08/12/2026
And no, he wasn’t a goldsmith! He just knew how obsessed I was with skiing and the mountains, so naturally decided to hand forge me a ski out of solid white gold using an anvil and a hammer 🤯🤣
I weighed it the other day and it’s 18g, and my dad joked that he’s surprised I haven’t melted it down 😝 But despite being a jeweller with very easy means of cashing in… I don’t think I ever could.
Which is kind of the funny thing about jewellery. The gold has a value, but that’s not really what makes something valuable.
It’s the thought that was put into it, the fact that he made it for me, and that NOBODY ELSE IN THE WORLD has one just like it.
It can remind you of a person, a place, an adventure, or take you back to a younger version of yourself.
And now, twenty-plus years later, this ridiculously large gold ski pendant sits in my showroom while I create jewellery about mountains and the places people love.
I wonder how it’ll feel looking back at all the pieces I’ve made for my mountain-loving people another 20 years from now!