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Hold Upon Heart creates handcrafted Memorial Jewellery, Fingerprint Jewellery and Baby Keepsake Jewellery, designed to capture the people, moments and memories that matter most.
Every piece is lovingly handmade by me, Melanie, an independent goldsmith working from my studio in the beautiful Ironbridge Gorge in Shropshire. For more than 14 years I've specialised in creating handmade memorial jewellery and deeply personal keepsakes that celebrate lives, preserve memories and tell unique stories. There is no factory, no mass manufacture here, just one pair of hands carefully crafting every piece from start to finish.
Entirely self-taught, I've poured my heart and soul into refining my craft. Whether preserving a loved one's fingerprint, a pinch of cremation ashes, a baby's tiny handprint or footprint, or a beloved pet's pawprint, every piece is individually handcrafted by me with exceptional care and attention to detail.
With thousands of happy customers around the world and collections including charms, necklaces, lockets, bracelets, rings, cufflinks and keyrings, you'll discover meaningful keepsakes you simply won't find anywhere else. Every design is created to honour the memories that matter most, so you can feel completely confident that your precious memories are in safe and caring hands.
ASHES JEWELLERY
We have four distinct collections of memorial ashes jewellery, each incorporating rings, charms, necklaces, bracelets and cufflinks. Many of our designs are also suitable for incorporating hair. You can browse our ashes jewellery by type above, or can learn more about our individual ashes jewellery collections, and how we make our ashes jewellery here.
ASHES JEWELLERYFINGERPRINT JEWELLERY
We have hundreds of designs in our fingerprint jewellery collections - all handmade to order in Shropshire. Whether you are looking for a keepsake gift for a new mum, or a memorial piece to commemorate a loved one, we will have a design that is perfect for you. We are also happy to make bespoke designs if you have something specific in mind. You can browse our collections above, or learn more about our fingerprint jewellery and how it is made below.
FINGERPRINT JEWELLERYBABY KEEPSAKE JEWELLERY & GIFTS
Our baby handprint and footprint collections contain jewellery and gifts perfect for Mum, Dad and Grandparents alike. Whether you are searching for a personalised piece to celebrate a new baby, or a seeking a truly special memorial piece for the tiniest of footprints, we will be able to help. Browse our collections above, or learn more about how our handprint jewellery is made below.
BABY PRINT JEWELLERY
PET ASHES & PAWPRINT JEWELLERY
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Our Paws & Presence collection contains a selection of beautiful pet memorial jewellery made using your pets own paw-prints, hair and cremation ashes. We can also make any of our handprint jewellery designs with a pawprint, and any of our ashes designs are suitable for pet ashes.
Turn precious memories into jewellery you'll treasure forever. Our personalised jewellery collection transforms favourite photographs, children's drawings, handwritten messages, signatures and special dates into beautiful keepsakes, handcrafted especially for you. Perfect for birthdays, anniversaries, Mother's Day, Father's Day or simply to celebrate someone special, these meaningful pieces are gifts from the heart.
PERSONALISED JEWELLERY
PROVIDING ASHES
We only require a small pinch of cremation ashes to create your memorial jewellery.
After you place your order, we will send a simple collection kit containing a wooden spoon and a sealable bag, so you can gather the ashes easily at home. We ask for approximately one teaspoon of ashes per piece of ashes jewellery ordered, although only a small amount is used in the making of each item. Any unused ashes are returned to you with your finished jewellery.
Each piece of cremation ashes jewellery is made individually, with the greatest of care. To ensure the integrity of each piece, ashes are handled separately throughout the making process.
PROVIDING PRINTS
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At Hold Upon Heart, we’re experts at creating beautiful jewellery from fingerprints, handprints, footprints and pawprints, but you might be wondering how you actually capture your prints.
The good news is that we can work with prints you already have, or we can send you a simple, easy-to-use print kit so you can take them at home. If you’re short on time, we can also work with photos of all types of print - as long as you can zoom in and see detail, we can use it.
MY STORY
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Surrounded by the beautiful Shropshire countryside and a trio of boys, I created Hold upon Heart in 2012 with the aim of offering a stand-out collection of highly personalised memorial jewellery, including ashes, fingerprints, handprints and footprints and pet's pawprints, all capturing your cherished moments & telling your family's story. After all, our stories are what make us...
HANDCRAFTED ASHES JEWELLERY - WHY TRULY HANDMADE MATTERS
At Hold upon Heart, the vast majority of our cremation ashes jewellery is truly handmade and therefore unique...
NEW MEMORIAL JEWELLERY DESIGNS
There is something special about coming up with new designs, its probably my favourite part of what I do. Each piece begins at the bench here in our Shropshire workshop, shaped slowly by hand, with care in every detail.
MEET THE MAKER - THE HEART BEHIND HOLD UPON HEART
I’m Melanie — the maker behind Hold Upon Heart. It’s a small, deeply personal jewellery business built around family, love, memory, and all the little details that matter more than we often realise...