Lunanite Jewellery

Name: Lunanite Jewellery
Address: Newcastle, 2952, ZA
Telephone: +27762198826

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The ancient rhythm of handcraft. Jewellery as living archives. Memory | Earth | Heritage
Small-batch | Bespoke| 🇿🇦

13/10/2026

I woke up and decided today I’ll dress up and just exist🩶

07/10/2026

This is not a new era, I’m not sure what it’s called when you’re coming back home to yourself years after wandering through foreign lands. I’d compare this to that moment when you find something you misplaced years ago after you gave up on finding it. I guess I finally found the spot where I put down my creativity identity, voice and expression years after looking for it in the wrong boxes…years after trying to fit into boxes.

I’m a creative before a small business and as I go through this rebirth I want everything around me to carry meaning, stories and history.
I want to create living archives. This is where I’m starting. From the land that knows me, to celebrating it, who I am and where I come from to the flames that forge and purify all.

Isibomvu.
Umqombothi.
Umlilo.

03/10/2026

The first time I chose my colour palette it was based on aesthetics and also because I’m just a girl who loves pink so it became a default colour for me and my creative identity. Now, I’ve since evaluated the story I want to tell and so I went with colours I saw and see every time when I’m at my paternal home.

Isibomvu- Red clay soil. This basically the entire uMkhamango, we built on this soil, we planted and it fed us. It was the one thing that people used to identify that actually we come from the rural areas especially when it rained.

Umlilo- Fire. We heavily relied on fire to cook and boil bathing water and we in fact still do.

Umqombothi- Traditional b**r. This is only made on important occasions, celebrations, rituals and ceremonies

I remember growing up we foraged clay near the river where we got water, I remember when it would rain and the soil would get all sludgy and slippery. This left traces everywhere then people would know that you’re not from the burbs or township and I recall how I embarrassed I used to be especially at school. People instantly knew I was from a rural area and we get called backwards, Amabhinca and other alienating terms but now??? I wanna tell everyone about how and where I grew up. I foraged clay, hiked the steepest hill to get to the tuck shop, swam in rivers, I had the brightest moon rises, I had the most vibrant and alive Springs with all kinds of butterflies and bugs. I loved it and often look back with so much longing.

If you look closely there is a picture of my dad there milking a cow as a young boy and another one with his fancy cardigan as a young man. The same land fed and raised him and I’m really glad I bloomed on the same land.

01/10/2026

Back in 2019 after giving my creative identity/ creativity a name I had to give it a “formal face” but I used to doubt my graphic skills, well I doubted all my creative skills so I had graphic designers try to interpret what was in my head for me😹

Photo 1 is what I received and I wasn’t happy at all so I decided to do it myself. From photo 2 was just me going with whatever vibe but leaning my idea towards the moon phases and that is how I ended up with my current logo. “Jewellery that speaks to personality” came to me during this time when I was sitting for hours on Adobe Illustrator. I ended up with pink as my main colour because the texture rose gold didn’t look the same on things when printed.

I love the crescent moon idea, I’ve always thought what I did there was super cool however, my creative “formal face” doesn’t tell the story I want to tell anymore. Though I don’t believe I will move away from the crescent moon idea when I rebrand it’s very much still part of who I am.

29/09/2026

Last Saturday I went to my first market of the season after believing I’ve quit jewellery indefinitely and for real this time( I can be very delusional😹). There someone asked what was (I actually get this question very often) and I said it’s just a made up word but afterwards I thought about it and that is not what it is. Please through to read a summed up story of what it means.

I want to shake things around here, I’m a creative and I would like to move as such in all spaces of my life. The whole formal business feel creates a very difficult relationship between me and my craft, I just want to create & share stories while at it. That is exactly what I’m going to do so strap in 🌸🌸

30/04/2026

Nontaba Ring⛰️

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Newcastle
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Telephone

+27762198826

Website

https://lunanitejewellery.co.za/

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