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custom jewellery design: process

The Process

I love working with people to create meaningful, one-of-a-kind jewellery. Each piece begins with a conversation about your ideas, the materials, and the story you want it to hold.

I also work with ashes to create personal memorial jewellery, creating pieces that carry a connection to someone you love.

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Step 1: Let's Talk​

We begin with a free, 15-minute consultation to chat about your ideas and what you have in mind. We can meet in person, or connect by phone or email. It’s a chance to explore your vision, the meaning behind the piece, and whether my skills and approach are a good fit for your ideas.

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Step 2: Design & Quote

Following our initial conversation, I’ll develop concept sketches and provide a quote covering the materials and making time. New designs incur a design fee, which varies depending on the complexity of the work. This includes up to three rounds of design changes before making begins.

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Step 3: Making Your Piece

Once you’re happy with the design and quote, a 50% deposit secures the materials and gets the making process underway.

Depending on the complexity of the piece and my availability, making can take several weeks or longer. Each piece is crafted by hand, with great care. I’ll keep you updated as your piece takes shape. Where possible, allowing plenty of lead time is always appreciated.

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Step 4: Completion & Collection

When your piece is complete, the remaining 50% balance is due upon collection or delivery.

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Have an idea in mind?

I’d love to hear about it. Please get in touch and let’s start a conversation.

Selection of private commissions designs. 2010-2025

Examples of commissioned pieces:

 

-A brooch with a specifically designed QR code cast in sterling silver.  When scanned with a smart phone, it links the owner to a secret website designed especially for him, as a gift from his wife. 
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-A memento mori pendant containing the cremated ashes of Jackson's grandparents, sensitively  embedded in the concrete



-18k gold earrings with triassic age sandstone from MONA and gold dust in the concrete mix

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-Jean had a ring she no longer liked, so she had two of the sapphires removed from and re set into earrings (photo above)

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-As a surprise gift for her husband, Annie commissioned a pair of cufflinks containing a crushed rock sample from a quarry on her husbands' family property in NSW, Australia. The house he grew up in was made from bricks quarried from this site 

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