My Story

A few years later I found myself travelling around South America, learning wire wrap jewellery and swapping for other crafts made by fellow travellers, just for fun. It was when I got home from that trip that a personal tragedy led me to re-evaluate my entire life and think there must be more than what I had achieved so far. To be honest, my life then just involved travelling, parties and not much else in between.  

So, in Jan 2018, I found the shortest, most affordable jewellery course in London, 4 days introduction to silversmithing, to see if it that spark was laying dormant inside me, to see if it could be something I loved and could focus all my energy on. Luckily that’s exactly how I felt! After the course, I set up a basic workshop and started practising all the hours under the sun. My beautiful friends and family would buy the pieces I made so I could put the money back into buying more materials and keep on practising until my pieces were good enough to sell. That was when Soul and Sapphire was created. 

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Since 2018 it’s been an absolute rollercoaster, as all small businesses are. In the beginning, I had to have other forms of income to pay the bills whilst creating in the evening and weekends. However, in May 2020, I lost my stable 9-5 due to the pandemic and it was the sign I needed to stop relying on other avenues and really put all my heart and soul into what lights me up every day. 

I was living and working in a studio in the garden of my beautiful home in London, luckily living with all my friends during the years that changed the world. I used my time in lockdown to dedicate all I could to both my craft but also to my well-being by listening to podcasts and reading books about the true magic in this world. It was then that I decided I was going to manifest my dream life. I believed I could do it and I believed I deserved it, we all do, every single one of us. 

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Today I write this from a beautiful courtyard in Mexico. I came here in Jan 2022 to see if any of my questions would be answered, to see if it was somewhere I could see myself living and working. Within the first week, I was visiting the mining towns to buy fire opals! Purely because of the people I met and the opportunities that were handed to me. I stayed a month to work out all the details, then before I went back to London, I told all my loved ones of my plan to move. 

I now live and work making my treasures in the Mexican sunshine with the sea breeze and swaying palm trees. I am in love with my new life and am so excited to see what new opportunities will come my way. 

If you take anything away from my story, know you will never be too old to change your life, know you can create the life you deserve and to please enjoy your journey along the way. All the twists and turns, all the opportunities, the good and the bad and of course, the life-changing! 

Thank you for reading and thank you again for being here. 

All my love, Kate