For seven years I thought my life was waiting for me in France.

Seven years of house viewings.
Seven years of offers collapsing.
Seven years of imagining an alternate version of myself pretending my French was good enough to order more than a coffee and a baguette.  

In hindsight, it would probably have ruined my life.

 

Funny how the things we think will save us are sometimes the exact things quietly hollowing us out.

When that final house fell through, I expected disappointment.

What I actually felt was relief.

And then immediately after that, panic.

Because if France wasn’t happening, then what exactly had I been doing with my life for the better part of a decade?

I think that’s the dangerous thing about waiting because after long enough, you stop noticing you’re doing it.

 

You may already know parts of my story, how I finally ended up in Ireland in 2014 and started creating Jewellery shortly after.  Lawless certainly didn’t begin fully formed and it wasn’t until the stay-at-home lockdowns of early 2020’s that everything started to shift into place.

My hands started trying new things out.
My brain wandered into unfamiliar places.

Jewellery that made my heart flutter a whole lot more.

The pieces felt less like decoration and more like tiny fragments of armour.

And maybe that’s what Lawless really became.

 

Not a jewellery brand.

Proof that I was capable of creating something instead of endlessly waiting for life to hand me permission.

I think a lot of women live like this.

Waiting to become themselves.

Waiting until they’re thinner, richer, braver, less tired, more qualified, more certain.

Waiting for the right city.
The right relationship.
The right version of themselves to arrive.

Meanwhile time keeps moving in one direction regardless.

That’s the part nobody warns you about.

 

Lawless exists because I was tired of waiting.
Tired of drifting.
Tired of believing my real life was happening somewhere else.

Tired of not becoming what I wanted to be.

 

This first Black Letter is a little different - it's taken me 10 years to get to this point and when friends catch up, sometimes a little storytelling is required.

 

2026 marks 10 years of Lawless Jewellery and I'm happy that you're still here for the next stage of what Lawless is becoming.