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helen noakes jewellery
unit 3 berwick courtyard
berwick st leonard
salisbury
sp3 5ua
uk

m 07956 879 283

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Tiny worlds in silver & resin. 20+ years at the bench crafting precision, story-led jewellery for collectors. Owned by spaniels 🐾

A little insight into how my brain screws me over… A little insight into how my brain screws me over….

Exhibit A - The monkeying around bangle.

I resized the bangle, then went to repolish the resin on the monkey charm and realised it just wasn’t quite right.

Would anyone else have noticed? Almost certainly not.

Could I have sanded and polished it and sent it off perfectly happily to its new owner? Yes.

Did my brain allow that? Of course not.

So. The resin had to come out (Normally I’d drill it out, sacrifice the tiny figure and start again with another monkey….except I have no more monkeys…. and there appear to be no replacement monkeys in stock anywhere at the moment)

…..Which left me with one option: somehow get the existing tiny monkey OUT of the resin without destroying him.

Acetone would have destroyed the monkey as well so that left me with Option B - boiling water to soften the resin enough to peel away small layers. 

And so, dear readers, for an hour and a half I soaked the resin to soften it, then painstakingly picked it away in tiny pieces until eventually I managed to free the monkey.

He survived (hoorah!)….
His paint didn’t (boo, hiss)

The solution -  tiny paint brushes and repainting him. 

By the time I’d finished, I’d spent somewhere between two and three hours fixing something that the person receiving the bangle would probably never even have noticed in the first place.

But now the monkey and resin look great, It’s all done, sanded, polished and ticked off the to do list (which would be way shorter with a different brain) 

This is the bit of making things for a living that never appears in the photographs.

Sometimes my standards are useful.

Sometimes they involve boiling a tiny monkey for 90 minutes…..

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Well obviously I had to. It’s Tiny World Friday…. Well obviously I had to.

It’s Tiny World Friday….and there was a tiny white horse sitting on my bench so there was only one way this was going! 

DON’T REIN ME IN.

Tiny horse, meadow grass, resin and a great big hand-stamped silver instruction that I suspect quite a few of us could get behind.

She’s on a long 24” silver ball chain, she’s £220 and she’s just gone onto the website.

(And a quick but very big thank you because 60 at 60 was quite something. I’m currently surrounded by your orders in various stages of completion and working my way through the lot. If yours is amongst them, thank you for being patient with me while I get everything finished)

Normal service has clearly resumed.

Tiny Worlds. Big Stories. (link in bio!)

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Last day! At 8pm tonight, 60 at 60 is over. Wha Last day! 

At 8pm tonight, 60 at 60 is over.

What started with me turning 60 and deciding to pull together 60 pieces from twenty years of making became much bigger than I expected.

I’ve emptied my jewellery box, finished pieces that had been waiting patiently on the bench, remodelled old favourites, made some completely new ones and let go of things I honestly wasn’t sure I could part with….And so many of them have found new homes.

There are still some very good pieces left. And until 8pm tonight, everything remaining in the 60 at 60 collection is 27% off with code SIXTY27.

Then that’s it.

No extension. No extra week. No increasingly desperate “LAST CHANCE!!!” email on Wednesday. 😆

At 8pm I turn the code off and 60 at 60 is finished.

If you’ve had your eye on something, today’s the day.

And thank you to everyone who’s bought, shared, messaged, sent me photographs or just followed along with this slightly mad idea.

It’s been quite a month.

Helen x

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Apparently I wasn’t quite finished… Three new pie Apparently I wasn’t quite finished…

Three new pieces for the final weekend of 60 at 60.

🦓 A Zebra in a World Made for Horses

A tiny zebra, a long silver chain and six words that say quite a lot.

✝️ Get Thee to a Nunnery

A tiny nun on a red bench, set in silver, with a completely handmade chain and silver crucifix.

⛸️ Ice Queen

One from my own jewellery box. She’s travelled to shows and exhibitions with me for years, but I’ve sanded and repolished her and she’s looking glorious and ready for a new hand.

And that’s it!  60 at 60 finishes at 8pm on Bank Holiday Monday.

It’s been a strange but brilliant month of digging through twenty years of work, letting go of pieces I’ve worn and loved, remaking old ones, finishing forgotten ones and, inevitably, making a few completely new ones too.

Quite a lot of them have already found new homes.

(There are still some very good ones left)

27% off with code SIXTY27 until 8pm Monday.

And then 60 at 60 is done.

(I’m only turning 60 once)

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This might be my favourite bit of 60 at 60… Seein This might be my favourite bit of 60 at 60…

Seeing all these pieces I’ve made, remade, dug out of my jewellery box and finally let go arriving in their new homes. I’ve had some lovely photos and messages this week and I’m absolutely loving seeing where everything is ending up. Please keep them coming ❤️

“Burning Bright” is clearly settling into her new ring stack rather well, and one of my Spaniel necklaces arrived with its new owner today too and is already feeling the love 🥰 

Meanwhile, some of the pieces I’ve pulled out of my own jewellery box have disappeared remarkably quickly.

“Swim”, which I’d made for an exhibition in New York and then worn and loved myself for more than ten years, sold the day I finally put it on the website. And now I’m making another one for a long-standing customer which is just amazing.

And the little red bikini swimmer? The unfinished piece that most of you asked me to show when she was finished?

I finished her, put her on the website… and off she went too.

So…..I haven’t got another newly finished piece to unveil tonight because I’ve been busy finishing, polishing, packing and sending out the ones you’ve already bought.

I’m still working my way through old pieces, unfinished pieces and things I’ve had tucked away for years, though so there will be more.

(But just  not tonight 😆) 

Don’t worry though - there  are still plenty of tiny worlds waiting to find their person, and 60 at 60 continues until 8pm on Bank Holiday Monday, 31st August.

27% off with code SIXTY27.

And thank you. Seeing these pieces out there being worn is pretty bloody awesome 🙌 

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Remember the pieces of unfinished resin I showed y Remember the pieces of unfinished resin I showed you recently?

This was the one that most people asked me to show when it was finished.

And here she finally is!

A tiny swimmer in her red bikini, languidly swimming through cool water.

She’s been sanded, polished and finished with a handmade silver top and long chain, with a silver tag stamped:

COME ON IN THE WATER IS LOVELY

When I showed you the unfinished resin she was still a long way from being a piece of jewellery. This is why “finishing” really is slow craft….but I think it’s worth it. 

She’s now one of a kind, finished and ready to go, and I’ve just added her to 60 at 60.

The sale is continuing until 8pm on 31st August, with 27% off using SIXTY27.

(And yes, I’m still working my way through more pieces. There are a few tiny people waiting their turn…) 

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unit 3 berwick courtyard
berwick st leonard
salisbury
sp3 5ua
uk

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