New British Weather Jewellery

Amidst the ongoing chaos of my workbench, I’ve finally found time to photograph the new designs in my sterling silver Rain or Shine collection, which has been inspired by our peculiarly British obsession with the weather, and the classic BBC meteorological symbols of my childhood. Well, I say new designs, but as you can see from previous blog entries and various Instagram shots, I started them quite some time ago!

Really pleased with the way they turned out. I’ve always used eco-friendly recycled sterling silver sheet and wire for my hand forged designs, but I’ve also started to use eco-silver for casting as well. The jewellery industry has such a large ethical and environmental impact, trying to limit that impact as much as I can in my work is really important to me.

Anyway, I’ve got sterling silver and gold vermeil lightning bolts large and small:

Sterling silver rain or shine weather lighting bolt weather jewe

Sterling silver lightning bolt necklace with blue topaz raindrop

Sterling silver small lightning bolt stud earrings

Some beautiful gold vermeil, citrine set sunshine earrings:

Gold vermeil sunshine earrings with citrine gemstones

Gold vermeil sunshine drop British weather earrings

Shiny little sterling silver clouds for your ears:

Sterling silver British weather mini raincloud earrings

Sterling silver cloud and aquamarine rain earring stud

Sterling silver cloud stud earrings

Silver and blue topaz April Showers raincloud earrings:

Sterling silver British weather raincloud earrings

Sterling silver British weather rain cloud earrings blue topaz

And I think these are my current favourites, my Thunderstorm earrings, with sterling silver clouds, gold vermeil lightning bolts and London blue topaz raindrops:

Sterling silver and gold thunderstorm raincloud earrings

Sterling silver gold vermeil thunderstorm lighting bolt drop ear

How cute are they?! Each time I create a new design, I always keep the first one I make for myself, and my silver thunderstorms have been adorning my ears on a regular basis since I finished them.

My eyes have gone a bit funny now from all the photo editing, so it’s back to the workbench for some more custom roller derby jewellery.