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A special gift for Mum ❤️

On this Mother’s day, treat your Mum to a gift in natural warm wood that she will love.

Shop now to make sure your gifts arrive by May 14^th

5,000 year old Ancient redgum

Cute and easy on the pocket

Candles and scent pots

Beautiful bowls and servers

For something extra special with winter coming

Valentine’s Day gifts for an Australian summer

Traditional Valentine’s Day gifts just won’t work in the sizzling summer we are currently having – your roses will shrivel in a day and your chocolates will melt on the way home. But give your sweetheart something from our range of hand crafted woodwork and it will stand up to the heat; made from native Australian timbers it is made for the job – and beautiful!

Just in, the Drew boxes are perfect for him or her but demand is as high as the temperatures so get in early

Candles say romance

These trinket boxes are unique and cute

Perfect for his keys/sunnies/wallet/phone

For Mr or Ms chess enthusiast

The chef’s board for the home chef

So there are a few hot ideas for a sizzling Valentine’s Day but check out our online store for more unique and beautiful, Australian-made gifts.

We are celebrating Australian Day

We are celebrating Australia Day not with any flag waving or face painting but just some quiet pride that our range of woodwork is guaranteed 100% Australian made – by local craftsmen, from our superb native timbers, sustainably sourced of course.

And you are helping us

With the help of you, our customers, we sustain dozens of little one-man workshops who hopefully pass on their traditional skills of woodturning, carving, cabinetry and marquetry just to name a few, to a new generation. We think you would agree that supporting these craftsmen is a fine thing in itself quite apart from the beautiful hand-crafted objects that make such wonderful gifts for yourself or others.

So a happy Australia Day to all our customers past present and future; we and our woodworkers from all over Australia thank you, we couldn’t continue without you.

What to do with a loved-one’s ashes?

A personal choice

What people decide to do with the ashes of a loved one is a very personal thing and thankfully, often clear instructions have been left, but if not, you might choose to scatter them, bury them under a tree or in a favourite spot, keep them at a crematorium where family can visit and pay respects or divide them up among the family to either keep or do any of the above with.

Grieving should not be rushed

Perhaps though, you haven’t decided what you want to do with the ashes and meanwhile you want them near you while you think about it and get used to the idea of that person no longer being part of your everyday life.  Often people want the ashes in a spot they walk past many times a day with the comforting sight of an ashes container helping them feel that a loved one hasn’t just disappeared like that!

You may want to keep talking to them

This is well known behaviour especially among long time partners who want to continue to talk to the person with whom they have shared their innermost thoughts and feelings over a lifetime, two famous examples being Jack Halford in ‘New Tricks’ who talked to his dead wife Mary, with musings about his current case and Maggie Beare in ‘Mother and Son’ who talked to the rose bush under which her dead husband Leo’s ashes were buried.

Waiting to be Together

Often the ashes of a loved one are kept in the family until they can be mingled and put together with those of a life partner and it’s important that they are kept safe and secure until that time. So, whether you are undecided what to do, or just want to keep your loved one close or are maybe waiting for a future ceremony, our hand-crafted wooden ashes box will fulfill your needs.

Designed for safety and elegance in beautiful native timbers

The Australian Woodwork cremation ashes box has been thoughtfully designed with both secure storage and beauty of form in mind. The safety of your loved one’s ashes is ensured by the screw on, screw off base – this means no lids, accidents or resulting spills. The graceful, simple form of the box with its curved base panels lets the warm, natural glow of wood  be the main feature. In warm wood rather than cold metal, elegant rather than flashy, this box makes a lovely home for those very important contents.