Inspired By Nature: Handcrafting Memorial Pendants Using Ash and Willow

What Are Memorial Pendants?

Memorial pendants are pieces of cremation jewelry containing the remains of a departed loved one. These pendants are designed to serve as an homage or tribute to the dearly departed. Memorial pendants are often crafted to be small and wearable and may be fashioned using cremated ashes, locks of hair, or other meaningful materials associated with the deceased. For instance, you could make a small pendant in the shape of a heart with cremated ash and willow wood.

5 Nature-Inspired Ideas for Handcrafted Ash and Willow Memorial Pendants

If you plan on memorializing your loved one, one of the most meaningful ways to do it would be to handcraft an ash and willow memorial pendant from scratch. And if your departed loved one was environmentally conscious, you could consider crafting nature-inspired pendants to remember them by. Here are 5 ideas for nature-inspired memorial pendants you can use.

• Tree of Life ash pendant: If you’re good at woodworking, you could use your loved one’s ashes and willow wood to craft a memorial pendant in the shape of a tree. For example, you could carve a piece of willow wood in the shape of a tree with the ashes serving as soil for the tree. Once you’re done, encase the two in transparent resin and drill a hole at the top, large enough to insert a chain or a rope through it. You can wear the Tree of Life ash and willow pendant around your neck or as a bracelet.
• Weaved willow memorial pendant: The branches of the willow tree are flexible, allowing you to weave intricate and meaningful patterns. You can use the flexible nature of willow strands to your advantage by weaving them into a pattern or a design that you associate with your loved one. You could also integrate their ashes into the weaving to make it more special and personal. The flexibility of the willow branches symbolizes resilience and adaptability, making it one of the best ash and willow memorial pendants you can handcraft.
• Ash-embedded willow ring pendant: If you want to create a nature-inspired memorial pendant that’s simple and easy to craft, an ash and willow ring may just be the right choice. Start by weaving a ring using willow branches, integrating the ashes of your loved one into the weaving. Once you’re done, you can either insert a chain or a rope through it and wear it around your neck or encase the ring in transparent resin to create a pendant that can be worn on yourself. The circular ring made from willow branches represents the continuous cycle of life and the never-ending bond between you and the departed.
• Leaf pendant infused with ash: You can create a meaningful ash and willow memorial pendant not just with the wood of the tree but also its leaves. All you need to do is take a leaf from the willow tree and encase it in resin mixed with the cremated ashes of your dear one. Although mixing the ashes will change the color of the transparent resin, it will still leave it translucent enough for you to view the leaf inside.
  Now, it is important to remember that the leaves of the willow tree are generally elongated, which might make creating a leaf pendant challenging. However, there are certain varieties of the willow tree with round or oval leaves, which you can use for making this nature-inspired pendant.
• Ash-infused willow crescent moon pendant
  Another meaningful ash and willow memorial pendant you can easily handcraft is a crescent moon pendant. Start by carving a small piece of willow wood in the shape of a crescent moon. You can incorporate the ashes of your loved one in a way that completes the remaining half of the moon. Once you’re done, simply encase the ash and willow in transparent resin to create a pendant. The ash-infused willow crescent moon design symbolizes the light and dark phases of life.

Give your loved ones an eco-friendly burial with The Living Urn

Crafting nature-inspired memorial pendants from ash and willow is a good way to commemorate the deceased. In addition to this, there are also other meaningful ways to honor their life. For instance, you could host an eco-friendly burial using The Living Urn from Titan Casket. The Living Urn is a patented bio urn planting system that uses the cremated ashes of your loved one to grow a plant or a tree of your choice. You can choose to use a portion of the remains for making ash and willow memorial pendants and use the rest for the planting system in the eco-friendly urn.