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Glassmaker and funeral services
Wares of varying sizes and styles. The place is primarily a funeral home, dealing in coffins, vases and statues of deceased pakkeli. Victorianna Mena prides herself on achieving realistic dimensions with her glass-sculpting and has produced multiple staple pieces that greatly honor the dead. Her eventual notoriety lead to her getting an influx of customers during the celebration of goddess Tethe'nide.
The funeral services work as such:
- The customer (the deceased) is taken into her personal dwellings to begin the process of scaling and sculpting a glass housing for the goo. Usually the sculpture is a smidge smaller to allow for additional goo being left for the family to keep in vases, jars and urns.
- A portion of payment is taken up front
- A mold of the pakkeli is made, then a sculpture is made of it through glass blowing.
- This part of the process is usually kept under wraps with only Victorianna present. The goo is extracted and poured into the sculpture.
- In other cases when only a vase is required, the same is done, but in those cases the goo is received without skin hindering the process as the natural shape of the pakkeli does not need to be taken into consideration. Which means the family can have their own funeral-esque cremation and the like. In certain cases after the body has been molded already, the family may take it from Victorianna and return the goo ready for pouring into a sculpture or vase.
- The rest of the payment is taken at the reveal of the final product.
The business started out with jewellery and it's no surprise Victorianna went through a phase of creating funeral and mourning accessories before she began to dabble deeper into the darker side of glassmaking. Therefore, her main shop is laden heavily with displays of glass ornaments, crystals and metal.
- A pendant, earrings or any other jewellery piece filled with goo can be created. Doesn't matter if the goo is taken from a living or dead pakkeli. Couples may come in and request matching sets with bits of hair goo inside.
- Other ornaments or decorations are also available, either ready-made or commissioned.