Life in the Garden

Matters of Life and Death

custom urns

The Lion in the Closet. Brave Heart Lion Urn

Brave Heart Lion Keepsake Urn

This sculpture by one of the Urn Garden artists keeps coming around, and there’s always a wild story to go with it.  The latest is a client who was involved with a Las Vegas animal rescue operation back in the ’80’s. She handled exotics.

Big cats and monkeys.

Funny thing, this story had a familiar ring to it.

Turns out, she had the ashes of a lioness that had been in the closet all these years. She stumbled on to our Brave Heart lion keepsake urn while shopping for a different style cremation urn for another sad occasion.

One look and she knew she had to deal with the lion in the closet. This urn will be perfect as she only has possession of half the lion’s ashes.  This urn is designed for keepsake size portions and even though it won’t accommodate all of the cremains, she has a plan.

Lion King Bronze Urn for Human Ashes, Made in America

On a larger more human scale, the bronze Lion King cremation urn has an adult capacity and is also made here in the USA. A bit more expensive, families commission this sculpture style and tend to only want top quality premium products for their loved one, no matter the cost.

Floppy Drive Custom Cremation Urn

computer cremation urn

Yes, he’s really in there (after cremation). I kept the floppy drive cover but for space reasons removed the floppy drive, hard drive, and most of the power supply. I left behind the motherboard and power switch and plugs to keep all openings covered. The case worked quite well at his memorial party.

 

The Name Game

Urn Garden is one of the few companies that offers engraving on the cloisonne urns. Even the double size cloisonne urns can be personalized. Engraving adds a couple of extra days to the transit time, depending on the work load. To ensure accuracy, we email a proof for final approval before production begins.

Personalizing the urn is a good idea for identifying the remains as well as planning for the future. Sometimes families are uncomfortable with the idea, perhaps they plan to keep the urn in the home and the nice thing about cloisonne is that it’s decorative enough without calling attention to the fact that it contains someone’s ashes. Sometimes the survivors don’t want to be reminded, they don’t want to see the container marked with their loved one’s name or date of death. It’s a personal choice, of course, but still an important consideration for the future of the urn. What is the plan after the caretaker passes? It’s a good way to not only identify and personalize, it also is protection from possibly being placed in an estate sale or thrift shop at a later date….