In August we ran our 2016 Jewellery Maker of the Year competition and were thrilled by the amazing designs entered!   So many of you wanted to know more about the designers behind the winning entries. In part 1 of this series we featured Kim Styles who won 2nd Place in the competition.  And in part 2 we spoke to Vlad Zoldak who won 1st […]

In August we ran our 2016 Jewellery Maker of the Year competition and were thrilled by the amazing designs entered!   So many of you wanted to know more about the designers behind the winning entries. In part 1 of this series we featured Kim Styles who won 2nd Place in the competition.  And today we […]

In August we ran our 2016 Jewellery Maker of the Year competition and were overwhelmed by the outstanding entries!  And so many of you have been wanting to know more about our winners and what inspired their winning pieces!  So today we are talking to Kim Styles of Kim Styles Jewellery about her Morganite and […]

Just in case you missed our recent Facebook Post, the winners of the 2016 Jewellery Maker of the Year Competition have been announced! Huge congratulations to our winner, Vlad Zoldak! Vlad is officially the London Jeweller School Jewellery Maker of the Year 2016 for the stunning ‘Interstellar Ring’!!!  Our judging panel were utterly amazed by Vlad’s beautiful […]

We are so excited about launching our competition to find the London Jewellery School Maker of the Year 2016!  Taking part is a great chance to promote your work, get exposure and, of course, bag some fab prizes. The competition is open to everyone – you don’t need to have taken a Class with us – […]

Last week we gave you a quick round-up of some of the major fashion trends in jewellery this spring as well as creating a Pinterest board featuring some pieces to inspire you. They include primary and neon colours like lemon and poppy red, big “gems”, dramatic statement pieces and tribal and animal print influences. Now […]

Over the past few weeks we’ve been asking you to share photographs of your Valentine’s Day inspired jewellery. There’s been a tremenduous response and you can see all the entries here. There were lots of interesting ideas about the meaning of different gemstones and what “love” makes you think about. It was a difficult choice but […]

Don’t forget that if you have been creating any love themed jewellery for Valentine’s Day we want to see your pieces. If you have created a beautiful love themed piece why not share it by emailing a picture and some details to press@londonjewelleryschool.co.uk by midnight on 2 February. We’ll post all the entries, along with […]

Valentine’s Day is only a few weeks away and we suspect a few of you are making or planning some romantic jewellery. So it seemed the perfect theme for our next jewellery making competition. If you have created a beautiful love themed piece why not share it by emailing a picture and some details to […]

Halloween and Bonfire Night are over so the High Street is entering full Christmas mode and jewellery makers everywhere are thinking about gifts – whether to sell or family and friends. So the only possible theme for this months competition is Christmas jewellery. What jewellery have you made that is inspired by Christmas? The prize […]

This month’s jewellery making competition prize is a bumper bundle worth over £100 from Beads Direct. There is so much in it we thought it was worth a closer look: Beads Even we don’t know what’s in the big bead hamper because Beads Direct want to retain some mystery. But when is opening a surprise […]

Inspired by the autumnal weather and this bat by Chu-Mei Ho of Grace and Firefly, an LJS tutor, this month we want to see your Halloween inspired jewellery. It could be colours, shapes or inspirations. Entering couldn’t be simpler. Explain why or how your piece invokes the spookiest time of the year and send a […]

LJS has teamed up with the Guild of Jewellery Designers (GoJD) on an exciting competition. The GoJD is looking for the best examples of multimedia jewellery – ie jewellery using more than one material – and LJS is providing the prize. The winner will receive a £132 voucher, enough to cover one of our many […]

This vibrant Perspex necklace and bangle set from Rachael Chapman stole the show in our first monthly jewellery making competition. The unusual design and great photography really made her entry stand out from the crowd. Rachael, who sells her work under the name Make It Funky, says: “Earlier this year I took Michael Milloy’s Perspex […]

Take a look at these lovely entries from our last ‘WEEKEND FACEBOOK’ competition. To join in with next weekends competition ‘like’ our facebook page and you will then be able to upload images of your handmade jewellery. Click on the link to go to our facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/londonjewelleryschool1