Jewellery Blog
Articles by Australian designer Simone Walsh
How to Price Your Craft & Design (part 1)
Pricing your handmade craft or design work can be very complex to get right. It can take years of learning, testing and refinement. You'll find it probably involves a lot of groaning, sighing and e...
How to Price Your Craft & Design (part 2)
In part one of my Professional Pricing article I covered how to calculate your wages, how to determine your annual overheads and how to come up with a mark up percentage to cover these costs in you...
Quick & Easy Christmas Pudding Recipe
Let's face it, these days many people often think that making a Christmas or plum pudding is just too difficult or too time consuming, while others think that a traditional pudding is a bit too ric...
Most popular jewellery this Christmas (2019 edition)
One of my favourite things to do each year is checking out which of our jewellery designs have been most popular with our customers over Christmas: it's fascinating. Somehow it always comes as a bi...
What to wear: outfit ideas for the festive season (2019 edition)
The festive season is fast approaching and quite frankly it’s time to treat yourself to a new outfit. To help we’ve matched our lovely pieces with some of Australia’s excellent independent labels b...
Reasons to Shop Small, Local & Handmade
I can absolutely vouch for the fact that a real actual person (that would be me!) does a happy dance when people shop from our jewellery store - and all of the small shop owners I know do the same ...
Outfit Ideas: Sustainable Fashion
We're starting a new blog series featuring outfit ideas combining Simone Walsh Jewellery with clothes, shoes and accessories by designers and brands that we love. For our first outfit ideas we want...
Autumn Style Tips to up Your Jewellery Game
Can you believe it's autumn already? As you transition your wardrobe into the cooler months we've got a simple and fun way to help you up your jewellery and general style game. Simply put on a very...
Most popular jewellery this Christmas (2018 edition)
I'm always fascinated to see what is most popular with our lovely customers each Christmas, which is always our busiest time of year. And this year is no different. There's usually a mix of old fav...
14ct Party People: Celebrating at Christmas (2018)
We’ve got a whole new range of jewellery at your disposal because – YAY; it’s our 25th anniversary! That’s 25 years of Simone designing the kind of adornments that will set off your ensemble and pe...
New 25th anniversary jewellery range out now!
I'm truly thrilled to let you know that we've just launched our brand new range of Australian jewellery: celebrating 25 years of creating unique handmade jewellery in silver, gold and gemstones. Th...
25 Years of Designing & Making Jewellery
It feels a tad indulgent to be writing up a 'history of me', but after 25 years of designing and making jewellery, I think a rundown of how we got here isn't a bad idea. It was way back in 1993 tha...