First of all, I want to thank you for stopping by. I hope you enjoy reading as much as I enjoyed writing.
I wanted to share with you what it's like to be a jeweller. To tell you a little bit about the life of one and the magical process of turning a piece of silver into something that you are going to cherish for the rest of your life.
From doodling the design, all the way to having the piece finished and shining, to sending it out to its new home if it already has one, or keeping it, like some jewellers as myself do when falling in love with a new piece. It’s a magical process.
Being a jeweller is something that whoever is creative can do. It does require skills, but it mostly requires imagination and creativity.
Because you can create whatever your imagination allows you to, and you can do it yourself with your own hands, it becomes a process in which you are constantly wondering: what else could I do? And it’s one of my favourite parts.
Then, you start designing almost unconsciously, all the time.
I also want to tell you how exciting this process has been. One year ago, I was starting to plan my first collection since I moved to the UK, and was thinking in doing something inspired in nature and Art Nouveau. After almost 2 months of trying to design this collection I had an idea for a ring, with a completely different context but I made it anyway. To my surprise, I loved it so much that it developed into “The Amelia Collection”, a collection that had nothing to do with my first idea of nature and Art Nouveau. And that’s the thing when you are designing, you can’t force it. Your collection is a part of who you are, an expression of yourself and the things you love.
After spending hours and hours in the studio making every piece came along the mountain of legal and administrative things that you have to do when opening up a business. And although it was extremely overwhelming and I didn’t know how, where or when to do any of it, I decided to look at this huge mountain as if it had steps. That way it was only one step that I needed to climb at a time; one problem I needed to solve; one thing I needed to learn; just one at a time.
So almost one year after I’m finally launching “ENARA” and I want this blog to be about different jewellery processes and challenges as well as experiences and stories.