New year, New Website

I have been absent from here for a very (very) long time and for a number of reasons.  The main one being that I've been so busy expanding my business and making silver jewellery to complete customer orders and commissions.  I haven't always had time to tell you about it on here.  I have also been concentrating on other forms of social media and have built up a significant following in Twitter @ARCJewellery as well as trying out Instagram.  It's early days but I think my Instagram page is coming along quite nicely @arcjewelleryuk

One of the biggest changes to my online presence has been a complete overhaul of my website arcjewellery.co.uk.  It was a big job but a very satisfying task and I learnt some new web development skills along the way as well as useful information about SEO.  One of my favourite aspect of the new website is the gallery where I shall be posting photographs of my work (past and present) with links to where it can be purchased online.

ARC Jewellery - Handmade Silver Jewellery

Handmade Silver Stud Earrings ARC Jewellery

I get a lot of silver offcuts here at ARC Jewellery but luckily I have several designs where I can use recycled silver in the form of little pebbles.  

The offcuts are melted into balls of various sizes and then either left ball shaped or flattened with a hammer and facetted (with a much smaller hammer) to give a lovely surface texture.  They are then added to earrings, rings, bangles and pendants and when polished they add a lovely sparkly detail to the design.

My most popular recycled silver items are these earrings.  The studs and dangles look great together in a row of piercings.  The studs are available in several sizes ranging from a very small 3mm (or smaller) up to 7mm diameter...or larger if you like.  As with most of my earrings they are also available as singles and are very popular as a unisex stud earring or as a first pair for newly pierced ears.

 

Little balls of recycled silver are used here to embellish earrings and a pendant

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