Before the ball of glass was formed into a solid heart with swirls of color and glitter, an artist rolled it across a tablespoon of ash — the ashes of Sykes’ great grandmother Dorothy “Nanny ...

SEATTLE — Spinning orbs of hot glass, employees at Artful Ashes have been turning the remains of loved ones into twinkling pieces of art since 2012.

SEATTLE | Juliet Sykes watched teary-eyed as glass workers began to shape a small white heart.

PANAMA CITY — At a time in life when emotions are fragile, some find comfort in glass. Monir Madkour, the new artistic director of Panama City Hot Glass, 100 Harrison Ave. in historic downtown ...

OTTAWA, Ill. (AP) — Veronica Kroeze's mother died in 2004, and since then, her mother's ashes had been displayed in an urn on her credenza in her living room.

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.

But starting last January Glass Eye Studio has been designing its own pieces in a line called Celebration Ashes. According to Glass Eye Studio artist Brent Rogers, the studio creates about 30 of ...

“Ashes are a sacred thing, so that was enormous,” remembers Hansen, who researched the process online and began to experiment. The process of making beads is much smaller scale than glass blowing.

Glass Eye is also home to a line of glass objets d’art known as Celebration Ashes, which targets the retail market with a product that looks at the past and the future at the same time: cremated ...

Veronica Kroeze’s mother died in 2004, and since then, her mother’s ashes had been displayed in an urn on her credenza in her living room.