About Shpangle - Handmade Keepsake Jewellery

Hi, my name is Mick Cluley and I am the jewellery designer and maker for Shpangle Jewellery.

I live with my gorgeous supportive wife Angela and son Braden in Hinckley, Leicestershire. I design and hand produce my unique resin jewellery from our home.

Having always had an interest in taking everyday objects and turning them into pieces of art, I began using resin as a preservative and medium to form my jewellery. Resin is such a good material to work with as it enhances the colours and textures of objects placed within it.

I am especially interested in working with recycled objects, in fact anything that does not move usually gets put into my jewellery !

My main enjoyment comes from making keepsake jewellery, taking special items such as wedding flowers, cremated ashes or a lock of hair and having them preserved in an item of jewellery. This gives me a great deal of satisfaction particularly knowing that I am helping sombody to create an item of keepsake jewellery that they will treasure forever.

I am extremely proud to have had my jewellery featured in many publications including radio interviews and even a short film. If you would like to read more about where my jewellery has been featured please visit our Featured Jewellery website page.

Handmade Keepsake Jewellery - How it is made

The majority of our handmade keepsake jewellery is currently resin based. The resin starts life as a liquid and cures over a period of days to a clear glass-like appearance. The resin jewellery will not break or shatter when dropped, has a long lasting appearance and can be cleaned with water.

Currently we have two types of jewellery that offer different methods of preserving keepsakes within handmade keepsake jewellery.

Hand Cast Resin Keepsake Jewellery

Our hand cast resin keepsake jewellery is cast using moulds and we have many sizes and shapes that can be seen in our website gallery. These are suitable for three dimensional objects such as dried flowers used for real flower jewellery and other small keepsakes or objects that need to be given a three dimensional appearance.

The keepsake jewellery is cast using resin which starts life as a liquid and cures over a period of days to form an item of jewellery that is glass-like in appearance. The resin jewellery is built up in layers and the resin can be coloured, glittered or other dry objects added as required. Once cured our hand cast resin jewellery is then sanded and polished and then drilled to incorporate any jewellery findings that are required.

The process of creating keepsake jewellery based upon this method of jewellery making takes approximately two weeks to complete.

Sterling Silver Keepsake Jewellery

Our sterling silver keepsake jewellery consists of a slightly cupped pendant or charm bezel upon which a keepsake object is displayed and sealed with several coatings of resin. The sterling silver bezels are available in several pendant and charm sizes, cufflinks and rings. We can engrave names, messages and dates onto the majority of our sterling silver pendants.

The sterling silver keepsake jewellery is suitable for flat objects such as real pressed flowers, locks of hair, ashes and fabric. The keepsake object is placed within the bezel cup and resin applied and built up in layers over a period of several days to form a dome and then left to cure.

The process of creating keepsake jewellery based upon this method of jewellery making takes approximately two weeks to complete.

Custom Paperweights

Our custom made resin paperweights were developed to provide an alternative to a piece of jewellery. The paperweights also facilitate the preservation of larger items such as flowers from a special occasion. We currently make two paperweight shapes, domed and square, and the custom made paperweights take approx 3-4 weeks to make.

The Following summarises the main categories of keepsake jewellery we currently offer...

Thank you for having an interest in my jewellery and paperweights; if you would like a piece of keepsake jewellery making or an item preserved as a piece of keepsake jewellery, please contact me...