To Hold & To Have is an award-winning fine jewellery studio and gallery based at 98 King Street, Buderim, on the Sunshine Coast of Queensland.
We are one of the few remaining Australian jewellers still focused on truly hand-making fine jewellery — forging, rolling, soldering and shaping precious metals by hand, using traditional methods passed down through generations of skilled craftspeople. Many jewellers today "Custom Make" which generally means computer generated via CAD CAM or casting then hand assembled and polished. We hand-make your custom design.
We believe jewellery is rarely just decoration. It holds meaning, memory and story. It marks our moments. It carries our people forward from one generation to the next. Every piece we make is made with that in mind.
Award Winning
To Hold & To Have has been recognised nationally and internationally for excellence in jewellery design and manufacturing:
• Best Small Jewellery Retail Store in Australia — Jewellery Industry Awards
• Australasian Awarded twice for Jewellery Design & Manufacturing — Jewellery Association of Australia, Bride to Be category & Precious Metals category.
• Invited to represent Australia twice at the International Jewellery Design Awards, Hong Kong
• Winner — Wedding Industry Awards, Sunshine Coast — voted for by our own clients
We hold a 5.0 Google rating — a reflection not of perfection, but of the genuine care we bring to every interaction.
Jo Saxelby
Jo is a true Sunshine Coast local. She grew up the third of three daughters on a strawberry farm in Palmwoods, spending her childhood between the red soil of the farm and the art studio of local artist Pauline Halsall, who taught her drawing, painting, design and composition for seven years from the age of nine.
She went on to complete a Bachelor of Visual Arts in Photography at Griffith University’s Queensland College of Art, and later a Diploma of Creative Arts and Health at the University of Tasmania.
Her early career was as a documentary photographer — a finalist in the Felix H. Mann Memorial Award at the National Gallery of Victoria, one of Australia’s most prestigious photography prizes. She photographed Aboriginal communities across outback Queensland and travelled to the Philippines as the photographer on a medical mission that restored the faces of children born with cleft palates.
Jo taught photography at TAFE colleges across the Sunshine Coast, lived in developing nations, worked with indigenous communities, and spent time in Canada where she established a fashion jewellery label — Ellakabella — which she wholesaled nationally before returning home.
All of those experiences — the photographer’s eye for story, the teacher’s patience, the traveller’s understanding of what connects people across culture and distance — came home with her to Buderim, and live in everything To Hold & To Have does today.
Jo considers the studio an extension of her home, and her clients an extension of her community. The words “we love what we do, but we love who we do it for more” are not a slogan — they are the honest truth of how this business operates, every day.
The Team
To Hold & To Have is a family business in every sense of the word. Our team includes master jewellers of exceptional skill and broad experience — craftspeople who have spent decades learning what precious metal will and won’t do, and how to coax it into something durable, beautiful and meaningful. Jewellery made by our team is work-hardened through the process of hand-fabrication, creating a strength and longevity that cast pieces simply cannot match. We are proud to have supported three apprentices through their training over the years. Our current apprentice is the daughter of one of our master jewellers — a father passing his craft to his daughter at the same bench where he has spent his career. We find this deeply meaningful. It is exactly what the tradition of jewellery-making is supposed to look like.
Jo’s daughter Isabella Alexis Balisky is the face and brand ambassador of To Hold & To Have. Homeschooled through the business during her secondary years, Isabella has grown up surrounded by craft, beauty and the stories behind the pieces made here. She is currently completing a double degree in Design and Science at the University of the Sunshine Coast — and is an award-winning wildlife photographer in her own right, recognised nationally by Australian Geographic & Nikon Australia. The family business runs deep.
WhatWe Do
We hand-make fine jewellery for every occasion and every chapter of life. Our services include:
• Hand-made bespoke design — from initial sketch to finished piece
• Engagement rings and wedding bands
• Jewellery remodelling and heirloom restoration
• Repairs and restorations
• Pearl and gemstone restringing
• Valuations
• A carefully curated retail gallery of unique pieces
Every bespoke design begins with a personal consultation — a hand sketch, a conversation, and a tea or coffee. After-hours appointments are available by phone booking.
We also believe in being honest about how jewellery is made. When you hear a jeweller say “custom made,” it is worth asking what that means. In most cases today, it means CAD/CAM — digitally designed and computer-manufactured. That is not the same as hand-made. At To Hold & To Have, our jewellers begin with raw metal and work it entirely by hand. The difference shows — in the quality of the finished piece, in its durability, and in the fact that when we remodel a sentimental piece, we can often use your original gold within the new creation. Your story, and your metal, genuinely carried forward.
Our Community
To Hold & To Have has served the Sunshine Coast community for over a decade, and that community has grown significantly around us. Our clients now extend across Australia and beyond — but our roots remain firmly here, in Buderim, in the hinterland and coastal communities we have called home our whole lives.
We are your family jeweller. Not because it is a category we fit into, but because it is who we have always been.
“To love, to remember, ‘To Hold & To Have,’ forever.”
Jo Saxelby