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The MYJN Note
The price of gold and silver has been moving in ways I’ve never seen in almost ten years of doing this.
Some weeks the numbers change before I finish reading them. We’re a small studio that buys in small batches, so every shift hits us immediately. There’s no cushion.
Gold vermeil is two metals in one piece — a solid silver core with a thick layer of real gold bonded on top. When both rise together, we absorb both increases. Lately some of our material costs have more than tripled.
I want to be straight with you, because you’ve chosen us honestly. This brand has been my life for nearly ten years.
What you might not know is that we quietly held every price through last year. Through the holidays, through every spike, through every hard conversation about margins. We wanted the season to feel normal for you, so we absorbed it and said nothing.
But there comes a point where continuing to absorb it starts to question whether we can keep going at all.
Here’s what protecting the standard really looks like.
Wenyi stopped an entire shipment the other day because she spotted a one-millimetre mark on one piece. Almost no one would notice. She sent the whole batch back for repolish without hesitation. I sit with the extra anti-tarnish fumes because we want every piece to last longer on your skin and in your life. We reject. We redo. Until it feels right.
This brand is everything to me. I’m often back at my desk after dinner. I’ve stayed until two in the morning more times than I can count, just to make sure every order leaves the way it should.
We had a real choice. We could have thinned the metal and kept the prices the same. Many brands do. Or we could protect what we’ve spent nine years building and be honest with you.
We chose to protect the quality. We always will.
We’ve made a careful adjustment to our silver and gold vermeil prices to match where things are now. It wasn’t easy or quick.
At the same time, we’ve been working on something we’re proud of. The Atelier Collection carries the same sculptural forms and the same care — now in brass finished with fine silver and 18k gold, plus pearls. They feel just as considered and permanent, and they let us keep part of MYJN within reach for everyone who wants to be here.
If you’ve been with us, thank you. You’re the reason I can still choose quality over the easier path.
And if something has been quietly on your mind, take this as a gentle sign to choose it while it’s still here, while we can still hold it exactly this way.
Rowan.
We answer when it cannot wait.
Some messages arrive when the studio is dark, the door is locked, and the day should already be over. We still read them. If something feels urgent to you, it matters to us — and so sometimes you will get a reply late at night, long after any reasonable definition of working hours, because we know there is someone lying awake worrying about a clasp, a gift, or a parcel that has not arrived yet. We do not want you to carry that alone. We would rather lose a little sleep than let you spend the night anxious with nowhere to turn.
We write the long replies, because you deserve the whole answer.
A lot of brands stop at yes or no. We do not. When you ask about materials, about sensitivity, about how to care for something or whether it will hold up to your life, we sit down and write the full answer. The kind that takes time. The kind that explains, compares, and reassures until there is no question left unspoken. We would rather spend twenty minutes writing to you than let you reach the checkout with doubt still sitting in your chest. You are never an order number to us. You are someone who trusted us with something small and personal, and we take that seriously every single time.
We keep the lights on a little longer.
The sign on our door says we close at six. Real life rarely agrees. Sometimes you finish late and rush over anyway. Sometimes you are only in town for the weekend and this is the one evening you have free. On those days, we stay. The shutters come down later than they should, the last train home gets a little quieter, but you get the time and space to try things slowly, to ask everything you wanted to ask, to make your choice without being watched or hurried. If you made the effort to come to us, we will quietly make the effort to stay for you.
Before you arrive, the room is already waiting for you.
When you book a studio visit, we do not simply pull open a drawer and see what is there. We think about you before you step in. We lay out a tray, choose pieces we think might suit you, turn on the softer light, straighten the cloth, wipe the mirror until it is clear. By the time you walk through the door, the room has already been thinking about you. We want you to feel expected and considered, not squeezed in between other things.
Your box should smell like something worth remembering.
A box can be cardboard and nothing more, or it can be a small moment that stays with you. We chose a quiet scent for our packaging so that when you open it, you pause for just half a second and breathe. It is not about perfume or theatre. It is about making you feel, for that moment, that someone prepared this slowly and with thought, not rushed it along a conveyor belt to meet a target. One day, if you catch that scent somewhere else and think of MYJN before you even see us, that will be enough.
Sometimes we say yes, even when the policy says no.
We have policies because they keep things fair and consistent. But we also have eyes, and we have memory. There are times when a piece comes back clearly loved and worn, technically past any reasonable warranty. On paper, the answer is no. But if you have been with us for years, if you have chosen us again and again through different seasons and different chapters of your life, sometimes we quietly say yes and take care of it anyway. Not because we have to. Because we remember who stands by us, and we want to stand by you too.
We plate a little more, so you can worry a little less.
Many of our pieces go through steps you will never see and never need to think about. We apply a thicker, carefully controlled protective coating so the surface stays beautiful longer and sits more kindly against your skin through daily life. You may only notice it years from now, when you realise your piece has held up better than you expected. That invisible layer is not something we advertise. It is simply our way of caring more about how your jewellery lives with you than how quickly we can finish it.
Small batches. Many pairs of eyes.
We do not run large, anonymous production lines. Our pieces arrive in small numbers, and many hands and eyes pass over each one before it reaches you. Clasps are tested. Surfaces are held under proper light and turned slowly. Anything that does not feel right does not leave. You will never know which pieces were quietly set aside, and that is exactly the point. Our job is to keep the almost-right pieces away from you so that you only ever meet the ones that feel completely right.
What happens before your jewellery meets you.
Before a piece reaches you, it is hand-finished and individually checked, which means no two are ever exactly alike. Many designs receive an additional layer of protective plating that may feel slightly textured when new but softens naturally as you wear it, helping the piece stay beautiful with only simple care and dry storage. Our boxes are fully recyclable. With every production run, we refine the packaging and the unboxing the same way we quietly refine this website, line by line, so that your time with MYJN always feels calm, considered, and worth returning to.
Why we choose to stay small, human, and within reach.
We protect our team's rest and their boundaries, which means replies can sometimes take a little longer than you might expect elsewhere. But every message is answered with a clear head and real attention. We work in small batches, keep our designs limited, and hold our margins thin so that carefully made sterling silver and thoughtfully designed pieces remain accessible to the people we make them for. Alongside silver, we continue to explore other materials with the same minimal, sculptural approach, always balancing honest pricing with fair pay for the people who make and pack your pieces. We are not trying to be the biggest. We are trying to be the one you trust.