Crow feathers are believed to be good luck charms for traveling.
“Raku” translates to pleasure and happiness.
What a beautiful combination:
White Crackle Crow Feather Raku Urn
Our artist signed, one of a kind Raku urns are natural choice for families that want a beautiful organic work of art for their loved one.
The fragile beauty of the snowdrop flower pushes through the harsh elements to reveal the promise of brighter days and rebirth.
Snowdrop is one of the first bulbs to bloom in the early Spring. Usually they’ll appear January thru April and can form impressive carpets of white blossoms. Snowdrops spread, but are not invasive, so that if you come back to the same spot year after year you may feel lifted at the sight of their patient, modest increase. A gardener friend tells me there are many places around the country where they have established themselves for more than a hundred years.
Painswick Garden, U.K.
Snowdrops and Carnations are both considered winter flowers and might be two ideas to consider for a January memorial service , grave side or memorial garden planting.
Infinity: Without end.
The precise origin of the infinity symbol is unclear. It’s possible that it is inspired by older religious/alchemical symbolism. For instance, it has been found in Tibetan rock carvings, and the infinity snake, is often depicted in this shape.
In Chinese culture, today is one of the luckiest days ever: 8-8-8.
The timeless symbol can be found in our Infinity Urn Necklace, and is our most popular selling style of cremation urn jewelry.
We’ve created a cast metal urn to honor St. Francis and bless the sweet creatures he protects, and has become one of our most requested pet urns. This urn can serve as a pet urn or keepsake urn for animal lovers, holds pets weighing up to 55 pounds.
Saint Francis of Assisi is known as the patron saint of animals, the environment, and Italy. It’s customary for Catholic churches to hold ceremonies honoring animals around his feast day of October 4.
St. Francis statue urns are available in a satin bronze finish, as well as pewter and copper finish. Lined bottom to protect furniture. Urn can be personalized with a brass nameplate on the base.
Crystal Lake, IL
Jeff Hornagold loved Nascar, baseball, spending time with family and friends….and his job at UPS, where he worked for 20 years as a driver.
Hornagold died last Tuesday from lung cancer. As a memorial tribute, his friend and co-worker Michael McGowan, made a final delivery in his UPS truck, transporting the casket with Hornagold’s body from the funeral home to the church where memorial services were held on Saturday.
McGowan says he plans to keep a picture of Hornagold in his truck until he retires so that they can keep riding together.
Snow Globes would be another fun craft to make a memory jar. As simple as a small jar with a tight fitting lid and a trinket or two.
But these snow globes are my favorite:
See more of the artists Martin and Muñoz snow globes here.
The minimalist version of a memory jar.
My friend the artist known as “Sooz” is making a memory jar. Last week I dropped in and snapped a few photos of her creation.
Soozie is an artist and sadly, one of the early members of the Widows Club (1998). 10 years later she’s made a major career change, had a child in mid-life and about to complete her master’s degree to teach- what else? Art!
While experimenting for this piece, she tried taking a smaller surface, covering it in glue and rolling the surface in beads.
Not what she had in mind.
This is the look. The bolo tie adds an interesting dimension. Now, show me how to work it.
Tools of the trade. Jar or jug, junk, and white silicone. That gun looks a little unwieldy.
But Sooz handles it like a pro.
Using mostly flat trinkets to adorn the surface of the jar, working in small areas, letting it dry, repeat. Depending on your coverage area, this is not an afternoon project.
Love it!
When the family can’t agree on a urn style for the deceased, sometimes the simplest choice is the Classic Bronze cremation urn. Ancient design and clean lines of this funeral urn never goes out of style. These metal urns are available in three sizes, a full-size adult, a smaller sharing, youth or pet urn, and a 3″ keepsake size. What’s a keepsake urn, and why would you one? Some families might be sprinkling or want to keep a small amount or the ashes, a lock of hair or dried flowers.
The Classic urn is brass with a brushed bronze or pewter finish and secure threaded lid. The adult size measures 10″ high, and weighs a solid 7 pounds.
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Supposedly, this is the first Ghost Bike, memorializing an accident on Holly Hills Boulevard in St. Louis, Missouri in 2003. It was created by Patrick Van Der Tuin who saw a cyclist hit by a car. A few days later, he and his friends locked up several bikes at locations where he knew cars had collided with cyclists.
A Ghostbike is a junker bike that has been painted stark white and affixed to the site where a cyclist has been hit or killed by a car driver. Ghostbikes are intended to be memorials for the fallen and reminders to everyone to SHARE THE ROAD with one another. Since that first memorial in St. Louis, the meme has spread nationwide.
I’ve never seen one here in the Ozarks, and I hope I never do. But in densely populated areas like St. Louis, Portland, and New York City there seems to be more Ghost Bike sightings.
Check out this wild ride!
Today’s Tip: Ride Safe and Share the Road!
