I make several other non-customized memorial gifts, some intended for sympathy and remembrance, and some simply as gifts for animal lovers than can be used as remembrances.
Non-customized Memorial Gifts
I design, make and sell many different gift items featuring my artwork and photography—that’s how the votives came to be. I customize a few of those items, but people have also purchased the non-customized gifts to use a remembrances as well.
I have included the specific gift items I designed for pet loss, both customized and on-customized, on this website. On my retail e-commerce website I have an online store of many other handmade gift items that may also be used as remembrance gifts. I have the links below to lead you to the right place.
“Love Never Ends” Design
I used the “rainbow clouds” background with a simple phrase early on in developing this idea of votives and other pet memorial gift items. I had used the background with a different phrase as one of my initial dozen sympathy cards.
When I began making the votives it was initially a note card given with each votive to write a note a sympathy inside. Then I created this non-customized votive and other items that could be given if a customized gift wasn’t possible.
“Love Never Ends” Votive
I offer a Love Never Ends Votive which includes the “rainbow clouds” background and simple, sincere, phrase. It can be a complement to other remembrance gifts, or who has lost several pets, to display in collective honor. I make this votive in quantity and so they can be ordered in quantity. It coordinates with other goods related to the votives.
“Love Never Ends” Garden Flag
I also offer a Love Never Ends garden flag that is not customized. It can be a complement to other remembrance gifts, or for a person who has a pet memorial garden or whose companion spent time outdoors, or who has lost several pets, to display in collective honor. I make this flag in quantity and so they can be ordered in quantity. It coordinates with other goods related to the votives.
Flags are 11″ x 15″ and can be displayed outside in the garden or used indoors as a small banner. I print my flags on one side of cotton canvas duck fabric and stitch the pocket and hem. Cast iron flag stand is extra. Flags have been colorfast and resisted fraying for two years in just about all of my test yards around the country except where there’s been some wild weather. I’ve left my own out through the winter.
“I Will Always Walk With You” Design
This particular design was based on a chance photo from a June morning in 2009 when Cookie and Namir and I were out in our back yard, each doing our thing, they smelling and tasting and stalking, me racing from flower to glistening dewdrop with my camera. They often followed or preceded me as I wandered, and I happened to see the stepping stone at the bottom of the steps with my wet footprint and two pawprints, a faint third above them. We lost Namir a few weeks later, and when I reviewed the photos from that morning I found this one and immediately knew it had to be one of the set of sympathy cards I was designing and what text I’d use. Later I designed a few other remembrance items too.
“I Will Always Walk With You” Pet Remembrance Gift
This remembrance is a print of my photo “I Will Always Walk With You” on a cradled wood panel, and a combination of finishes around the sides to coordinate with the image and appear like stone. A bottom panel adheres with Velcro, strong enough to hold things inside but not a tight enough fit for loose cremains like an urn.
It serves a double purpose: as a decorative item or a sort of keepsake that can hold a pet’s cremains contained in a bag along with keepsake items. In either case it can sit on a table or shelf flat or up on its bottom edge.
Without the base panel, because of the “cradles”, or wooden frame backing that forms the sides, it can also hang on the wall.
The size is 5″ x 7″ x 1.5″.
This coordinates with of one of my Animal Sympathy Cards, one of three in the dozen that are non-species-specific, so can be used for any pet with paws; in some cases those distinctive pawprints stand for animals in general.
“I Will Always Walk With You” Garden Flag
Flags are 11″ x 15″ and can be displayed outside in the garden or used indoors as a small banner. I print my flags on one side of cotton canvas duck fabric and stitch the pocket and hem. Cast iron flag stand is extra. Flags have been colorfast and resisted fraying for two years in just about all of my test yards around the country except where there’s been some wild weather. I’ve left my own out through the winter.
Silhouette at the Window Votive Lamp
A contemplative kitty sits quietly, looking out the window at the day.
Silhouette at the Window Votive Lamp is a particular shape of upcycled jar, frosted outside with a black cut vinyl design and black glass paint embellishment, and offered in clear white or with blue, green or yellow transparent glass paint interior. All votive lamps come with a string of LED lights with a six-hour timer.
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