A word from our founder

People ask me why our jewellery costs what it does, and why we won't just make more of it, faster. The honest answer is a long one, and it starts at a kitchen table in Tasmania, on one of the hardest weeks of my life.

Ten years ago I was coming out of a difficult season. I won't lay it all out here, but if you've ever had a stretch where you didn't quite feel like yourself, you'll understand. My daughter moved back home for a while to help me through it, and one grey afternoon, mostly to keep our hands busy, we started making a necklace.

We chose moonstone. Not for any grand reason at first, just that we both loved the way the light seemed to move inside it. But there's a long history to that stone. For centuries women have worn it for calm, for balance, for feeling steady when life is not. Sitting there together, that felt like exactly what we were both reaching for.

I wore mine everywhere, and people kept asking about it. So we made a few more for friends. Then their friends. For a while it was just the two of us at that table, packing little parcels at night. Then the orders grew past what two pairs of hands could manage, and we very nearly gave the whole thing up, because I refused to do the obvious thing: send it all offshore to be stamped out by the thousand.

I couldn't do it. The whole point was that each piece meant something. So instead we grew slowly, kept it handmade, and trained a tiny team who care as much as we do. That's the real reason a Moon Vibe piece is what it is. I choose the stones myself, and I won't send out one I wouldn't wear.