Introducing myself and my label – Angela Wozniak Jewellery

Me wearing one of my designs, the Lara Circle Stud Hoop Earrings in Bali.

Hello Soulseekers

This is the long version of my story.
Grab a cup of tea first.

It all started in Bali.

One time on a soul searching trip to Bali, in early 2018, I decided to try out a metal-smithing class to experience making jewellery by hand in the beautiful jewellery district village of Ubud.

Let's just say I was absolutely hooked!

I loved the fact I could express myself creatively and working with my hands felt amazing!

That first metal-smithing class was just a 3 hour studio class, but I ended up staying the whole day in the studio to make more jewellery pieces and I kept returning everyday to make more jewellery during my 7 day trip. 

Over the course of 2018 I made 6 trips to Bali.

Each visit I was in the Jewellery studio I would learn more and more different metal-smithing techniques from the local balinese artisans. Soon I started accumulating quite a bit of my own handmade jewellery pieces.

Some were not very good and literally were thrown in my scrap metal box, but some were really awesome as I had friends ask me to make them copies.

Me in Bali where I took my first Jewellery making class. This is the very first piece of Jewellery I ever made. I was going through a toxic breakup at the time and I designed the Mantra Ring with the quote 'Courage' because I really wanted to make something meaningful as a daily reminder to stay strong. Let's just say metal-smithing kept me busy and kept my mind off the break-up.

Taking professional jewellery classes

Because I loved metal-smithing so much, at the end of 2018 I decided to take a professional metal-smithing course.

The course cost a small fortune but came with a professional jewellery making bench and all the tools I needed to start a home studio. I was soooo excited I could now practice at home.

I also took a second course - technical drawing for jewellery design so that I could learn how to sketch out my designs professionally.



My first little jewellery bench in my bedroom, 2018. 

Suffering self-doubt

But as I was acquiring more skills something happened – I started to suffer from a lot of self-doubt. Little voices in my head saying things like "I will never be a real jewellery designer, who do I think I am?"

I was suffering from a lot of negative thoughts about the ambition I was trying to embark upon. I was killing my own dream before anyone else even had the chance to judge. Fear of failure is a batch! 

Learning to be fearless

That was around the time I started to take an interest in meditation and visualisation as a way to try to battle my fears.

Through learning these techniques I started to appreciate myself a lot more and underwent a huge personal growth spurt and spiritual awakening.

I was learning to heal and love myself more, and decided to I was going to start believing in myself. Believing I was good enough! 

Finding ethical gemstones suppliers

At the beginning of 2019 I decided to take up yet another professional jewellery course, this time in gemmology in preparation to travel to Jaipur, India to source gemstones for my designs where I bought up a lot of stones. 

Took some time out to do some sight seeing in Jaipur, 2019. This is the blue room at the Royal Palace.

While in Jaipur I visited 6 different gemstone suppliers and found my preferred ethical gemstone supplier which is where I buy my gemstones still to this day + I use some local suppliers in my home state New South Wales in Australia.

Then on 22 March, on my Birthday in 2019 I launched my small business under my own name - Angela Wozniak Jewellery. To this day currently it's still just me, I am a one-woman show.