If you have a love of rustic or lodge style décor, The Homestead from Heirloom Hourglass is the perfect addition to your home, lodge, or camp. This hourglass is made entirely from cedar wood using traditional mortisse and tenon joinery. We leave the eastern aromatic cedar bases unfinished, giving you the pleasant smell of your favorite cedar chest the minute you receive your order and open the box! The log-shaped pillars of The Homestead are real cedar tree branches, and we leave the bark on for a charming, rustic flair that matches wonderfully with the grain pattern of the bases. A wonderfully detailed log cabin closure made from solid pewter adorns each side of this hourglass, and these closures make it simple to open and close your hourglass. Fill The Homestead with sands from your travels, sands from a stream or lake near your home, or with soil from the very ground your home is built on! We offer a vast selection of colored sands, and The Homestead makes a wonderful gift for a family member when filled with colored sands representing the birthstones of relatives. It also makes the perfect gift for a groundbreaking ceremony, or new homeowner. A collection kit with all you need to gather your sands or soils is included. Use the individually numbered gift book that comes with it to write the story of your hourglass and its contents, or write the meaning of the different sands and soils and what they represent when giving it as a gift. This unique sand ceremony hourglass is the perfect addition to a wedding unity sand ceremony, family unity ceremony, or vow renewal ceremony. It is the perfect alternative to the unity candle for an outdoor wedding sand ceremony, destination beach wedding sand ceremony, or an inside wedding where a candle cannot be lit.  It also makes the perfect heartfelt gift for any occasion.

Because of your purchase, we make a donation to a good cause. Please select where you would like it to go from the drop down menu. If you do not see your organization of choice, please select other and enter information into the Notes to seller section during the ordering process. If you do not wish to select, we alternate between our list of organizations and have a monthly default where donations go if no selection is made. For more information, please see the Camaraderie page of the website.