Touch Wood Memorial Rings

10/15/2026

How lovely! Thank you Life Forest

CREMATION MONTH SPOTLIGHT: TOUCH WOOD MEMORIAL RINGS

What if your memorial jewelry could combine cremated remains with the natural beauty of wood?

In British Columbia, Canada, David and Nicola Finch are the people behind Touch Wood Memorial Rings, creating handcrafted memorial jewelry inspired by nature and historic mourning traditions.

David is a pioneer of the bentwood ring, a technique that allows him to create wooden rings using carefully shaped layers of wood.

Their memorial collection includes rings, pendants, and talismans that incorporate a small portion of cremated remains from people or companion animals.

Families can help personalize their designs by selecting meaningful wood species, colors, and other small keepsakes.

Perhaps a particular tree reminds you of someone you love. Maybe it was a forest where you walked together or a favorite place outdoors.

These connections can become part of a wearable memorial.

For those who feel connected to trees, forests, and the natural world, this is another interesting way to approach cremation memorialization.

Explore Touch Wood Memorial Rings:
https://www.memorialrings.ca/

Follow Life Forest throughout Cremation Month as we continue exploring creative and meaningful options for cremated remains.

10/08/2026

It’s full on fall here on the Chilcotin Plateau! Gorgeous time of year. Ever thankful that we still call this place home after 25 years.
In the next few days we’ll be doing another sacred scattering of ashes, sand and lilac blossoms for a family who commissioned rings in memory of their mom. They sent us branches of lilac, cherry and juniper. The lilac was planted by their great-great grandparents. 🌱 So much thought and love and history woven into these rings. It’s been our honour to be a part of these creations.

09/06/2026

https://www.memorialrings.ca/work-is-love-made-visible

Touch Wood Memorial Rings. Custom wooden rings and pendants meticulously crafted by hand and inlaid with ashes of your beloved. Made with love in Canada for over 20 years by artisan David Finch.

09/06/2026

I really love this design for a Memorial Ring. This is a (now very old) gently tapered Bubinga ring with a full-moon inlay of my Mom and Dad's ashes. David made this from a small branch of Bubinga wood that a client sent to us many years ago.
Bubinga is not a wood we promote or source. It is endangered, and a third species of Bubinga is near threatened.
But if this design is something you might like, let's explore other wood choices.

08/16/2026

Touch Wood Memorial Rings most often include an inlay of the beloveds ashes but they can also be created with woods that hold special significance or inlay materials other than ashes, such as crushed stone or shell or dried flowers.
The ring below is one of 6 that David created for his family from woods left over from the making of their fathers handcrafted casket.

07/22/2026

A tiny bit of cremated remains can be inlaid in a hand-crafted Touch Wood Ring, pendant, or talisman to keep your beloved close and wrapped in the warmth of wood.
There is no rush.
There’s no time limit to love or grief.
Do what feels right.
Come in and have a look around. Be in touch.

Touch Wood Memorial Rings. Wooden Rings and Pendants crafted by hand and inlaid with the ashes of your beloved person or pet. Custom made in Canada. Always with Love.

06/30/2026

Beannacht (by John O’Donohue)

Sometimes all you can do is bless someone and wish them blessing. You can’t change what they’re going through, though you wish you could. It’s difficult to figure out how to ease their suffering or bear their burden. Sometimes all you can do is send them love from within, hold hope for them when they can’t for themselves and send them blessing.

Beannacht” is the Gaelic word for “blessing.”

Shortly before his death in 2008, the late Irish poet John O'Donohu...

06/22/2026

We love this gentle work. We honour your loss, and if a Touch Wood Memorial Ring or pendant or talisman feels right for you, please be in touch.
Warmly, Nicola and David

06/12/2026

I was recently invited to talk about Touch Wood Memorial Rings for ‘Spotlight Now’ with The Global Green Burial Alliance.
🌱💚

Where I talk about the work David and I have offered for almost 25 ...