ABOUT

Welcome, I'm Jess Rowlands, mum of four and jewellery designer from the Gold Coast, Australia. I started Botanical Stone in 2015 as a creative outlet for my self-directed learning in silversmithing. My love of plants and herbal medicine drew me from silversmithing to casting, and now, here at Botanical Stone, I mold and cast Australian plant species and medicinal herbs, including the protective white sage leaf which is incorporated into many of our designs.

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Over the years and with the birth of our fourth child, the brand has outgrown my humble hands, and I now work with a small team of skilled artisans from Bali to bring my designs to life, and continue the growth of Botanical Stone.

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It is very important to keep this business as sustainably kind as possible, and have made an effort to seek positive solutions in every aspect of our business.

I work with a beautiful fair trade manufacturer who treat their employees respectfully, pay them well and offer health insurance and maternity leave, purchase from small family owned mines for our crystals so we know where they are coming from. Keeping the business as plastic free as possible, by using compostable and recycled paper packaging and now have partnered with Onetreeplanted.org to plant a tree with every sale, focusing on Australian projects that are rehabilitating areas devastated by recent bushfires. This is a project that is close to my heart and I'm greatful to work alongside an organisation that is doing such incredible work.

The world we live in today is a reflection of the timeless wisdom and magick that has been woven through the very fibres of this Earth; through threads and seeds planted millennia ago from a long lineage of ancestors who roamed this earth so long before us.

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The plant world taught us many things, and amongst its most powerful, it taught us that we are purely reflections of them, and that by connecting with an open heart, we are able to attune ourselves to the many different degrees of healing that they can offer us.

I believe that we each innately have the ability to see, to feel, and to know them intimately…

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Sadly, today's society seems to have forgotten the beautiful healing that plants avail to us; pulling them apart into separation, seeing only individual phyto-chemicals and constituents- forgetting that within a single plant there holds the planets, the elements and the potential for healing on a level that a single pharmacological compound could never even try to replicate, nor possibly extract.

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I started casting because I wanted to bring the plant worlds wisdom back into the light. I want to be able to share the wonder and the magick that these plants offer- to incorporate them into these carefully curated jewels so that when you wear them, there is a part of them that gets reactivated, a remembrance or re-knowing, a sweet whisper that invites these plants to reconnect to you- and you, with them. If it can be done in this way, it will mean that you're carrying its energy with you in everyday life which is so special- and I too believe, so beautiful!

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I am so excited to share this with you and in turn, I dream that you’ll share with others, and hopefully with time, reconnect with plants and share their wonder with the people in your life, starting from your children to your grand parents, so that one day, we all can share in the many secrets of the soil below our feet and perhaps even- the stars upon our sky.

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With so much love, and with the hugest of gratitude, thank you for finding your way here and sharing in my dream to reconnect us all with the plant world.

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Jess xx

-maker of all things beautiful, and believer in all things magic.

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