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The Michael Michaud Jewellery Collection, designed by Michael Michaud, is a world renowned collection of botanical jewellery. It captures the beauty and detail of nature using soft patinas on bronze accented with pearls, beads, coral and stones. His attention to detail gives you true to nature, botanical jewellery. This unique jewellery is made by creating moulds directly from botanical elements in a process similar to lost-wax casting. While traditional lost-wax casting begins with a hand-carved model of wax, Michael Michaud instead uses an actual leaf, branch or flower in place of the wax model. A mould is created around the...

Amongst our designer jewellery at Amber Bay, we are proud to showcase Nicole Barr. The Nicole Barr collection is based around their love of enamel and the company have been expressing this love since 1982. They also specialise in Plique - a - jour whih is a delicate procedure where enamel is balanced between delicate silver or gold wires without a backing. This means more light can shine through creating a beautiful effect. As we are a seaside town we have concentrated on the Ocean Treasures theme as you can see from these pictures, the jewellery is truely exquisite. Many...

At Amber Bay we have a wide selection of Amber Teething Jewellery including elasticated bracelets, necklaces and bracelets with a screw catch for extra security. Amber is a homeopathic product which has been used over centuries for natural pain relief. Amber is very lightweight and thus ideal for using on children in either bracelet or necklace form. It is said to reduce inflammation and boost the immune system whilst proving a calming effect to the wearer without the use of medication. It is particularly good at alleviating teething pain and has been essential to some Mother's peace and quiet. Amber...

Welcome to the second half of our Birthstones blog where we will discuss a little about the birthstones which represent the months July through to December. July - Ruby The Ruby Red colour denotes love and brings forth a feeling of warmth. Know often as the King of all Gemstones, it is indeed a precious stone. It is a hard stone measuring 9 on the Mohs scale and thus produces a hard wearing item of jewellery. As a member of the corrundrum family it is very closely related to the Sapphire, in fact every other colour of this particular stone...

We are often asked which Stone represents which Birth Month so, here we have compiled a list and a little piece of information against each stone. January - Garnet.   Commonly thought of as this beautiful rich red/brown colour it is actually available in several other colours, in fact such a wide range that the only colour it can not be is Blue! It has a 7 to 7.5 on the Mohs Hardness Scale and can be quite uncomplicated to work with. Garnet has been around in gemstone form since the Egyptian times and also has been found in Greek...