Aspen Sky Designs hand crafts unique and custom cremation urns in our (Bruce and Noelle) family workshop. Our story leading to Aspen Sky Designs began back in 2009. Noelle’s mom passed away unexpectedly at the age of 57 while we were on our honeymoon. It instantly took life from the highest of joyful moments to the lowest. Later in 2014, we lost Bruce’s dad after a short battle with cancer. We have spent the years since then finding ways to help others who have experienced loss.

In 2015, we purchased a fixer-upper, A-frame house in the beautiful St. Croix River Valley outside of the Twin Cities. The property also had a large pole barn and a rundown peacock coop. After restoring the home and converting the coop into a relaxing bunkhouse, we turned our sights to transforming the horse barn into a bustling, family workshop.

Later in 2022, we took three months as a family to travel, rejuvenate, explore, and dream in places like Egypt, Türkiye, Dubai, Switzerland, Italy, and Scotland. Our story continued when we came back to America and knew the time was right to start our next chapter, Aspen Sky Designs.

In 2022, we founded Aspen Sky Designs to help people experiencing grief. We recognized a gap in the market and understood that many were searching for more personalized alternatives to mass-produced urns.

Bruce handcrafts each wooden urn with care, and Noelle, a professional artist with over 30 years of experience, individually hand-paints every piece. We prioritize quality, uniqueness, and meaningful customization.

Why choose AspenSky Designs?

Our experience with loss to help you navigate the process of creating the right urn that will fully honor and memorialize yourself or your loved one; whether its an urn featuring a painting of a father’s drum set for a grieving daughter, or an urn a woman has created for herself and her husband with their family farm proudly painted across the front. We work with our clients to create cremation urns that honor the life lived and memories made together.

It is our intention for AspenSky Designs urns to bring you and your family a sense of connection to your loved one. A connection to their humanness, and what brought them joy.

Every urn tells is crafted with care, then painted with reverence. Our urns embody more than just a vessel. Aspen Sky Design urns are a testament to what makes each of us unique. Our urns can be a powerful tool to let you decide how you want to be remembered.

Urns are available throughout the United States. You can find them at AspenSkyDesigns.com and in the NoelleRollinsArt store on Etsy.

Owner & woodworker

Bruce Rollins

You can often find Bruce out in the family workshop, building and designing. When not working Bruce loves to travel, explore in nature, cozy up with his golden retriever Graham, and spend time with family. Bruce is also a master of repurposing materials; whether is is the horse stalls that were in the pole barn that became a playground, then later repurposed into a chicken coop or barnwood into doors and tabletops.

Lead Artist & designer

Noelle Rollins

Noelle is an artist and master dreamer. In 2020, Noelle published Sacred Hellos – messages from Heaven. Noelle has been a speaker and organizer in events aimed to help women in grief here in the US, as well as dream exploration in Italy. Noelle uses her 30+ years as an artist to help others create inspired lives.