Over the summer holidays, I stepped away from Lanamara.

Not because I wanted to leave it — but because I needed to come back to it.

For months, I had felt exhausted. I hadn’t designed anything new in six months. The creativity that usually flows so instinctively through me felt quiet. Blocked. I tried to push through, but the more I forced it, the further I felt from myself.

And Lanamara has never been about force.

It has always been about feeling.

My husband took me away for a few days — just the two of us, tucked into a tiny house away from the noise of everyday life. I read A Brain That Breathes (A truly life changing book). I slept. I walked. I moved my body. I allowed myself to be bored — which, for me, is often where the most honest ideas begin.

In that stillness, I realised something important.

I wasn’t giving myself — or my mind — the space required to create with intention. I had drifted from the quiet ritual that Lanamara was built on. I was designing for the sake of newness, instead of resonance.

And Lanamara was never meant to be about newness.

It was always meant to be about meaning.

I started this brand in my mid-forties. I turned fifty last year. Moving through the waves of perimenopause, I felt myself shifting — shedding parts that no longer fit. It became clear that what I was experiencing wasn’t a block. It was an invitation.

An invitation to pause.
To clear.
To realign.

Lanamara began with leather bags. Then basket bags. Jewellery came later — and if I’m honest, in those early days I was still finding my design voice. Some pieces were safe. Commercial. Understandable steps for someone learning a new craft.

But that season has passed.

This period of stillness — this forced slowing — has given me the clarity to define what Lanamara truly is.

We are not here to create fast fashion or disposable sparkle.

We are here to create modern heirlooms.

Jewellery that holds energy.
Jewellery that feels found, not mass-made.
Pieces that become part of your personal mythology — worn daily, layered intuitively, carried through seasons of your life.

Adornment, to me, is ritual. It is the quiet act of choosing how you show up in the world. It is memory. It is intention. It is soulful.

And so, The Clearing Sale is exactly that — a clearing.

A gentle shedding of pieces that have been loved deeply by our community, including styles like the Precious Charm Necklace. Letting them go with gratitude, to make space for what is waiting to be born.

The website will feel quiet for next couple of months, to allow for this intentional time of renewal.

We are designing differently.
More intuitively.
More courageously.
More in alignment with who we are becoming.

This next chapter of Lanamara will honour craftsmanship more deeply. It will celebrate texture, story, and the beauty of the hand-made. It will move slowly and with purpose. Fewer pieces. Greater meaning.

I want to create jewellery you reach for time and time again. Pieces that make you feel adorned — not accessorised. Grounded. Spirited. Connected to yourself.

Lanamara is becoming what it was always meant to be:

A jewellery atelier where bohemian spirit meets handcrafted artistry.
A place for women who dress for energy, not approval.
A home for modern heirlooms — made to be worn, lived in, and one day passed on.

Thank you for being here. For wearing our pieces. For sharing your stories with me.

We are clearing.
We are renewing.
And I cannot wait to show you what is coming next.

With deepest gratitude,
Marika xx