This banner is a link to The Umbrella Foundation. It’s the charity I’ve chosen to donate a portion of my profits during certain festivals and in participating Courtney Designs Jewellery Parties.

Simply click on the banner above to be directed to the Umbrella Foundation website to learn more about what they do.

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FUNDRAISING - why not hold a jewellery party as a fundraising event?

Rather than receiving a gift to the value of 15% why not ask for a Courtney Designs cheque to the value of 15% of the takings to be made payable to a charity of your choice?

We find that many choose to opt for this as everyone is a winner; everyone has the opportunity to take home an item of jewellery from the available collection, plus a charity benefits from your purchases. This is truly an option which you rarely get in the shops.

Our charity of choice is The Umbrella Foundation. If you do not have a charity of choice you can donate your 15% to help this orphanage in Katmandu, Nepal. Click here to learn more about them and what they do: http://www.umbrellanepal.org/

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

~ Robert Gary Lee

Nature Boy

There was a boy…
A very strange enchanted boy.
They say he wandered very far, very far
Over land and sea,
A little shy and sad of eye
But very wise was he.

And then one day,
One magic day, he passed my way.
And while we spoke of many things,
Fools and kings,
This he said to me,
“The greatest thing you’ll ever learn
Is just to love and be loved in return.”

~interlude~

“The greatest thing you’ll ever learn
Is just to love and be loved in return.”

-Eden Ahbez

Just for today, do not worry-

Just for today, do not anger-

Honor your parents, teachers and elders-

(Honor everyone)

Show gratitude to everything.

……

“Release me
So this maid may build anew

Feel winter’s perfect white fall on my lashes
Free the child to be a child she never knew.”

-Charlotte Mair

(First snows of winter)

“To thine own self be true and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.”

-William Shakespeare