Mothers Day
Brighten up your mum’s day this Mothers Day!
We have sourced a selection of high quality gifts ideal for mum on her special day. Go on - spoil her - you know she deserves it!
Brighten up your mum’s day with the stunning solar Scroll Lanterns from Smart Solar, the butterfly light set will perfectly illuminate those garden parties. To keep mum calm and happy the Be Happy Candle will promote positive thoughts, with aromas of lime and orange citrus fruits. We even have the yummy gift for mummy, the mug and muffin gift box set from message muffins includes a gorgeous hand painted mug and muffin made in United Kingdom. For the added personal touch this gift comes with a greetings card, simply let us know what message you would like us to include.
If you can't find what you are looking for, please peruse our website for plenty of other ideas …still need a hand give us a ring on 0844 884 9779 and we will try to find what your looking for.
Mother’s day is for the celebration of motherhood. It is understood to have originated from commemoration in Ancient Greece, a festival to Cybele [The Mountain mother] with a sacred mountain as a direct origin of this. The Christian view sees it originating from a Christian festival that has been celebrated throughout Europe and falls on the 4th Sunday in Lent (exactly three weeks before Easter Sunday) – this casts its origin back to a 16th Century practice of visiting one’s mother annually in church, which meant that children were united with their mother on this day. This is believed to be the case as historians believe that apprentices and young women in servitude were released by their masters that weekend in order to visit their families. It is therefore principally a day to show appreciation towards one’s mother; however the obvious historical sense is the attention of Mary as the mother of Jesus Christ especially in Catholicism.
The holiday of Mother’s Day was created by Anna Jarvis in West Virginia in 1908 to honour one’s mother. Her intention was to create her mother’s dream of making a national celebration for all mothers. This idea was continuously pushed until President Woodrow Wilson made it an official national holiday in 1914.
Nine years later, the overpowering influence of commercialisation fuelled many including Anna Jarvis to become a major opponent of what the holiday had become. She spent all her inheritance and the rest of her life fighting the corrupted result of her aspiration. She disliked the idea of greetings cards – she saw them as a sign of laziness with regards to writing a personal letter. Eventually in 1948 she was arrested for disturbing the peace while protesting against the commercialisation of Mother’s Day. She died in 1948 regretting what the day had become and remains another example of how the mechanisms of capitalism effectively replace ethical consumerism with a platform for which: to profit maximise, to remove those who get in the way and to ensure through various methods of exploitive hypocritical brand deception that the rich can only get richer.
Unsurprisingly, the day continues to be one of the most commercially successful United States holidays driven forward by relentless promotion by commercial industries such as florists industries and the power of Mother’s Day branding in advertising during the build up to the holiday.
In the United Kingdom it is believed that the idea was revived by the American soldiers who came to fight in World War II - in Europe, Mothering Sunday was much less celebrated perhaps due to the late take on commercial exploitation of the day’s purpose. Following World War II the holiday was celebrated on the forth Sunday of Lent, the same day on which Mothering Sunday had been celebrated before it disappeared. Mothering Sunday in the United Kingdom can therefore fall at the earliest on March 1st (when Easter falls on 22nd March) and latest on April 4th (when Easter Day falls on April 25th). Later on Father's Day was created given that Mother's Day only covers one half the role of parenting.
Given that the creator of Mother’s Day holiday lost faith in her creation due to the lack of effort behind gifts and a complete loss of the day’s purpose. Home and Garden Gifts offer a range that can help to close this gap. Personalised Gifts are much more special and show a greater consideration and overall appreciation for the day being a celebration for Mothers as a whole and to a much lesser extent, a mercantile hypocrisy. Personalised Gifts show that there is a loving appreciation for your Mother itemised in this case, as a thought considered present that can remain a symbolic emblem of care. So while it might seem that this is adding moral fuel to a commercial fire if the nature of ‘selling out’ seems unappealing, presents such as these are the most optimistic approach to achieving the original intentions of the day and making sure you symbolise your view of this with a physical itemisation of your true feelings – relating to both the secular and religious origins as mentioned in the opening lines.
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