Matters of Life and Death
We love the orange alabaster stone for carving. Softer than marble, the beautiful brilliant orange stone is rare in the mineral kingdom. Alabaster forms close to the earth’s surface and is quarried all over the world, including the United States.
The Urn Garden artists have transformed slabs of alabaster stone, accentuated the natural translucency and veining of the stone, and created a unique, beautiful art piece cremation urn.
alabaster sculpture image from francoise-marie.com
Our Sand Blast Golf urn is sculpted by an award winning American designer. The golf urn statue has been sculpted using the ancient lost wax method and then recreated in great detail using cold cast resin with bronze filler for the look and feel of solid bronze. The Golf sculpture is mounted on a solid maple wood urn and is also available in a dark walnut finish.
Jeff Sass wrote about his experience at a memorial tribute for a friend of the family.
It was a true celebration of a life, and an evening filled with much more laughter than tears. There were probably 400 people in attendance, and a heavy presence of both law enforcement professionals and leather clad bikers, two seemingly disparate communities, yet my friend’s dad was clearly beloved by both.
To say it was inspirational would be a gross understatement.
I think I learned many things last night, but the one thing I want to try harder to focus on is to celebrate life now. I want to celebrate my life and all that I have to be grateful for, and I want to celebrate the lives of my children and my family and all the people that I love. I don’t want to wait for the memorial.
Jeff Sass is the proud dad of ZEO (Zach, 22, Ethan, 20 and Olivia, 18). He is also a seasoned entertainment and technology exec and active social media enthusiast. See more of Jeff’s writing at Dadomatic.
One of our most secure urns, the Guardian Companion Urn is a double capacity urn designed for placement in a niche or columbarium.
The compact design of this urn makes it ideal for niche spaces less than 12 x 12, with two separate compartments in the urn to store ashes. Gorgeous white and celadon onyx with 22k gold plated brass accents make this urn a natural beauty. The Guardian Double Cremation Urn can be customized with appliques or engraved brass plates to personalize and identify the urn.
For our loved ones that were born in the month of August, a good starting place for planning a memorial theme is the August birth flower, the gladiolus.
Striking beauty, from the Latin word “gladius,” meaning sword. Glads symbolize strength and moral integrity.
If you don’t know the loved one’s favorite color, you could draw on the colors the Peridot gemstone. Peridot is the August birthstone and is mainly green, with golden yellows and brown inclusions. The color of summer.
Ancient Egyptians called peridot “The Gem of the Sun” because it was supposedly too bright to be visible in the sunny Egyptian desert. Legend also suggests that peridot can glow at night and it’s now believed that Cleopatra´s emeralds were really fine, dark green peridots.
Drawing on the color of peridot and the color of summer, Urngarden.com has green and gold urns at a tremendous savings for families.
Check out this unusual idea for a simple, elegant floating glad floral arrangement.
