Posts by Nicholas Pike
Weddings and anniversaries
The month of April has always been special to me and my family. Helen’s birthday is in April, as is our wedding anniversary and this month always heralds beautiful Autumn weather and more often than not includes the Easter holidays. Many of my April events and celebrations come to mind but the very special ones…
Read MoreThe magic behind remodelling at PIKE
Mad March in Adelaide! We are so lucky to live in such an amazing city. It’s a wonderful and vibrant place to live particularly at Festival time when there is so much on offer. I hope you have had an opportunity to experience a show that is uplifting, exciting and entertaining. In my last blog…
Read MoreWorking as a creative has its challenges
Hello to you all, I hope you are getting through the extreme hot weather. It’s February and birthday time for two members of my family. I wish them both a very Happy Birthday – my sister Meredith and my granddaughter Mia, and as it happens they both share the same day! At PIKE Jewellers so…
Read MoreDream designs
As we start 2017, I wanted to share some of my dream designs. I have always loved designing artistic, out-of-the-box jewellery pieces, which I was reminded of when I was tidying up all of my old drawings recently. I was re-inspired seeing some of my older designs and have started spending time really letting my…
Read MoreHappy New Year
HAPPY NEW YEAR! Here we go – 2017. Recently so many of our television channels showed events representing 2016 and focused on so many awful and heart wrenching stories. I am certainly aware these are terrible things that have happened and possibly by showing these stories the journalists and presenters hope that the impact of…
Read MoreFrom Burnside Village to Highgate
Can you believe it’s December again? PIKE Jewellers is celebrating its third Christmas in the new location at Highgate. Wow the time has flown! It seems like it was only yesterday that we celebrated our last Christmas at Glenside, and in May of the following year everything was being packed up at the Burnside Village…
Read MoreLive window displays and the Million Dollar Hat
I cannot believe it is only five weeks to Christmas, it seems only a few months ago that I was writing my blog leading to the festive season of 2015. So, back to my story of the many changes we experienced in the late 1990s. As I mentioned in my October blog, with Nicholas Pike…
Read MoreLost wax technique: Nicholas explains how it works.
Working in Wax For centuries a method of producing jewellery called lost wax has been used. It is a process that begins with a model made from wax and ends up with the model being cast in metal. I have always loved using the process – I use it a lot when making some of…
Read More‘Evening Brilliants’ and the Burnside Village era
Hello to you all. It’s Saturday and I have just come inside after sitting in our back garden having a most relaxing brunch. After the last few weeks of extremely wild wet weather and many flooded areas it seems a bit surreal to be safe in my own space whilst so many are suffering –…
Read MorePIKE in the city: the beginning of the famous PIKE windows
Hi everyone I hope you are all well and avoiding the change of season colds and flu and now surprisingly Spring hayfever! Thank you for your favourable comments over the past months about the topics of my blog – I am happy that I have had the opportunity to tell you about the more personal…
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