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We Have Wood!

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

Wood work. All week. Adding new styles to our wooden urn line. Love this beautiful high gloss burl wood chest.

And the Sonota Memory Chest Urn. Our talented engraver can personalize the wood urns with names and dates, and customize for the deer hunter or hummingbird lover.

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Mafia Funeral: A Florist’s Dream

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Inspired by this month’s issue of American Funeral Director.

Cheryl Thompson Morrow Pt. 2

Friday, April 25th, 2008

More with Cheryl Thompson-Morrow of Thompson Funeral Home, Broadman, OH.
20 Years Later: “It’s been a good career choice, the initial transition was difficult, because many of the families insisted on working with my father, and weren’t accustomed to a female funeral director.
On Technology: “Technology has really freed our time up, in that in the old […]

Women in Funeral Service, Cheryl Thompson-Morrow

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

Today’s Female Funeral Professional (known from here on out as FFP, you try saying that three times real fast!) spotlight is on Cheryl Thompson-Morrow with Thompson Funeral Home. Thompson Funeral Home is one of five other funeral homes in a two mile area in Boardman, OH., close to Youngstown.
Cheryl’s grandfather Clifford L. Thompson, started the […]

Confessions of a Small Business Owner Pt. 4

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

The red buds are peaking this week, and it smells sooo good outdoors. The Urn Garden is downwind of two monster lilac bushes that are so fragrant.

And that my friends is the problem. Or is it? There’s no separation between work and home. It’s getting better, but when you cross the threshold at […]

Hummers

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

No not this kind.

St. Louis hotel 2005.
This Kind:

We’ve been successful attracting the hummingbirds and butterflies the last couple of years. Even with the hunters next door! According to the calender, the hummingbird scouts should be coming in the next week or so. So, why do I feel pressure?
Funeral Directors, depending on where you are…if you […]

Sunday Worship

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

Quiet in the garden on Sunday morning. As our intern tries to focus on career opportunities, we (me, myself, and I) were thinking about our own. Even though we have a project stalled, and urngarden.com, was supposed to be a sideline business, keeps us a little busier than planned… we’re able to focus on what’s […]

Time is of the Essence

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

As difficult and harsh as the weather’s been lately, the beauty of spring is beginning to emerge. Buds on the trees, greening of the grass, birds returning to the garden.
Mr. Davis shared these predictions for the future from a 1968 Mechanixs Illustrated mag:
People have more time for leisure activities in the year 2008. The average […]

Mood Check

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

In the urn world families are thinking SPRING. Searches lean to themes of nature: Butterfly Cremation Urns

Deer
Eagle Urns

DIY Memorial Garden
And Shamrock urns.

Love Me, Love My Dog

Friday, February 29th, 2008

Three Beautiful Things:

Yoga to stretch out the kinks.
Intense Vitamin D
The first “chink” of the baseball bat

Oh yes friends, I heard it! According to the sounds in the ‘hood high-school baseball practice has started. The first hit is the sweetest. Next, we wait for The National Anthem.
Yesterday, at the undercover assignment, I ran into a […]

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