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My mother in law loves the altered items that I make and has asked me to create an urn for her ashes. It's to be buried, so it's not a long lasting urn, but it does need to be sturdy.
Does anyone have any ideas? Ever made one before? Seen one around? I have no idea where to start, but thought this might be the place.
Wow, that's an unusual request. I have not seen one, but what came to my mind was going to one of those paint-your-own pottery places and looking at what they have. They probably have urn-shaped containers that they could fire and you could alter/decorate to her liking. She could even come along to choose the piece she likes.
Yes, an unusual request but quite flattering in many ways, I think - she likes your stuff enough to want it to be the last thing associated with her life.
I wonder whether moving away from thinking about a traditional "urn" shape would give you more possibilities? You can get really sturdy presentation tubes for wine bottles (sorry, I hope that doesn't seem inappropriate) that would give you a great surface to work on. Round about Christmas time we had a couple of shops selling them at the equivalent of less than two bucks a piece (I'm in the UK) so you could even buy a few to experiment with and see what worked for you without worrying about the supplies.
I'll keep thinking and see if anything else hits me. Good luck with it.
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My husband has been asked several times to make boxes for ashes (wordworking is his hobby). Make sure to ask someone how big it has to be - first time, he made the beautiful seashell shaped container too small and had to make a plain box to mount it on. Another one was a simple box with a sliding lid, and a meaningful image in contrasting wood fastened to the top.
Collaging on a mache' box would make it sturdy. There are some interesting mache' forms available. Just, like I said, make sure that it would hold the necessary volume. You could check it out by filling it with dried beans or something like that, then empty that into a measuring pitcher.
IIRC, my father-in-law's ashes were in a heavy plastic box about the size of a large shoebox. I don't know what size the storage box is for Mom's as I just saw the urn at the funeral. Maybe you could go to a mortuary and see if they have a box you could get from them and use it. Or at least know what dimensions they are so you can make something that would fit into.
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You might even ask the mortuary (or a funeral home) if you can purchase a cardboard urn-- I believe that is what they use when the family cannot afford to purchase a "real" urn. Actually, it might even be what they use when they know the ashes will be interred.
Create an urn?
