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14. January 2020

From academia to the workbench – an autodidact jeweller can create jewellery too

10 years ago, on my 37th birthday and in the middle of the last recession, I opened a jewellery shop. In spite of having an academic background and no official training as a jeweller, I chose to throw all caution into the wind and follow my heart to become a goldsmith - which almost didn’t happen after all, when I was offered the perfect job. When I was 19 in the beginning of the 90’s, I studied for a year at the art School of Engelsholm – situated in a renaissance castle with towers (I lived in one of them),…

The wedding morning gift

One of the few things in planning a wedding which involved the groom as well is deciding on a wedding morning (or night) gift. Here is a guide to this important gift as well as the background behind the tradition. Spring and summer is the favourite time for couples to tie the knot, meant to last a lifetime. Therefore we create a lot of custom made wedding rings at this time of the year, but another sort of jewellery is also often created alongside the rings: “The wedding morning gift” or “wedding night gift”, depending on when the couple prefers…

Jewellery for the young girl

Here in Denmark and many other places in Europe, our young teenagers are ”confirmed” in church when they are around 14 - a second baptization if you will, and this event typically marks when they are considered adults. Or so it was earlier, when the confirmation ended the childhood and started adulthood, prompting a young person to leave home in order to make a living elsewhere. Today obviously we don’t recognize a 14-year old as anywhere near adult (even though they themselves of cause do ;-) ). However, the confirmation is still an event which a child from a Christian home goes…

11. January 2017

The earrings of the bride

- A guide to an important detail Few things are considered quite as carefully as details of a wedding. For most this event will be a "one shot" and therefore we strive for all details to be as close to perfection as we can get them. One of these details are the jewelry of the bride. Here the earrings often tend to be particularly important because they provide life and movement to an outfit which at times can feel a bit stiff (especially since there is actual boning in many wedding dresses!).When making decisions about the jewelry for the big…

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