Owner of Starved Rock Hot Glass in Ottawa, Ill., cuts in a jack line, which is the spot where she will break glass from the pipe, at her hand-blown glass studio. Johnson specializes in cremation ...

PEORIA — Magical outcomes are not unusual in the art of glassblowing, but Jeremie Draper was still surprised when the ashes inside her first memorial ornament took on a celestial appearance ...

Kroeze, of Buda, delivered her mother’s ashes to Laura Johnson, owner of Starved Rock Hot Glass, who specializes in hand-blown glass art and jewelry.

Nick Savage co-founded one of the first glass-memorial businesses in the country in 2002. Since opening Memory Glass in California, Savage said he has watched the cremation industry grow.

Hand Blown Glass Have a unique piece of art created from your cremated remains. Art from Ashes will have your ashes put into the glass of a beautiful blown glass vase.

Blown glass objects sometimes turn out "a little funny" because off-gases from the ashes can create bubbles in the glass. The studio will even try to make a glass figurine resemble a beloved pet.