All jewellery is handmade and shipped from Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and therefore is exempt from tariffs for USA customers under CUSMA, the free-trade agreement. I always ship with a certificate of origin for customs.

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*Caveat on using the term “recycled gold”:

While I am very careful to source my precious metals only from SCS® certified suppliers (SCS® stands for Supply Chain Sustainability; they are the global leader in the field of sustainability standards and third-party certification). Most of my precious metals suppliers are also members of the Responsible Jewellery Council. However, I want to point out that ‘recycling gold' is not what is commonly understood by the term.

True recycling avoids things ending up in landfills. Gold, of course, wouldn’t.

Instead, gold is simply melted, refined and repurposed.

Although SCS® certified refineries must maintain auditable records of their suppliers, there are loopholes globally which make it very easy for gold from unregulated and/or illegal sources to enter their supply chain.

This makes even 'certified recycled' gold untraceable.

Further reading:
Is Recycled Gold Ethical?
Materials, Sustainability, & Fairmined Metals

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Last week, I found myself in a boardroom of the cultural federations of Nova Scotia, giving a presentation on my career, on the work I have done since I began studying jewellery design in 1999. It was an incredibly interesting exercise to gather the photos and timelines for this presentation.

I felt somewhat terrified to give this presentation
I felt somewhat terrified to give this presentation

I hadn’t really realized that I have been working with metal for 15+ years, hadn’t really thought as a whole of the mentoring I have done, the exhibitions I have participated in, the books that published my work. It was so interesting to see the progression, culminating in my latest work, several one-of-a-kind pieces which I created earlier this year (see ici et ici).

I gave this presentation in front of the Standards Committee of the Nova Scotia Designer Crafts Council. And while the exercise of putting the presentation together was very enlightening to me, what was even more exciting was the result of that hour in the boardroom: I am humbled to say that I was officially granted the Nova Scotia Designer Crafts Council’s title of Master Artisan!

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    • Thanks, Damian.
      They made a decision in a meeting after the presentation. I then got a call with the good news :)

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