Teardrop and Heart Pendants Made From Ashes
A beautiful way to keep someone you love close.
Losing someone you love changes your world, but the connection you share doesn't have to end. At Jewelry Made From Ashes, glass artist Ryan Higgins handcrafts beautiful cremation jewelry using a small portion of your loved one's ashes, creating a personal keepsake you can hold close to your heart.
Each glass memorial pendant is made individually in our family-run studio in Mullica Hill, New Jersey. Whether you're remembering a family member, a dear friend, or a beloved pet, your pendant is created with the same attention, respect, and care we'd want for someone we love.
- Teardrop pendant: regular about 1.6" × 0.6" or petite about 1.2" × 0.4". 21 colors and two-color blends, with an optional 22k gold or .999 silver fume. From $199.
- Heart pendant: about 1.5" × 0.875". 7 colors, plus a Bicolor Heart that can hold two loved ones' ashes, one in each half. From $209.
Both have a 3–4mm bail and can be ordered with a sterling silver or gold-filled chain.
Teardrop Pendants
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Amethyst Teardrop Pendant with Ashes
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Aquamarine Teardrop Pendant with Ashes
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Arctic Teardrop Pendant with Ashes
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Onyx Teardrop Pendant with Ashes
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One loved one, a pendant for each of you
We can make several pendants from the same ashes, so a mother and daughter, siblings or grandchildren can each keep a piece of the person they miss. Choose the same color for every pendant or a different one for each person, in regular or petite size.
Family orders over $500 get 10% off automatically at checkout.
Heart Pendants
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Bicolor Heart Pendant with Ashes
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Aquamarine Heart Pendant with Ashes
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Amethyst Heart Pendant with Ashes
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Obsidian Heart Pendant with Ashes
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Keep them close to your heart
Our glass heart is about 1.5" × 0.875" and made of durable borosilicate glass for everyday wear. Choose one of seven colors, or the Bicolor Heart to hold two loved ones' ashes together, one in each half.
How it works
- Order online or by phone. Choose your design, color and chain.
- Receive your collection packet in 1–2 business days. It includes a screw-top vial, security bags, a transfer spatula and a USPS padded return envelope.
- Mail about 1/4 teaspoon of ashes. USPS Priority Mail Express is the only way to ship cremains; postage is about $34. There is no deadline to send it back.
- Ryan makes your pendant. Most are finished within 10 business days of the ashes arriving, plus 2–5 days for shipping. We email you when your ashes arrive and when your pendant ships.
- Unused ashes come home or are scattered. Ask and we return them, or we scatter them in a natural setting in southern New Jersey.
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Gold and Silver Chains
Why the ashes stay visible
Ryan seals the ashes between layers of flameworked borosilicate glass, the same durable glass family as Pyrex. The ashes stay visible as soft, mottled texture, so no two pendants look alike. If a pendant is ever dropped and breaks, he can usually repair it in the studio.
Made by Ryan Higgins
Ryan has been flameworking glass since 1995 and formerly taught glass art at Salem Community College and the Corning Museum of Glass. Since 2016 he has run Daybreak Dreams, a family studio in Mullica Hill, New Jersey, with his wife Abby and their son. You deal with Ryan directly from order to delivery: call (856) 636-0049 or email ryan@daybreakdreams.com.
Let customers speak for us
Very nice jewelry to remember a loved one
I absolutely LOVED the glass heart that Ryan made from my sweet Lexi's ashes and then, by accident, I dropped the heart and it broke! I was literally broken hearted. But Ryan was able to repair it, and it's even more beautiful and precious to me than it was before. It's always so interesting to me the people that comment on it, it's always a fellow kitty/animal lover and they light up when I tell them the heart was made from my kitty's ashes. ❤️
I absolutely love my pendant. Ryan was very communicative and understanding, even when there was a blunder on my part. Very grateful to him that I have a precious memorial of my late kitty now. I will treasure it always.
I wasn't certain how nice the chain would be given how affordable it is. It's absolutely beautiful, and it has the perfect weight and shine to go with the rose quartz glass heart I got! I am very happy with this purchase.
Losing Lexi, my soul kitty, was devastating. I wanted to remember her in a beautiful piece of glass and had the idea for a pink heart, and began my search. This one was by far the most beautiful one I found, and I only hoped it would look as good in person as it does on the website. It was a bit more expensive than the other ones I found but sooo much more beautiful. It was a nice distraction from grief to have it to look forward to, and they made the process easy. When the heart finally arrived, it exceeded my expectations. It's truly beautiful and something I will keep forever to remind me of Lexi's beautiful heart and the love she lavished on me and almost anyone she met! Thank you Daybreak Dreams. PS. I got the Yellow Gold-Filled 1mm Box Chain from this site, and it goes with the pendant perfectly!!
Such an awesome piece, great communication. will be certainly ordering more once my y wife shows this off to family.
Our daughter, 11, passed in February and this will keep her with my wife every day she wears it.
The bicolor heart pendant arrived yesterday and it’s very beautiful I highly recommend Ryan (Jewelry Made From Ashes). The pendant looks awesome and Ryan is respectful and takes care of loved one’s ashes. Thank you Ryan I love the pendant.
I love it!!!
My husband,Reonato passed away this year and he wanted to be buried in our homeland. So I had Ryan create a deep marine teardrop pendant with his ashes in it for me to keep that I would wear close to me. He did a very good job and very pleased with the outcome. Thank you Ryan.
Received my onyx teardrop pendant and even more beautiful in person. From start to finish Ryan was prompt and quick to respond, create and ship my pendant. I was happy to see there is some individual uniqueness to the color which makes it even more special.
Looks different in all lighting which I love. Thank you for being able to make this keepsake for me. It is so special to my heart.
My best friend Bella had passed away And left me lost on what do with her ashes so she would be close to me everywhere I went. I found Ryan and with complete professionalism he sculpted a beautiful aquamarine pendant which is by my heart always. His service, response time are way above perfection and I am very pleased. Thank you so much
Couldn't be happier. Started with a tear drop when my Mom passed and ask for it to be combined with one when my dad passed and it came out perfectly. It didn't take long to receive the know heart pendant either. 😍
Ryan does simply amazing work! I ordered a teardrop 5 years ago when my Mother passed, I broke it and he fixed it,then he turned that into half the heart and then added my Dads ashes to the second half…absolutely perfect workmanship! HIGHLY RECOMMEND !!!!
The pendant came out absolutely stunning! Ryan was super professional, and the whole process was a breeze.
Ryan Higgins was awesome to work with. I had spoke to him on the phone made it easy to add more orders to my existing order. Ryan had stayed in touch letting me know exactly when he received my baby girls ashes. Ryan also made a point to email me when he had shipped my orders out. Ryan responded very fast to questions & concerns I had. I am so grateful that Ryan has a special gift to make something this beautiful.
