Calvin's Fine Jewelry is happy to announce our March and April Facebook Winners!
Wendi won our "Be our friend on Facebook" contest and won our Ron Hami 18 karat white gold stack band! She is pictured on the left with her new ring!
Hieu submitted a beautiful story for our "Share Your Mother's Day Story with Calvins" and won a Kristina Nicole Design's agentium sterling silver and blue sapphire pendant. She is pictured on the right with jewelry designer, Kristina Nicole. Both ladies are wearing Kristina Nicole's pendants. Read her story below!
Hieu's Story:
I was born just months before the turmoil in my birth country was coming to an end. Growing up, my mom would tell me stories of those last few days. Days and nights of helicopters swarming overhead, large planes rumbling through... the sky. She held me tight as she made her way through the city during the evacuation, shielding me from the noise. She said my tiny baby hands gripped her chest in response to the beating blades of the approaching helicopters, but I didn't cry. She said I was brave. It was me and the clothes on her back that made it out that day. The suitcase my dad carried had only powdered milk... for me.
A couple of years ago, I told her my fiance and I were talking about getting married, she brought out a tiny wad of tissue paper and handed it to me. In it was her wedding ring set. She had long since upgraded to a simple gold band, and I had never seen the original. I wore her engagement ring on my wedding day last month as my 'something old'. And, I wear her original wedding ring alongside my own. I love my mother very much, and it makes me smile whenever I look down to see the ring that was on my mother's hand that held me all those years ago. To me it symbolizes her courage for having left everything she knew behind, her strength of character for having raised me and my siblings as she did, and her unconditional love.
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