I work with a shopaholic - every week Slaney has a new favourite piece. It is one of the best parts of what I do seeing what has been ordered and the messages from loved ones that we pass on. Did you know that Reeves & Reeves have a gift wrap service? Just planting the seed. Have a lovely week. 

#jewelleryaddict  #shopaholic

We have some amazing scenery around our office. I was busy putting some fantastic new stock away when our neighbours asked for a little help to move their cows. To say they are a little skittish is an understatement as it ended up taking seven of us to move these four little ones! 

#cows #moving #teameffort 

With everyday life on hold, I have more time to spare, so I’ve volunteered a couple of days a week in a local food project, taking orders & packing up deliveries for vulnerable members of the community.

The charity (Halff - Project Food) usually run cooking sessions for young careers, people living with health problems and other vulnerable groups, but with those on hold it’s all hands on deck getting fresh, local food out to families and people who need it. 

I have been answering phones, packing orders and making soups and ready meals to send out. It’s very busy, but good fun, and very well appreciated!

Both Hannah and I started working for Reeves and Reeves in 2019. At lunchtime we are lucky enough to wonder around the award-winning gardens of Forde Abbey with the dogs.  This Easter we are hoping to have a photoshoot as the plant life is simply amazing at the minute. Don’t forget it is easy to filter by newest first on the website – Caroline and Heath are brilliant at keeping our collection fun and fashionable.

#plantlife #easter #lunchtime #gardens #dogs #sterlingsilverjewellery

In an effort to keep us active in the office and repair Caroline’s leg injury from her ski trip the cash was splashed and a new office toy was bought. The pedal machine was acquired for us to use whilst at our desks. My first try was maybe not the biggest success as my chair kept wheeling away from my desk (almost as fast as when I run to greet the delivery man) making it almost impossible to type at my keyboard! Stay tuned to see the progress.

#office #active #sterlingsilverjewellery #designedindorset 

Today in the Reeves & Reeves office we have only three dogs often it can be four or five. Smudge Reeves has had his face on our website once or twice as has Mr Chips.

In an effort to keep our office tidy we have reverted to putting our shredded paper into a box so that we can dry the dogs after our lunchtime walkies around the stunning grounds of Forde Abbey. In my opinion, this has somewhat back fired as now there are little bits of paper all over the place.

We had a lot of fun expanding our dog collection – check out just a few of our favourites above.

 #dog #poodle #scottie #dachshund #office #sterlingsilvernecklaces #designedinengland

As we are so deeply embedded in the countryside, it’s second nature to notice the natural world, but we’re trying a bit harder to make sure that our activities sit more lightly on the planet, and make a few changes to make us that bit greener.

Reduce, reuse, recycle is a brilliant mantra to keep it simple. We reduce our packaging, both in & out, wherever possible, and reuse an awful lots of cardboard boxes, packing materials and bubble wrap. In fact, our friends give us so much, we never have to buy bubble wrap!

Our jewellery arrives to us in little plastic bags - these are incredibly useful, and get used for storing jewellery in the office (plastic bags are actually a brilliant way to keep jewellery in good condition), and are used again and again. Deliveries from India come in wonderful aluminium boxes, sometimes with a little padlock! We fight over these as they are very cool for storage, and are easily customised to make brilliantly quirky containers. All correspondence is shredded, and makes lovely cosy bedding for Caroline’s chickens (who were a Christmas present from the girls in the office, her previous bunch having met a sorry end with a marauding dog just before Christmas).

Our building is a very old converted forge, built into the hill below the gardens, so it could be cold & damp, but we are very lucky to have biomass heating provided by a system that warms the whole of Forde Abbey, using wood taken from maintenance done on the estate. We used to wear woolly hats in the office, but not these days!

Even getting to & from the office is getting greener - we all live locally, and Heath often walks down with Smudge the dog, and our newest recruit plans to walk along the valley through the water meadows in the summer. For our accounts lady, it’s literally about 50ft door to door! 

There is much more we can all do, but we’re taking it on bit by bit, and hopefully it will all add up to make a real difference. We are always looking for new ideas, so if there’s something you are doing to make your workplace greener, we’d love to hear about it!

Next week we are opening our doors for a special Christmas Sale. Our office studio is very much a working environment, but we’re going to Christmasify it, and we’d love you to come and see our jewellery in the flesh. 

Internet shopping is great (especially in the current foul weather!), but sometimes it’s nice to see, touch and try on items in the real world. Every time we display our collections, there’s always something we’d forgotten about, or something new that someone hasn’t seen before, so it’s nice for us, too!

Bring a friend, and the first five purchases will also win a free gift worth £50, so you could treat yourself as well as someone else!

We’ll also have the equestrian and countryside gifts from Gallop Guru, so there truly is something for everyone, including those particularly difficult-to-buy-for men!

We hope to see you all soon, for a good festive kick-start to the season!

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It’s been half term, and as a change of scene from the office, I decided to take my daughter for a surfing lesson. However, who did we see but the Reeves clan, out with their boards to catch some waves!

We are lucky to be near some incredible beaches, and Heath and Caroline are seasoned surfers, having surfed all over the world. 

It’s such a fantastic, all-absorbing activity, getting beaten about by the waves and fighting the surf, it’s the ultimate escape!