The Best Way to Save Your Kid's Artwork? In Gold and Silver -- WSJ

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By Caitie Kelly

Handmade Mother's Day cards and kids' artwork are more endearingly irreplaceable than the most over-the-top gifts. Now some jewelry designers offer ways to preserve your children's little love notes and popsicle stick masterpieces in gold and silver. Below, six ways to combine treasured memories with precious metals and stones.

A loving message can be engraved on the inside and outside of Retrouvaí's unisex gold signet ring, like this one belonging to the designer Kirsty Stone's husband.

Build out your charm stack with this tiny yellow gold envelope. You can inscribe a short and sweet note onto the sterling-silver letter that slides inside.

For the minimalist, this delicate sterling-silver disc can hold your mini-me's signature close to your heart.

Is your child the next Basquiat? Brent Neale works with clients to create charms modeled on their kids' artwork in precious materials -- such as this necklace featuring 18K yellow gold, pavé blue sapphires, rubies and amethysts, designed to resemble crayon on construction paper.

Did a teacher enlist your child to write a list of things they love about you for Mother's Day? This simple gold band offers them an ideal canvas. You'll get a confidence boost every time you look down.

Hanging a drawing is lovely, but wearing it under a portrait-cut sapphire crystal as a pendant is a step up. Set a special, small drawing under a portrait-cut sapphire.

 

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