Commemorating Your Horse

This page contains resources to help you celebrate and remember the life of a beloved horse. If you or someone you know is grieving a horse, check out my blog post How to Grieve a Horse in 10 Not-So-Easy Steps. I think that post resonates with people as it gets high traffic year after year. Maybe it will help you a little bit too. (This page contains affiliate links.)

Digital Horse Portrait

West and Willow brings horses, dogs and cats (really any pet) to life in digital art. You can select the background and frame. This is a discount code for 10% off.

Commissioned Paintings

Kasia Bukowska paints colorful, dreamy horse art. She has created commissioned work for other horse lovers who’ve experienced loss. CLICK HERE to see Kasia’s Etsy shop.

Custom Model Horses

Here’s an Etsy shop that will paint a small-scale replica of your horse.

Horse Hair Jewelry

Commemorating your horse by making or horse hair jewelry is popular and provides a way to keep a treasured horse with you in a precious way. This book will help you DIY horse hair jewelry.

Earrings 

Hoofbeat Designs

Tail End Jewellrey in the UK

Shadowboxes

Custom Shadowboxes

Trees

Selecting a tree to commemorate your horse will take a bit of knowledge about what grows in your zone. Here are some ideas to get you started:

Apple Tree

Red Maple

Strands of Hope, How to Grieve the Loss of a Horse

I wrote Strands of Hope to spread the message that grieving a horse is a completely normal thing. If you want to gift this to a friend (or yourself), I would be happy to write a personalized inscription inside and sign it. Click here to read more about my horse grief book.