More ideas from our shooting star collection of keepsake urns and memorial stones:

Celtic Starburst Keepsake Urn

starfish urn necklace

Stars in the Sky memorial stone

Simple and economical, the pine box urn may be the choice for families that may want a wood urn for traveling with ashes, or who plan to scatter at a later date.

Simple Pine Box Urn

For families that prefer a little more stylized urn, we have a hand-painted pine with striking gold accents against a dark stain with a vintage look finish.

Hand Painted Pine Box

We recently had a family that purchased several pieces of urn jewelry as a memorial to honor the memory of their loved one. Nature themes were prominent, like the clover urn pendant

Gold Four Leaf Clover Urn Necklace

and  silver star urn necklace.

Star Pendant Urn Necklace

This sculpture by one of the Urn Garden artists keeps coming around, and there’s always a wild story to go with it.  The latest is a client who was involved with a Las Vegas animal rescue operation back in the ’80’s. She handled exotics.

Big cats and monkeys.

Funny thing, this story had a familiar ring to it.

Turns out, she had the ashes of a lioness that had been in the closet all these years. She stumbled on to our Brave Heart lion keepsake urn while shopping for a different style cremation urn for another sad occasion.

One look and she knew she had to deal with the lion in the closet. She’s only has half the ashes.  This urn is designed for keepsake size portions and won’t accommodate all of her ashes.  But she has a plan.

Our Gold Ribbon Heart keepsake urn pendant has a chamber inside which families can use to preserve the ashes of their loved one, lock of hair, or other small loving memento. Created in high quality gold plating and studded with crystals, our urn jewelry has a secure threaded lid, and includes tools to fill and seal the urn necklace.

This style of cremation urn jewelry is also available in 14K yellow gold, 14K white gold, and sterling silver.

Gold Ribbon Urn Necklace

Other styles of cremation jewelry:

Red Heart Urn Necklace

Gold Puff Heart Urn Necklace

New styles of cremation urn jewelry are showing up with the creation of urn rings that hold a small portion of ash, lock of hair of other small memento.  Since February is heart month, we’re showcasing our memorial urn rings that are a contemporary interpretation of the Victorian mourning jewelry.

Irish Claddagh Keepsake Urn Ring

Sterling silver urn ring with contrasting gold plate and the Celtic knot in the trinity design on the band.

Endless Love Urn Ring

Companion style ring features dual chambers with secure threaded enclosures.

Tender Heart Keepsake Urn Ring

Our sweet Tender Heart sterling silver cremation jewelry ring holds a small memorial of your loved one.

This month we’re featuring heart-shaped cremation urns, jewelry urns, and memorial stones. One of our favorites are the earth friendly Unity urns.

Unity Floral Urn

These beautiful urns are handmade and feature inlaid fresh flower petals. It is available in three sizes, pet or keepsake size urn, standard adult urn, or a double capacity companion urn.Each urn includes a water-soluble plastic bag for the cremated remains.

The Unity urn is designed for ground burial. Once buried it will degrade naturally over time. Available in three designs with matching keepsakes.

Pink Unity Urn

According to a letter owned by Phil Castinetti, the sports memorabilia king of New England, Red Sox legend Ted Williams had a longtime wish to be cremated immediately after his death. The letter, dated Dec. 19, 1991, is an authentic writing from the desk of Teddy Ballgame himself.

“It is my wish that no funeral or memorial service of any kind be held and that my remains be cremated as soon as possible after my death,” Williams wrote in the letter nearly two decades ago. “I want you to see that my ashes are sprinkled at sea off the coast of Florida where the water is very deep.”

Williams’ three children fought bitterly over the body of their legendary father.  In a perfect world, the letter in Castinetti’s collection would be used to do justice in the case of Ted Williams,  but rather than have his wishes carried out, Williams was taken to a lab in Arizona where his remains were kept suspended in liquid nitrogen.

Last year, a lab executive documented the brutal inhumane treatment of Williams’ head at the cryogenics center shortly after his death in 2002.

Ted Williams Death Mask

Rather than being scattered in Florida as he’d always wished, the body of the Red Sox legend was mutilated and disgraced.

In life, Williams never got the respect he deserved. The fans in Boston booed him, the media blasted him, his personal life was unstable and troubled. In death, Teddy Ballgame has been treated even worse.

Source:

Ralph B. White was a National Geographic cameraman who spent his life pursuing adventure. His friends have carried out his last wish, taking his ashes to every continent.

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Early examples of mourning  jewelry were found in Europe in the 15th and 16th centuries. Black and white enameled heads or skulls were often set into both rings and brooches and worn to signify a period of mourning after the death of a loved one.

memento mori

The Death’s Head motif (skull) was still used on mourning rings as late as the 17th century. A ring presented after the execution of King Charles I in 1649 shows a portrait of Charles I on one side and a skull and a crown on the other. Inside the inscription reads, “The glory of England has departed.”

The presentation of mourning rings was a status symbol in the 17th and 18th centuries. The wealthy specified the ring design and quantity to be made in their wills.

Samuel Pepys, English diarist and naval official (1633-1703) willed that 129 mourning rings be given away at his funeral.

Either he had a large family or a huge ego.

skull ring memento mori

Urn Garden is pleased to launch a contemporary line of urn rings, inspired by Victorian mourning jewelry.

Keepsake Cremation Urn Ring