The Breakfast Table

 

The Breakfast Table, 1884

John Singer Sargent

Love the morning light - the new day - creeping in to this painting.

Breakfast is by far the best meal of the day; sustenance for adventures that lay ahead. A slightly hindered scope for that in Jan 2021, but there was lots of it here

Silver Fruit

Liverpool Street Silver Fruit

Bling

Spanner & Wingnut Look Book

 Finally got the pictures from a jewellery look book I styled a few months ago up on my tumblr

See it in full here

Gathering Gold

I have been gathering jewels for an up and coming shoot and am reminded of the many heart shaped pieces of jewellery I have...

I have started deconstructing the various pieces of neglected tat that I've picked up over the years and making new versions of them. My favourite trick is adding hearts to my gold hoops

Turns out it's quite hard to take a picture of your own ear.

18th Jewels

 I have recently rediscovered these lovely Alex Monroe pieces that I was given for my 18th birthday... Which doesn't feel as long ago as it was! Monroe has truly hit the big time since.

Picture of Post

 

I was sent this lovely picture last night from a happy One Off customer, wearing a Jessie Harris ring and with one of our vintage postcards that were sent to promote our Autumn/Winter collection. So glad both have gone down well.

Ring a Ding

 I have had a very long standing obsession with rings, my own and everybody else's. 

So happy that One Off is now offering some of our own.

One Off/Jessie Harris Collaboration

This week marks an exciting development for One Off with the launch of our first ever collaboration. 

Jessie Harris is a jeweller who lives and works in North London. After coming across her simple but intricate, delicate but heavy handmade jewellery, we knew we wanted to get Jessie on board.

Jessie has produced a beautiful and exclusive range for One Off, working alongside our aesthetic carefully and producing simple pieces that really are unique.

These little brass crystal bracelets are strung on silk cord and will look lovely on any wrist this autumn. A great gift - if you're not treating yourself!

I love these sterling silver rings, and they are my favourite pieces in this little capsule collection. I like how they are slightly unfinished looking - not too shiny and polished. Jessie made them by hand soldering silver wire, making each ring different to the next.

 Ideally I would wear two of these silver rings together, like this:

But they also look lovely alone or stacked alongside your own ring collection. Snap one up while they're still available.

One thing I like about the autumn and winter is the chance to wear my bulging big jumper collection. But there is something a bit deflating sometimes about covering up a really nice outfit with chunky knots of wool. This necklace is just the thing to liven your outfit back up, with a chunky antique rolo chain and silver plated geometric pendant.

Time for you to weigh in this Autumn with your own One Off/Jessie Harris pieces.

Have a look here for more.

Tied up in Knots

I found this lovely sterling silver knot ring in Spitalfield's Market today after wadling around trying to walk off the enormous breakfast I'd just eaten. I love it so much and it was a real bargain too!

I think it looks best on its own, but I'm not very good at not wearing all my rings at once, for sentimental reasons.

 

Metallic

I have always been a bit of a magpie, so when I read that metallic is apparently 'in' this season (such a bad expression) I knew I could dig out one or two things that were defiantly shiny. I really want to wear my Aladdin-esque sequin waistcoat more, but I never quite find enough guts to do so. Maybe this winter I will succeed.

Heart Attack

I noticed today that I have a lot of heart jewellery. Is it time to start buying skulls and stuff now instead?

Great Hallmarks

On Mum's silver necklace