I am happy to wrap and send gifts direct to recipients with a note - just specify their delivery address when you check out (I use track 24 or special delivery so you can follow it round the country to the recipient). I cut and polish my own fordite, surfite and bowlerite, I'm happy to take commissions. If I don't have shipping to your country set up please drop me a message as it might be possible.
USA customers - I will be shipping using Royal Mail/ USPS so I can pre pay your tariff charges which I have included in the shipping costs.

Handmade sterling silver jewellery with weird and wonderful stones because those are the ones I like.

I am an ex chemist and it turns out that all the years I spent growing crystals what I actually wanted to be doing was setting them so that I (and others) could appreciate their beauty (NB I don't actually use any of the stuff I made in the lab for my work) so I now hand make sterling silver jewellery featuring interesting stones. I have folders of unset rocks and am always on the look out for different ones so if you want me to find you something specific then let me know.
One of my favourite materials isn't a mineral at all - its a totally man made and called fordite. Fordite is layers of car paint that build up in the spray booths of vehicle factories (originally the Ford factory hence the name), improvements in painting technology mean that less fordite is being formed. Each plant has its own distinct colour palette which varies depending on the era, its own version of polymorphism you could say and there I go again (your eyes are glazing over I can tell)... Due to difficulties in getting hold of fordite I learnt a bit of lapidary so originally so that I could cut matched pairs for earrings and cufflinks but now I cut nearly all of it myself. I am always on the look out for other sustainable materials to recycle into my jewellery and have recently moved over to using recycled silver as well.
My makers mark is registered with the London Assay Office and when necessary that is where pieces get sent for hallmarking. I keep my own stamp so that I can mark all items with my makers mark, you can spot it in some of the photos but I do try and put it somewhere less visible.
Still want to know more (and see the mess that is my work room) head over to the Folksy blog where you can ready my meet the maker interview! https://blog.folksy.com/2018/08/06/fordite-jewellery-sasha-garrett

Thanks for reading - Sasha Garrett

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