First step: decide what you would like to depict on your memorial.

This is the most important decision of the whole process. Finding the right subject for your memorial requires you to know what would best represent the memory of your loved one, or what would best show your love for him/her.

Whether it is scenery, a favorite car, motorcycle, truck or boat, or whatever, it may be designed alone or incorporated into a scene of your choice. A favorite hobby, insignia or a past time such as gardening, reading or ceramics. A music instrument. A guardian angel to protect and guide your loved one. It could be a male angel, a female angel, a small child or even an angel that resembles your loved one.

If you are like many of us and cannot visit the cemetery often to place flowers, a nice bouquet of your favorite flowers could be carved into the stone and it will be there for eternity. The ideas are really limitless.

Deciding the perfect subject can be difficult, but with our help you won't need to imagine every detail of the whole design. Just a short description will be sufficient to our designers and your design will become the artwork that will show your love to generations from now.

Second step: etching or blasting?

Decide if you would rather have the design blasted into the stone or etched on it. Etchings and blastings give quite different artistic results, and both are beautiful. Laser or hand etchings can render very detailed designs, while the simpler lines of blastings are better suited for colored stones. Here is an example:

roses for etching roses for blasting

As you can see, any design can be made for etching with the opportune changes can also be made for blasting. If you want a help to decide, visit our artworks gallery where you will find a good selection of designs for etching and blasting we rendered in the past for many satisfied customers.

Third step: contact us.

Phone, fax or email us these specifications. After discussing what you would like to depict on your memorial, we will be glad to assist you and offer our advice in regard to choosing the right monument. We can also offer a suggestion as to the type of stone that would best show your design, as well as offer to you some very excellent monument dealers in your area.

We will draw a rough of your design and will either fax or mail it to you for your approval. When approved we will draw up the full size drawing, which will be the actual size of the stone you desire. With that rendering you still have a one time opportunity of making any changes needed to the original design at no additional charge.

You then will take your design to the dealer of your choice and they will take it from there. With a design in hand you may very possibly request a discount from that company.