Bespoke retirement paperweight with name tag buttons

I have previously made many bespoke paperweights and other items of jewellery for companies to give as retirement gifts to their employees. These have often contained components that the company manufactures, company logos and company badges.

Custom made bespoke retirement gifts

Bespoke memorial jewellery for two pets

Recently Jill asked me if I could make her both a custom designed set of earrings and necklace pendant, incorporating the fur and ashes of her two dogs Bessie and Ebony that had sadly passed away.

Jill wanted a single drop pendant to contain the fur of her two dogs, contained inside separate chambers, and similarly she wanted the ashes from her two dogs contained inside separate chambers within drop earrings.

This is the design I made for her for the memorial pendant:

Memorial pendant for two pets fur

Resin Horsehair jewellery – New additions

I thought I would highlight the new additions to my range of resin horsehair jewellery that I have made recently. I love working with horsehair within resin jewellery because of the lovely effects that can be achieved with the hair. Initially when I receive a sample of horsehair, it appears to be a single colour (brown/black), however after working with the individual strands of hair, I soon appreciate the beautiful variations of colours to the hair.

Resin horsehair keyring

The following are a few of the custom-made resin horsehair jewellery items that I have recently made.

MS Society Charity Custom Paperweight

The MS Society (Multiple Sclerosis Society of Great Britain)  have contacted me several times over the last few years to make custom branded paperweights for them. These are to be given as gifts to valued colleagues and supporters of the charity.

The MS Society is the UK’s largest charity for people affected by Multiple Sclerosis, a condition that effects a person’s central nervous system. The charity provides support and helps fund research into the condition.

The first custom paperweight that I was asked to make for the MS Society charity is this one:

MS Society Charity Paperweight

Haribo engagement ring preservation

It has been fifteen years since I preserved my very first Haribo sweet engagement ring for a newly engaged couple and you can read about it here: Haribo Engagement Ring

Haribo engagement ring

Dog tag bespoke paperweight

I completed this bespoke paperweight late last year containing three dog tags. The story is that this pet dog lived in several addresses over her lifetime, so this would be a nice memorial for her. My customer sent me a design for the positioning of the dog tags inside the paperweight keepsake, along with the three dog tags.

I set the three dog tags inside a clear resin square shaped paperweight to a design that my customer required, and this is the completed paperweight.

Dog tag bespoke paperweight

Puppy tooth keepsake ring

Going back to 2017 I made my first item of jewellery containing a tooth, it was a puppy tooth set within a resin heart shaped keyring. Since then, I have made many different items of jewellery and paperweights containing teeth, and you can read all about them in my keepsake jewellery for teeth blog post.

Keepsake jewellery containing teeth