HeBe Jewellery is now able to offer a recycled bespoke engagement and wedding ring service. We can melt down old gold to form a new ring to your design. Maybe you have been given some old gold jewellery that holds sentimental value or would just prefer that no new mining has to take place to create your ring. We can recycle your gold or source old gold to meet your requirements.

It's no secret that mining for gold has a terrible effect on the environment and gold mining is one of the dirtiest businesses in the world. The production of one gold ring generates a massive 20 tons of mine waste. HeBe Jewellery has signed up to the No dirty gold campaign and we work hard to ensure that the gold in our jewellery has not been produced at the expense of local communities, workers and the environment. By offering recycled gold as an option for your engagement ring or wedding band, we hope to do our bit for producing responsible jewellery.

Unfortunately using recycled gold doesn't work out any cheaper than using new gold and you should also be aware that you always seem to end up with less metal when melting it down. If for ethical reasons you decide recycled gold is the option for you, we can source old gold to combine with any existing gold you might have to create your ring.

Please contact one of our designers to discuss a recycled bespoke ring or visit our handmade and bespoke jewellery page for more details.

Create your own lucky charm bracelet with the Giorgio Martello Lucky Charms collection. We're pleased to announce the full range of charms and bracelets are now available to purchase online.

Handcrafted in Italy, every charm is beautifully detailed in sterling silver with a tarnish free finish. Using enamel, cubic zirconias, diamonds and gemstones, Giorgio Martello has developed a clever clip on / clip off system that allows you to add charms to your bracelet. Select, combine and create your own jewellery just the way you like it. You can also add lucky charms to an existing necklace or special Giorgio Martello necklaces and earring carriers.

As a souvenir, attractive accessory or a wonderful gift idea, the lucky charms by Giorgio Martello enchant all wearers in their own special way. Charms are personal altars to secret passions and obsessions. Romance and infatuations, happiness and success, moments and insights - the charms lend shape to the story of your life. There are over 450 charms to choose from with themes such as letters and numbers, love, life and fun, celebrations, zodiac, good luck and lots more. Remember a first date, someone you love, a fab holiday or say something about your personality. Create your bracelet easily by simply clipping on a charm.

Lucky Charms are also compatible with Thomas Saboo charm bracelets, necklaces and earring carriers.See the full range of Lucky Charms online at HeBe.

Have you ever dreamed about owning your very own island? Well you don't need to be Richard Branson to make your dream come true thanks to the Friends of Sgarabhaigh. Sgarabhaigh (pronounced Scaravay) is located in the Sound of Harris in the Western Isles of Scotland and it lies at the heart of some the most beautiful and unspoilt environments in the world. It is a land rich in a history that is made all the more entrancing by copious measures of myth and legend. Visit, walk and film the island and all it has to offer. The crystal clear waters that surround the island hold an array of sea life including dolphins, whales and a resident colony of seals that will often greet you when you arrive. A host of sea birds visit the island to rest feed and nest on its gentle green slopes or its weather sculpted rocks.

A picture of the Otter Loch on the island of Sgarabhaigh, Scotland

A sustainable project has been setup that allows people who have a love of Scotland to contribute and help protect this magical island so it can continue to be enjoyed by future generations. You can purchase a contract package to share ownership of the island with an island passport and document conferring island rights. So buy your own piece of Scottish heritage; join the island family that is 'Friends of Sgarabhaigh' and impress your friends by becoming an Associate Owner of the island of Sgarabhaigh.

If you don't fancy that, you can purchase a wonderful silver sixpence - the first piece of currency for the island and whilst not being legal tender it has been based on coin of the realm from the reign of James 1st of England and 6 th of Scotland back in 1603. It has been struck in 'fine silver' which is 99.99% pure and incorporates in its design both historic links and key features of the project that is Friends of Sgarabhaigh. It makes a lovely silver wedding gift (something new for brides) or a unique coin for the collector.

If you a fancy a bespoke necklace or piece of handmade jewellery with this special coin, please visit our Bespoke Jewellery page for more details.

The material jade is in actual fact, made up of two different types of stone.

Jade is primarily composed of nephrite, a hard non-crystalline mineral that consists of silicates of calcium and magnesium. The properties of iron and manganese provide most of the color variations.

Jade is one of the strongest materials on Earth—it is even stronger than steel. This was one reason for its widespread use in early civilisations in Europe, Far-East and Meso-America. Besides its toughness, the smoothness of the stone and the broad range of colors made it very attractive to early artists and artisans.

On the sites of Hongshan and Hemudu cultures in China, archaeologists have found jade objects which date back to the early Neolithic period (around 7,000years ago).

A traditional style Chess Set made from green jade and white marble

The basic colors of jade are white, and a colorless opaqueness. Inclusions of different metals give it the beautiful colours: chromium makes it emerald green ("Imperial Jade"), iron makes it brown and green, while manganese creates violet hues.

The Chinese associate jade with a host of cultural connotations. Jade is revered. “Gold is valuable,” says a Chinese proverb. “But Jade is invaluable.”

Jade in Chinese is pronounced “yu” and it stands for beauty, purity and good virtue.

Egyptian Jewelry.com is an online store, and direct importer of Egyptian jewelry since 1987. Bracelets, rings, and earrings feature well-known motifs such as the ankh and Eye of Horus.

The 18K gold open style personalized cartouche pendant, is handmade in Egypt with your name in hieroglyphics. Hieroglyphics is an ancient script, and a premier example of a medium that combines word and image to convey meaning. When ordering the personalized cartouche, you can type in the name that you would like engraved on the pendant.

The sterling silver zodiac cartouche is also handmade in Egypt with your name in hieroglyphics. The cartouche's size will be approximately 1 ¼ inches long by ½ inch wide.

If you're seeking items for pure indulgence and enjoyment, be sure to check out the hand crafted Egyptian perfume bottles. These are hand/mouth blown and created by Egyptian craftsmen in a 2,000 year tradition. The bottles are created from Kiln hardened Pyrex glass and are top quality. All are lavishly decorated in 24 kt. gold trimming. Each is a unique piece of artwork and no two are exactly alike.

Nomination and HeBe Jewellery are supporting Breast Cancer Research in October by donating £1 for every Nomination breast cancer charm you buy in the month of October. October is Breast Cancer Awareness month and much needed funds are required to continue research into developing new treatments for this devastating illness. Breast cancer is now the most common cancer in the UK with 10,000 new cases diagnosed each year. The five year survival rate for British women with breast cancer is improving and is currently around 80%. We'd like to see this figure go to 100% and HeBe Jewellery is committed to helping achieve this by supporting Nomination Jewellery and the pink ribbon links campaign.

At the end of October, all funds generated by the campaign will be donated by Nomination to Breast Cancer Care. If you have a bracelet or you know someone with a Nomination charm bracelet, please support the pink ribbon links campaign and purchase a breast cancer charm in enamel or cubic zirconia from our online store.

Thankyou for your support.

Recently, some extremely rare purple diamonds were discovered at the Ekomiak V property in James Bay, Quebec, Canada. A batch of 649 diamonds were harvested in the region, nine of which were purple. The diamonds were recovered from 18 surface rock samples, and are estimated to be about 2.7 billion years old.


Purple Diamond, from Aurora Gems

Purple diamonds, like pink diamonds, are considered to be one of the rarer, fancier colors of diamonds (and therefore one of the most expensive). They are also one of the most desirable of diamond colors. News of the discovery of the purple diamonds was naturally  very well received.

The largest diamond was a colourless fragment, measuring 1.06mm by 0.98 mm by 0.56 mm. All of the purple diamond samples have been associated with samples having high diamond counts.

The new diamond discovery is the largest to date in Quebec. The diamond-bearing Ekomiak Conglomerate extends for four kilometres and up to 500 metres in width. Individual outcrops measure 500 metres by 400 metres in size.

Purple diamonds are created when boron fuses into the crystal structure of the diamond. Over the years, other fancy colored diamonds (apart from purpled hued ones) have been discovered in various parts of the world -- including yellow diamonds, green diamonds, pink diamonds, black diamonds and brown diamonds.

Pallavi Dudeja Foley is one of India's leading jewellery designers. She has a precise and sophisticated point of view in jewellery design, whereby diamonds and pearls perfectly match with karats of gold.

Pallavi Dudeja Foley designs collections for her own jewellery brand, Pallavi Foley. She has also won many awards by creating jewellery for prestigious projects.

She won the Bright Sparks Diamond Jewelry Design Competition, by DE BEERS in 2000 while she was a student at NIFT [The National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) in New Delhi, India].

Another project was the Gold Virtuosi 2002. Pallavi Foley was selected amongst the 100 finalists internationally, for designing an ensemble inspired by animal fur. This piece was handcrafted and captured the beauty of animal fur in gold, with due respect towards saving the wild life on our earth. Made from 22k gold "fur", the design included a neckpiece, a stole, anklets and ear studs, weighing approximately 1.5 kg. It took almost 2 months to manufacture.

The Odyssey

This jewellery piece designed by Pallavi Foley (modeling her jewelry) was amongst 11 award-winning entries short listed as a result of the national competition [Diamonds 2004, Vivaha Collection].

"The Odyssey", is made of 4908 diamonds. It has a combination of a variety of diamond cuts, shapes and colors. It also uses black diamonds, enhancing the contrast between the two sides of the neckwear. The Odyssey is a description about the evolution of a person, through ups and downs in life, finally emerging beautifully -- just like the journey of a diamond.