This might be a bit morbid for some of you...
Behind the cut you'll find a photograph of my mum's headstone. It was my job to put it together with all of the elements the family wanted, because I'm the artist. It was hard to do. This is an perpetual memorial.
1 - the font had to be Celtic (Uncial). I had to supply the memorial place with the font as they didn't have it.
2 - there had to be shamrocks, a celtic cross, Gaeilge, a ship, a rose and my parent's signatures added.
3 - the gaeilge had to be "Tiocfaidh Ár Lá" which means 'our day will come' and is pronounced 'Chucky our Lah'. When my parents were dating, their song was Our Day Will Come, by Ruby and the Romantics, so this phrase aways had extra meaning to us and we refer to my dad (Charles) as Chucky our Da as a bit of a joke, because he was alway away at sea and only got about 3 months leave a year so we used to also say "Our Da Will Come."
My aunt has now asked me to design the headstone for her and my uncle. *_*
And now that I've bored you all to death, here's the photo
1 - the font had to be Celtic (Uncial). I had to supply the memorial place with the font as they didn't have it.
2 - there had to be shamrocks, a celtic cross, Gaeilge, a ship, a rose and my parent's signatures added.
3 - the gaeilge had to be "Tiocfaidh Ár Lá" which means 'our day will come' and is pronounced 'Chucky our Lah'. When my parents were dating, their song was Our Day Will Come, by Ruby and the Romantics, so this phrase aways had extra meaning to us and we refer to my dad (Charles) as Chucky our Da as a bit of a joke, because he was alway away at sea and only got about 3 months leave a year so we used to also say "Our Da Will Come."
My aunt has now asked me to design the headstone for her and my uncle. *_*
And now that I've bored you all to death, here's the photo