Cremation Jewelry and Flowers - By: Corwin Smith

Cremation jewelry offers a number of options for people who love flowers. Originally designed as an alternative to a traditional cremation urn, allowing the wear to keep a bit of ashes from a loved one's cremation close at heart, urn jewelry can be used to hold keepsakes other than cremated remains.

Some people simply don't like the idea of keeping a loved one's ashes in an ash pendant, while others may hold religious beliefs that forbid keeping cremated remains in this manner. For these people, memorial jewelry can filled with another keepsake, like a lock of hair or a bit of dirt from a loved one's burial plot. And for many, the perfect keepsake to hold in an urn pendant is a sprinkling of crushed flowers from a loved one's funeral.

Preparing Flowers to Be Placed In an Ash Pendant Before you fill your cremation jewelry with flowers, the flowers should be thoroughly dried to preserve them and prevent molding. Drying works best when the flowers are pick in dried weather and processed by air drying or pressing.

Air drying works best when drying several flowers at a time. Simply remove the leaves and tie the stems together with string or twine, and then hang the flowers by the stems, out of direct sunlight. Pressing is an easy ways to dry one or two flowers. Just place a flower between the pages of a book, close the book, and place a weighty object on it, such as a rock or a heavier book. Drying by either method takes from one to four weeks, depending on the kind of flowers you're working with and the environment they're drying in.

After your flowers have dried completely, gently crush a few petals in your hand, and then use a small funnel to guide the crushed flowers into your ash pendant's inner chamber.

Cremation Jewelry in Floral Designs:
If you’re loved one was a gardener or just fond of flowers, you might want to choose a keepsake pendant in a floral design. Flowers are a popular theme in all kinds of jewelry, including cremation jewelry. Following are some examples of the kinds of floral-themed cremation jewelry you'll find.

Silver or gold cremation jewelry cast in the shape of sunflowers, oleanders, calla lilies, or roses. Crystal cremation jewelry with floral symbols (including anemones, pansies, chrysanthemums, poppies, magnolias, and more) in black, white, red, silver, or gold.

Silver or gold urn pendants in the shape of an ingot with a cast-in design of blooming irises.

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