The Dione Fine Jewellery Story

This story, The Dione Fine Jewellery story, begins with a dog called Soda. The one who changed it all and who started writing one of the most important stories I would tell in my life; the one who taught me to be unapologetically and courageously myself.

We all have stories. For the small moments, the big moments and for all those in between. And when they all add up, they come to tell the story of us; the rich tapestry that is our life's work. Some of that tapestry is perfect and some bears holes crudely mended, but each part integral to the story that we weave for ourselves. The story that only we can tell. It is magic and messy and beautifully imperfect. It is made up of a thousand pictures, worth so much more than their weight in the words that only we truly know. And for those words, those magical, messy moments; the ones that shape and define us, there is Dione Fine Jewellery. Lovingly designed and handcrafted to mark moments and to capture your story. To be worn, cherished and handed down for those stories to continue; to evolve; to grow. For them to create legacies all of their very own. That's why Dione Fine Jewellery has always been so much more than 'just' jewellery. It is for the moments when you feel most uniquely you. It's for you. For your stories. The one's that only you can write.

My story is a work in progress; messy, scrawled in a dozen notebooks in writing that only I can read. Unedited and imperfect. It tells tales of magic moments and of mistakes. It is made up of the sometimes harsh words of others. Words that are sometimes mine to write into my story and sometimes words which weren't mine to carry at all.

This story, The Dione Fine Jewellery story, begins with a dog called Soda. The one who changed it all and who started writing one of the most important stories I would tell in my life; the one who taught me to be unapologetically and courageously myself.

I met Soda during a time in my life when I didn't know who I was. I had become very unwell with a then undiagnosed health condition and over that period all of the familiar aspects of my life had fallen away. I. no longer felt like the writer of my own story and in turn, my life. I didn't feel like I knew who I was, or who I wanted to become. All I knew was that I had unequivocally met the great love of my life, in a medium-sized dog parcel, complete with behavioural issues and personality to boot. 

It's hard to put into words how looking into his eyes and feeling seen; I mean truly seen and understood made me feel. It was like I mattered. Really, truly mattered. In spite of losing myself and feeling like all I had to offer were fragments of a shell of a person, Soda saw me. And together, we started a new story all of our own. A story in which I would finally get a diagnosis and in turn, begin to rebuild my physical and mental health. A story in which I would teach myself to make jewellery, sell jewellery and in time, begin calling myself a jeweller. I would get married and have two beautiful children who gave me the incredible gift of becoming a mother. And through it all, there has always been Soda.

Soda started the story that I am still writing. The one that is constantly a work in progress; being edited, sections re-written and published in the form of the jewellery that I design and create. A story that has grown from When Caitie met Soda to Dione (Dai-Oh-Nee); the middle name that I was given at birth and have slowly grown into. Dione serves to me as a reminder of the beauty that lies in the writing of the story and in all of the parts of that process. In being unapologetically yourself and in finding people to surround yourself with that love you, not in spite of but because of who that is at any given moment. In allowing yourself to grow into whoever 'you' turn out to be. 

Dione Fine Jewellery is here for the story: your story. So here's to the incredible journey that writing it will be, dear friend. Thank you for inviting us to be a part of that journey.

With all of my love, always,

Caitie x