Iceni Jewellery

Name: Iceni Jewellery
Address: Ryde, GB
Telephone: +447849108876
Price range: ££

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Hand made jewellery - Inspired by nature, animals and folklore - made on the Isle o

Iceni (Eye-see-nee) An Iron Age Brittonic tribe famously led at one time by Boudicca, the warrior queen.
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I love to make jewellery that feels like it already has a history - as if it had manifest hundreds of years ago and has already seen many lifetimes. Fine jewellery is beautiful and there are so many talented fine j

ewellery artists out there all creating stunning pieces, but my love is working traditionally; there are no machines that cut the metal, and none that shape it - just me and my saw and hammer (and often brute force and a file or two!) My style is primitive I like to think - in an Iceni way - If Boudicca were alive now, I reckon she'd wear some of my stuff!

20/05/2026

Little mushroom earrings shining in the late afternoon sun 💚 (scuse the mucky polishing compound fingers, this isn’t the cleanest job in the world 😆)

13/05/2026

Here she is! Posted with FULL permission from the lady herself — rocking her Highland Coo jammies like the absolute icon she is 🤣🐮💚

Mumma Iceni is finally home for good 🥳 and her granddogs have planted her firmly on her bum as you can see!

It’s been a very long three years of us all being apart. The original plan was for us to move to Scotland with her… but life saw that plan, laughed maniacally and launched a tirade of plot twists instead. Between my Man’s two cancer diagnoses and my body deciding to audition for Grey’s Anatomy, that dream quickly packed its bags and did a runner!

So Mum did what all legendary mothers do. She put on her Wonder Woman cape, packed up an entire life *by herself*, sent the van off, climbed into her car, and drove home to us. Honestly, I get tired carrying two bags of shopping in from the car and need a little sit down afterwards. 🤯

This incredible woman in her mid 70s (ssshhhh, don’t tell her I told you!) somehow found the energy, strength, determination and sheer stubbornness to get herself back here to be close to us and my big brother 💚

Proof, if ever it was needed, that a Mother’s love is basically a supernatural force.

My best friend, my beautiful Mumma. 💛

Now I need to get her back to work 😄 - but I might give her a couple of days to decompress if she’s good 😆💚💚

We’re now off to get her settled into her new place 🤗

10/05/2026

Thank you all so much for such lovely comments and lifting my spirits yesterday. I knew I’d be safe baring my silliness to you, you’re such a wonderful bunch 💚 You know, you’re all quite inspirational you are!! 💚💚💚

Tomorrow starts an exciting week for me where something is happening that I’ve waited a looooong time for! And when it happens, I will breathe the biggest sigh of relief - I can’t say right now because I don’t want to scupper it, but you know I won’t be able to keep it to myself for very long 😄

Been working on a beautiful Tree Lore necklace this weekend. I do love the colours so much 💚

09/05/2026

A vulnerable post 🥹

Well…between hobbling about like a pirate with a wooden leg and hiding away in the shed making silver hares and Isle of Wight pendants, I’ve had a bit of a revelation this week!

I’ve been struggling badly (understatement) with my Achilles again, I also found out one of my already huge feet (plural, they’ve both historically been big!) has grown a WHOLE EXTRA SIZE (extra bone has grown…just don’t, I can’t!!) 😳 so, for comfort I finally gave in and bought a pair of proper fitting trainers that were recommended to me specifically to help insertional Achilles tendinitis - And let me tell you…they are like strapping two supportive whacking gert big marshmallows to your feet. Big and bulky? Well, yes and they look proper cool on ‘normal’ footed people. Comfortable? Ye gods YES!

BUT.

They also triggered something in me that I didn’t fully realise I was still carrying around.

Unless you’re tall, broad, plus sized and blessed with feet like a Hobbit who’s trained for marathons, you probably won’t understand the lifelong sadness of feeling like you simply take up “too much space.” I’ve had comments my whole life about my height, my size, my feet, my body…all those tiny little remarks people throw out and forget instantly.

Meanwhile neurospicy wonky me apparently collected them all like cursed Pokémon cards and stored them in my brain for 52 years 🙃 that culminated in me making sure I was the first person to mention anything about my size before anyone else could just to steal their thunder and quench their satisfaction before they left me with another collectible to scar my heart with!

Which meant, all I ever did was put myself down!

So there I was on my hobble through the woods in my incredibly comfortable giant clown trainers, limping away whilst moaning dramatically about whether Achilles tendons really have any benefit at all (spoiler: they do!) when I suddenly thought:

Hang on a minute…

Who exactly decided I’m not allowed to take up the space I naturally take up?

Who benefits from me shrinking myself? Apologising for existing? Feeling embarrassed because my shoe size now requires planning permission?

And honestly? I got quite cross with myself 🤣

Because I can guarantee every single person who ever made me feel awkward or “too much” has long since forgotten they even said those things. Yet I’ve been carrying them around in my already overcrowded brain like some sort of emotional backpack full of bricks. 😳

So no more.

I am officially retiring from the lifelong sport of making myself smaller for other people’s comfort.

I shall continue taking up space.
In Hokas.
Like a slightly sweary, wobbly and wonky woodland cryptid.
Making silver hares in a shed.

And that revelation feels quite refreshing actually 😃 💚

01/05/2026

Beltane 💚

The fire isn’t distant, it lives in the day
in the sunlight that lingers a little longer in May

In blossom and hedgerows, in the soft evening air.
In those warm, precious moments we happily share.

It’s not in the grand or the mystical alone
But also the warmth of recognition as the season evolves

So here’s to the light, to the shift, to the turn,
to the beauty of places where brighter things burn

Happy Beltane 🤍

28/04/2026

☀️The Iceni Day & Night set 🌙

Sunlight in my bones,
moonlight in my blood 💚

26/04/2026

Cor blimey, needlefelting takes hours so it does!! I knew 3d did, I’ve done a few of those, but I wasn’t aware just how much time goes into a flat felt! Those little hairs on the ears had me concentrating good! 😆 Still hours to go, but loving the process, I’m trying to fight the urge to needle-felt an oak leaf on her forehead…but then again…maybe I will 😀💚

25/04/2026

Some believe feathers appear when those we love are near. A whisper that love really doesn’t just disappear 🪶 Whenever I see a black feather, I always think of my gorgeous Grandad. He was such a wonderful Grandad, when as a teeny girl I took ballet lessons (don’t laugh, I quite literally grew too tall and chunky for all that very quickly!!) my 6’ 4” Grandad would help me practice my ballet moves, he told me he was a ballet dancer, and I had no reason to not believe that! It never occurred to me that his size 14 feet and knock-knees told a very different story 🤣 He’d set those feet in first, second, third position - and then do a wobbly grand plié and spin around and around. I’d laugh like a loon and then I’d grab a handful of his boiled sweets from the dish beside his big squishy chair and we’d sit with happy faces watching The Muppets together 😆 He was just lovely 🩵 Magic memories 🩵

I made these this week 💚

24/04/2026

Another 9 Lives tokyn bracelet beautifully curated - I love to see the pieces chosen and think about the story each one is saying as I make them. Sometimes they are chosen randomly, sometimes they tell a story of loves and losses and hopes and dreams. I make them with lots of love and hope that is felt when they’re worn 💚

20/04/2026

Thank you so much for all your loveliness from yesterday’s post - it was indeed a toughy day (read: few months!!) but today all I had to deal with was my Achilles, and having to deal with one yuk pain is SO much better than dealing with a whole body’s worth isn’t it. So we’re winning! 💚😊 I returned to work with a little less swearing 😆 (there was still a few clouds of blue air down in that shed 😳), I had to slack off a bit early though because I decided to honour my need for creating something a bit different just for me!

Over the next few days during the late afternoon/evening, I’m taking a course in needle-felting. I’ve done quite a bit of this particular art form in both 2D and 3D - in fact it was the Island’s own Loren Thorn, Needle-felting Queen so she is, 👑who sparked my love of the medium a few years ago when I attended one of her workshops with Mumma Iceni - and I’m working on some needle-felted pieces for my exhibition in October, AND I do very much believe that no matter how much you think you know, you can ALWAYS learn more, so I signed up to Sophie Wheatley’s course from All Things Felt & Beautiful - (it’s very beginner friendly if you’ve not done any needle-felting before) because, well, it’s a hare!! Why wouldn’t I? And like Loren, she’s a brilliant teacher, and there’s something lovely about a bunch of people all working on the same project together isn’t there- it’s giving me time to wind down for an hour or so each day and do something just for me, after a few months of madness! Lovely 😍💚

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Ryde

Telephone

+447849108876

Website

http://www.iceniuk.com/

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