CE X YOU
In February this year we launched our 2nd design competition in collaboration with YOU and we were overwhelmed by the entries - our community is an extremely talented bunch!
We shortlisted 7 designs and then YOU helped us to pick the winners. Both designs are incredibly meaningful and feature absolutely beautiful gemstones – 2 things that are central to everything we do here at CE.
WINNING DESIGNS
We hope you love these pieces as much as we do!
Raindrop Earrings
Beautiful & unique element earrings with mesmerising opal droplets that delicately dance as you move. Representing how we ourselves can dance and move through times of change, and come out even stronger.
Designed by Anna Couldry
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Strength Necklace
Designed as a symbol of the strength and power you hold within. This vintage style chain necklace features a hand that holds tightly onto the chain and a beautiful, shimmering natural baroque pearl. Wear it as a reminder that your strength lies in your own hands!
Designed by Anna Couldry
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SHORTLISTED DESIGNS
Thank you to everyone that entered!
Lucky Necklace
"I often wear symbols around my neck or as rings on my fingers, I see it as armour as well as a statement, but also something shiny that brings me no end of joy.
4 years ago, I was given the luckiest chance in the world, to become a Mum, my little boy and I have weathered a storm together and I will always see him as my luckiest charm. Since he was very little, I have taken him to the beach near to us on the south coast of England to look for treasure, sea treasure. It could be a rock that he loves, a pretty shell, sea glass…but our real hunt is for a pearl. Elusive but beautiful, it is a sea treasure we are yet to find.
I would love to create a luck amulet, to be worn as a symbol to both thank the sea for giving me such precious moments with my son but to also ask to help deliver us that pesky pearl. We will find it one day."
Designed by Vicky Farrar
Darkest Nights Ring
"When I went through my divorce, one of the worst things for me was having to take off my beautiful engagement and wedding rings. When I think about it, rings shouldn't just be about celebriating the happy moments. We should celebrate making it through the darkest nights too.
That is what I want to celebrate with this ring."
Designed by Ellie Shaile
Citrine Spinning Ring
"I first found Carrie Elizabeth just before the pandemic began in 2020. I was in the process of phasing back into my active life after several months suffering with depression and anxiety. I wanted to treat myself and especially to a ring that could be my touch point with my fingers if I felt any little wobbles. That rose quartz ring started my obsession with CE jewellery and how beautiful the jewellery makes me feel. Dozen or so pieces later including my engagement ring and the pearl hoops I wore on my wedding day I just had to enter this competition.
My design was inspired by the custom made wedding ring I have to fit round my Star Compass engagement ring and that although depression is and will always be present in my life I strive to radiate positive energy to myself and those round me and that's why I chose the gemstone, citrine."
Designed by Anna Bradshaw
Celestial Locket
"I’m a bit of an amateur silversmith and one of my best friends Hannah, who is getting married soon, asked if I could make her a locket for her big day so she can keep photos of our mutual friend Adam, who passed away in 2021, as well as her late grandma.
The locket is cylinder shaped with a screw top closure so that photographs, mementos, or words of affirmation important to the wearer can be rolled up and placed inside. The moon and two crescent moons imitate a bracelet I made her for her birthday I’ve chosen moons to represent the phases of our lives; the whole idea behind the locket being that she is embarking on a new phase of her life whilst also honouring the phases that have come and gone. Basically, we are looking to and celebrating the future whilst still holding dear the important parts of our past, namely the things and people that have helped shape us and make us who we are. I’ve chosen moonstone to be set in the full moon as it’s representative of new beginnings and so perfect for a wedding. Surrounding the moons are engraved stars. Hannah has a tattoo in Adam’s handwriting from a letter he wrote her that she got after he passed away that says, “none of the stars shine as bright as you” so those are a tribute to him."
Designed by Hazel
