🌻 In Memory of a Small Life: A Hamster and His Sunflower Seeds
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Hello friends🌞
Today, I want to share something especially tender — a quiet story behind one of the most meaningful commissions I’ve ever had the honor to create. It’s not about a famous design, or a product launch. It’s about a little hamster named Morpheus, who loved sunflower seeds more than anything in the world — and about the person who loved him even more.
📸 Morpheus, the little soul with bright eyes and a curious spirit.
🖌️ One day, a message landed in my inbox. A customer asked if I could make a custom pet urn, but not just any urn. She wanted it to feature not only her hamster's portrait, but also his favorite thing on earth: sunflower seeds. Not just a sunflower seed. The whole idea — the silliness, the joy, the character of Morpheus — wrapped up in that small, simple request.
And my heart instantly said yes.
📸 Morpheus loved to sit inside bowls and burrow in dried petals.
Every line I painted was slow and careful — not out of perfectionism, but out of love. Because this wasn’t just a container. This was where a story would rest. A little life that brought someone joy. A little heartbeat that once belonged to a home.
📸 The urn begins: hand-carving Morpheus’s name and sketching his portrait.
✨ The final design shows Morpheus nestled between a corn cob and two sunflower seed pods under a gentle twilight sky. I added stars, as if the universe had made space for him too.
📸 Painting the final colors — starry sky, sunflower seeds, and Morpheus in full character.
This is the kind of work that reminds me why I do what I do. Ceramics may be hard and quiet, but the stories they carry — they’re alive. They hold our grief, our laughter, our small daily rituals. And sometimes, they even hold a hamster’s favorite snack.
💛 To Morpheus — thank you for inspiring something so soft, and so real.
And to everyone who has ever loved a small animal, I see you. Your memories matter. And they deserve to live in something made with hands, care, and heart.
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