So This Is Christmas

Merry Christmas is such an infectious feeling I like to feel that way all year around.

So if you are visiting just before Christmas, just after Christmas or even here on Christmas day I am sure you will find something of interest for you and in the spirit of Christmas.

It may be said that Christmas is no longer a celebration but this must be spoken by people that have never had trouble closing their eyes on Christmas Eve in an expectation of what maybe left for them on the carpet under the tree.

I continue to look forward to the surprise on my Grandchild's faces to this day at Christmas events.

Merry Christmas - Merry Christmas - Merry Christmas

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Latest Jewellery Designs For One's Mum on Her Special Day

By Adrian Jones


Expensive Jewellery styles - at bargain prices

You can help make Mother's Day out of the ordinary this current year, with a gift of the latest jewellery designs from Orkney jewellers. This really is your time to say thank you to your mum, stepmum or grandma for being so incredible. And don't feel concerned about being required to track down the cash for expensive jewellery. They are fully aware how wonderful mums are, so quite a few jewelry stores will be promoting 15% off just about all jewellery items until 9am on Monday 19th March, so start treating your mum with the latest jewellery designs.

Mother's Day, which is best-known as Mothering Sunday in the UK, occurs on the 4th Sunday of Lent, that is March 18th this current year. It could quite possibly have came from from the 16th century Christian custom of visiting one's mother church each and every year on Laetere Sunday, which meant most mothers could be reunited with their kids for the day as their kids would often be working away from home and only came back to the mother church or cathedral for this special day. An alternative possibility is that this celebration may have been adopted from the Roman Spring festival commemorating Cybele, their Mother Goddess. Then the Christian Church, which followed numerous pagan calendar festivals, may have changed it for its own purposes.

Young apprentices and young women in service were released by their masters or mistresses that particular weekend. Individuals who traveled to their mother church would say they'd gone "a mothering." Those in service were solely permitted one day to visit their family each calendar year. This was commonly on Mothering Sunday.

For several servants in olden times this can be a significant journey since their mother may have lived some distance away, indeed a different town entirely from the Manor where these people were put in to service. Usually the housekeeper or cook will allow the maids to bake a cake for taking home for their mother. Sometimes a gift of eggs; or flowers from the garden (or hothouse) was granted.

Latest Jewellery Designs Make Gorgeous Gifts

Probably the most preferred cake appeared in later times - as it still is in most homes - the simnel cake, a fruit cake. A flat covering of marzipan (sugar almond paste) is placed on top of and embellished with 11 marzipan balls symbolizing the 12 apostles minus Judas, who betrayed Christ.

The Flowerland bangle or earrings will make a good floral gift among the latest jewellery designs. This lovely collection is inspired by lazy days among the rose-beds. Flowerland is bursting with blossoms and butterflies boasting a 9 carat yellow gold butterfly.

Since the days of service in great houses reduced in the early 20th century Mothering Sunday was less widely celebrated. However during World War Two American soldiers brought the Mother's Day celebrations to the UK when it was combined with the Mothering Sunday traditions. By the 1950s Mother's Day had become traditionally used in the whole of the UK and gifts were bought, for example the latest jewellery designs, though not always expensive jewellery in most cases. Various Mothering Sunday traditions were revived, which include the custom of consuming cake on that day.

Mothering Sunday can fall at the earliest on 1 March (in years when Easter Day falls on 22 March) as well as at the latest on 4 April (when Easter Day falls on 25 April). It's also been referred to as Refreshment Sunday, Pudding Pie Sunday (in Surrey, England) or Mid-Lent Sunday. It was a day in Lent when the fasting requirements were relaxed.

In these days it is a day when youngsters give presents, flowers, and home-made cards to their mothers. You can make this happen at all ages, naturally. Mums pretty much expect the day to become marked with gifts and perhaps a meal out in a restaurant.

No need to spend a fortune if you decide to look around, a good number of Orkney jewellers are offering special discounts if you opt to give a necklace, brooch, earrings, bangle or any of the latest jewellery designs. This could keep your fees down because you can however give relatively expensive jewellery and yet not spend lots of money.




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