'Audra's Wave' Pendant
I have been like a busy, torch-wielding, file-slinging, solder-picking bee. There have been engagement and wedding rings, necklaces and pendants and earrings made. Tomorrow will see more rings being finished off and a big parcel going off to the assay office for hallmarking. Then, I’m all yours. Potentially.
I spent a rare morning in town recently, and walking past a famous high street jewellers, stopped and had a look. I felt a little bit like splaying myself across the window and shouting ‘nooooooooooooooo, nooooooooooooo don’t do it!!!’ and folding my business cards into shoppers hands, gazing at them with imploring eyes. ‘Email me instead, go on! You’re worth more than this! More!’ I didn’t (obviously, I’m not a full loony), so I’m telling you instead.
'Two' gold wedding rings (work in progress)
When I have spent a few days exchanging emails* with someone, knocking ideas together, sketching, changing, sketching some more, you suddenly reach that moment of ‘Yes! This is the Thing! This is the beautiful Thing that is right, and has meaning and will be made and loved!’. That’s a wonderful moment. It’s one you should really share a cigarette over (except I gave up in 2004 and if they’re in Swindon it just doesn’t work anyway. But I digress…)
Then there is money paid and I get to make the Thing. This is good, I am at my happpiest in my troll-cave, cutting and a-soldering and making the Thing. Then, like I’m giving my new love the first Important present, I get all nervous. Will they like it? Will they be pleased? Will the Thing fulfil its purpose? There is a horrid, anxious time after I have emailed the photographs.
Then there is happiness! Yes! The Thing is beautiful, and just right. Phew. Then after it has been finished – I sometimes polish mechanically but always, always finish a piece by hand with repeated polishings – it gets boxed, and sent off. Then I wait (nail-bitingly wait), until I hear that the Thing has been received. If it’s a gift, there is a further wait to see how it is received. Then there is more happiness! The Thing is loved. Hooray!!! (Another would-be-cigarette time, but isn’t.) Does the Mr Jewellery shop fret if you like the mass-produced, cast-in-bulk shiny thing? No, he doesn’t. I do dangnabbit. And I only make one, yours.
So, if you’d like a Thing, just for you, designed for you, made for you, loved for you, send me an email. I can get it ready for Christmas if you email me soonish too. Awesome. Lydia@niziblian.com does it.
That’s me for now – I’ll be sending out a newsletter soon (and no doubt will find something pretty to give away in it), so if you’d like to find out more about what I’ve been up to – please sign up by clicking here
Lydia x
Gold, silver & mystic topaz ring
*I don’t mind talking on the phone if you prefer – I just say ‘errmmmm’ and ‘aaaah’ and ponder less by email 
Will email you phone number should you prefer the talky way, or even meet you if you don’t scare easily, and are local, or own a locomotive.
