honor your pet with HereAfter Frames
Note: This is a paid review. HereAfter Frames is seeking backers in buy to reach its fundraising goal through Kickstarter. For a small contribution, you can receive a piece of art or a frame.
My pet dog Ace and my cat Beamer are happy, healthy “seniors.” While I hope I have lots of years ahead with them, I value every single walk and every single snuggle.
I do think about how I’d like to remember my family pets after they pass away. how to honor a lost pet is a very personal choice, and it’s something I would encourage every family to talk about ahead of time if possible.
One way to remember a lost pet is to use a custom-made frame from HereAfter Frames. These special frames combine the remains and/or the keepsakes of a pet with a memorial image. The image could be your own photo or it could be a painting or drawing created by one of the artists in HereAfter’s network.
Learn a lot more by enjoying the video:
HereAfter Frames on Kickstarter
In buy to help a lot more pet owners, HereAfter Frames hopes to raise $20,000 in funding through Kickstarter, a web site that supplies tools to raise funds for creative projects.
The great thing about Kickstarter is that it’s “a fundraiser that people can actually afford to help and that they also get something in return for supporting,” said Boris Jairala, who came up with the idea of HereAfter Frames in the summer of 2012.
In this case, any individual who makes a contribution of $10 or a lot more will receive a piece of art, a photo frame or an actual HereAfter Frame, he said.
Jairala has until 1 p.m. (EDT) Oct. 12 to reach his goal. The project will only be funded if at least $20,000 is pledged by that time, according to Kickstarter. That’s the special thing about Kickstarter – it’s all or nothing.
More about HereAfter Frames
Jairala wrote on his web site that the summer of 2012 was a hard time considering that he had lost his daddy the previous fall. At the time, Jairala had been professionally building and creating custom-made frames as a commissioned portrait artist.
To honor his father, Jairala said he painted a memorial portrait of him which helped serve as a tip that his daddy would always be there.
Soon after that, Jairala’s pet dog Chase (right) was diagnosed with terminal cancer.
“Once again, the grieving process led me to paint,” he wrote.
He had his pet dog cremated and received a brochure with urn options.
“It was at that moment I knew that I had to find a a lot more significant way to honor my dog,” he wrote.
He created HereAfter Frames to offer a a lot more “personalized tribute to those you love.”
Frame and artwork options
The frames come in five sizes ranging from 4 by 6 inches up to 16 by 20 inches and can be used to honor a lost pet or a lost person, according to the HereAfter Frames page on Kickstarter. The largest frame has the ability to hold the remains from someone who was up to 230 pounds while living.
For the memorial image, you can use your own photograph or you can choose from a number of artists on hand who can create a painting or drawing.
Personally, it is very comforting to turn to a favorite image of a pet, and to look at or hold one or two small keepsakes such as the dog’s collar, ID identifies or a favorite toy. Being a writer, I also tend to write something about the pet in the form of a letter or memoir, which could be tucked in with the pet’s keepsakes.
We all grieve in our own ways, but as Jairala wrote, “no matter the culture, race, age or demographic, we all tend to share the traditions of honoring passed loved ones.”
Learn a lot more about HereAfter Frames and enjoy its Kickstarter video here.
How have you honored a lost pet?