Memorial jewellery

How your memorial jewellery is made

Every memorial piece I create is made individually by hand, with great care and attention at every stage.

From the moment your loved one’s ashes arrive with me, they are clearly labelled and kept completely separate from every other order throughout the entire process.

Before I begin making your jewellery, I carefully prepare the small amount of ashes needed for your chosen piece. I use laboratory-grade sieves and filters to gently separate the ashes by particle size and consistency. Different jewellery designs require different sizes and textures, so this allows me to select the ashes that will give the best possible finish for your particular piece.

I then individually select and position the ashes by hand. This is particularly important when creating visible-ash designs or memorial beach scenes, where the placement of each element forms part of the finished design.

Your piece is built gradually using multiple layers of high-quality resin, with each stage carefully placed and cured before the next is added. Your chosen colours, opals, sparkle or other details are incorporated during this process before the piece receives its final layers and finish.

Once complete, I carefully inspect your jewellery before it is cleaned, finished and prepared for you.

Because every piece is created by hand using something completely irreplaceable, I never rush the process. Memorial jewellery takes considerably longer to create than my standard resin jewellery, but that additional time allows me to give each piece the care and attention it deserves.

Only a very small amount of ashes is required. Any ashes that I don’t use are carefully returned to you with your completed jewellery.

The result is a completely individual piece, created especially for you: something beautiful that allows you to keep a little part of someone you love close to you.