https://www.monuments.com/qiglass-services
So I’m still researching online for monument and/or ledger (full or half grave covers) designs. Lo and behold! I saw something interesting – cremation ideas by mixing ashes of the deceased beloved into glass artworks! I love the colors.
I also like the website layouts and presentation of monuments.com. It’s clean and crisp. And I assume it’s WordPress! Oh, and I also discovered that MANY, MANY of these memorials websites offering products and services run on the WordPress platform!
Hehe! WordPress probably supports these pro-death, err, memorial businesses. I think if we are ever to be remembered – online is a good archival tool. Yet, for those who want something solid – stone and granite memorials are good.
So for those who have LOTS of money – it’s fun to design your own memorial. I’ve having a VERY difficult time narrowing down my choices with simples designs – rings, scrolls, flowers, borders, and other emblems for civic and professions.
I’m also having a difficult time being a fickle person: I know the end product won’t be ‘perfect’ or the ‘best’, because the viewers and/or said property owner(s) will always have differing opinions.
Ooo! I love designing and wasting my time while under and unemployed! I use Word document to design my parents’ memorial. The Layout > Align > Grid Settings are: 0.1″ for both horizontal and vertical spacing and Show Grid at 2 for every horizontal and vertical gridlines on screen.
For my upright monument designs, I manually count each grid box at 0.1″ = 1″. And for my ledger (or full grave cover) designs, I manually count each grid box at 0.1″ = 2″.
Then I use Picture Format, Shape Format, Insert, Draw, Layout and Home mainly to help me plug my designs exactly as I would envision the pending ‘proof(s)’ to come back to us for approval and final settlement.
Unfortunately and because each text character and each images (diamond etched, carved, or whatever will be expensive, I might as well go simple and a LONG family estate memorial for three graves at 9-0 (or 108″). The heights for these LONG versions are usually the SHORT ones around 2-0 to 3-0.
I guess larger (LONGER and TALLER) pieces would be more expensive to design at the workshop, transport on HUGE tractor trailers, and install on uneven and freaking unkempt cemetery grounds. WTF won’t the cemetery managers and monument managers get back to my inquiries via a family support specialist?
So each granite, stone, or whatever piece is installed with freaking EXPOXY glue! So if at all possible, I would prefer the ONE-pieced galore. After all, after many years, any exposed parts might wear down and the etchings might fade away, too. I guess we should have any etchings or carvings and opt for a simple boulder – au natural! Sheesh.
Last night and the fortnight, I thought I had a good design to submit to that family support specialist who still hasn’t answered my emails! WTF are we paying these fools money if I do NOT get replies to my emails?
Anyway, I’m visualizing that I should go with the simple stuff – it’s easier: opening, names, dates, relationships, and epitaph only and no other designs. Because no one seems to really care about visiting the damned, err, deceased beloved, except maybe for the photographers and other bereaved who might need design ideas.
So far none of the relatives visited Mom’s gravesite. And unto them – I bid them off to Sheol.
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