Have been approached by Vogue Magazine! They are doing a feature on the Best of British Jewellery Design and asked if they could use the Elizabethan Pearls necklace. What an honour! Then earlier this week, Tatler Magazine asked the same, but I couldn't do both, so Vogue won my vote.

I am so excited and can't wait to see the article. The feature will be in the June 2009 edition, so have a look!

Now all I have to do is work on my designer collection - no mean task I can tell you as each piece is carefully designed and takes quite along time to make. Still, I am relishing the challenge, and as the creative juices are flowing, I will be flame in hand, soldering my heart out for the next few weeks.

Have just finished photgraphing the new range of tiaras and bands and discovered that it isn't easy taking pictures of crystals as they either come out blurry or too shiny to see detail. Oh well, that's why I make jewellery instead of being a photograher I guess!

Next tasks: upload into website - the new pins, tiaras and bands range will be online in the next few days. Also I am working on a range of metal combs, which will be stunning and suitable not only for weddings, but proms and other dressy occasions as well.

Also the next couple of weeks will see the launch of new necklace, bracelet and earrings pages where you can shop from the stock I take to craft fairs, so you can browse your own exclusive craft fair  from your armchair!
Liz.

Happy New Year!
To celebrate the arrival of 2009 major changes are coming to the website! This means that the galleries will go so that you can browse new shop pages, making shopping for fabulous jewellery much easier. Also new for this year, I am working on a range of tiaras, bands, combs and hairpins! The bespoke service will apply to the tiara range, as I have had many requests already. In addition to all this will be a new range of Dzi bead jewellery, made from Tibetan healing beads and hand made silver and, throughout the year, my work will begin to focus on jewellery featuring contemporary design in jewellery as art. So, lots to look forward to, but I can't help feeling that the hardest work will be in re-arranging the website! So thank you in advance for your patience, and please feel free to contact me with any queries and please do join my mailing list to be kept up to date with all the delicious new things as they arrive!

I was recenltly honoured to be nominated one of 5 national finalists in the Wedding Jewellery Retailer of the Year Awards in association with The Wedding Network and Wedding Professional Magazine. The award ceremony was held last weekend at the magnificent Boreham House in Chelmsford and as it was a black tie "do" I had tremendous fun dressing up with my daughter Lindsay and our partners escorted us in style! 

We spent ages looking for the right dresses and eventually found some in a shop in Cirencester called "Carriages at Three", after trying on practically all their stock I decided on a midnight blue halter neck Grecian style dress and  Lindsay chose a silver taffeta gown.  She alread had some silver sandals, but my search for the elusive dark blue shoes took almost until the deadline. Eventually I found a gorgeous Karen Millen pair of dark blue satin platforms with a satin rose. I have added the details of the hair lady, Hair Aloud, and the dress maker who made delicate adjustment to our dresses, in Wedding Planning Links. I haven't yet added the shop link as the management of the shop haven't Ok'd it yet, but you know the name!

We both wore jewellery designed and made by me: Lindsay wore the beautiful crystal lace collar, Magnolia from the Wedding Collection, which features over 300 individually wired Swarovski crystals. It matched her slightly period dress perfectly  and would have given 300 diamonds a run for their money! I wore a specially designed piece to wear with the plunging neckline of my dress ~ a necklace with a dramatic decollete drop featuring over 45 Swarovski crystal briolette drops, with matching chandelier earrings and hair jewels. The hair jewels were very subtle and sparkled when they caught the  light, the camera just didn't catch them! Both of us received  lots of compliments and comments on the jewellery as it was stunningly sparkly!

The trophy was won by a "high end" jeweller based in Essex who buys designer collections of diamond encrusted pieces, so to be a finalist in the same category, was a huge achievement and honour for me. The judges made their decision based on innovative design, quality and personal service and a place in the national finals was an  immense achievement amongst fierce competition of 100's of entries!

Back to reality now and re-organizing my site .... just need to get all those links changed every time I shuffle the pages .....!