Where you can see my Jewellery

Happy Customers!

I just wanted to say a huge thank you. The necklace is gorgeous, really, really pretty and very unusual and I'm sure mum will be delighted - thank you so much.
Mrs. T. McTavish Woburn Sands, Bucks.


I just wanted to let you know how much I love my pearls, I always feel really special when I wear them, and they are made to an exceptionally high standard. I get comments about how nice they look every time I wear them.
Mrs. J. Wheeler, Wokingham, Berkshire.


My wife loved the jewellery that you made for her birthday and I appreciated the advice that you gave me at the time of choosing. Thanks again and good luck.
Mr. Tony Cassie, Hunstanton, North Norfolk.


Thank you so very much for the silver link necklace that you designed and made to my very specific requirements, it turned out just as I wanted. I am absolutely thrilled with the end result. I have had no hesitation in recommending you to my friends.
Mrs. C. Kindred, Shropshire.

Press

Cambridge Evening News 10/06/2008

Cilla Woollard has set up an online jewellery business, but Cilly-Billy's is quite different from Polkadot because Cilla makes all the pieces herself. She said she was always interested in jewellery, even as a small child, and eventually decided to make it her business after taking redundancy from an oil and gas geophycists operation when the company was sold, she had looked after the finances for 13 years.
" I decided I didn't want to do that sort of work anymore," Cilla says. "I'm one of those people who like to fiddle, I can do it for hours. I toyed with the idea of handmade soaps as a business and then I saw an evening class advertised at Comberton Village College, jewellery-making."
Cilla spent two years learning all she could, cutting, soldering, filing and began to buy the kit she would need to go into business. She estimates she spent about £2,000 on tools and materials to get started, while her husband Martin managed the new Cilly-Billy's website, designed by Louise Lynch who lives in nearby Barley.
Cilla also sells her pieces at the local farmers' market and craft fayres, and shops have started to ask her to supply them.
" The response has been very positive," she says. "I don't think I'll ever make brilliant money, but I love what I do."

She is hoping that her daughter Georgina, who is expecting her second child, will become involved in selling the pieces, because Cilla would prefer to spend all her time making them, she has a workroom in the spare bedroom at her home near Royston.
" I make jewellery as it used to be made years ago," she says. "I have found a lapidarist up north who supplies me with unusual stones and I get inspiration from many sources, Madonna was the inspiration for a necklace, those clothes she wears, but I put three of them on the necklace rather than just two."
www.cilly-billys.co.uk