Rubi Ace Designs

Rubi Ace Designs Rubi is a Ballarat Artist and jewellery maker.
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I highly recommend you coming to see work if my dear friend. It is very cute and whimsical. She is someone I bounce idea...
02/06/2026

I highly recommend you coming to see work if my dear friend. It is very cute and whimsical. She is someone I bounce ideas of and she is absolutely amazing. Love her work and I frequently wear it when going out.

02/06/2026

🌈 Ballarat Pride's beloved Pride Month Market returns this year, bigger and better, at the fully accessible Mining Exchange in the heart of Ballarat!

Browse a vibrant mix of new and returning stallholders featuring art, craft, trash and treasure, second-hand goods, clothing and more. You’re bound to find a gem or three.

🛍️ Free entry
👨‍👩‍👧 Family friendly

We’re excited to share an incredible lineup of stallholders, including:
Aunty Banana Lipsinc, Ballarat LGBT Swap Shop, Ballarat Roller Derby League, Bill Ryan Glass, Coven Press, Cut Off Your Hands Jewellery, The Donut Therapist, Emerald Dragon Designs, Fiend & Fey, Funky Plaster Fun, Kitty Crochet, Lara’s Tarot, Mandy Makes Cakes, My Little Monsters Boutique, Nightmare Active, Potato’s Gems, Rubi Ace Designs, Serendipity Creations, Swirl Creations, Tamara Sheward (author), Tangled Hollow, Ugly Art… and so many more we couldn’t fit them all!

Plus, enjoy live entertainment from Jay Kulbardi. 🎶

Come along, support local makers and celebrate Pride with community, creativity and colour.

✨ To explore the full Pride Month program, visit https://ballaratpride.au/2026-pride-month

Teuta Beneath BuraThere are certain stones that return person to places they have long since left. I have learned this a...
01/06/2026

Teuta Beneath Bura
There are certain stones that return person to places they have long since left. I have learned this at the workbench. Copper teaches patience, but stone has habit of summoning memory uninvited.
When I was young, in small town on Adriatic, I grew up listening to stories of Teuta, the Illyrian pirate queen who ruled the sea and would not surrender. In every telling she seemed larger than history permits; stubborn, defiant, forever moving against the current of what others expected of her. As children we absorb these stories as if they are weather itself. Only later do we realize they remain in us.
Whenever I hold hemimorphite beneath my lamp, I do not merely see blue stone. I see the Adriatic beneath winter skies. I see white mist rolling over the water while wind Bura tears across sea in front of Makarska, fresh and fierce as bedsheets snapping on balconies after washing day. I see movement where there should be stillness. I see Teuta's blade lifted toward horizon, and her refusal to retreat.
This pendant began there, perhaps long before I touched copper to pliers.
I wrapped the hemimorphite by hand in woven copper, allowing the stone to remain the quiet centre of the piece rather than imprisoning it beneath excessive ornament. Suspended beneath it hangs a cubic zirconia blade less weapon than echo; line drawn through memory. The Amazonite necklace carries pale blue beads like scattered droplets of sea foam, softening the structure and creating movement against the skin.
There is something curious about making jewellery. We spend hours persuading wire into obedience only to discover that the material retains a little of its own will. Copper bends, resists, yields, changes colour beneath hands. It is perhaps not unlike people. We imagine ourselves architects of our own lives however spend much of our time negotiating with circumstance.
Worn, this piece sits with gentle weight rather than heaviness. Necklace moves naturally with body and catches light in quiet moments rather than demanding attention. I have always preferred jewellery that accompanies person rather than announces itself; something discovered rather than declared.

31/05/2026

We're so excited to be able to share the stallholders with y'all! We'll have (deep breath)
Aunty Banana Lipsinc
Ballarat LGBT Swap Shop
Ballarat Roller Derby League
Bill Ryan Glass
Brittany Leathem
Celestial Revivals
Coven Press
Cut Off Your Hands Jewellery
Deb Mitchell
Daikus Workshop
The Donut Therapist
Dusty Pots
Elaine Bowler, Reiki
Emerald Dragon Designs
Fiend & Fey
Funky Plaster Fun
Ilaikcake
Ives Art and Ceramics
JM Beads
Kiera Hudson
Kitty Crochet
Kodi Wilson
Koraki Designs
Lara’s Tarot
Mandy Makes Cakes
Maria Lucic, jewellery
My Little Monsters Boutique
Nightmare Active
Personalised 4 U
Potato’s Gems
Rubi Ace Designs
Sarah Nilson
Serendipity Creations
Scorch and Roll
Simon AYS
Swirl Creations
Tamara Sheward, author
Tangled Hollow
Ugly Art.. and more! In fact, we have so many stall holders that the socials wouldn't let us tag them all!

We’ll also have Jay Kulbardi and Annelise Belladonna doing 15 minute portraits and the Flying Chillis for delicious snacks!

Saturday, June 6
10am - 3pm
The Mining Exchange, 12 Lydiard St N, Ballarat

Free entry for all!

The Heart Kept in Copper Month ago, at market, I watched woman pause before malachite necklace I had made, heavy with de...
28/05/2026

The Heart Kept in Copper

Month ago, at market, I watched woman pause before malachite necklace I had made, heavy with deep green stone and Viking knit chain so soft in movement that many people mistook it for woven textile rather than metal. She held it for some time without speaking much. Then she and her husband walked away into the crowd.
Not long after, he returned alone.
Quietly, almost conspiratorially, he bought necklace and asked whether I would create earrings to accompany it. “Something special,” he said, not extravagant orfashionable but simply worthy of feling behind gesture.
Matching stones arrived this week.
There is peculiar responsibility in making jewellery intended not merely for adornment, but for memory. One begins to understand that metal remembers hands that bend it; that every curve carries evidence of patience, hesitation, correction, intention. Craftsmanship, at its most honest, is not perfection but devotion made visible.
These earrings were shaped slowly in copper around natural malachite, whose layered green bands resemble old forests seen from above, riverbeds carved over centuries, geography of time itself. Malachite has always seemed to me mineral of depth rather than briliance. It does not shout but draws the eye inward.
I wanted copper to move like living lines around the stone without imprisoning it. Wire folds and curls in deliberate asymmetry, allowing each earring to feel alive rather than mechanically mirrored. At the top, bails form miniature pendants which, when placed together, create the shape of heart.
Not an obvious or sentimental one but quieter.
Sort of symbol that belongs to people who have spent years choosing one another over and over again through ordinary days, hardships, silences, and tenderness. Kind of love that becomes less spectacle and more architecture.
When worn, earings catch light softly against skin; the polished copper warms with body over time, developing patina unique to the wearer. I think often that jewellery becomes most beautiful in use touched by weather, movement, perfume, winter air, human life.
Thank you for trusting me to create something meant to endure beside your story.

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