how did I miss this story? I could have gotten MIL jewelry for Christmas...

GBCK

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3595288.html?menu=news.quirkies

All I want for Christmas is ...

Watch your loved one's face light up this Christmas by giving them - a ring embedded with your teeth.

Artist Polly van der Glas offers to turn your pearly whites into a ghoulish gift.

You can literally give someone a smile with a knuckle ring fitted with four of your molars, or let someone special wear a single incisor as a necklace.

Melbourne-based Polly says she sources donor teeth from friends and family "who have been kind enough to offer parts of themselves". They are then sterilised before being turned into jaw-derived jewellery.

Although she admits teeth "are particularly difficult to come by, so any donations are gratefully accepted."

The 28-year-old says she got her interest in the body from her grandfather who was a professor of microbiology at Guy's Hospital Medical School.

She explains: "I have been collecting hair, teeth and fingernails for years, they line the shelves of my apartment in beautiful jars, where the textures and colour variations are amazing (fingernails actually look like delicate shells when collected together in a jar).

Polly is also launching a range of teeth cast in precious metals which she describes as "a bit easier to wear for those who are squeamish but like the concept".

Prices range from ?250 for a sterling silver single human tooth signet ring to ?420 for a knuckle ring set with four human teeth.

Butter Cookie

You know you watch too much CSI when your first thought is, "That would be perfect to catch the perp when they inevitably lost a tooth when punching..."

Cant_wait!

ew ew ew ew! I read the part about her collecting fingernails in jars and now I'm sick. Good thing I read this right before lunch, I really want to lose 3 lbs.

jojobrn

GBCK:

She explains: "I have been collecting hair, teeth and fingernails for years, they line the shelves of my apartment in beautiful jars, where the textures and colour variations are amazing (fingernails actually look like delicate shells when collected together in a jar).

 

 NO! Nothing makes old hair, teeth or fingernails look delicate or otherwise.

TheDuckis

My guess is this woman also has a collection of dead bodies in her basement.

Cant_wait!

TheDuckis:

My guess is this woman also has a collection of dead bodies in her basement.

...to harvest for her jewelry

Butter Cookie

Cant_wait!:

TheDuckis:

My guess is this woman also has a collection of dead bodies in her basement.

...to harvest for her jewelry

I wonder if she does skinsuits?