Our ‘Featured Design’ promos are a one off chance to get a particular design at a discounted price. Our Featured Designs showcase a luxury design as well as a more budget friendly option, both available at 20% discount. But only one of each are available at the special price!
Our current featured designs are our two Triskelle bracelets which you can see on our site:
https://www.lovefromskye.co.uk/product/featured-triskelle-bracelet-lux/
https://www.lovefromskye.co.uk/product/triskelle-bracelet-featured-affordable/
It’s not as big as our November offer, but that one has to be a one off. This 10% winter offer will be the only discount off our whole collection until next November!
*You must click on the coupon at the checkout for the discount to be applied*
*This offer has now ended*
We are a VERY small business so this offer is a very big deal to us. We do really need to limit the offer to the advertised dates so please don’t put us in the awkward position of asking us for a discount once this offer has ended. We will try to run another, but smaller, offer after Christmas / New Year but that offer is usally a last minute decision.
You can also enjoy breakfast, lunch, Skye Coffee Roasters coffee and home baking at G.T’s cafe and browse whatever happens to be on in our pop-up space, Blank Canvas. While we are running our special offer in our jewellery showroom, Prickly Thistle clothing will be hosting a pop-up shop.
For more details about the cafe, please see here.
For details on our pop-up space and what’s on next, please see our Blank Canvas page.
*Our Christmas raffles are now closed and we are delighted to say that we raised £701 which was collected by the charity a couple of days before Christmas. Thank you all for your amazing support. The charity is very happy to have received this.*
To enter our raffle to win our jewellery and the G.T’s cafe prize, tickets are £1 each. This is being run as one raffle and one winner will win both prizes.
To enter to win the Christmas bear, guessing his name is also £1 per entry and this is being run separately with a different winner.
In 2023 our fundraising raffle raised almost £700 for our local primary school to help them fund their idea to take the whole school to the panto in Inverness. We are big supporters of live theatre so we saw this as a really worthy cause. Last year we donated to their panto trip again but we also donated to the swimming pool in Kyle which was, at that time, closed after a fire. They needed to do a huge amount of fundraising locally to get back in a position to be able to re-open this completely invaluable local facility. Having split the proceeds from our 2024 raffle, we were so delighted to be able to donate just over £500 to the school plus to the swimming pool. This year, the charity which supports our local hospital needs to do a lot of fundraising, and with the school’s parent council having organised their own raffle this year, we have decided to donate the full proceeds of our 2025 Christmas raffle to “The Friends of Broadford Hospital”. The charity will be hosting a sale of work soon in our pop-up space so please do check out our Blank Canvas page for details about that and come to support them if you can.
Over the last year (nearly 2 years!) we’ve been doing lots of re-vamping! For our first 10 years in business, we were sub-tenants in the premises we shared with another business but in the autumn of 2023 we took on the whole building so we now have a more spacious room to showcase our jewellery and we’ve moved our workshop so that you can now stand in our shop and look into the workshop to see where it all happens.
The building is too big for us but it was important to us that we secured our spot – to have somewhere to continue making and selling our jewellery. So we set up a pop-up space to share with others. “Blank Canvas”, our pop-up room is available for hire for a minimum of just one day. So next time you visit us, there could be a pop-up shop or a pop-up art exhibition happening here in the building!
In May 2025 G.T’s cafe opened here within the Love from Skye building! G.T’s is owned and run by our friend Tom. You can now enjoy breakfast, lunch, a cuppa & a scone or coffee & cake here at G.T’s! You can find Tom’s opening ours on our website, here.
Please have a look at our gallery for more photos of the exciting new spaces here at Love from Skye!
When you reach our checkout, our customers now have the option to select to pay later or to pay in 3 interest free installmaents.
We recently listed some exciting new designs!
Our new designs are……(Click on the links to go straight to these listings)
Skye Heart heavy weight charm bracelet
Somehow Love from Skye was 10 years old in November 2023!
It’s been a whirlwind 10 years! It feels like they’ve passed in a flash, but when we think back to how the shop looked when we opened, all the changes it’s been through, how full it is now in comparison and how much our own collection has grown over those years then it does actually feel like 10 years!! It’s been hectic! We’ve loved it and we’ve met a lot of great people & made a lot of friends in our shop. Here’s to more years doing what we love! At the moment, we’re working on some really big changes at our premises to celebrate! More to come soon…….!
Big thanks to our customers, friends, family and employees past & present.
We’re not actively advertising for employees but we are always looking for assistance from the right people, especially for help in our busy workshop and we’re open to being flexible.
Would you like to come into our workshop (at times to suit both us and you) to assist us with what we do here at Love from Skye? Or, would you like to work on our jewellery for us, from your own workshop?
We would love for someone local to us to take on this role but we realise that this may not be possible so we’d be happy to consider working with a jeweller from further afield. We are open to suggestions and we’re flexible!
To take on this work for us, it is essential that you have the skills to size rings down and up (not stretching), solder components such as cufflink & brooch fittings, do tube / rub over setting, repair jewellery such as chain repairs and highly polish jewellery to an extremely high standard (not barrel polishing or polishing with a pendant drill attachment). For a jeweller coming into our workshop, we need you to be at ease with using an aqua flame soldering machine and a bench polisher.
Unfortunately we’re not in a position to spend any time offering training so it is essential that anyone contacting us is able to carry out all of the above tasks to a really high standard.
This would suit someone who is already working as a jobber, someone who is just starting out as a self employed jobber (but is already fully trained), or someone who produces their own collection or bespoke work and is looking for some additional work to support that. If you are living locally but not currently set up with a workshop but you have all of the skills we need, we would also be happy to discuss a ‘rent a bench’ agreement to allow the right person to work on their own jewellery in our workshop as well as assisting us with our own work.
If you’re interested in working with us on a flexible basis, please email bryony@lovefromskye.co.uk initially so that we can schedule a chat or a wee visit.
Bryony & Paul
One aspect of building our website which is an ongoing project is gathering photographs of our jewellery being worn to try to show scale and proportion.
Sophia worked for us in our shop. (We miss her so much and hope she’ll come back to us one day! She’s super talented and we’re so happy for her – she’s studying and loving life in Glasgow now!) We were just getting ideas together for a gorgeous outdoorsy Skye photoshoot when lockdown happened. By the time it was appropriate to do things like photoshoots again, Sophia had moved away for her studies so we got Deirdre on board as our lovely model and our Love from Skye photoshoot happened in Glasgow! Two Skye girls in Glasgow, beautifully showcasing our jewellery for us. Deirdre is also from Skye and is a very talented Gaelic singer, musician and teacher! It was important to us that our jewellery is shown on a “real”, relatable woman and that the people involved in our wee photoshoot represent Skye.
We’re gradually adding these images to product listings on our website so that, eventually, every time you click on a thumbnail of one of our designs, you will then be able to browse through a wee selection of images showing the jewellery being worn.
With the cost of everything in the UK rising, we’re sure that it won’t come as any surprise to our customers that our production costs have risen and that precious metal costs continue to rise. As a result, we have had to increase our prices and we have to constatly review gold prices. We will always avoid doing a price increase for as long as we possibly can. We have always priced certain work lower than we should have as we are always trying to think of our customers but we have sadly come to a time where we have to price all of our work realistically. If you notice that a certain design has increased more than something else, this may be because we had previously never included as much time as we should have in our pricing for certain pieces. All businesses are in the same boat with increased running costs. However, we would really appreciate your understanding that precious metals were already greatly affected by the pandemic. For example, when we were able to re-open after the first lockdown, gold had increased by 20% between closing our doors and re-opening them. Precious metal prices have continued to be affected substantially since then. Just think, if the loaf of bread you buy has increased by 20%, imagine what effect the ‘cost of living crisis’ has had on precious metal prices. As well as being affected by metal costs, we are also affected by other costs involved in our making processes such as hallmarking charges, delivery to receive our materials and packaging costs – all on top of normal running cost increases – so we hope you understand.
Price comparisons
We have not increased any prices more than we absolutely have to. After really carefully re-calculating every cost involved in each design we have compared our new prices to other similar companies and we have found that, every time, our prices are still cheaper. Sometimes a little cheaper, sometimes considerably cheaper. When we have compared our prices to other companies, we are looking at other small manufacturing jewellers in Scotland who are also hallmarking their work. We’re not comparing with companies based in Scotland who are not making their own jewellery, to those who are based in Scotland but are importing their designs or to those who are stamping their designs (rather than fully hallmarking).
Silver jewellery is often stamped 925 by the maker rather than having it hallmarked, however, we do have all of our jewellery fully hallmarked (other than our wee textured rings and studs due to the availability of space for the marks on these small pieces).
On a side note, did you know that Scottish businesses who import jewellery from outside the UK can legally have it hallmarked in Edinburgh? A wee fact to bear in mind when considering provenance.
Repair charges
Similarly to comparing the prices of our designs, we have done some research to ensure that our repair pricing is still really fair.
We’ve found that some jewellers charge as much as £30.00 for the very same cleaning & polishing service as we usually charge £15.00 for (£25.00 for platinum). Please note that the cleaning & polishing service we offer is not the same as ‘dipping’ jewellery in an ultrasonic bath which is sometimes the method used for a cheaper service. It is a time consuming & skilled process. Jewellers sell the service at £30.00 by explaining that they check the security of the stones as part of the service. If we charge you £15.00 for the same service, we will also be checking your settings as no jeweller would ever put a stone-set item of jewellery through the cleaning & polishing process without checking the security of the stones. This is always part of the process.
We found that the very best price we could find at a professional jewellers or watch specialist for replacement watch batteries was £12.50 (with the charge usually being £25.00 – £40.00 and sometimes being as much as £80.00 depending on the watch brand). We charge £7.50 to a max of £13.50. Please note that we charge the same price for replacing a watch battery regardless of the brand of watch, ie, we don’t increase the charge for high end watches as some businesses do. If your watch has a screw back, which means it takes us longer to work on it, then we will charge £13.50 but we charge most at under £10.00.
Customers who require to have their rings increased in size are often surprised by the cost of this and regularly think that we are making their rings larger by stretching them. We would very, very rarely stretch a ring. We may stretch a band if it’s a substantial one and only needs to be increased by half a size. We would never increase the size of a ring by stretching it more and we would never stretch a ring if it had a stone in it. Stretching rings puts pressure on joins and settings. We almost always increase the size of your rings by adding metal to them. This is a skilled process and can use a lot of metal, depending on how much larger your ring needs to be. The charge for this starts at £31.50 to £80.00 and varies depending on whether your ring is silver, 9ct gold, 18ct gold etc and your ring is always returned to you like new because the ring requires to be cleaned and polished after the sizing process.
We hope our customers will still feel they are receiving a good service at a good, and most importantly, fair price.
