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Friday 18 February 2011

Pet Budgie Keepsake – Bird Feather Jewellery

As some of you may be aware, quite a lot of my work involves encapsulating peoples’ pet hair and fur within my jewellery. I love making this jewellery as it gives people a lasting reminder of their beloved pet and of allows people to carry a piece of their pet close to their heart. I have been sent many types of fur and hair from several different kinds of pets including dogs, cats, rabbits, horses and ponies; and each one is special for me to make as I know how much it means to the owner.

A couple of weeks ago I received an enquiry from Laura who had sadly recently lost one of her birds and had kept the last feather from her bird. She wanted the Budgie feather she had kept setting within a necklace so that she could keep it close to her and preserved forever.

I haven’t had any previous experience of setting bird feathers within resin jewellery so I asked if she could send some test feathers for me to experiment with before using ‘the Budgie feather’. She kindly sent a few feathers for me to try and I made these examples:

They really are gorgeous to look at; this example shows the Budgie feathers encapsulated within clear resin heart-shaped pendants. The photographs were taken by Laura after she had received her pendants and her photography skills are much better than mine!

Budgie feather pendants
Budgie feather pendants

This example shows the Budgie feathers again set within clear resin heart shaped pendants, however with these pendants I have coloured the resin at the back of the pendants black to provide a contrast with the Budgie feather colours.

Budgie feather jewellery
Budgie feather jewellery

I sent her the test samples and she loved them and wanted me to go ahead with setting ‘the Budgie feather’ within a clear heart shaped pendant, and this is the jewellery I made her. It is a clear heart shaped resin necklace containing the Budgie feather on a sterling silver necklace chain. It really is beautiful to look at in real life as you tilt the pendant and look at it from different angles the colours and feather almost look as if they are moving and come to life.

Budgie feather necklace
Budgie feather necklace

I hope I get to make more of these Budgie feather necklaces, in fact I would love to have the opportunity to incorporate feathers from other birds into my jewellery; the effect are very nice and they are fun to make too!

If you would like to see some more examples of my pet keepsake jewellery; please visit my pet hair and fur keepsake jewellery website page.

7 comments:

  1. How lovely, and fabulous results as ever Mick.

    Lynda

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  2. These are absolutely amazing! Both me and my friend have recently lost pets and were wondering if you have a website or email that we can contact you and hopefully order some pieces. It would mean a lot.

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  3. Hi Maddie, thanks for your interest and I am sorry about your recent loss. I can be contacted by email at mick@ shpangle.co.uk or my website is www.shpangle.co.uk.

    Thanks

    Mick

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  4. hi,
    i was just wondering if you could tell me what is is on the outside of the feather?

    P.S
    It's amazing!

    Thanks

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  5. Hi!

    I have encased the feathers in resin which is glass like in appearance and really does bring out the colours and textures of embedded objects. I was also amazed at how the feathers looked when I made these pendants!

    Thanks for your interest.

    Mick

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  6. Please can you tell me
    How i can get this made i just lost a parakeet last night and not coping very well having this would mean the world to me

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    1. Hi! Many thanks for contacting me although I am sorry for your loss. If you could email me via the link at the top of this page I will love to help. Thanks Mick.

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