What Are Glass Keepsake Urns?
There are countless ways to honor our departed loved ones with grace and beauty. One of the most popular memorial choices is a glass keepsake urn. Smaller than traditional urns, glass keepsake urns are designed to hold only a tablespoon’s worth of ashes. Whether infused in the glass or nestled within a holding chamber, your departed loved one’s ashes unite with an exquisite, one-of-a-kind tribute that will captivate onlookers, add radiance to your home, and bring peace and comfort to your grieving heart.
About Glass Keepsake Urns
Glass keepsake urns are quite precious because no two are alike. When you choose glass as your preferred memorial medium, a professional glass artist, or glassblower, must make your special tribute from scratch — such a unique piece cannot be prefabricated.
The process begins with a glassblower extracting clear, molten glass from a furnace heated to about 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit. A ball of molten glass is placed at the end of a long pipe. The glassblower carefully blows air into the pipe from the other end, shaping the hot glass. They then add colored glass to the piece. This can be done by dividing a color rod into segments and incorporating them into the clear glass or by rolling the molten glass over powdered glass laid on a hard surface to achieve the desired look and design.
Similarly, ashes are integrated into the design by rolling the molten glass over them, where the intense heat burns off the carbon, leaving a brilliant white color. Once the shape is formed and the colors and ashes are infused, the piece is cooled in an oven called an annealer. It can take as much as twelve hours for a keepsake urn to cool to protect it from cracking. In its final form, a glass keepsake like the Living Hearts Glass Keepsake Urn is a work of art!
Some glass keepsakes, such as the breathtaking Glass Songbird, are designed to hold ashes rather than infuse them within the glass. Whether the ashes are infused or kept safe within a special chamber, the painstaking process of creating a glass-blown keepsake is quite remarkable.
Use Glass Urns to Scatter Ashes
Scattering your departed beloved’s ashes can be a meaningful way to pay tribute to them while providing you with some sense of closure and healing. A specially chosen scattering vessel plays a big role in the scattering ceremony. A unique glass keepsake urn can be a fitting choice, reflecting the one-of-a-kind relationship you shared with the departed. Available in vibrant colors like emerald green and deep ocean blue, a Living Glass Keepsake Urn offers an elongated neck to the vase's top, making scattering ashes quite easy. Until the proper moment, the small amount of ashes is kept safe with a special cork seal. Once your sacred scattering ceremony is complete, your urn can continue to honor your loved one in a prominent spot in your home. Honor your loved one further by adding flowers to the urn!
Glass Keepsakes as a Display Urn
Keepsake urns may be small, but they are powerful tributes for our departed loved ones. Like traditional urns, keepsake urns can be beautifully displayed in your home. There is no wrong place to keep a keepsake urn. If your loved one had a passion for cooking or perhaps even taught you how to cook, the kitchen may be an ideal place for your keepsake urn. For departed spouses or partners, the bedroom is often a comforting area to display the keepsake. Nighttime can be one of the most challenging times of the day for grief-stricken individuals. Knowing your loved one is always close at bedtime can be quite soothing. Placing your cherished keepsake in other prominent areas, such as a window sill, desktop, or bookcase, can bring warmth and radiance to your space. After all, sunlight passing through vibrant glass keepsakes can be mesmerizing!
Gift to Loved Ones
Knowing how to handle a loved one's cremated remains can be overwhelming. The grieving process is as unique and varied as our relationships with the departed. One incredible way to honor a lost loved one while comforting our shattered hearts is by creating sharing urns. With Living Glass Touchstones, you can order a set of five glass keepsake urns in the same color, such as lily green, ocean blue, or peaceful sunset. Infused with your loved one’s ashes, these exquisite glass keepsakes can stand as a unified testament to your family’s shared love for the departed. When others join you in maintaining an ever-lasting tribute, it can bring peace and comfort to your broken heart.
Glass keepsake urns honor the legacy of our departed loved ones by showcasing the vibrant beauty of a life well lived. While we can never fully heal the pain that comes with losing a loved one, we can have agency in how we hold them in remembrance. Visit our store to learn more about our handcrafted glass keepsakes!