June 1st, 2011
Recently, I have been truly touched by the generosity and love of our sisterhood.
Last Thursday, Mr Uber and I attended the “Gold lunch” at Hugo’s in Manly, for the Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick. These are a series of lunches, which aim to raise $700,000 for sick and injured children. We have donated “Family Tree” Pendants to be auctioned at three of these lunches to help reach this target.
The lunch was amazing and I couldn’t get over the generosity of those who attended. People really dug deep especially after we heard an inspirational story about a little girl called Charlotte who is fighting a brain tumour. Following this story, I watched a loving mother bid for a children’s birthday party, which she purchased for $2000. I then watched this beautiful woman go and give the prize to Charlottes mum.
I was totally overwhelmed and blown away by this woman’s kindness. If you would like to donate to this worthwhile cause I urge you to visit their website http://www.goldweek.org.au/content/home.aspx
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May 23rd, 2011
We welcome Home Savvy in Stafford, Queensland to the Uberkate family.
Home Savvy is an oasis of beautiful gifts, home wares and jewellery. The owners of this wonderful store are passionate about sourcing Australian made and/or Australian designed products as well as offering customers different and unique pieces that other retailers do not.
If you’d like to view or purchase Uberkate’s new range at Home Savvy, you can visit their store at 613 Stafford Road, Stafford, Queensland.
Home Savvy
Staff at Home Savvy
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March 28th, 2011
Every year I try to come up with something new for Mother’s Day that I know my own mum would love and this year is no different.
To celebrate this Mother’s Day, I have designed the Family Tree Pendant, an heirloom piece that has been crafted in solid silver and can be embossed with details of your family history.
My inspirations for this necklace are the growth rings of a tree stump. I wanted to design a piece, which like a tree, holds the key to the wearers family history such as where you met your partner, where you were married, special dates and children’s names.
If you think your mum would also love our Family Tree Pendant, you can buy one on our website or I’m giving one lucky person the chance to win one.
All you need to do is visit our facebook page at and tell us what is the best or worst advice your mum has ever given you. Post your piece of advice on the Uberkate facebook wall before Friday April 8th and we will then shortlist the entries and ask you to vote for your favourite.
Good Luck!
Uberkate Family Tree Pendant
Tags: Family Tree Pendant, Uberkate
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March 16th, 2011
A few weeks ago as I was driving the kids to school, I heard Jackie O on the radio talking about motherhood. I was quite touched by her honesty as I listened to her openly discuss being a working mum. At one point she even burst into tears about having to leave Kitty to cry while she learnt the age old “self settling” technique so Jackie wouldn’t have to carry her everywhere anymore…
These days most celebrities are busy doing magazine spreads about how they lost the baby weight or how perfect their newborn is.. we read about babies who come out of the womb sleeping through the night and already speaking four languages.. I think the realness of Jackie’s comments and her honesty is what really makes her connect with other women.
Finding a work life balance is a juggle many mums face (including me) and it’s important that we support each other in whatever decisions we make about what’s best for our families and ourselves… as one of my best friends says.. “don’t be judgy smudgy”
Motherhood is the best and the hardest thing I have ever done.. the constant struggle to keep everyone on track and then squeeze a few minutes left over time for yourself to brush your hair or maybe even do something for yourself.
I wanted Jackie to have some uberkate so whenever she is away from Kitty she could wear a little piece of her.. I decided to make her the medium and large Living Circles that I have embossed with her daughter and husband’s names. Sometimes it makes those long days away from your family that little bit easier when you are wearing them close to your heart.
Oh and I also made kitty her first silver bangle (the Ruby Rose Bangle) because every little girl should have one!
K x
Large and Medium Living Circles
Ruby Rose Bangle
Thank You Note from Jackie
Tags: Living Circles, Ruby Rose Bangle, Uberkate
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March 12th, 2011
We are really excited to this week welcome a new retailer to the Uberkate family. NV Designer Jewellery in East Gosford , will now be stocking the Uberkate range so customers in the Central Coast region can view the handmade pieces before placing their orders directly in store.
Award winning jeweller and owner of NV Designer Jewellery, Russell Carr, has over 30 years experience in jewellery design and his store is well renowned in the area for offering customers unique, timeless pieces of jewellery that reflect sophistication, distinction and rarity.
If you’d like to view Uberkate’s new range, you can visit Russell and his team at Shop 2/103 Victoria Street, East Gosford or for more information you can visit their website www.nvdesignerjewellery.com.au
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March 8th, 2011
Over the past few months I have been absolutely shocked by the tumultuous nature of Australia’s environment. Almost every corner of our beautiful country has been rocked by natural disasters and good people’s lives have been turned upside down.
People have lost loved ones, their homes, businesses, pets and life as they know it. One such family is the Keeps from Grantham in QLD. Stacey and Matthew Keep whose story appeared on Channel 9’s 60 Minutes tragically lost their daughter and both their mothers in the recent floods.
After seeing this story, one of our loyal Uberkate customers contacted me on our facebook page http://www.facebook.com/uberkate and asked if we could somehow help Stacey and her family. I was inspired by the enquiry and blown away by the empathy and generosity of the posts that followed.
So on behalf of Uberkate and our facebook fans I have made an Uberkate Friendship Bangle and embossed the piece with details of the Keep’s family members. A small token of love from all of us….
Tags: 60 Minutes, Bangle, Facebook, Friendship Bangle, Uberkate
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December 31st, 2010
As 2010 draws to a close I have had a few days to reflect on the “uberyear” that was and focus on the one that is to come. We celebrated our 6 years in business birthday in September which sounds like a long time but I really only now feel like I have a handle on this roller coaster ride.. We spent most of the year focusing on redesigning the look and feel of the business.. designing a new website with Adam from Dot.com Promotions.. and taking new lifestyle and model shots with Sarah Van Wijjk from Vake photography… I spent most of my year in the workshop toiling away on current designs and then we had the very exciting launch of our new Living Range which is inspired by vines and growth (how symetrical and appropriate!) We also moved to bigger and better premises which was both stressful and exciting… We welcomed new staff on board and took on new retailers.. Now to my most exciting and creative project of the year…
new designs for 2011
I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about family and what they mean to me.. I wanted to design a piece of jewellery that could incorporate a “family tree” as such.. a piece that could have more than just names and dates and that could continue to have information or words added to it over the years.. the idea has bubbled away for the past couple of years.. and as most good designs often do it came to me at 3am in the morning one night.. I have been growing this concept, sketching designs and physically making pieces that can hold and contain large numbers of words and dates and the progress of the idea is one of the most exciting things I have ever created.. this piece will be launched in time for mothers day 2011. .. the next couple of weeks are purely creative time for me.. i have also spent a large part of 2010 working with Diamonds… yes… diamonds! … i will post some pics soon… have a wonderful start to 2011,.. kate & Co X
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November 25th, 2010
Here at the Uberkate headquarters we have just been through one of the largest undertakings I can remember, in fact I’m going to compare it to giving birth!
Over the past six months the Uberkate team has worked tirelessly on creating a new website for our wonderful clients. Over the years we have had a number of websites all of which have been great but nothing like this one…
This one has it all – including a blog! Our IT wizard Adam Ross at Dotcom Promotions who created the site has made it one of the easiest sites to navigate, even for technology challenged users like me!
But not only is it easy to use, it looks great too. We have worked with graphic designer and photographer extraordinaire Sarah Van Wijck from Vake Photography who has created a look that truly symbolises the Uberkate brand.
So I hope you enjoy our new site (baby) and I invite you to spend some time exploring the pages and if you have any feedback or suggestions on how we can make the site even better, we’d love to hear from you.
Tags: Bangles, Rings, Ubercircles, Uberkate, Uberkate Blog
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November 25th, 2010
Welcome to my world, the world of Kate Sutton or Uberkate as I’m now known.
I suppose I should start by telling you a little about myself…
I’m a 37 year old, mum of two – Lulu who is eight and Cameron who is just three. I’ve been married to the lovely UberAdam for x years and together we are a great team. Well we have to be given we work and live together!
I started the Uberkate brand back in 2004 when I was a television producer. After years of making jewellery for friends, I realised my talents lay with jewellery design when I created my signature piece “The Ubercircle” to keep my family close to my heart while I was traveling.
Soon I was spending more time creating Ubercircles for friends than making television, so I decided to make the biggest decision of my life and throw in my stable, well paying job for a life as an unknown jewellery designer.
I have never once regretted my decision. Although I cannot say everyday is easy, I can certainly say that running my own business with my husband, UberAdam, is a wonderful journey.
I invite you to share that journey with me through this blog and feel free to drop me a line, I’d love to hear from you…
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November 23rd, 2010
Check out our facebook page http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=502111522428 for our 10 finalists and we’d like you to vote for who you think is the most deserving.
The entrant with the most votes will win an Uberkate Living Circle valued at $245. Finalists don’t forget to get your friends to visit our page and vote for you! The winner will be announced on Monday 29th of November.
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