The Garden of Innocence has plans on their website for both urns and caskets. Since most of the remains are cremated they are in greater need of urns. I picked out some pine and poplar boards I had on the rack for the two urns I was going to make. They mention on their website that they make theirs out of Pine but I think they open to any type of wood. Since April first posted her Blog and Video about this I have seen quite a few woodworker post about the donation they made.
The construction is pretty straight forward in the plans. The base is screwed to the body from underneath. I finished mine with a couple coats of wipe on poly.
With them finished I boxed them up and today I will take them to the post office to mail. Here is the address if you decide you'd like to help out also.
It renews some faith in the human race when I see that there are still people can take some of their time and talents and put them to a good cause. Not saying that there is anything wrong with donating money to a cause (even I accept cash), but like I said earlier I don't feel like padding someones six figure salary. So unless I know my money actually is going to the cause I'll find another way to help. After all, I remember a certain female actress who raises money for starving children but looks borderline obese... there is just something wrong about that. If your still reading at this point let me say that this post is in no way intended to tug at any heart strings and to get you to do anything you don't want to do. I just wanted to share. Thanks for stopping by and feel free to leave a comment.
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