Inside our Clan - Meet Your Makers

The Founder – The Shield Maiden

I come from a long line of Norse blood, descended from Rollo, the first ruler of Normandy. But heritage is more than ancestry — it is something you choose to live.

I have always believed that some people are born builders, some are born artists, and some are born warriors. I was born a warrior.

Not the kind that fights battles with swords, but the kind that survives, rebuilds, and forges beauty from difficult beginnings. That spirit lives in everything I create.

Shield Maiden Jewelry was born from that belief — that jewelry can be more than decoration. It can be armor. It can be identity. It can be a reminder of who you are and what you have survived.

Every piece begins in my hands as a design, a story, and a symbol. I design for those who carry that same spirit — the resilient, the bold, the quietly powerful.

This is jewelry for warriors.

The Armorer

Once a piece is designed, it passes to the hands of my Celtic husband — the maker behind the armor.

He builds each scalemail piece ring by ring, by hand, turning raw metal into something strong, wearable, and enduring. The work is slow, precise, and requires patience that few people have. Thousands of rings pass through his hands to create a single piece.

Where I design and envision, he engineers and builds. Together, design and structure become one — beauty and strength, working together just as they should.

The Next Generation

Our daughter works beside us, helping bring each jewelry design to life. She assists in assembling necklaces and pieces from my designs, and she is also the eye behind many of our photos and one of our models.

She is growing up inside this workshop, learning the craft, the business, and the belief that you can build something with your own hands and make your own path in this world.

Shield Maiden Jewelry is not just a business. It is a family craft, passed hand to hand, generation to generation.

The Clan

Together, we design, forge, assemble, photograph, pack, and ship every piece from our workshop.

When you wear one of our pieces, you are not wearing something mass produced. You are wearing something that passed through our hands, our tools, our workbench, and our home.

That is why we call our customers Our Clan — because the people who wear our work understand what it means to choose strength, to choose identity, and to walk through the world in their own armor.

And truly — we are honored you are here.