Put a ring on it!
Father and daughter duo Brad and Tasha Hurley, from Condobolin in Central NSW, turned their shed hobby into a thriving business. The pair transform cutlery into one-ofa-kind rings, an idea they didn’t expect would be so popular among their local community.
“It all started when dad saw a bloke making spoon rings – he was going to buy one for myself, my sister and our mum,” Tash recalls. “Then, as any farmer does, he thought, ‘Oh, I could make that!’”
Brad bought some old spoons at an op shop and tried his hand at jewellery making. Incredibly, he had a real talent for it.
“We gave them away to family and friends and then a few locals wanted to buy them,” she recalls. “So we just kept making the rings in the shed and it took off from there. It just started out as fun but became a real stream of income for us when we needed it.”
Tash says Good Going Out Cutlery was also an amazing distraction during the toughest months of the drought in NSW. “We’ve got 22,000 acres and it takes around 45 minutes to get from one side of the property to the other, so it would be a long day feeding,” Tash explains.
“When we got back in the afternoon, we’d make the rings and hang out and talk in the shed. It was so fun, regardless of whether we sold anything.”
After their business was featured on the
Buy From The Bush website in early
2020, there was a huge influx of orders from people wanting to support local Australians, which
Tash says made her quite emotional.
“If you don’t support local businesses, they’ll just disappear,” she says. “We lost our jeweller, shoe shop, nursery and cafe during the worst of the drought, so we know how important it is to shop local.”