Processes and Materials

While I once hand-cut and constructed every single piece with my own hands in my home studio, we now use molds and lost wax casting techniques for reproduction. Thanks to our valued customers, our business is growing, and we now need more hands to help make our handmade products. We currently outsource our casting to a few places: a local casting house in Vancouver, a husband-and-wife team in Jaipur India, and an entrepreneur in Thailand. By outsourcing to several places, we can better keep up with supply and demand, and best utilize each of the talents of our subcontractors. All of our pieces are hand-made in small batches, and designed and finished in Courtenay BC.

Living wages, working conditions, and quality of life are important factors when we source our contractors. We pay a little more, to give and get a little more. We believe this is important, and we know our customers care about this too.

The quality of metals is also of paramount importance. You want to know what is next to your skin. All our jewelry is 925 sterling silver and then is plated in either fine silver, rhodium, 18k rose gold or 18k yellow gold and our jewelry is always nickel-free.

We only use quality fine metals, so you don’t need to worry about base metals being next to your skin should the plating wear off.

We refine and recycle all our scraps and bench sweeps to a Canadian refinery, reducing our waste when possible. Our jewelry cards are made from 70% post-consumer recycled paper, and our packaging is recyclable.

We aim to give back for what we take out of the earth, which is why we have partnered with one tree planted and donate to Free the Ocean.