By August, our diaries are usually full of summer plans including long weekends away, school holidays, festivals, beer garden get-togethers and everything else in between. And because of that, it’s a month that usually flies by quickly, which can make finding genuinely thoughtful August birthday gifts a little harder than we anticipated.
It’s easy to grab whatever’s closest, a card signed in the car park and a bunch of supermarket flowers picked up on the way to the party, but the gifts people truly remember are the ones chosen with a little more thought behind them. So if you’re after some August birthday gifts that feel a bit more considered than the usual, here are five personalised jewellery ideas we think any August baby would love to unwrap.
August Birthstone Jewellery
The August birthstone is peridot, a gemstone known for its bright, almost lime-green colour that can shift into deeper olive tones depending on the light it’s caught in. It’s one of the few gemstones that only ever forms in a single colour, and it’s even been found inside meteorites on occasion. Its brightness has long linked peridot with positivity and good cheer, which feels fitting for a month that carries so much of that same energy.
Our August birthstone jewellery collection takes inspiration from these vivid green tones and uses peridot-inspired cubic zirconia set into designs crafted from 925 sterling silver or 18ct gold vermeil. Some pieces let the stone sit centre stage on its own, while others come with additional charms or blank space alongside it, so names, dates or meaningful words can be engraved right next to the birthstone itself to tell more of the wearer’s story.
August Birth Flower Jewellery
Alongside peridot, August is also represented by the poppy, a flower that carries a little more meaning than most think. Its symbolism shifts slightly depending on its colour, with red poppies long associated with remembrance while other shades celebrate imagination, restful sleep and consolation. That blend of beauty and deeper meaning makes it a particularly fitting flower for a memorial jewellery brand like ours, and a lovely one to give as an August birthday gift too, especially for anyone who appreciates jewellery that holds sentiment behind it.
Our August birth flower necklace brings the poppy to life in fine detail, with textured and layered petals crafted from 18ct rose gold vermeil that catch the light beautifully against the flower’s centre, made from 925 sterling silver, and suspended from a matching sterling silver chain.
Heartbeat & Soundwaves Jewellery
August brings out more reasons than most months to capture a sound worth keeping like the speech at a summer wedding, a festival singalong, a voice message from someone away travelling or a baby’s heartbeat picked up at a scan appointment. Heartbeat & Soundwaves Jewellery takes one of those moments and turns it into something permanent, something that reminds you of that very memory months and years after.
All we need is a recording of the sound you’d like engraved, whether it’s a heartbeat, a laugh, a few spoken words or even a favourite piece of music, and our team will turn its waveform into a design engraved onto your chosen necklace, bracelet or charm. Nobody else looking at it would ever guess what sound is captured in the design, and that’s really the whole point, since it’s one of those August birthday gifts that matters only to the person wearing it.
Engraved Keyrings
August has to be one of the busiest months for keys changing hands, from holiday cottages and festival campsites to new term houses as students start settling in, on top of the usual house and car keys that never stop moving either. Engraved keyrings fit naturally into all of that, since they’re it’s of the few birthday gifts that truly gets used every day rather than being kept somewhere safe for best.
With our engraved keyring collection, you can personalise a design with handwriting, fingerprints, photographs, coordinates, dates or pawprints, so whatever feels most meaningful to the person receiving it goes with them wherever they go. As August birthday gifts go, it’s a piece that gets picked up and put down more times a day than almost anything else they own.
Pawprint & Nose Print Jewellery
August often means more time away from home, and for a lot of pet owners that means leaving their furry best friends behind with a sitter or a trusted friend. But with a unique birthday gift like Paw & Nose Print Jewellery, you can give them a way to keep their pets close while they’re apart.
All you need is a clear print of their paw or nose to get started. You can take one at home using our inkless print kit or send us a clear photograph if that’s easier. Once we have it, our engravers recreate every detail exactly as it is onto your chosen necklace, bracelet, charm or keyring.
Celebrate August Birthdays with Personalised Birthday Gifts
We think an August birthday deserves a bit more effort than a card grabbed on the way to the party. They deserve something more thoughtful, like a birthstone tied to their month, a flower with real meaning behind it, a sound worth holding onto, or a print of the pet they adore.
And if none of these feel quite right for the August birthday gifts you’re shopping for, we’ve got plenty more personalised jewellery designs on our website worth having a look through, so you can find the one that feels made for them.
