CustomCremations

Founding families · Handmade in Georgia

Cremains, crafted into
memorial keepsakes.

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.

Three memorial pearls — slate blue, terracotta and sage — each flecked with natural white crystal, on a warm ivory ground.

The white flecks aren't pigment — that's 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 next. So it waits. On a shelf, in a closet, sometimes for years. It's a common anxiety, and uncomfortable to talk about.

We think there's a better answer than a box: something beautiful enough to sit out in the open, personal enough to be unmistakable, and warm enough to actually hold. 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.
We use everything you send.

Cremation jewelry

A typical pendant holds about a quarter-teaspoon of ash sealed inside a compartment. A token — of a token.

Cremains + binder.
That’s it.

A Custom Cremations piece

Every piece is cremains, with just the minimum binder and pigment necessary — nothing else. Not a pinch sealed inside something — cremains all the way through, and every pound you send goes into the finished pieces.

The collection

One material. Any form that mattered.

Cremains make up so much of the 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

A pearl set in all five colors — slate, terracotta, sage, ivory and charcoal — spread across cream linen.
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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.

A keepsake orb banded in slate, terracotta, sage and ivory, resting on a walnut stand.
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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

The complete memorial chess set: deep green speckled pieces against ivory, on a walnut-framed board.
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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.

Concept render of slate-blue speckled dominoes with ivory pips, laid out mid-game on cream linen.
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The domino set

A full set in a keepsake box. Game night doesn't end — grandpa still gets dealt in.

Concept render of casino-weight memorial poker plaques monogrammed DAVE BARNETT with a $10,000 denomination.
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The poker set

Poker chips have always been made of clay. Ours are made of family. Casino-weight plaques, monogrammed with a name and a denomination of your choosing.

Sports

Concept render of a dozen ivory memorial golf balls in a walnut presentation box, each personalized DAVID BARNETT 1941–2000.
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The golf set

A dozen balls, each personalized with a name and years. Made to be kept — never lost in the rough.

Concept render of an ivory memorial baseball with terracotta stitching, resting on a wooden display stand.
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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
Ivory
Charcoal

Every color keeps the natural white flecks — that's not pigment, that's the cremains themselves.

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. Every container is logged, photographed, and sealed on arrival — one order on the bench at a time, never commingled, with chain of custody maintained from our door back to yours.

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 — nothing else. Pet or person, half a pound or five, the craft is the same.

Weight in life*Cremains you sendWhat that can becomeYour price
up to ≈ 20 lb · cats & small dogsup to ¾ lba dozen pearls, or a keepsake orb$475
≈ 30 lb · beagle-size dogabout 1 lb16 pearls · a dozen golf balls · a domino set$625
≈ 60 lb · retriever-size dogabout 2 lball 32 chess pieces$850
≈ 85 lb · large dogabout 3 lbthe complete chess set — board and all 32 pieces$1,095
≈ 115 lb · giant breed, or a petite adultabout 4 lb64 pearls — enough for the whole family$1,395
≈ 150 lb and up · adults5 lb +a full commission — designed together as one order$1,695
Concept render of the complete memorial chess set: deep green speckled pieces against ivory, on a walnut-framed board.
What three pounds becomes — the complete chess set, board and all 32 pieces.

*Cremains run about 3.5% of weight in life — a 180 lb adult leaves about 6 lb; a 20 lb schnauzer, about ¾ lb. Piece counts are working figures, confirmed with you before anything is cast. You choose how much to send; the rest stays with you. Custom shaped pieces are quoted individually on top. USPS cremains shipping (legally required) appears as its own line at cost — typically in the $30s regionally.

Why families choose us

No one else makes this.

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 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 stays in the middle of family life, where a memorial belongs. Meaningful, never gimmicky — that's the line we hold in every piece.

Celebrate the life.

Respect the grief.

Create something new.

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