03.06.08

Engraving Ideas

Posted in Love Poetry Quotes, Engraving Ideas at 1:44 pm by Hedy

Darling, I will always love you

Love of my Life

You were meant for me

You hold my Heart

You belong to my Heart

You belong to me

You are my Destiny

Till the end of time

Somebody loves you

Remember me with Love

Promise me

Only You

Nobody loves me like you do

Love is all we need

I’m yours

Live for loving you

Let’s put our Hearts together

I will always be with you

I’ll never stop loving you

Give me your Heart

Every beat of my Heart

We belong Together

Come live in my Heart

Love never dies

Loving you is my destiny!

Love is when I look into your eyes…. and see your heart!

You are my everything

Joy & Love Forever

Para Siempre

Your heart and mine are forever one!

I will forever love you

I’ll be your love and you’ll be mine.

You are the Joy in my Heart

You belong to me

You’re all I’ve ever wanted

Thank GOd I’ve found you

Remember the Love

Be Mine

As long as I have you

All my Loving

Crazy for you

Don’t stop loving me

Endless Love

First Time ever I saw your Face

Forever by your Side

For the Love of You

I’ll never break your Heart

Now and forever

Only Love

Stand by me

Thank you for Loving me

You light up my life

Forever your Friend

In my heart always

My Heart & Soul

Live Well, Laugh Loudly, Love Always

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02.03.08

Inserting Photos into a Locket 101

Posted in Uncategorized, How To at 6:45 pm by lauren

Putting a picture into a locket isn’t as difficult a task as it may seem. Please watch the video we have created to help you through the process.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPPY2aRvfbM


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01.01.08

Valentine’s Day Sentiments from arround the World

Posted in Love Poetry Quotes, Engraving Ideas at 1:36 pm by Hedy

In all languages, it says the same - I LOVE YOU

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10.18.07

Celebrate October Birthdays!

Posted in Uncategorized at 1:49 pm by lauren

Did you know October is the busiest birthday month of the year? More people have been born in October than any other month. Why not celebrate with our beautiful sentimental lockets personalized with your birthstone? Our Melinda Locket (14kt Gold Birthstone Locket with Pink Tourmaline for October birthdays)- available in White Gold and Yellow Gold See them in White Gold See them in Yellow Gold Both lockets are available in all birthstone colors. They arrive with a beautiful 18″ gold chain and boxed, so they are ready to be given. From now until October 31, 2007, we are pleased to offer you these hand crafted lockets at a special price. Please take advantage of this exciting opportunity as you plan for an upcoming wedding, anniversary or birthday. All of our lockets can be engraved to express a loving message from your heart.

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09.20.07

Lockets on the Tube!

Posted in Uncategorized, What's New, About Stuff at 8:15 am by lauren

Some of our lockets are famous! In the last year we have had a few featured in TV shows and commercials, mini movies…

TNT’s Mini Drama “The Charm”

If you watch Law & Order on Wednesday nights, you may have seen this mini drama about a woman, named Claire, who loses her locket on the subway. The locket, a sterling silver round flower locket was given to her by her mother, who passed away last year. The good news is that the young man she was speaking to, during the subway ride, finds the locket and tracks down Claire to return it. As this movie illustrates, lockets are a treasured keepsake. If you would like a locket just like Claire’s, visit our website at Heartsmith.com and look for the “flower locket”.
NBC’s Lost fans may remember the 3rd episode last season, called simply: “I Do” Kate was having a flash-back. She had recently been married to a policeman, and the locket was a gift given to her by her mother-in-law for the wedding day. This locket was the Betsy locket, hung on a very wide herringbone chain. It looked quite remarkable. Most people don’t realize the impact a chain has on the overall look and feel of a locket. Instead of a mere pendant, it can become a focal point of their style.

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06.11.07

NEW Monthly Sales at Heartsmith

Posted in What's New at 12:03 pm by Hedy

Check out our new monthly Flyers with fabulous lowest prices ever.

We can e-mail our flyer or we can send it to you regular mail.

Let us know at: hedy@heartsmith.com

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Question

Posted in Uncategorized, Ask Hedy at 12:02 pm by Hedy

Dear Heartsmith
I have 6 grandchildren and would love a locket that has room for 6 pictures. Do you carry any or do you know of where I could find one?
Thank you
Dee

Dear Dee
Generally when you have that many to display, we suggest you double-up some kids in the photographs. I have seen a round ball locket, but it is very difficult to work with and has a high failure/repair rate.
Hope this is of help to you.
Hedy

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03.30.07

The History of Mother’s Day

Posted in Uncategorized at 12:18 pm by Hedy

The Story of Mother’s Day

Mother’s Day is a holiday honouring mothers, celebrated (on various days) in many places around the world. Mothers often receive gifts on this day.

Mother’s Day is a strange time of year for mail in many countries. In 1973, mail delivery through the U.S. Postal Service was delayed for eight days because of the amount of mail. Telephone networks are also at their busiest on Mother’s Day. Mother’s Day is the number one holiday for flowers purchased throughout the year.

History

Different countries celebrate Mother’s Day on various days of the year because the day has a number of different origins. One school of thought claims this day emerged from a custom of mother worship in ancient Greece. Mother worship — which kept a festival to Cybele, a great mother of gods, and Rhea, the wife of Cronus — was held around the Vernal Equinox around Asia Minor and eventually in Rome itself from the Ides of March (March 15) to March 18. The Romans also had another holiday, Matronalia, that was dedicated to Juno, though mothers were usually given gifts on this day.

In the United States, Mother’s Day was originally conceived by social activist Julia Ward Howe during the American Civil War with a call to unite women against war. She wrote the Mother’s Day Proclamation. In the British Isles, the day now simply celebrates motherhood and thanking mothers. According to the National Restaurant Association, Mother’s Day is now the most popular day of the year to dine out at a restaurant in the United States.^[1]

In most countries, Mother’s Day is a new concept copied from western civilization. In many African countries, Mother’s Day has its origins in copying the British concept. In most of East Asia, Mother’s Day is a heavily marketed and commercialized concept copied straight from Mother’s Day in the USA.

Julia Ward Howe wrote the Mother’s Day Proclamation in 1870, as a call for peace and disarmament. An excerpt follows:

From the voice of a devastated Earth a voice goes up with
Our own. It says: “Disarm! Disarm!
The sword of murder is not the balance of justice.”
Blood does not wipe our dishonor,
Nor violence indicate possession.
As men have often forsaken the plough and the anvil at the summons of war,
Let women now leave all that may be left of home
For a great and earnest day of counsel.
Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead.
Let them solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means
Whereby the great human family can live in peace…

Howe failed in her attempt to get formal recognition of a Mother’s Day for Peace. Her idea was influenced by Anna Jarvis, a young Appalachian homemaker who, starting in 1858, had attempted to improve sanitation through what she called Mothers’ Work Days. She organized women throughout the Civil War to work for better sanitary conditions for both sides, and in 1868 she began work to reconcile Union and Confederate neighbors. In parts of the United States it is customary to plant tomatoes outdoors after mother’s day (and not before.)

When Jarvis died, her daughter, also named Anna Jarvis, started the crusade to found a memorial day for women. The first such Mother’s Day was celebrated in Grafton, West Virginia, on May 10, 1908, in the church where the elder Anna Jarvis had taught Sunday School. Grafton is the home to the International Mother’s Day Shrine. From there, the custom caught on — spreading eventually to 45 states. The holiday was declared officially by some states beginning in 1912. In 1914 President Woodrow Wilson declared the first national Mother’s Day. Nine years after the first official Mother’s Day holiday, commercialization of the U.S. holiday became so rampant that Anna Jarvis herself became a major opponent of what the holiday had become. Mother’s Day continues to this day to be one of the most commercially successful U.S. holidays.

Mothering Sunday, commonly called “Mother’s Day” in the United Kingdom, has no direct connection to the American practice. It falls on the fourth Sunday of Lent (typically March or early April). It is believed to have originated from the Christian practice of visiting one’s mother church annually, this meant that most families would be reunited on this day. Most historians believe that young apprentices and young women in servitude were released by their masters that weekend in order to visit their families.

Mother’s Day is celebrated on different days throughout the world. Examining the trends in Google searches for the term “mothers day” shows two major blips, the smaller one on the fourth Sunday in Lent, and the larger one on the second Sunday in May.

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Posted in Uncategorized at 12:18 pm by Hedy

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Mother’s Day Stories

Posted in Uncategorized at 11:32 am by Hedy

The first Mother’s Day observance was a church service in 1908 requested by Anna Jarvis, of Philadelphia, to honor her deceased mother. Jarvis, at an early age, had heard her mother express hope that a day to commemorate all mothers would be established. Her mother had also expressed the sentiment that there were many days dedicated to men but none to mothers. Two years after her mother’s death, Jarvis and friends began a letter-writing campaign to declare a national Mother’s Day observance to honor mothers. In 1914, Congress passed legislation designating the second Sunday in May as Mother’s Day.

“Mom gives up possessions so son can live, succeed: ‘Because of her, I will have a bright future,’ says Hung Bui of Des Moines [Iowa], a top speech and acting student.” … “Hung Bui weeps when he recalls the long road of self-sacrifice his mother paved for him to be successful.” … “In Vietnam, Bui’s mother, Thuy Phung, sold her car and valuables to pay for hospital care he needed when he was 2 months old.” … “After the family immigrated to the United States in 1998, Phung tirelessly worked and cared for Bui, his three older brothers and their father.” … “On Mother’s Day, Bui, now 17, honors the person who has endured extraordinary sacrifices to help him become the person he is today.” … “”All her life, she has been working and building a comfortable life for the people around her,” Bui said of his mother. “But she doesn’t think much of her life. All she wants is my love.” … “”I will dedicate everything to her. Because of her, I am; because of her, I am going to college. Because of her, I will have a bright future.”" -DesMoinesRegister/ News

“An Amazing Mother’s Day Gift: She gave her twins to her best friend.” … “From the moment she saw the ultrasound–the black-and-white images of the twin girls in her womb–Anese Adams knew she wanted the babies to be adopted by her best friend.” … “Cynthia Rice had been godmother to Adams’ two older children, playing an integral part in their upbringing. But the window to bear a child of her own was narrowing. Nearly 38, she already had one miscarriage. Her reproductive system was scarred by fibroid tumors, leaving her to struggle with the idea that “this might not be my destiny.”" … “So Adams made a decision–these would be Rice’s children.” … “”Cynthia is my rock,” said Adams, 36, who lives on the Northwest Side [Chicago, Illinois], 10 minutes away from Rice. “We are sisters without the blood. … And this is something I could do.”" … “If precise words elude them in describing their arrangement, perhaps that’s because it is easier to explain what it is not.” … “The women are not lesbian partners. (Adams is separated from her husband; Rice is unmarried.) Nor is this a surrogacy, where a woman is hired to bear an infant. (”Someone asked me if I was getting paid, and I was really offended,” Adams fumed.) Neither woman has a relationship with the father, who has legally consented to the adoption, according to Rice’s lawyer, Sara R. Howard.”
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0605140359may14,1,1064630.story?page=2

Enter Emeril’s Mother’s Day Breakfast in Bed Contest
Tell Us Why Your Mom Deserves Breakfast in Bed From Chef Emeril Lagasse
You know you want Emeril knocking on your mom’s door on May 11. Enter the Breakfast in Bed Contest today! (ABC News )
Does your mom deserve breakfast in bed served by Chef Emeril Lagasse? Now’s her chance, because it’s time for Emeril’s Mother’s Day Breakfast in Bed Contest sponsored by “Good Morning America.”
Tell us why your mom is your hero. Has she overcome obstacles in her life? Does she inspire others? What makes your mom special?
Submit an essay, not to exceed 50 words in length, explaining why the mom you are nominating deserves to receive a visit and breakfast prepared by Chef Lagasse in the winner’s home.
See “Good Morning America’s” Emeril’s Breakfast in Bed Contest Rules at:
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Recipes/story?id=2935775&GMA=true

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