Zrna Khajuria

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My name Zrna Khajuria. The Kusuz Silver Jewellery, it's actually a family business.

After my son was born, I was actually thinking about what to do, and it just - it was not, I was not feeling a hundred percent confident to leave him alone and go for the full-time job, and it was just, it was just not working out for me. So then we’d been to India to my, my mum and dad and we were discussing over there and then and then it clicked me that, because my family back in India they've got - especially my grandfather - has got the background of the jewellers and everything.

So, so when I was little, I was doing little paintings for him going to the shop and helping him out, so, Quite a few ideas and the knowledge about it. Then of course while I was over there, I did, took some training from my parents and my grandfather was unfortunately passed away at the time, but we have quite a few like relatives and friends who are already jewellers. And so they all helped me out with some trainings and everything. And then I flew back here and over here I've been to South and taken some formal training and since then I started doing the designing and then started making it myself.

There are a few different ways I work when I do it. The customise ones, which is like somebody comes down and somebody get me an idea. They show me a picture or they, I'll say, Oh, I've got a dream and this is what I've seen and I wanna make something from that just inspire me. And I think about it, like what elements you want in it. Maybe you want a moon or you want a wolf, or you want a stars, or you wanna a clouds or what you want in it. And then on that basis, I just get the design together and then make it into it. And then of course that piece, design like the the drawing. I put it into the piece of jewellery and then I make it, normally those ones I try to make it with 99.9% silver, which is like paste. And I make it from that, so that gives me the hundred percent control over the piece of jewellery, how I'm so, it, I can like mould it the way I want to mould it

Sometimes I create my own design and I draw the pictures and send it to the manufacturer. Sometimes I've got some of the designers the individual designers I work with, and so they show me the designs. They say, ‘I've made this one. Would you like to, you know, include it in your range?’ And I say yes or no. I try and accommodate and encourage the artist or the individual people as well.

I wanna make something that just inspire me. Sometimes I get in the middle of the night while I was sleeping and I literally have to jot it down somewhere or literally have to write it that okay, this is what, how I wanna do it. Sometimes I do it on a sketchbook and just draw on it or, and I have to jot it down somewhere and then, Of course then the process. Go ahead it, it takes around two to three or maybe hundreds of times to look into it again and again, that design to make it perfect

In the Fleetwood Market altogether I'm working since last, now nine years, eight and half-nine years. It is absolutely amazing, the reason I chose to be in the market, because I know the market market is a heritage market is really, really old. It's like a Dumbledore-years-old.

So, so it just like abs-absolutely amazing. And I wanted to be the part of the heritage market, and I still believe in the market so much because it encouraged the local people. It encouraged the local entrepreneurial, you know, entrepreneurship and, and the talent and the skills the local people has.

I do make quite - see there's a huge connection between Fleetwood and me. It's my name itself. My name is Zee - Zran means like an waterfall water. And where the is is got beautiful beach here as well. So it's like kind of like a seaside, so it's water. Water is all connected. That's a, that's, that's, and of course in my designs I do make quite a lot seaside Designs, which represents the Fleetwood and sea coast as well.