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 by. I was born AND chose to be a warrior!
I do not fight battles with swords, but fought battles and survived major trauma, rebuilt, and now I forge 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 help describe your identity and remind others and yourself 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, bold, and quietly powerful.
This is jewelry for warriors.
The Armorer
Once a piece is designed, it passes to the hands of my Celtic husband, he is 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 piece of 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 as well as being one of our models.
She grew 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. And now HER children are learning the same.
You see, Shield Maiden Jewelry is not just a business. It is a family craft, passed hand to hand, generation to generation. A legacy brought from our ancestors and passed down to our offspring. 
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.
