If you’ve been thinking about joining one of our four one year online Jewellery Diplomas the clock is ticking! Enrolment for a September 2024 start closes on 7th June. If you have a couple of questions and would like a quick chat I’d love you to join me for one of the upcoming group discovery calls. You can find all the information you need to join here

The Handmade Jewellers is a documentary series we have made for you. In episode 1 I visit Margate, England, the home of Anna Sweet founder of This Story Jewellery. I found out more about her jewellery journey and she taught me to make a wax carved pendant inspired by my birth sign. Watch the episode now.

We regularly run a a free Live Benchtips Session, a Q&A for you to ask an expert jewellery your questions. This month I was joined by goldsmith April Dace to answer your questions on repairing and remodelling jewellery. Check out the questions answered and watch the replay

In this week's episode, Jess chats to Anna Sweet, a jewellery maker who specializes in creating unique pieces with a focus on storytelling, who also features in episode one of the Handmade Jewellers. Anna discusses her journey in the jewellery business, which hit a rough patch when she felt demotivated and lacked creativity. She even contemplated quitting her business. However, after taking a break and stepping back from the pressure, she found renewed inspiration.

I'd love you to join me in The Handmade Jewellers Instagram Challenge starting on Monday 29th April. This free challenge is designed to help you generate content ideas and share more about your gorgeous jewellery.
This is a 5-day challenge and to keep the pressure off we ask you to do one day each week over the next 5 weeks. So if you already have content planned it can slot right in. Check out the prompts and get thinking about what you would like to share.

To celebrate the launch of our brand new documentary series The Handmade Jewellers, we are giving one lucky winner £1000 to spend on jewellery tools, materials and/or training. Find out how to enter now.

In this week's bonus episode, Jess and Tori discuss the various silver jewellery diploma programmes offered by Jewellers Academy and how to choose the right one. They cover the silver jewellery diploma, the fine jewellery diploma, the advanced jewellery diploma, and the silver metal clay diploma.

You may have seen that I have filmed an exciting new documentary series called The Handmade Jewellers. In this short series premiering live on YouTube, come on a journey of discovery with me, Jessica Rose. I meet five jewellers who are creating and selling their work, building their own businesses. We get a tour of their workshops and a look at the tools they love! Plus they teach me a new jewellery making skill. I’d love you to meet The Handmade Jewellers.

In this week's episode, Jess and Anna introduce a new TV-like show called 'The Handmade Jewellers,' which offers viewers a unique glimpse into the world of handmade jewellers. Hosted by Jess, the series will broadcast on the Jewellers Academy YouTube channel and features visits to five different jewellers' studios, including homes, shops, and garden sheds.

Have you seen metal clay going viral on Instagram and Tiktok? Some of the reels have millions of views. So what is metal clay and why should you know about it? Metal Clay artist Anna Campbell looks at why.

In this week's episode, Jess and Anna Campbell discuss an exciting new silver clay jewellery-making course at Jewellers Academy. Anna Campbell, from Jewellery School Scotland, is the teacher for 'Silver Leaf and Botanical Jewellery', a course suitable for beginners to silver metal clay to learn how to make nature-inspired creations.

The Diploma in Fine Jewellery has been popular this year and we are getting the same question regularly - what experience do I need to have in order to join the course? So here is the answer!

In this week's episode, Elin Horgan chats with Jen Morant Smith, a jeweller specializing in sustainable materials. Jen shares her journey, beginning with her passion for recycled metals and other found materials like sea glass and pottery. She discusses her motivation to turn discarded items into meaningful jewellery and her journey from a hobbyist to a professional.

Get a whopping 50% off our individual jewellery making and business courses in Easter sale. Click here for a full list of the courses on offer

In this week's episode, Jess chats to Tressa, a surgeon and jewellery maker, and explores her journey into jewellery making alongside her medical career. Tressa shares how her interest in jewellery making was sparked during a blacksmithing course with her stepson and how it gradually evolved into a consuming hobby.

Last week I shared our newest free course ‘How To Make A Convertible Silver Brooch Pendant’ and I’ve picked out a few of my other favourites for you too. There’s a lovely range of projects here, with something for all levels of experience. These courses are a great way to learn new skills as well as re-ignite some creative sparks if you’ve perhaps been struggling with inspiration recently.

We regularly run a a free Live Benchtips Session, a Q&A for you to ask an expert jewellery your questions. This month I was joined by metal clay artist Anna Campbell to answer your questions on all things metal clay.

In this week's episode of the Jewellers Academy podcast host Anna Campbell is talking with Heidi Hinda Chadwick. Heidi is a Creative Life Coach and Anna is a Business and Mindset Coach and they are each other's coaches! In this conversation they dive into the subject of navigating our comfort zone looking at what a comfort zone is, how to know you are in your comfort zone, tips for getting out of your comfort zone and much more. This is an inspiring and gentle look at how and when we grow.

While follower numbers is not everything, I’m celebrating 50k followers on Instagram! Thank you so much for being a part of this amazing, supportive jewellery community. As a thank you, I am giving away 50 online individual jewellery making courses over in a competition on Instagram. Find out more about how to enter (and the ts and cs)

Convertible jewellery, sometimes known as modular or transformable, is designed and made so that it can be worn in more than one way. Think a brooch that could also be worn as a pendant; pendants that could be earrings etc. To celebrate the launch of our brand new free online course, here is a guide to the history of this amazing jewellery style