Ceramic mugs are good for maintaining the heat of a beverage and are a lot cheaper than most mugs available. It has a larger capacity to get more from a ceramic mug. It is the best cup to have coffee with since its material doesn’t absorb nor release flavors. To take care of a ceramic mug, it should be hand-washed with soap and warm water.
These ceramic mugs are budget-friendly, although it is more of a blanket term for earthenware, pottery, stoneware, and porcelain. In this case, the focus is on the standard ceramic mug with its thicker walls and more oversized handle, and it even has a wide range of colors to choose from. Your ceramic mugs are also dishwasher-safe, but ceramic mugs can also be hand washed.
Generally, ceramic wares are made from a mixture of earth-derived elements, clay, water, and powder. It is then thrown into the kiln after the ceramic takes shape. For some finishing touches, they are glazed to add substance and beauty to the ceramic wares.
Ceramic mugs are not insulating, so keep in mind that any hot drink in every cup will eventually cool, but at least it can somehow retain heat for a while. It would help if you still were cautious since ceramic mugs tend to overheat.
This is just a more luxurious type of ceramic. Porcelain mugs are more refined and attractive; although, like ceramic, it is also covered in glaze. These mugs always have to look glass-like and fragile compared to ceramic ones with rougher features. Porcelain mugs also have a long lifespan of about ten years and even up to a lifetime.
Porcelain mugs are also known as “fine china” at a dinner party because of their complete elegance and high prices. In terms of capacity, the porcelain mugs can only hold so much, and the color is limited to white only. Its material is relatively thinner as well, making it more fragile. However, you can still have something printed on the mug if you want it customized.
This is just a more luxurious type of ceramic. Porcelain mugs are finer and attractive, although like the ceramic, it is also covered in glaze. These mugs always have to look glass-like fragile compared to the ceramic mugs which has rougher features. Porcelain mugs also have a long lifespan of about 10 years and even up to a lifetime.
Porcelain mugs are also known as “fine china” in a dinner party because of its complete elegance, hence its expensive prices. In terms of capacity, the porcelain mugs can only hold so much and the color is pretty much limited to white only. Its material is quite thinner as well, making it more fragile. Although you can still have something printed on the mug if you want it customized.
A mixture of clay, silica, small flint materials, and feldspar are among the essential ingredients for making porcelain. They are incorporated in different amounts until the right outcome is achieved. Porcelainware varies in composition levels.
Despite their differences, ceramic and porcelain both have similarities which include the following:
Ultimately, porcelain mugs are the way to go if you feel like taking a sip on some fancy ware. Yes, it’s expensive, but the beautiful finish makes it worth the purchase. Porcelain mugs are also great gifts compared to any average mug.
If it’s about your everyday mug, ceramic ones are the answer. It’s way more functional and fit for daily use, apart from its many color variations and designs. Ceramic mugs may come cheap, but you must at least examine the good-quality ones.
Both ceramic and porcelain can have customized print on them, and the best part is that these novelty coffee mugs in USA can be availed and, at the same time, personalized to be given as a gift. And if you are thinking of gifting this to someone else, you may also try getting a Milla Glow skincare set as a complementary present. You can never go wrong with a mug of your choice and something entirely different but valuable.
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Women of all sizes and shapes, from all walks of life, should be celebrated. No words best describe women's tremendous impact and significance to society. Their contribution is one that is so inspiring, so motivating, and so life-changing. That's why people have women's empowerment. Women empowerment moves to promote women's self-worth. And to help empower women, it is essential that they feel the love and appreciation coming from all sides.
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Gifts for that special woman
Gifts are more than just a symbol of love and affection. These symbolic items reflect how the receivers make the givers feel. For women, gifts are tokens of reaffirmation of their value. If someone gives them a gift, they develop that feeling that they are cherished and valued for who they are and for what they have done. For them, gifts are the ultimate symbol of trust, warmth, affection, and intimacy.
Care should be given when choosing gifts for women. People need to consider what they like and dislike, the kind of personality they have, their aspirations, dreams, goals, etc. Start from there. Start from knowing the person as they are, then gift-finding will be a cinch!
To help you start, here are some popular items that women will definitely love:
Jewelry
The ultimate symbol of femininity. Rings, earrings, necklaces, bracelets, you name it, women will absolutely love them! Despite the difference in choice of design and style, jewelry is the sure way to get to the core of women's hearts and make them feel valued and special. There are many other reasons why jewelry is one of the top gift choices for women.
Jewelry helps boosts a person's confidence. It provides that feel-good feeling, making women feel more beautiful, stylish, and special when wearing a jewel-studded accessory. Jewelry also provides that touch of sentimental value. Take, for instance, a wedding ring. This little piece of jewel is a sentimental reminder of a couple's wedding day and a symbol of commitment.
Personalized Gifts
Women love that personal touch when it comes to receiving gifts. Personalized gifts enable that intimacy and connection between the giver and the receiver. Something simple as customizing a soft pillow with the woman's name or the make and style of a bag, a piece of jewelry, etc. Or even novelty items, such as the novelty coffee mugs, sold for $19.95 at Julesgifts.
Novelty items are special items sold for their uniqueness or as personal adornment. Julesgifts novelty coffee mugs are quality-made products with quotes to inspire and brighten up the day of coffee drinkers, especially our women who love to drink coffee! So, if you're searching for gifts that stand out, go for a personalized gift.
Beauty & Skincare Products
Other women's favorites are beauty and skincare products. Although women have different reasons why they would love to receive those bestselling skincare products, one thing is for sure; there's that undeniable feeling of excitement and delight when they receive their favorite skincare products!
Milla Glow Collections, LLC, sells a lovely array of natural skin care products that bring healthy, clean, and glowing beauty to all women! Milla Glow skincare are handmade products suitable for any skin type and meet each woman's skin needs.
For most women, skincare products improve their self-esteem through self-care or self-love. And these products help them achieve that goal of self-love. So, if you're looking to make your mother, sister, friend, girlfriend, or wife feel all-around confident and loved, head on to the nearest skin and beauty store and grab one of those skincare products as a gift for them!
Perfume
The perfect mood enhancer gift – perfumes! One of the top favorite gifts for women is perfumes. Scents help women feel good about themselves. It also creates the mood for the occasion. If they want to feel sensual and attractive to their partners, go for that smell that's oriental, floral, or musty. For light occasions, like gathering with friends, a faint whiff of floral or cotton cologne will do. Women go for fragrances that fit their tastes and personality. A perfume is a perfect gift for any woman.
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So why was America so late at proclaiming a father’s day? Why was the concept almost ridiculed by everyone, and what changed people’s minds?
A Commemoration of a Tragedy
The year was 1907. The place was Monongah, West Virginia. On that fateful day, a mining disaster killed 361 men, and among them, 250 were fathers. One of those children left bereft of a father that day was a woman named Grace Golden Clayton. She did not know it at that time, but she would go on and create the first ripples of what will be known as Father’s day across the world.
Grace was so affected by the loss of her father that she approached the local pastor to offer a commemoration mass for all the lost miners the following year. For the exact date, Miss Clayton chose July 1908 because she said it was near her father’s birthday. Although the event was just local, there and then, the first mass for father’s day became real.
Inspired by a Mother’s Day Sermon
One year after that mass, A lady by the name of Sonora Louise Smart Dodd from Spokane, Washington, was listening to a mother’s day sermon when she got the idea of creating a father’s day, somehow a male equivalent of the already popular Mother’s Day. For a few years, all her complex works were unsuccessful. Any efforts she tried resulted were met with disinterest or mockery. “It’s too similar to Mother’s Day,” they said, “I’d rather have a national fishing day,” remarked another. Even capitalism was against making a father’s day thinking that “fathers were too sentimental to buy themselves father’s day items.”
One firm supporter of the day was US President Woodrow Wilson (who made Mother’s Day official). In June of 1916, he celebrated the day in the Oval Office by opening the church service that day through telephone. The idea of a father’s day struck him as positive, and he arranged for it to be also a national holiday.
This time, however, it was his Congress that resisted his favor. Congress thought at that time that creating a father’s day would affect mother’s day and take away support from the said holiday. They also believed that the commercialization of the holiday would do more harm than good to the commemoration. Undeterred, Miss Dodd continued to advocate for the creation of a father’s day. She was met with more hurdles over the years. The only “success” being President Calvin Coolidge urging the states to observe the day nationwide but without an official proclamation.
The Memo that Changed Everything
Throughout the years, the matter stayed in Congress in another stalemate. However, it was another woman that took up the reins and changed the landscape. In a harsh memo, United States Senator for Maine, Margaret Chase Smith penned: “Either we honor both our parents, mother and father, or let us desist from honoring either one. But to single out just one of our two parents and omit the other is the most grievous insult imaginable.”
It seemed the memo worked, too, as President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Executive Order 1966 in which Father’s Day was recognized as a holiday to be celebrated on the third Sunday of June, more than fifty years after Miss Dodd’s initial efforts. President Richard M. Nixon, to help his re-election campaign, cemented everything in place when he signed an official proclamation making Father’s Day permanently on the third Sunday in June Nationwide.
Gift Ideas for Father’s Day
The best gift you could give your father this father’s day is to spend time with them. Do activities that are special to father-son or father-daughter. Maybe take a hint at those against Father’s day, and take him fishing. Grilling and cooking up a barbecue is also an excellent idea to celebrate father’s day with the whole family. Another good activity to do is go to a concert with your dad by his favorite band. Even better, organize a concert for your dad, especially if he is the musical type.
Then top the day off with a gift from julesgift.com. You can get many gift ideas ranging from novelty and funny coffee mugs to pendants and necklaces to show your relationship with your father. For a father-daughter gift, the Eternal Hope Necklace in USA is among the cream of the crop. This timeless and elegant gift made from cubic zirconia sparkles like a star in the sky, symbolizing that lovely father-daughter relationship in the best possible way.
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For those unfamiliar, Mother’s Day is celebrated on two different days. Depending on the culture, Mother’s day would fall either on the second Sunday of May or the fourth Sunday of the Lenten season. This difference can often cause problems, especially for those who have relocated to a country that celebrates Mother’s Day on one date from another country that celebrates it on the other date. This can also cause problems when both the mother and child live in two countries that celebrate mother’s day on different dates. Often, this difference in date can cause panic for the child or disappointment for the mother. For many, the best practice would be to celebrate Mother’s day on both dates. That way, the confusion stops, and besides, mothers can get an extra special day to enjoy. Mothers do deserve that extra day.
So Why are there two Mother’s Days? What happened to merit this confusion, and why can’t the world just get along?
Mothering Day
Among the two potential dates that Mother’s day could fall, the earlier one is celebrated on the fourth Sunday of Lent and exactly three weeks before Easter Sunday. This year, it is celebrated on the twenty-seventh of March.
This Mother’s Day or Mothering Sunday originated as far back as the Middle Ages. Mothering Sunday was a Christian Observance. During that time, children who had looked for work away from their hometown would go back to their home church. These churches were also called “mother” churches back then. These long journeys slowly evolved into a time during spring when families could see each other after a very long time. Gradually, these families would celebrate these reunions and gatherings. During this time, children returning home would pick up flowers along the way to give to their mothers, thus creating the tradition of gifting mothers flowers for Mother’s Day.
American Mother’s Day
Mother’s day in the United States was founded much later than its British counterpart. It started with a woman who cared for soldiers of the two different sides during the American Civil War. Ann Reeves Jarvis was a Civil War peace activist who understood the work of mothers. Being a mother herself, she knew what it felt like to lose a husband and child due to the severe repercussions of war. As such, she and a fellow activist and suffragette named Julia Ward Howe established a “Mother’s Day for Peace” where they would ask that their husbands and sons were no longer killed in wars. In 1870, Ward Howe made her “Appeal To Womanhood Throughout the World” This appeal was rooted in Ward Howe’s belief that women had a responsibility to form their societies at the political level. This appeal later became the Mother’s Day Proclamation, 30 years before Mother’s day was such a thing.
Mother’s Day only became the Mother’s day that we know when Anna Jarvis, inspired by her mother’s and Ward Howe’s work as well as her belief that mothers “are the person who has done more for you than anyone in the world” took the US Congress and asked them to recognize it as an official holiday. The US congress was at first dismissive of their proposal, but because of Anna Jarvis’ perseverance, US states began recognizing the holiday. By 1911 all US states were honoring their mothers with the holiday. Everything went official when, in 1914, US President Woodrow Wilson signed a proclamation that designated the second Sunday of May as Mother’s Day, a national holiday to honor mothers.
Other Dates
These two notable dates for Mother’s day are celebrated by most countries. Countries celebrating Mother’s day on the second Sunday of May include the United States, Greenland, Japan, China, Japan, Brazil, the Philippines, and many more. In fact, it is the day when most countries celebrate Mother’s Day. Meanwhile, Mothering Day is celebrated by countries mostly related to the United Kingdom. This includes the United Kingdom, The Isle of Man, Guernsey, Ireland, Jersey, and Nigeria.
Other Countries celebrate Mother’s Day on different days, however. Some countries like Albania, Belarus, Burundi, and Bulgaria celebrate it with International Women’s Day. Still, others celebrate it during the Spring Equinox like Bahrain, Djibouti, Libya, and the United Arab Emirates. Armenia celebrates it during Annunciation Day and celebrates it as Motherhood and Beauty Day. South Korea is an interesting case as it takes the original date for Mother’s Day and celebrates it as Parent’s Day
Gifts
No matter where you are or when you celebrate Mother’s Day, it is still important to honor your mother with gifts. Julesgifts in the USA is an online store where you can find a unique gift for your mom. Brighten up your mom’s day this Mother’s Day by visiting their site and finding a good and special gift for your mother.
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