This Talented Artist Found a Way to Truly Immortalize Loved Ones Through Jewelry

by N/A, 9 years ago | 2 min read

California-based artist,Â Merry Coor, has been glass-blowing since 2000, and has established a very successful business making glass beadÂ jewelry. Necklaces, pendants, bracelets - you name it, Coor makes it.

But her business changed significantly when a young couple she was making a piece for requested that some of the cremated ashes of a lost, dear friend be incorporated into the bead, so that they could have something to remember them by.

Since then, Coor has taken a completely different conviction in her work, impassioned by the opportunity to help commemorate and honor the memory of lost loved ones.

art Jewelry interesting artist photos Bizarre/Oddities glass blowing Non-Premium

These are Coor's beautiful creations, she simply calls, "ash beads"

Her creations are both mesmerizing and thought-provoking.

â€œMy bead making now gave me a new purpose, and a way to honor others, both living and passed,â€ says Coor.

And Coor is both honored and humbled to be able take part in something so deeply personal, and sentimental to so many.

â€œIt was 80 degrees in my studio that day, but I had the chills the entire time I was making the beads.â€

Indeed, the thought of making such richly meaningful works of art is arresting.

And it's certainly up there with on the list of "most unique and fascinating occupations."