Giselle Petty Custom Bespoke Jewellery
Why settle for ordinary; purchase & create something extraordinary! Can’t find that perfect ring? Want a totally unique pendant or pair of earrings? We can make your custom jewellery dreams come true!
Design & Create Process
I like to work very closely with my clients so as to meaningfully and accurately interpret their jewellery dreams and needs. Whether it be to create their special engagement and wedding rings, remodel their existing pieces or a gift, I ensure that the entire experience from inception to the exchange of the finished product is a memorable one.
All jewellery pieces are hand made by me.
Jewellery Workshops
These workshops are for beginners and take place on one Saturday per month.
The options are to make either one piece of jewellery, a pendant, bangle, a set of stacking rings or a pair of earrings.
Contact us to book your place.
The workshops are creative, fun, positively challenging, fast paced and a journey of self exploration while creating your own unique piece/s of jewellery in Sterling Silver without any experience that you go home with. During the workshops you will be guided through the basic processes of traditional jewellery making. Group bookings are also welcome.
The all inclusive cost of these workshops is R2250/person
The workshops run from 10am to around 2:30/3:30pm
Upcoming workshops: 23 January 2022
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Meet The Designer
My fascination with gemstones and my subsequent love of jewellery began as a little girl on holiday on my uncle’s game farm in Botswana and the love affair has spanned for most of my life…..when I discovered that the tiny airstrip was in fact made up more of rough and tumbled gemstones than gravel…it was a whole stretch of Citrines, Agates, Rose Quartz and Crystals…which glistened in the African sun. I was instantly captivated and that is when I started collecting gemstones for their beauty and brilliance, their colours, uniqueness and magic… in the way they and their magnificence grow and evolve deep in the dark, unsupervised and unseen, until they are discovered and worked by humans. I knew at once that I wanted to spend the rest of my life creating beauty through jewellery and objects d’art out of precious metals to frame and showcase gemstones. I wanted to design and create unique, niche, bespoke and custom-made pieces, which not only tell stories about the elements they contain but also express the dreams and desires of the individuals, their personalities and self-expression for whom I design and create for…
After two years at University studying graphics and Fine Art I decided to follow my early dream of spending my life creating beauty through jewellery and objets d’art from precious metals and gemstones . I chose to do an experiential-based apprenticeship during which I was fortunate to be trained by a passionate master jeweller, who also further nutured the artist in me through his teachings which used traditional methods.
My designs and creations are inspired by nature, fluidity of line, Art Nouveau, whimsy and the sheer pleasure of producing handcrafted jewellery and precious pieces.
I value and love working closely with my clients interpreting and catering for their individual jewellery dreams….
My passion and care in the designing and creating of each individual piece, from the melting process, to the engineering, the components and mechanisms and the actual making of the pieces continually intrigue and entrance me. My now well trained hands dance during the labour of making them, especially for another who will derive timeless joy from them…
The combining of minute parts, which can either fit together to frame and showcase gemstones, or become a sophisticated, elegant, classic or contemporary piece of jewellery inspires me. These elements unite in design and proportion to create an aesthetically pleasing whole of timelessness, self expression, preciousness and value.
