For the Ones You Keep Close
For the Ones You Keep Close
December has a way of sorting people into circles.
The outer ring gets candles, wine, something grabbed on the way home.
The inner ring gets thought.
This is for the inner ring.
For the people you’d cross a city for.
The ones who answer the phone at strange hours.
The ones who’ve seen you at your worst and still pour the tea.
When we design jewellery, it’s these people we think about.
Not an imaginary “ideal customer”, but real faces.
Friends. Sisters. Lovers. Mothers who never buy anything for themselves.
The quiet backbone of a family. The friend who moved away.
The person whose hands tell their own story.
Jewellery is a small thing, but it lives close.
On skin. On hands. Over a collarbone.
It collects the year. It sits in the photographs.
It is there for the ordinary days as much as the big ones.
In the studio, December is full of names on order notes.
Short messages:
“From all of us.”
“For the first Christmas in the new house.”
“Because she’ll never buy it herself.”
We see the care that goes into choosing one piece of artisan jewellery instead of five rushed presents. The decision to support a small independent jeweller. To send something that was designed, carved, cast and finished by hand, not pressed out by the thousand.
A Compass pendant for someone who is finally doing the thing they talked about for years.
A Sea Urchin ring for the one who’s always been drawn to the details, the textures, the edges.
A keepsake necklace for the person who likes small, consistent rituals: same walk, same mug, same favourite piece of jewellery every morning.
We only ever make small batches.
When a design is gone, it doesn’t quietly reappear on a sale rail in six months.
There is an honesty in that.
You choose it now, knowing it won’t be everywhere.
If you’re choosing gifts at the moment, it might help to start with the person, not the product.
Ask:
What do they hold on to?
Do they like silver or gold?
Are they bolder than they let on, or softer than people think?
Do they need a little protection, a little courage, a reminder of the sea?
Jewellery isn’t the answer to everything. But done right, it can say:
“I see you. I know you. I thought about this.”
Whether you visit us at Gifted in Dublin, drop into the studio in Tarifa, or browse the collection late at night with a blanket and a search for “handmade Irish jewellery” on your screen, the intent is the same.
This is for the ones you keep close.
The ones who stay when the party is over.
The ones worth choosing carefully for.