Alpaca Sterling Silver Stud Handmade Earrings

Morning walks with my friend often involve feeding her pet alpacas. One day a heavily pregnant alpaca called Crumpet gave birth to a very cute baby boy who was aptly named Teddy. Sadly Crumpet died of cancer soon after becoming a mother, and Teddy became an orphan. My friend and her daughter would proceed to bottle feed him a few times a day for many months. The silver lining was that a close bond was formed with Teddy and his humans, and he became a very tame alpaca. This relationship inspired me to create models of Teddy and Crumpet and to cast them in sterling silver. I had wax figurines made from a photograph of mother and son which became the masters for this jewellery range. These pieces make the perfect gifts for alpaca fans and nature lovers. Each earring and necklace charm is lovingly handmade from recycled sterling silver in my Derbyshire workshop.