I recently heard about Black Mountain Jewelry Company and not only have fallen in love with their products but also their wonderful philosophy.
Handmade by Mark and Carla Mead, Black Mountain Jewelry Company helps customers celebrate their milestones with gifts of jewelry that honor the special people and times of your life. While their spectacular jewelry is indeed one of a kind, I’m impressed by this little mom and pop company’s commitment to fair trade and environmentally responsible business practices.
Carla and Mark practice fair trade and responsible sourcing while minimizing the impact on our environment and are concerned about their own practices on their local environment. Black Mountain jewelry uses reclaimed and recycled materials and purchases responsibly sourced gems from companies whose mining practices don’t violate human rights. They also give 5% of each sale to Children’s charities.
In honor of Mother’s Day, Black Mountain Jewelry is honoring one lucky Tech Savvy Mama reader with a custom Tree of Life Charm. The Tree of Life jewelry line is made from 100% recycled metals and fair trade gemstones. This collection was designed to help people find strength, feel connected and to celebrate life in a way that becomes possible when you have a tangible talisman, a physical reminder you can touch and be reminded of what touches you.
One reader will receive a Tree of Life Charm made of sterling silver, 14k gold, and semi-precious stones (code TCS1) of their choice. The charm can have up to 5 smaller accent stones to symbolize their children on 18" sterling snake chain. This meaningful jewelry amulet is semi-custom with a birthstone on the front and custom stamping on the back and has a minimum value of $81.95.
To enter, leave a comment telling me what the Tree of Life Design means to you along with your e-mail address.
Ponder the gorgeous image and share your thoughts! Carla says that they “have many different customers - mom's, nurses, survivors- and they share their stories with us. Recently I sent out one to an old dear friend. We put her stone in the roots of the tree and her three children in the branches. She lost one of her children who's stone we set in the human heart in the branches - because he's always in her heart.” Isn’t that just beautiful?
Other ways you can enter to win the Tree of Life Charm:
- Tweet about this giveaway and include a link to your Tweet in your comment. Feel free to Tweet this: @techsavvymama is honoring moms with a jewelry giveaway from Black Mountain Jewelry. Enter here: http://tiny.cc/3S9tq
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I’ll select the winners from all the comments using Random.org and get in touch with you before Mother’s Day so you can let your mom custom create her Tree of Life Charm on Mother’s Day!
Also, Tech Savvy Mama readers get free shipping on any Black Mountain Jewelry order placed by 5/31/09. Just enter FS315 on your order form!
Huge thanks to Black Mountain Jewelry for sponsoring this amazing giveaway!
And don’t forget to make sure to enter my other Mother's Day giveaways here and here!
Fine print: To be eligible, enter by completing the above tasks and leaving your comments by Wednesday, May 6 at 5 pm EST. One person can enter up to 7 times by completing each of the tasks as outlined above. Winner will be chosen at random by Random.org and will need to reply with their mailing address 24 hours to claim their prize. Due to the custom nature of the Tree of Life Charm, winner will receive within 2 weeks of communicating stone choices to Black Mountain Jewelry Company. Products will only be shipped within the United States.
What a beautiful necklace! Our family is mourning the loss of our precious grandmother today. Her death was sudden and unexpected. She was still working and doing well until a few days ago. She was the top of our family tree but we will continue to lay down roots. :-) For me the necklace represents the family's past present and future.
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ReplyDeletewow what a great prize!! i would love to win this for my mom to show her how much i care about her! to me this necklace represents all the love and joy each person in the family can bring!
ReplyDeleteHow cool. I just love the Tree of Life design. Thanks for the giveaway.
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ReplyDeleteThe Tree of Life is a wonderful way to have loved ones close to you always. It made me instantly think of my mother, who passed too suddenly before ever knowing all of her grandchildren. Having a charm with her stone and my childrens stones, would bring her closer to me. Having them all together.
ReplyDeleteThe tree of life symbolizes both the family tree that I am blessed to be a part of and blessed to have extended through my children, as well as the Biblical significance that I hold dear which reminds me of the eternal life I will have in heaven someday. This is a beautiful pendant, and would definitely make a wonderful Mother's Day gift. Nice choice!
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the tree can be one's family tree or the tree for mankind! To me, the people in our lives are the ones who make our tree strong and able to bend with the wind. I love the heart this company places in the upper branches for love and longevity.
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I'm a subscriber. This charm would be a way for me to remember life's special blessings!
ReplyDeleteSo beautiful. To me, the tree of life with my children's stones would represent their continued growth and flourishment. (If that is a word.)
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I am huge fan of this jewelry line! The tree of life pieces instantly remind me of my husband, who survived treatment for a deadly cancer, including a stem cell transplant. The roots remind me of his strength to stay in this life, and the braches remind me of the love and strength he imparts to the world.
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Wow, that's beautiful. It reminds me of my great grandma. She's been through a lot and its just beautiful that she's still so vivid and alive after so much. Its really a huge blessing for our family to have her still.
ReplyDeleteI love their jewelry and the symbolism of the tree of life! To me, this is family, continuity, where you come from and where you are going.
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ReplyDeletewe had to move from the house where our children were born. we had planted something to celebrate each one of their births. now that we are gone, it would be great to have a tree like this that can go with us wherever we go.
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I love the Tree of Life charm. To me, it shows how my very large, extended family is all connected by the same strong roots. We're all grown up, and raising our own families now, but we are still all interconnected.
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The Tree of Life reminds me of my own life and my purpose on this Earth. To provide shade (protection) to my love ones, to spread to the sky (improve myself) and build better roots to be stronger.
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I love this piece and it would remind me of a time when all my childrn were here with me. I lost two sons and have a son and daughter alive,I also love the heart that is in the tree because on hearing of my 2nd sons death I had a heart attack. I would have all their birthstones and mine. On the back I would put "for my broken heart"
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I just ordered a tree-of-life pendant for myself (with my 2 kids represented with smaller stones). Beautiful. I've been blessed with 2 mothers-my biological mother and my adoptive mother. I'd love to provide them each with one of these pendants as well, to show that we are all so interconnected!
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I'd have to say that the tree means growth of a family. Nothing is stronger than family.
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