Actual pieces
The pearl set
Smooth, hand-polished pearls in the color you choose. Keep some at home, share some among the family — a loss becomes something everyone can hold.
Founding families · Handmade in Georgia
Made of them.
Not just for them.
We shape your loved one's cremains into pearls, keepsakes, and heirlooms a family actually wants to hold. Cremains and a binder — that's the entire recipe. Pet or person. Your colors. Your form.
An actual piece — the white flecks are the cremains themselves.
Why this exists
The box in the closet
After a cremation, most families are handed a box or an urn — and no good answer for what to do with it. So it waits. On a shelf, in a closet, sometimes for years. It's one of the most common unresolved things in a household, and nobody talks about it.
We think there's a better answer than a box: something beautiful enough to sit out in the open, personal enough to be unmistakably theirs, and warm enough to pick up when you miss them. Send as much or as little as you want — we shape it, polish it by hand, and send it home. You keep every bit of the rest.
What makes ours different
A pendant holds a pinch.
Ours is them.
Cremation jewelry
A typical pendant holds about a quarter-teaspoon of ash sealed inside a compartment. A token — of a token.
Them + binder.
That’s it.
That’s it.
A Custom Cremations piece
Every piece is cremains, with just the minimum binder and pigment necessary — nothing else. It doesn't contain a memory of someone. It is substantially, physically, them.
The collection
One material. Any form that mattered.
There's so much of them in our blend that it works like a clay we shape by hand — not a liquid locked to one mold. These are the founding pieces; custom shapes are quoted person by person.
Memorial
Actual piece
The keepsake orb
One solid, weighty piece that lives on a desk, a shelf, a bedside table. Simple and quietly beautiful — and it never has to be explained.
Games — heirlooms you play
Actual pieces
The chess set
Board and pieces, cast and finished by hand. The centerpiece of the line — a memorial the next three generations will gather around and touch.
In the founding menu
The domino set
A full set in a keepsake box. Game night doesn't end — grandpa still gets dealt in.
Sports
In the founding menu
The golf set
A dozen balls — one for each person who ever played a round with him. Personalized with a name and years. Made to be kept, never lost in the rough.
In the founding menu
The baseball
Solid, seamed, and exactly the right weight in the hand. For the one who never missed a game.
Choose the color
Slate
Terracotta
Sage
Bone
Charcoal
Every color keeps the natural white flecks — that's not pigment, that's them.
How it works
Four steps, and you never have to handle anything you don't want to.
Place your order
Choose your pieces and color online. We'll walk you through how much to send — and you decide how much that is.
Send — or have it sent
We mail you a prepaid USPS cremains shipping kit, or your crematory ships to us directly so it never touches your hands.
Made by hand, in Georgia
Blended almost entirely from the cremains themselves, shaped, cured hard, and polished by the founder. Weeks, not months — we tell you the date up front.
Home again
Your pieces come home finished — every pound you sent, transformed. What you kept at home never left.
Pricing
A pound is a pound.
We price purely by the weight of cremains you send — never by who they were. Pet or person, half a pound or five, the craft is the same.
| Their weight, in life* | Cremains you send | What that can become | Your price |
|---|---|---|---|
| ≈ 20 lb | up to ½ lb | 8 pearls, or a keepsake orb | $475 |
| ≈ 30 lb | 1 lb | 16 pearls · a dozen golf balls · a domino set | $625 |
| ≈ 60 lb | 2 lb | a complete chess set — board and all 32 pieces | $850 |
| ≈ 85 lb | 3 lb | a chess set plus a dozen golf balls | $1,095 |
| ≈ 115 lb | 4 lb | 64 pearls — enough for the whole family | $1,395 |
| ≈ 150 lb + | 5 lb + | a full commission — designed together as one order | $1,695 |
*Cremains run about 3.5% of weight in life — a 20 lb cat leaves about half a pound. Pearl counts use our working figure of 16 per pound; exact yields being dialed in now. Most families have more than they think — cremains come to roughly 3.5% of living body weight. You choose how much to send; the rest stays with you. Custom shaped pieces are quoted individually on top. USPS cremains shipping (the required Priority Mail Express service) appears as its own line at cost — typically in the $30s regionally — never marked up.
Why families choose us
No one else makes this.
- Your colors. Your form. The alternatives offer no customization.
- Cremains, with just the minimum binder and pigment necessary. Not a pinch in a locket, not a swirl in glass.
- Weeks, not months. Made by hand in Georgia by the person whose name is on the business.
- Every pound you send is used. We use all the cremains you send — you decide how much comes to us, and how much stays home.
Questions families ask
Asked and answered, plainly.
What is a piece actually made of?
Cremains, with just the minimum binder and pigment necessary to hold a shape and take a polish. No fillers, no substitutes, nothing else — and every pound you send is used.
Do you take both pet and human cremains?
Yes. We never ask, sort, or treat them differently — we price by weight and craft every order with the same hands and the same care. That's the whole model.
How much should I send?
As much or as little as you're comfortable with. "You have four pounds — send two, keep the rest" is a perfectly normal order. We'll tell you what your amount can become before you ship anything.
How does shipping cremains work? Is it legal?
Completely — the U.S. Postal Service has an official process for it. Cremains travel in the USPS Cremated Remains kit via Priority Mail Express, both directions, with tracking. We send you the kit with instructions, or your crematory can ship to us directly.
How long does it take?
Weeks, not months. Curing and hand-finishing set the pace, and we give you a real date when you order — then keep you posted while we work.
Can I get it faster?
Yes — expedited is five days, and the price doubles. That's not a gimmick: a rush order is built on the founder's own personal time, so no other family's order waits a single day longer. You get his nights. That's what the double covers.
Is this... okay to do?
We think it's more than okay — we think it's overdue. Memorials exist for the living. A box in a closet helps no one; a beautiful thing you can hold, display, and even play with keeps someone in the middle of family life, where they belong. Meaningful, never gimmicky — that's the line we hold in every piece.
Founding families
The first pieces are being made now.
We're opening a small number of founding orders — made personally by the founder, at founding prices, with a say in how this craft grows. If the box in your closet has waited long enough, write to us. A person answers, not a form.
Email the founder