It stayed long enough for them to retrieve a camera and take a picture before it flew away. In a tree on their lawn sat a snowy owl, the first they had ever seen on their property. On Tuesday, the MacMasters were driving home with Cyndi’s ashes. “If we think about her, she’ll always hear us.” “I told them, ‘In a way you’re lucky because today you guys got your own guardian angel,’” he said. Scott MacMaster said he broke the news to his sons by telling them they were unlucky and lucky at the same time. “She said she thought it was beautiful,” he said.
Jake gave his mother a necklace with a red heart enclosed in a golden one. The MacMaster boys received many of their Christmas gifts early, before Cyndi died at 2:30 a.m. “We used it as a lesson for the boys about kindness.” “Watching the comments come in, that was just such a wonderful gift,” he said. There were stretches when the three boys were refreshing the site every five minutes. Scott said the money helped, but the comments people wrote on the website - ‘I remember when Cyndi helped me do this’ or ‘I remember when Scott helped me do that’ - were better. Scott’s sister set up an online support forum to help the family with medical bills, which in just over three weeks attracted more than $49,000 in donations. Then you get to the point where you say, ‘OK, this is just a hill that you have to get to the top of.’” “You question the choices you’ve made, your lifestyle and your eating habits. “You start to think that somehow you made God mad,” said Scott. “We definitely lived in the moment,” said Scott. Last winter, with the snow piled up, the whole family jumped off their second-story deck. They often loaded up the car and took long drives all over Maine, with no particular destination. They took the boys to Jay Peak in Vermont and Story Land in New Hampshire, spent days fishing and packed in as many camping trips as they could. Scott said they realized then that the cliches about such events are true and determined to live every moment to its fullest. Three years ago she survived cervical cancer with radiation and chemotherapy.
She even bought each boy a card for his wedding and sealed her love inside envelopes that will be yellowed and brittle by the time they’re opened. She recorded audio books for the younger boys and filled out high school graduation cards for all three. She filled out 13 years of birthday cards for Jake and her other two boys, 7-year-old Parker and 5-year-old Tripp.
19, just weeks after a cancer diagnosis.Įven in her final days, she was able to look past death’s cruel face to the future. Once again, the Iris is made to order and can be finished in most timbers or colour lacquers.“She sure was,” Scott MacMaster said to his eldest son, both brushing away a tear.Ĭyndi MacMaster, 36, died on Dec. The lamp uses an energy saving bulb, which in turn creates a subtle shadow effect on the surrounding area, adding to the ambience of a room. Made from solid laminations of timber and thanks to the nature of the wood, no two lamps are the same. Walnut, ash, cherry and white are just some of the finishes offered, although most timbers or colour lacquers can be used as the coffee table is made to order.Īs the name suggests, the six-leaved floor lamp is inspired by an Iris. Consisting of a symmetrical, three-point intercepting leg base made from cross-laminated birch ply, the Expose coffee table supports a toughened glass top. “I design to make a visual impact, to stimulate the imagination and to have an elegance that realises timeless appeal.”īy looking to contemporary European design and focusing on traditional British methods of craftsmanship, MacMaster managed to reach the shortlist of the 2009 Wood Awards and was highly commended for the coffee table at New Design Britain 2010. “Furniture should be as much an artistic statement as it is functional”, explains the designer. Exhibiting the stylish Exposure coffee table and the elegant Iris floor standing lamp, the young furniture designer has wasted no time in developing a new line of furniture since graduating from Lincoln University in 2008. At this year’s 100% Design London exhibition, Alex MacMaster presented his latest work under the new brand name MacMaster.
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