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

By Adrian Jones


Expensive Jewellery designs and styles - at discount selling prices

You can help make Mother's Day out of the ordinary this year, with a gift of the latest jewellery designs provided by Orkney jewellers. This really is your time to say thanks a lot to your mum, stepmum or grandma for being so loving. And don't trouble yourself about needing to obtain the cash for expensive jewellery. They know how amazing mums are, so quite a few jewelry stores will be giving 15% off just about all jewellery items right up until 9am on Monday 19th March, so treat your mum to the latest jewellery designs.

Mother's Day, which is best-known as Mothering Sunday around the UK, occurs on the fourth Sunday of Lent, which is March 18th this present year. It could quite possibly have originated from the 16th century Christian custom of visiting one's mother church yearly on Laetere Sunday, which meant a lot of mothers could well be reunited with their kids for the day as their offspring would often be doing work faraway from home and only came back to the mother church or cathedral for this special occasion. A further possibility is that this celebration could have been acquired from the Roman Spring festival remembering Cybele, their Mother Goddess. Then the Christian Church, which implemented quite a few pagan calendar festivals, may have changed it for its own purposes.

Young apprentices and younger ladies in service were released by their particular masters and mistresses for that weekend. Men and women who went to their mother church would say they'd gone "a mothering." Those in service were solely granted one day to visit their family each calendar year. This was frequently on Mothering Sunday.

For a lot of servants in olden times this will likely be a significant quest since their mother could have lived a long way away, possibly another town completely from the Manor where they were put in to service. Often the housekeeper or cook will allow the maids to cook a cake to take home for their mother. Quite often a gift of eggs; or flowers out of the garden (or hothouse) was allowed.

Latest Jewellery Designs Make Attractive Gifts

Probably the most favoured cake appeared in later times - as it still is in some households - the simnel cake, a fruit cake. A flat coating of marzipan (sugar almond paste) is put on top of and decorated with 11 marzipan balls which represents the 12 apostles without Judas, who betrayed Christ.

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

Because the days of service in big houses decreased in the early 20th century Mothering Sunday was much less widely celebrated. But during World War Two American soldiers brought the Mother's Day celebrations into the UK when it was combined with the Mothering Sunday traditions. By the 1950s Mother's Day had become popular in the whole of the UK and gifts were bought, similar to the latest jewellery designs, though most likely not expensive jewellery in most cases. Many Mothering Sunday traditions were revived, which includes the convention of having to eat cake on that day.

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

Nowadays it is a day when young boys and girls give presents, flowers, and home-made cards for their mothers. You can do this at any age, obviously. Mums pretty much expect to have the day for being marked with gifts as well as perhaps a meal out at a restaurant.

You don't need to spend a fortune once you check around, a lot of Orkney jewellers offer special discounts if you wish to give a necklace, brooch, earrings, bangle or any of the latest jewellery designs. This would keep the expenses down because you can easily still give fairly expensive jewellery and yet not spend a fortune.




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