Congratulations on your very special 30 year anniversary, Janine, and all of you at Scarab!
I first saw and fell in love with all things Scarab years ago, whilst ambling down the passage of Cavendish Square one evening, after watching a movie with my husband. I like different, more uncoventional jewellery and particularly love gemstones; so I thought then, and still do, that Scarab jewellery pieces are works of art, which literally stopped me in my tracks that night!
I now have quite a few Scarab pieces…thanks to my gem of a husband, Thomas.
He has really treated me with some lovely jewellery gifts, for birthdays, anniversaries and Christmases. He likes to buy things that have a certain significance attached to them, as well as being beautiful.
I think my very first Scarab gift was a pair of earrings.
The most sentimental pair Thomas gave me was for our wedding anniversary one year – it was your 3 stone grape garnet earrings, to which he attached a beautiful note, in which he said that the 3 stones represent our 3 daughters, who were quite young back then.
One of my absolute favourites is the Garnet Surfboard earrings that he gave me years ago, for a birthday. I love the simplicity of them, the unique design as well as the combination of silver and gold with the garnet stone.
He also gave me the most stunning necklace known to mankind!! I am still completely crazy about it…it’s the pearl and silver cross necklace I am wearing in the photo.
And then there are the rings….well, I just love all your rings…The topaz and silver one I have, I wear almost daily, and it always elicits admiring comments from people who see it. It is simply beautiful!
As are my 3 silver 7 stone stack rings which I wear with 2 silver bands  – such utter prettiness.
I shall definitely be passing my Scarab jewellery to the next generation – that’s to our 3 loveliest of daughters, Kayley, Michelle and Kim, now 24, 21 and 17 years old, who are similarly smitten with your jewellery and are most definitely very eager to be passed down to!
On my wish list at the moment would be any of the beautiful peridot rings you have, and I also think your green tourmaline chrysoprase necklace is exquisite…perhaps because I am an avid gardener, and rather drawn to the colour green.💚
Enjoy your celebrations, Scarab, and thank you for all the beauty you have created for us, your clients, for the past 30 years… It is a joy to wear your Jewellery!
Here’s to your next 30 years of designing and manufacturing…
From Janet Malinowski