Always with me glass
Important people deserve meaningful memorials.
You’ve made your way here because someone important is missing. We specialize in helping you memorialize them in a personal and meaningful way. Our artist and founder has more to offer than her nearly two decades of experience with glass - she also offers her heart. Hers is a heart for the grieving that was forged through her own difficult losses.
We create long-lasting pieces that make a difference
At Always With Me Glass, we are on a mission, through our work, to make a difference in the grief experience for our clients. There aren’t many experiences which are common to all humans, but grief is one of them. For all of human history, we’ve invented ways to handle grief - but we still have a long way to go when it comes to processing grief. Our aim is to be a helpful companion in the grieving process while we create a grief aid which provides comfort forever.
Our purpose
Our clients are handled with care and the work we create for them is made with intention and love. We know they can feel the difference. We know you will too.
Handmade in small batches
Each client’s order is processed individually, to ensure your sentimental materials are the only thing included in your keepsakes.
Your loved one, memorialized.
Cremated Remains
Include a small amount of cremated remains in your memorial piece.
funeral flowers
Include flowers from the funeral or another special moment in your memorial piece.
Lock of Hair
Include a small lock of hair in your memorial piece.
Goodbye Letter
Include a goodbye letter, obituary, program, or photograph in your memorial piece.
How the sentimental material becomes glass:
All sentimental materials are processed into sentimental glass by the following method.
Once the work area has been prepped, and materials laid out, it’s time to melt some glass!
The molten glass is pressed into the ashes and returned to the flame repeatedly.
The finished sentimental glass will be combined with more glass to complete to memorials.
Gallery
This is where you can see our available items. You can expect to see updated options periodically.
Heart Pendants
Priced at $60 each, our single-color hearts are our most popular item. Don’t see the color you need? Feel free to ask! A stocking fee may apply, but other colors are possible.
Suncatchers
Priced at $50 each, Suncatchers are perfect for folks who don’t prefer to wear their memories.
Suncatchers are meant to hang in a bright spot and catch the rays coming through the window. Mine remind me of the ways my special people lit up my life, and that they still can even after leaving this earth.
Suncatchers are available with stripes or speckles. Other colors are possible, but a stocking fee may apply.
Rainbow Pendants
Rainbows remind us of the concept of hope and we love to use them in our work because of this.
Rainbow Heart:
$100
Rainbow Over Water: $125
Generational Roses
This line was originally developed when a family lost their beloved matriarch. A woman who had adored roses and who had been adored by her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren was commemorated with a line of pendants for each generation. The 1st generation (daughters) received 1 rose, the 2nd generation received 2, and the 3rd generation received 3 roses. Pieces are ordered indvidually to suit each family’s needs. Generational Rose pendants are $100 each.
Roses
With unbelievable delicate details, even sharp thorns, our roses are as close to real life as you’ll find in glass. Our incredible roses are $325 each.
Pet Loss
When you have to say goodbye to a beloved pet, we specialize in helping you memorialize them in a personal and meaningful way. We create keepsakes with your pet’s cremated remains or fur. We use the same process to make pet memorials as we do with our memorials for humans.
Our Pet Loss clients are handled with the same care given to any other client. The work we do for them is done with the same attention to detail, intention, and love.
If you’ve read our story, you know that our work begins with a personal understanding of loss that is carried through each design and into each individual piece. In the case of our pet loss items, Lily is that inspiration. She was the beloved dog of our founding artist’s husband, then their first family dog, and finally the first dog to her two eldest children. She’s dearly missed and always will be. But her memory lives on.
Items Designed Especially For
Gallery
Pet Loss
Items within the Pet Loss Gallery have been especially designed for those whom have lost a pet. However, pet loss clients can choose from any items here or within our standard Gallery.
Heart Paw Print Pendants
Priced at $65 each, our dual-color paw print hearts are well-loved by our clients. Demonstrated here in lilac and white, Heart Paw Print Pendants are available in the same colors we offer our Heart Pendants in. The Paw Print color options are also the same as the available Heart Pendant color choices.
Round Paw Print Pendants
Priced at $65 each, our dual-color Round Paw Print Pendants are well-loved by our clients. Demonstrated here in red and white, Round Paw Print Pendants are available in the same colors we offer our Heart Pendants in. The Paw Print color options are also the same as the available Heart Pendant color choices.
Paw Print Suncatcher
Front
Priced at $50 each, Paw Print Suncatchers are meant to hang in a bright spot and catch the rays coming through the window. They are a visual reminder of the ways our lives were lit up by the beloved pets we’ve lost. Paw Print Suncatchers are made on a clear glass base with a paw print in the middle in any of these colors choices.
Back
Our Story
Our founder and artist, Linda Harman, remembers being enchanted by glass already as a young girl. It was love at first sight.
After what seemed like an eternal wait, Linda began working with glass, via an oxygen/propane torch, at age 15. She immediately had a love and knack for practicing this unusual art form. Her father, being perhaps a bit more daring than the average 90's dad, decided to buy her first torch for her a year or so later, just as his health began to quickly decline. Linda would care for her father through the second half of high school, her glass the buoy that grounded her when things were bleak.
At 19, her father would insist she leave him to attend a historical glass school in Southern Germany. At age 20 she would walk away from her education to resume caring for her father, who would tragically die only months after her return to the United States. Her opportunities in Germany would have come and gone, but her talent for glass and her desire to improve her form and grow as an artist were unchanged.
Eventually, she would make her very first memorial glass piece with her father’s cremains. She would experience a sense of peace by carrying her dad with her everywhere she went, and in time, she would feel a responsibility to help others who grieve in the same way she had helped herself. Her father would become a part of her sample pieces - every new design and idea would be tried and tested with him.
He continues to contribute in his own way, to her artistic journey, in death, as he did in life.
FAQs
How do I place an order?
Orders can be placed over the phone, by email, and in person by appointment. Orders placed locally will be dropped off and picked up at Always With Me Glass by appointment. Orders placed from a distance will be shipped to AWMG and back to the client at the client’s expense. Shipped orders require shipping insurance. Payment is made at the time an order is placed. Acceptable payment methods are check, PayPal (credit/debit), and for local clients, cash.
How long will it take to receive my custom piece?
Our turn around time is 3 weeks. The 3 weeks begins on the date the sentimental materials are received by Always With Me Glass. Within 3 weeks, the item(s) will be available for pickup. Shipped orders will be mailed within 3 weeks. Orders containing more than 10 items may require additional time. Should your order require additional time, you will be informed at the time the order is placed.
How do I know it’s my sentimental materials?
Our artist creates short custom videos for each order to include the client in the process. We find this also offers a sense of security and certainty in an industry which frequently leaves much to be desired in this regard.
Do you have a return and exchange policy?
All sales are final.
Get in touch with us
CALL or text
(630) 644-9176
Email
alwayswithmeglass@gmail.com
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