If your beloved pet just died you don’t have to go on living without him. Nope. You can make jewelery out of him instead.

That’s what Sue Rogers of London did with her dead pet dogs and cats. She had a diamond ring made from their ashes. Rogers from Devon England paid 3.200 pounds to have a ring made from carbon extracted from the ashes of Lucky, his old English Sheepdog, a tom cat named Patch and a golden retriever called Sam.

I’m starting to see a pattern here. Are you? It seems you have to mourn a few pets before you can make jewelery out of them.

“I am delighted with my ring as it means I can have my pets with me at all times,” Rogers told the Daily Mail newspaper.

“My animals meant the world to me and even though they are gone they are still with me. It’s a beautiful ring and such a brilliant idea.”

Rogers, who had previously kept her pets ashes on her mantelpiece heard of LifeGem UK, a company that makes diamonds from the remains of humans and pets. She contacted LifeGem and they used a small amount of carbon from each set of ashes.

The ashes are heated to 3,000 degrees Celsius in order to create a rough diamond. The stone was then cut, polished and certified before being set into a gold band.

I always new pets were real gems.

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Would you consider turning your beloved pet into jewelery?

If you know of anyone who’s made jewelery out of their pets ashes I’d like to hear the story or see photos of the jewelery.

Well gang it’s that time of year again isn’t it?

I just wanted to take a moment to wish all of my visitors a very Merry Christmas and a Happy Holiday Season. I hope that you are all having a great time with your family and friends.

Now remember - Don’t eat too much Turkey or drink too much wine with it or you’ll end up taking a nap a lot early than you want to! LOL

I’m not sure if this is a good idea or not. It’s certainly pricy! Tell me what you think of this.

A suburban St. Louis chocolate maker, Bud Kolbrener, figured that in the race for girls best friend chocolate must be a close second to diamonds. He’s figured out a way to combine the two to create a very decadent gift. The cost of the gift? 1.5 million dollars! If you can afford this gift you’ll get a sparkling box of candy decked out with 13 pieces of diamond jewelry, with the centerpiece being a bracelet with 30 carats of yellow and colorless white diamonds and matching diamond earrings.

I don’t know- would you eat the chocolate with the diamonds in it if you were lucky enough to get that as a gift? For some reason I’m picturing a woman sitting spitting out diamonds like people do watermelon seeds. Somehow this idea loses it’s appeal with that picture in my head.

A St. Louis, the Rittenbergs, got a surprise when they got home and open the box that was supposed to have contained a brand new Sony Camcorder that they had purchased at a Best Buy store for $1600. They opened the box and found a bottle of pasta sauce inside rather than the camcorder.

When the couple contacted the store regarding their find, store officials told them that the box was sealed so the switch couldn’t have happened in their store, and that it must have happened at the Sony warehouse. Best Buy officials haven’t made a decision yet on how to handle the dispute. The Rittenbergs say that they are not thieves and that they filed a police report upon making their saucy discovery.