Meg Lizabet, FCGmA, is a certified gemmologist and Fellow of the Canadian Gemmological Association, as well as a published writer and recognized speaker on topics including women in business, entrepreneurship and, naturally, all things shiny. She studied metalsmithing and jewellery design at OCAD University in Ontario, Canada, and later completed her professional gemmological education through the Canadian Gemmological Association, earning her FCGmA designation.
Meg currently resides in Nova Scotia, where she opened her flagship store and workshop in Halifax in June 2026. Meg Lizabet Jewellery also maintains a studio in Toronto’s Bloor West neighbourhood, operated by a small team of jewellers, and her work is available through select stockists in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa and San Francisco.
Meg offers personalized, one-on-one custom consultations at both her Halifax and Toronto locations, along with her popular hands-on jewellery-making workshops in Halifax.
Throughout her career, Meg has been committed to creating positive change within the jewellery and gemstone industry. During a visit to East Africa, where she explored mining regions and met communities supported by Gem Legacy, she gained a deeper understanding of the economic and social inequalities that can exist between the retail jewellery industry and the communities at the very beginning of its supply chains. The experience strengthened her commitment to understanding not only where the materials she works with come from, but also the people and communities behind them.
As a member of the Alliance for Responsible Mining (ARM), Meg advocates for artisanal, small-scale and marginalized mining communities and for greater responsibility throughout the jewellery supply chain. Ethics and sustainability remain central to her business through transparent sourcing practices, Fair Trade initiatives, supplier accountability, collaboration with NGOs and ongoing client education.
For Meg, responsible jewellery is about more than knowing where a gemstone came from. It is about recognizing the people behind the materials, asking better questions and continually working toward an industry that values everyone along the supply chain.
I was six years old when I worked on my first piece of jewellery. My mother had lost the pear-shaped diamond from one of her rings and, likely looking for a way to keep me busy, suggested I try to make her a replacement. My parents had given me a science kit that grew crystals from Borax, so I spent days at the kitchen table attempting to facet one into the perfect pear-shaped stone using nail files and whatever I could borrow from my father’s carpentry tools. Unsurprisingly, it looked nothing like a diamond and was never finished, but looking back, it feels like a fitting beginning to a lifelong fascination with gemstones and making things by hand.
In my twenties, I went on to study design at OCAD University. At the time, I imagined a career in furniture or interior design and learned everything from CAD and welding to working with wood, plastics and other materials. Eventually, I found my way into the metalsmithing studio and everything shifted. I had discovered a medium that brought together so many things I already loved: design, craftsmanship, tiny details, beautiful materials and the challenge of figuring out how something could actually be made.
I launched Meg Lizabet Jewellery in 2013 and was soon accepted as an in-house designer at Made You Look in Toronto. What began at a jewellery bench in Toronto has since grown into a career spent designing, making and learning about the objects and materials that fascinated me from the beginning.
My work is deeply personal and inevitably reflects pieces of my own story. My Portuguese heritage, love of architecture, fascination with the natural world, childhood spent near the ocean and appreciation for the richness of precious metals and unusual gemstones all find their way into what I create. I am drawn to jewellery that feels a little unexpected, imperfect and full of character, something that feels as though it belongs uniquely to the person wearing it.
Creating one-of-a-kind engagement rings remains one of my favourite parts of what I do. There is something incredibly meaningful about being trusted to create an object that will become part of someone else’s story and, eventually, their history. Perhaps it is the hopeless romantic in me, but I have always believed the experience of creating a piece should feel just as special as the jewellery itself. The relationships I have built with my clients over the years are a huge part of why, more than a decade later, I am still so completely in love with what I do.