Guest Blog Features
As someone with a healthcare background and a creative business, I have a reasonable understanding of the benefits I get from making jewellery. Always keen to know more, I invited counsellor and hypnotherapist Alison Ralph to tell me more about the effects of creativity on our mental health.
With the lockdown restrictions of 2020, there was a rise in people using outside spaces for their work. I was featured in a blog for AVIVA to discuss how I turned my humble garden shed into the ‘She Cave’.
Inside the ‘She Cave’
One of my first blog features was by the lovely duo Babble + Yak for their Christmas Gift buying guide. These creative ladies also provide great content for other makers on running small businesses…
Christmas Gift Buying Guide
Fellow small business owner Natalie Frost of Pretty Little Personalised invited me to give my perspective on running a small business during lockdown…
Hang in There!
Anyone who knows me, will be aware of my passion for sustainability both in my jewellery making and in everyday life. So it was lovely to have the opportunity to talk more about my ethical jewellery practice with the lovely Maya Vertigans - owner of sustainable homeware brand Sustainer Container…
On a similar theme, it was lovely to be included in Lizzie Rivera’s list of ‘9 best ethical and sustainable jewellery brands’ featured in her brilliant article published in The Independent and her blog post for Live Frankly.
Nothing goes to waste in the ‘She Cave’…
Amongst all of the challenges that 2020 has posed, one of the positives has been the rise in recognition of Black-owned businesses and getting a mention in Condé Nast Traveller as part of the Janet’s List October Pop-Up at Coco de Mer Luxury Lingerie Boutique in London’s Covent Garden was a real treat!
It’s been great to see the improving profile of Black jewellers not only from the customers perspective but also amongst our peers in the industry. I was honoured to be included in a list of ‘Black Jewellers to follow’ in a great blogpost by American jewellery designer Metalicious.