• Skip to secondary menu
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Urn Garden Home
  • About

Life in the Garden

Matters of Life and Death

  • Blog Home
  • Confessions
  • Featured Products
  • Memorial Service Ideas
  • Pets

Confessions

Purple Urns for Ashes

December 15, 2012 urngarden.com

We try not to be slaves to our own tastes, but purple is one of our favorite colors. Evidently the families we serve think so too. Purple can be a complete contradiction, elegant and a little crazy. Maybe that’s why so many love this complex color. It’s definitely  the reason why we curated a collection of purple urns.

purple sugar plum cremation urn for ashes

The purple heart is a new design and comes in red and white as well. Metal with rich enamel and studded with sparkling crystal, the hearts are free standing sculpture that also safely store the cremated ashes. Purple Passion is a gradient or ombre effect of lavender fading to a deep plum. Both of these can be engraved.

purple cremation urn for ashes

Regarding funeral service, the color is changing. From darkness to light.

In the urn world, we noticed that the ladies love shades of purple. So we offered a line of purple urns and are one of the few distributors to do so.  When we expanded our line of pet urns, we wanted to offer stylish urns in blue and purple, so we manufactured an exclusive line, our True Blue and Violet Inspiration and the families have responded.

The color purple. Brought to you by the Murex Mollusk snail.

murex shell

Purple was said to be Cleopatra’s favorite color. The ancients created the unique color from the mollusk shell, and the expense was so great that only royals could afford to wear it. You can imagine the process involved, collecting the snails and then extracting the dye. Very tedious.

purple cremation urns for ashes

We’ve covered the power of purple in earlier posts. Purple has a special, almost sacred place in nature: lavender, orchid, lilac, and violet flowers are often delicate and considered precious. Because purple is derived from the mixing of a strong warm and strong cool color it has both warm and cool properties. A purple room can boost a child’s imagination or an artist’s creativity.

June birthstone cremation urn jewelry

Warm reds and cool blues combine to make this complex hue. We’ve tried to capture the spirit of purple in our exclusive cremation urn collection that ranges from heavy cut crystal and metals to fine blown glass. Years ago, funeral urns only came in one style. Ugly. Now, there’s so many options. Modern twists on old designs. Lots of color and now, instead of a bronze vase, you can commission a sculpture that contains storage for the ashes.

purple lavender heart keepsake urn for ashes

Morning Glory is a family favorite, deep dark purple with hand tooled pewter accents.

purple and gold human adult cremation urn for ashes

Blown glass in variegated shades of lavender doubles as an art piece.

Purple cremation UrnsMore metal styles ranging from dark eggplant to royal violet that can be personalized with laser engraving.

pretty purple cremation urn for ashes

Visit us to see more of our purple urn collection.

Urn Garden Cremation Urns

Filed Under: art, Featured Products, Memorial Service Ideas Tagged With: Murex Mollusk, purple cremation urns, purple urn, purple urns for ashes

When A Co-Worker Checks Out – Permanently

December 12, 2012 urngarden.com

YOLO Neon

When a former co-worker called me today to report that one of our colleagues had died I was a little taken aback, we’d worked together for a few years and he was my age. On Monday he didn’t show up for work and wasn’t answering the phone which was out of character for him. He’d left the office keys on his desk and taken a few things home like maybe he didn’t plan to come back after the weekend. His online profiles were scrubbed. His supervisor and police officers went to his home and discovered the body.

Suicide is such a mystery and can feel like the ultimate F.U.

My heart breaks for his family. My relationship with him was tumultuous. We argued often.  I hope he found peace.

Image Source: Emily Mughannam, EM Design

Filed Under: Confessions, obituaries, Television Tagged With: death in the workplace, suicide of a co-worker

Bronze Cremation Urns are Simply the Best

December 11, 2012 urngarden.com

Updated 11/6/17:

It’s been a few  years since I wrote this post and I thought it high time to revisit it. Not because my opinion has changed; if you asked me 100 times “What is the longest-lasting cremation memorial you can buy?” I’d tell you 100 times over: a bronze cremation urn.

Why? Because bronze is, literally, ‘forever’.

Think of the ancient Greek and Roman bronze sculptures housed in museums around the world such as the Artemision Zeus and the Piraeus Athena, believed to both date from the 4th century B.C.E.

athena bronze sculpture

Both are ‘larger than life’, standing well over six feet in height. Each is certainly impressive–both then and now–some 2400 years later.

Bronze is the longest lasting memorial you can buy.  It’s forever and you can expect to pay more for a bronze cremation urn. Discriminating families who want a sculpture piece or art work for the home will choose a bronze cremation urn. These families want something decorative and low key that doesn’t reveal it’s true nature as an urn for ashes.

Bronze Cremation Urn

Bronze cremation urns are considered custom work and buyers should be prepared to wait a few weeks for the final product. Plus, you don’t even want to know what it costs to ship a bronze sculpture overnight. Urn Garden is pleased to support American artists and craftsmen, many of the bronze urns we sell are made in the USA and the main foundry we work with creates custom statues and life size memorial installations that can be seen on college campuses, government buildings, parks in addition to the urns we sell.

Bronze Cremation Urn

Bronze Eagle Cremation Urn

Here at Urn Garden, we’ve established working relationships with the finest American and international artisans involved in crafting custom-order bronze cremation urns. Each of the bronze cremation memorials we offer is a work of fine art–a legacy to be passed down for generations. I’ll be shining a spotlight on some of these fine art sculptures with a purpose throughout the month but for now I invite you to whet your ‘appetite for beauty’ by taking a sneak peek at our complete collection.

Urn Garden Cremation Urns

Filed Under: Advertising, art, Featured Products Tagged With: bronze art urns made in usa, bronze cremation urn, urn for ashes

National Children’s Memorial Day

December 9, 2012 urngarden.com

“It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that is happens all the time, we never see it.” — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

One of the more unspoken facts of life is the death of a child. For generations, when children passed away — no matter the age or cause — it was wrong to talk about or even grieve the young one. But the fact is children die every day from all causes, and they are mourned just as much as a wife who loses her husband or a daughter who loses her dad.

However, it’s only been in the last few decades that it has become socially acceptable to mourn the loss of a child. No longer are parents told that they can have other children or that it’s best to not talk about the deceased.

Today, those young lives are honored, celebrated and most importantly, remembered on National Children’s Memorial Day. Held the second Sunday in December, this proclamation, signed by President William J. Clinton in 1998, validates the grief and despair felt by bereaved families each day. It also allows them to gather and share their loved ones with those who truly understand their pain and anguish.

If you lost a child or know someone who has, take time today to remember that precious life. At 7 p.m. local time, light a candle. Supporters all over the world are doing the same, creating a 24-hour wave of light that encircles the world.

Filed Under: Confessions, Memorial Service Ideas Tagged With: death of a child, losing a child, National Children's Memorial Day

Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day

December 7, 2012 urngarden.com

Pearl Harbor

Never forget.

While cleaning out her father’s things, My friend Jenny discovered this list of regulations from the Nita Maru prison ship where William Joesph Brigham was held as a war prisoner after the Wake Island massacre. The rules were punishable by immediate death if not followed.  Zoom in for details.

Japanese prisoner ww2

And my grandfathers account of arriving at Pearl Harbor a few weeks after the bombing as a 20 year old kid.

Filed Under: Confessions, obituaries Tagged With: Nita Maru, Pearl Harbor, Wake Island

  • « Go to Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Page 26
  • Page 27
  • Page 28
  • Page 29
  • Page 30
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Page 109
  • Go to Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Urn Garden Cremation Urns for Ashes

Recent Posts

  • O Death, Where is Your Sting? Cremation Urns for Adults, Dogs, & Babies
  • What the Catholic Church Says About Cremation, Burial, and Funeral
  • Is Amazon Really A Good Place to Buy a Cremation Urn for Ashes?
  • Types of Cremation Urns that Families Buy Pt. 2
  • Types of Urns That Families Buy for Cremation

Pages

  • About Us

Death in the Digital Age

  • Beyond Indigo Grief Forum
  • Find A Grave
  • Seven Ponds
  • Show Me Urns (Our Sister Site)
  • Talking to Children About Death
  • The Daily Undertaker

Copyright © 2025 Urn Garden · Log in