, News on Jun 14th, 2011
It was London Jewellery Week’s flagship exhibition at Treasure at the weekend so, of course, I went to look at my shortlisted design in the Swarovski Urban Beautiful competition. All 20 designs were displayed in a glass case just inside the main entrance, so everybody walking through the door could see them, I was delighted! [...]
Posted in Fashion, Jewellery, Jewellery Design, Little Animals, New Jewellery on Jun 6th, 2011
With Wren, the first piece in the ‘Little Animals‘ collection, finished yesterday I’m ready to crack on with designing the rest of the collection. I’ve finished my moodboard and pinned a copy of it up above my work bench, so I’m ready to be inspired by some of my favourite things: Woodland creatures, tree silhouettes, [...]
Posted in Jewellery, Jewellery Design, Little Animals, New Jewellery on Jun 5th, 2011
Hot off the jewellers block, a sneaky peek at ‘Wren’ the first item from the new ‘Little Animals’ Steel Orchids collection. I’ll keep you posted with more photos as I finish each new piece, and this collection will be available to order on the site in a couple of weeks. What animals would you like [...]
Posted in Competitions, Jewellery Design on May 26th, 2011
We’re delighted to announce that, as one of the semi-finalists in the Urban Beautiful jewellery competition, our entry will be displayed at Treasure during London Jewellery Week from Friday 10th June – Sunday 12th of June. Treasure — The UK’s most exciting contemporary jewellery exhibition, is the flagship event of London Jewellery Week (6–12 June). [...]
Posted in Competitions, Jewellery Design on May 20th, 2011
I’ve just heard from E-beads, who are running the Urban Beautiful competition in conjunction with Swarovski, and my design is through to the semi-final! Thanks to everyone who voted for my design – I got into the top 50 in the public voting thanks to your votes, and then got selected to be in the [...]
Posted in Competitions, Jewellery, Jewellery Design, Necklaces on May 17th, 2011
After a 5 year ‘baby-break’ from designing jewellery I decided to get back on the horse and start designing again by entering Swarovski’s Urban Beautiful jewellery design competition! The brief was to create a piece inspired by the urban environment using Swarovski crystals, and this is what I came up with! Inspired by the still [...]
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