Sterling Silver has more than doubled in price recently! If you're purchasing jewellery that's sold as Sterling Silver and it's really cheap, you have to wonder why! Unfortunately, just seeing a 925 stamp isn't enough. Some unscrupulous sellers will stamp jewellery with 925 when it clearly isn't. Please only buy from Sellers that you trust, if you want authentic jewellery.

All my hand made jewellery creations will come to you in quality gift boxes or satin pouches, absolutely FREE! It's taken me a long time to find the right packaging and now I'm very happy with the results. These are of an excellent quality and all have my logo printed on them in silver. Unlike many others (particularly cheaper varieties) these boxes don't contain tarnish accelerating chemicals (which speed up the natural occurrence of tarnish appearing on sterling silver items). They are all...

This scale of 1 to 10 was created in 1812 by Friedrich Mohs for the identification of minerals. He selected 10 minerals that varied in hardness and placed them on a scale from 1 to 10, using talc as the softest, scoring 1 and diamond as the hardest, scoring 10. Other minerals were scaled in between this depending on their resistance to being scratched after a certain amount of pressure was applied. This scale has continued to be in use by geologists and can be a handy guide to determine the...