cleaning handmade or vintage jewellery

When it comes to looking after your handmade and vintage jewellery, there are a few simple do’s and don’t that will help it last longer and look better. Handmade jewellery is not as robust as store bought which are made by a whole different process. But buying handmade[…]

Of the two – Art Nouveau and Art Deco – I have to say that I much prefer the Art Nouveau period for it’s gorgeous flowing and feminine designs. The Art Deco designs which followed were more geometric in form and do not inspire me anywhere near as[…]

My mother taught me about fairys when I was very young. The books in those days didn’t have pretty coloured pictures like they do now. So the stories were a lot more descriptive. I remember fairys slept amongst the petals of flowers, and tilted young leaves to drink[…]