If you don't want to memorialize family members with headstones in crowded cemeteries, this creative couple from Seattle has taken a much more artistic approach-and their creations are breathtaking.

Greg and Christina Dale specialize in turning the cremated ashes of people's loved ones into swirling, colorful glass sculptures and pendants-and already 50,000 of their memorials have helped families to grieve and remember.

Greg first got the idea for the unique labor of love after he and his wife were forced to consider funeral arrangements for his father.

"I almost lost my father to a surgery," Greg told Good News Network. "We were going over options if I lost him and the idea for our amazing business was hatched.

"Getting shot out into space, fireworks, and becoming part of a reef are great ideas we went over," he added. "But I realized everyone is looking for help healing, and I thought beautiful glass art would help."

Although Greg's father apparently made it through the surgery, he did end up using his grandparents' ashes to make a memorial of his own-a fitting start to the Dales' work.

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