Hi, I’m Lauren… I’m a jeweller, a mum of two wild little boys and I live with my family in a small town in West Yorkshire.
Making jewellery is my soul’s work.
There’s nothing I love more than tinkering around at the bench with some silver and gemstones, and creating something beautiful and magical from them. A wearable treasure.
Most of the jewellery I make is inspired by nature.
I love the natural world. I am forever in awe at mother earth’s work. From the amazing colours, shapes and patterns of leaves and flowers, like the beautiful checkerboard fritillaria, to the intricate textures of seed pods or the delight in spying mushrooms popping out of a fallen tree.
And don’t get me started on gemstones.
Beautiful treasures, formed by the earth, with an unending variety of colours and patterns. Heaven.
Responsibly Sourced
Locally Made
My approach
A note on sustainability and ethical practice in my jewellery business…
Every piece of my jewellery is handmade by me using traditional silversmithing techniques.
Where possible, I source my precious metals and gemstones ethically and sustainably.
I buy recycled silver sheet, wire and chains to make my pieces from.
I am very conscious about my packaging, and have done what I can to make it plastic free. I try to minimise packaging and don’t include anything extra that causes unnecessary waste. I send my online orders out in cardboard postal boxes sealed with paper tape. I have sourced cardboard eco-friendly boxes for my jewellery.
I also want to minimise the impact that making my jewellery has on the environment, and I am always researching and taking action on ways to make this possible.
It all started
because of
‘PS. I Love You’…
(i.e. how I became a jeweller)
As a little girl, I always loved looking through my Nana’s jewellery box and playing dress up with her paste crystal brooches and necklaces. I was always very creative, and although Art & Design was my best subject at school, I didn’t really think I could do anything with it. I actually wanted to be a police officer, but after finishing sixth form at 18 I felt way too young to join the police, so I went to university to study Criminology and Law.
I graduated, and the police weren’t recruiting, so I got a job working for the Crown Prosecution Service.
About 9 months after starting the job, I went with a friend to see the film ‘PS I Love You’, adapted from Cecilia Ahern’s novel. In the film there is a scene where the main character played by Hilary Swank is walking along a country lane and talking about being an artist. She says:
‘just create something new, and there it is, and it’s you, out in the world, outside of you, and you can look at it, or hear it, or read it, or feel it, and you know a little bit more about you’
It got me.
Create something, and it’s a little bit of you out in the world.
I found it so powerful and it really moved me. I came out of the cinema wanting to make something, anything, it had stirred something in me that I hadn’t paid any attention to since my art classes in school - creativity.
So I started looking for classes. In the film Holly realises she wants to make shoes. I started looking for shoe making courses! I know, very different to the police. Whilst looking for shoe making classes (still laughing at this), I found silversmithing and jewellery design courses. A HA! It clicked.
Jewellery. I had always loved jewellery. Ever since being a little girl and searching through my Nana’s jewellery box, I loved the shiny little treasures.
And there was a 1 year course starting in September in Glasgow in Scotland, where my then boyfriend (now husband) was about to start his masters degree. And there was space on the course, even though it was August when I found it.
Fate. I’ve always believed in fate.
So I took an enormous leap, handed in my notice, and moved from Leeds to Glasgow, and had an absolutely blissful year learning the skills of my trade.
Since then it’s been a slightly twisty path to get to this point, with moving back to Yorkshire, getting married, two babies in two years, a pandemic etc.
However in 2020 I got out my jewellery tools and started making again. And I love it. Each piece of my jewellery is a little bit of me, out there in the world.
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