Family Tree Necklace made using the families birthstones with recycled gold from a family heirloom and new silver.
This Diamond Wedding Ring has a lovely story behind it I met Chris and Kevin at a Ring workshop in Edinburgh where they made their own silver rings - later they decide to rework one of the rings to become a wedding ring. The outer band is the ring they made and the inside wider one I made, we used a family diamond to set in the centre and heres the finished piece!!
Mia is Here!
This was a really exciting project I was lucky to take part in. Nicola Madill a local singer songwriter wrote a fantastic song Mia about the underworld life of mermaids! I was asked to take part this in project on two levels...
First up as the Jewellery designer for the mermaids as Mia the Queen of the Underworld and her mermaids loved everything covered in jewels and pearls! This excited me a lot as I would get to design and make some jewellery that I might not usually get to make!
Secondly - Be a Mermaid!!! More on that later
The mermaids had two set colours Mia (me) being Gold and Red & Nixy (Nicola) Silver and Blue.
This gave me a starting point with my designs I wanted to make head pieces to embellish the mermaids and of course have rings and hand jewellery.
I decided to mainly work in silver, gold plating the pieces for Mia and keeping Nixys Silver and using precious gemstones - Red Garnets for Mia and Blue Topaz for Nixy.
This was the beginning of a hand piece I made using silver wire structure with garnets set into the metal which was then gold plated and I used pearls and chain to attach it around the finger.
For Mia I wanted her jewellery to be very grand as she is Queen of the Underworld. I used gold plated Bling Rings, with garnets and cubic zirconia to stack up the fingers with my gold plated textured stack rings and made a gold plated and garnet T bar Ring to reflect her power.
With Nixys jewellery her rings hand jewellery was a little more muted to show the difference between her and Mia, I again stacked up Silver and Topaz Bling Rings, T Bars and silver looped rings to embellish her fingers.
At the beginning of designing costumes for the mermaids we thought it would be good to have some jewelled themed bralets/tops. I worked with loads and loads of metres of chain to make this bra below, but sadly the issue is when wearing clothes like this underwater it didn't cover what we needed to have covered!! Luckily Steph our Art director managed to find this coin bra that worked perfectly when sprayed gold for Mias outfit! 
I loved making the head pieces for this project and another learning curve in this project was to see how the jewellery moved under water, this first head piece had a row of pearls, this ended up looking like minnie ears when I swam underwater so it was decided to just go for the gold, garnet and chain designs.
Working with Jillian Elizabeth the make up artist, we managed to use make up and jewels to enhance the pieces of jewellery adorning the skin as well as the jewellery being worn.
For Nixys Head piece I used swarovski blue crystals, silver chain and a piece of my silver jewellery featuring a topaz (usually a necklace) to make the feature point of the head piece.
The final look of the mermaids looked unreal and really worked well underwater, The hair and make up, the clothing, tattoos and jewellery all helped to create this magical look for the mermaids!
We had a fantastic team working on Mia showcasing a lot of Dundee's talents. It was filmed by underwater film specialist Lindsay Brown from Stray Seal and film makers Flyboy Original, film editor and visual effects specialist Matt Cameron. The incredible make up was by Jillian Elizabeth. Art Director Steph Johnstone worked on the outfits (which was a lot of work getting the perfect tails and tops for us mermaids!) The impressive Hair by Liam Hansen. Jewellery made by me and Must say a massive shout out to Vilqua Van Cartier for working on a lot of the film responsibilities and training myself and Nicola to become Mermaids! My next blog will let you know about the life of training to become a mermaid - training to swim, act, speak and see underwater! Which was a challenge for me being scared of deep water! :D
A client came to me to ask is there was a I way I could make this Family Heirloom Brooch into a Ring to pass down the family.
I absolutely loved the stone and the setting in this brooch and the client wanted to keep this as a feature. I safely removed the stone from the brooch so I could work with the metal to recreate the brooch into a ring.
Instead of melting the metal down I was able to reshape the wire and make it into the band for the ring and reset the stone to make a beautiful new wearable ring.
This was one piece I didn't really want to see leave the studio, I had got myself quite attached to the beautiful stone!
This piece shows the transformation that jewellery can go through. You don't need to sit with jewellery that has been passed down from the family and keep it in the box as its maybe not your taste! You can have to remodelled and worked to make a piece you enjoy and would like to wear. I love working with pieces and revamping them either using the stones or the metal and the stones to make new family heirlooms!
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Mike was looking to make his very own diamond engagement ring by hand from scratch!
So here is how it went!
Make sure you watch until the end and I challenge you not to get emotional!
Bridal Party at Gallery 48 making their own silver rings with Scarlett Erskine Jewellery.
All set up in Gallery 48 for a hen party, working with Gallery 48 the bridal party were offered an evening of making their own silver rings whilst sipping on G48's amazing gin cocktails and then a selection of tapas to enjoy once the rings were made!
Loved this beautiful headpiece made by Bluebell and Birch
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