Fingerprint Lockets

by Liv White
(Cabooltue, Queensland Australia)

I'm a qualified jeweler and for twenty years I've made mainstream fine jewellery. You know the usual things that is made with diamonds and gold.

In 2006 our youngest child was born with a very rare heart disease which should have taken his life but after 3 months we were able to bring him home. My son's heart was fixed but mine was broken and as scared as his. The emotions of not being able to hold him or touch him, of being told daily that he would die had taken it's toll.

In 2008 he had open heart surgery for the second time. this time it wasn't a dramatic but still emotionally draining and brought back some very bad memories.

It was after this that I saw the pmc fingerprint jewellery and loved the concept. But as a qualified jeweler I could see it's limitations so I embarked on finding a way to make fingerprint jewellery where you could guarantee a better quality print, that would allowed me to be able to creative with it and most importantly available in a kit foam so it could be keep in ICU wards in hospitals and shipped to anywhere in the world.

It's been just over a year now since I start making fingerprint jewellery full time and I'm learning heaps still!

I designed this particular pendant after talking to parents who had lost their child and I realized that a number of them loved the idea of the fingerprint jewellery but didn't like to literally hold their grief on their chest for all the world to see. This way they can wear it, look and touch it still but keep it personal and in a special place. So far I've made 3 designs, a plain oval, an oval with a silver angel wing. and one with a gold angel wing. I don't make the wings but everything else is done from scratch and the inside of the lid can be stamped with a message.
These are so special to me and I hope you enjoy them as much as I did making them.

Liv White
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