Life in the Garden

Matters of Life and Death

art

Inspiration

No time for diversions, but projects that have caught our eye of late:

mini fairy garden

This baby garden for small spaces. The artist used a cast-off wooden tray and does not recommend wood containers for YOUR fairy garden. It WILL ruin the furniture if you want a table top version. Note to self: Water plants.

In a desperate quest for something alive and green I bought two cat palms on clearance from you know where. They need a drink and some lovin.

Decorating the stump: My Stump, my stump, my ugly lovely rotten tree stump. It’s a Spring Ritual, the decorating of the stump. I’m ready to have it bored out. Dirtsister has been able to create some beauty there, but it will have to be reworked.

bird bath

Add a stone song bird obliesk. Hate that word btw. Obliesk. Can’t spell or say it.
And maybe some garden gnomes. And turtles. Love turtles and gnomes.
garden stone

Here’s another idea we like: Custom Tassles for personalization on glass and metal urns. Is it too foo-foo? Will have to think on.

tassle

And then while we are on foo-foo textiles, I love this look as a shroud.

anna nichole smith

And finally: Life Lesson #22 From Rosie the Chihuahua DAWG

dog

“Bless you, my child.”

Atomic Number 27 Cobalt Blue Funeral Urns

For centuries Cobalt compounds have been used to create a rich blue color to glass, glazes, and ceramics. Cobalt has been detected in Egyptian sculpture and Persian jewelry from the third millennium BC, in the ruins of Pompeii, and in China dating from the Tang and Ming dynasties.

Cobalt Glass Cremation Urns

Pure cobalt is not found in nature, but compounds of cobalt occur naturally in many forms. Small amounts of it are found in most rocks, soil, water, plants, and animals. Cobalt in small amounts is essential to many living organisms, including humans and is an element of atomic number 27.

Blue Marble Cremation Urn

Our Friendship and Truth memorial urn is actually the ancient stone Lapis Lazuli , the stone of friendship and truth. Egyptians loved the Lapis and would crush it into a fine dust to use for eyeshadow.

celtic knot cobalt keepsake urn

Our popular cobalt keepsake urns are available in different Celtic styles as well as butterfly design. But my all time personal favorite is this blown glass wave. It only holds a small amount of ashes, but is a sturdy stunning sculpture.

ocean wave cremation urn

If you love all shades of blue check out our page dedicated to the color of blue.

Dead Man Walking Pt. 2

indian postcard

Schools canceled, yoga’s canceled, it’s slick, it’s Friday, I’m lazy, let’s do a link dump.

First up, Candace’s post on anesthesia got me thinking on several points…how dangerous it really is. The nip and tuck I wish I could afford. And finally… an ugly confrontation I had right before Christmas with…..an anesthesiologist!

In other news, Virginia is trying to attract organ donors by waiving licensing fees at the DMV. Let’s make it really attractive and waive personal property taxes, and state income tax?

Dead People Pimping Products:

Copyranter analyzes this ad for yachts.

Last summer this ad agency was fired for the Doc Marten campaign ad that ran in the UK. In the agencies defense, someone in the Doc Marten chain APPROVED that ad.

Trim Spa still sports Anna Nicole’s image on the VIP page.

Can’t Get NO Krampus Action!

Krampus

Merry Krampus!

I’ve been saving this postcard because I’d never seen a devil featured on a Christmas greeting. Recently, while perusing some vintage cards, I ran across a series of variations on this creepy character known as Krampus. Evidently, in Eastern European folklore he’s the Enforcer for St. Nick and handles all disciplinary actions for the NAUGHTY KIDS.

krampus

He’s often seen with a switch or broom which he’ll use to whip the kids. Images of crying children are often included. And he’s the one who leaves you a sack of coal or a bundle of twigs if you’ve been bad.

krampus

As a kid, in our politically correct society, and especially here in the Bible Belt, we were never scared into going to sleep on Christmas eve, by thinking that the horned devil known as Krampus would think we were bad, and take us away in his sack!

Although, that does remind me of a girl I worked with whose grandmother would keep her in bed at night by telling her that if she got up “the Bloody Skull and Cross Bones will git ya!”

Night, night Grandma!

Merry Krampus!