What I Found in the Studio Mess

I was supposed to be tidying my studio.

(By "tidying" I mean moving piles from one side of the desk to the other.)

Then I found these.

Tiny sterling silver mānuka flower studs. I thought I'd sold every last pair last year. Turns out a few were hiding in there the whole time.

I got them from Rommel, a Filipino silversmith working in his studio in Baguio, up in the mountains of northern Luzon. This is me last year, visiting his shop.

I love that these carry two homes. The flower is from New Zealand. The hands are from the Philippines.

They're studio samples, so they'll be wrapped in tissue paper instead of the usual pouch, and at a special one-off price.