Thanks to everyone who shared your stories about the loved ones in your lives. And congrats to Sarah Solducky, who will be sending her holiday cards with a special seal this year.
Stay tuned for more giveaways by subscribing to theGoods.
This week we’re honored to give away one of Tania Condon’s elegant sterling silver wax seal necklaces, that she will custom engrave for one lucky winner.
And this week, you have the chance to win one, custom made. Your sterling silver wax seal necklace comes with a tiny tag that you can have engraved with the initials of a loved one and a date to mark a special day in your heart. Your pendant also comes with your choice of initial and a block of wax, so you seal your letters with a personal touch.
Tania Condon’s son Julian is the main inspiration for her pieces, including the sterling silver wax seal necklace, available custom-made for $95. After the birth of her son, Tania took up metalsmithing in order to make a bracelet for her newborn baby. She learned first at classes at a college in San Diego and then with the help of other masters in the trade. Using the design of a wax fob she saw in a British Museum, she came up with the idea of the pendant.
Tania says, “I love writing letters and sending them via snail mail and I seal them with a wax seal of the letter T. Sometimes I get carried away and even use the wax seal for my bills!”
Want to win? You know what to do! Leave a comment below telling us what special event or person you might commemorate with a sterling silver wax seal necklace. Then leave a comment on our Facebook wall, and tweet @uncommongoods on Twitter to triple your chances. We’ll announce the random winner on Monday.
91 Comments
I would love to have this. We have a wedding coming up that I would love to wear it to. Thanks.
Love it! Following and retweeting @kaflickinger74
I’d get the letter “A” because it would be a fun gift for my son’s 21st birthday.
Wow! I’ve actually always wanted something like this! Thank you so much for the chance!
Whenever I need a birthday gift, I always shop at Uncommon Goods. This necklace would be the perfect present for my best friend!
I would get R, so my little girl would be with me all day!
My grandson will be born in about two months. This would be a special way to celebrate his birth.
My mother life. 1943-2010
As crazy as this might sound…I might do my birthday. I am working on honoring myself lately.
Wow.. this is a great gift! My mother would love this…and her birthdya is right around the corner!
a comment
I just got married, so I would get the initial of my new last name to celebrate our marriage.
I’d get one for me & one for each of my daughter’s so that when we wrote each other by snail mail, or sent holiday/birthday cards to each other we could seal it with a “kiss” of wax! This is a great piece of jewelry with function!
I would give this to my daughter for coming full circle in the last year when it comes to her schooling. she was diagnosed w/ asperger syndrome and has overcome. with the letter D for her 1st initial.
I’d love to get one for myself to celebrate my life with my future husband next month!!
I’d give it to myself (and my husband)! We used a waxed seal “T” on our wedding invitations, candle decorations, and memory book six years ago. But when I decided to put all of those things in a shadow box with our wedding photo, I had lost the seal. I would love this as a replacement so I could finally have the memento I have always wanted.
I would love to have one of these to celebrate our new baby, due in March. We find out its sex in four weeks, but either way we’re going with a J name – Julia or Jacob (it just worked out that way!). Three years ago, when I was pregnant with my first, my husband surprised me with a glass locket from Uncommon Goods with our daughter’s ultrasound photo in it, and I would love to have a necklace for our next child as well.
This would be a great 50th birthday present! (she said, thinking about her own upcoming landmark day, a mere 395+ days from now)
I think I’d get a “G” (for my daughter Gracie) and then give it to my mom (“G” also stands for “grandma”)
A beautiful modern twist on such an old item!
We have a new grandbaby coming in a few weeks. This would be nice for putting on the birth announcements!
I was just telling my sister today how I wanted to do this! It must be a sign that I found out about this contest. Thanks so much and good luck everyone!
I would make one with my initial and use it on all the cards I send to my friends to keep in touch – my web of friendships keeps me grounded.
I went through a period when I was younger when I sealed EVERYTHING with a wax seal. I would love to get back to that. I think the water company would get a kick out of receiving a payment sealed with my initial!
I used to have a wax seal with my old last name. But I haven’t replaced it since I married!
love it! thanks for the opportunity!
These are exquisite. I wish I had this talent!
Have a great weekend.
My husband and I recently celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary, so I’d get one (with the initial of our last name)to commemorate our anniversary and celebrate having my husband in my life.
I would get a “W” for my grandfather (Papa), Wilbur, who passed away 5 years ago. He moved after he retired when I was about 12, and we would always write each other about every other week to keep in touch and I often would wax seal my letters. He was my father figure in my life, so that would be a great reminder of something that we did together.
I would get one with the letter “N” for my mother Nancy. She lost my father nearly one year ago to cancer. She took care of him through his illness and is the most caring, amazing person I know!
I would get a “J” for my son who we adopted with his birthdate, which also happens to be his adoption date from Russia.
This would be such a nice way to always have a reminder of my daughter close to me. I would have her initial put on it.
I would buy one for myself and wear it always with the date “05/12/10” inscribed as a reminder that I SURVIVED. Survived to know that I need to LIVE.
For my mother-in-law Victoria, she is losing her battle with Colon Cancer. One of the most powerful women I have known.
I would love to have this engraved with my deceased mother in laws initial etc., to give to one of her great granddaughters. There is a special little one that took it really hard when she passed and I think this would help her get through this year.
Absolutely LOVE this necklace! I would want my husband Pauls initial on it, and the date we got married. It’ll be 17 years in October. We’re a military family, and right now he’s away…which makes the anniversary all the harder and more special!
I would have GiGi put on it for my great grandma.She turned 86 this year and shes my best friend!!
beautiful would do this and get it for a good friend who has supported me through hell this past year
I would get a D because it is the first initial of my last name and my future hubby’s last name! I love sending snail mail, as a “thinking of you” to all of my friends and family, and the wax seal would be an adorable addition (plus its beautiful as a necklace!!!)
What a wonderful idea! I’d love to have this!
I would get one in memory of a friend I lost six years ago and will never forget.
I would get one for a friend who has had a rough year, to commemorate that she can get through anything, and that she has love and friends behind her.
i’d commemorate the upcoming birth of my niece! she’s due in late dec/early jan. this would be a great baby shower gift for her mom.
I think I’d have to go with my 10th anniversary, which is coming up in a couple of months!
J, as it is both my and my husband’s initial!
My 1 year sobriety date!
LOVE this!!!! I soooo want to start sealing my letters with a wax stamp.
Just like the artist, Tania, I’d commemorate the birth of my son last year.
What a lovely idea! I would ask for the initial J, the first letter of my husband’s name. As an Army wife, I am often alone while my husband is overseas or away on Army business and this necklace would keep him near to my heart and make me feel close to him even while he’s far away.
I would get the initial F to represent both my name and the word FINISH to commemorate the line I crossed in publishing my book!
I would celebrate myself with it!! Totally selfish, but I’ve always loved wax seals and it would be fun to have an “H” people would assume I’d be for my last name, but really it would be just for me!
I would celebrate myself. I am starting a small party planning business and would love to have a unique signature.
I would celebrate my wedding day and get the initial J for my new last name. 🙂
I would use this to celebrate my almost 2 year old who was born on New Years Day! He’s my life, I love the idea of celebrating him everytime I send a letter!
i would get a D for my husband and best friend for 33 years now, David.
I would celebrate my Grandma the German baker :).
I would love to have one of these with my first initial to commemorate my sobriety date!
I would celebrate my family with a T.
I would celebrate the love I share with the most wonderful man in the world – I would select A to represent him and have the engraving be for our very first date 4/27/1995 <3
I would get TEAM for the first initials of all the names in my little family (Tina, Abby, Elizabeth, and Michael) or 1989 – the year my husband and I began our married life together!
I would give this to my sister, who has always loved wax seals and taught me how to use them over 30 years ago, it’s a wonderful memory for me, I’d get an M for her.
This is beautiful-wish I was this talented!
I would get an A…all the girls, including my Mom, myself & my daughters, names begin with A. We could share it!
I would celebrate by daughters pending birth of my second grandchild. We are planning a blessaway for her and that would be the perfect gift. I just found out this last weekend my daughter was pregnant, she lives next door our relationship has been strained but since the announcement things have improved a lot, it is amazing. Of my five kids she is 30 and the last one I ever expected to get pregnant because she was not going to have children or adopt.
What a great necklace that would look great on me! 🙂
I would have 12. We were told we would never have children, 9 yrs later our son was born 12/12 and a following 3 yrs later our daughter arrived 12/6. So 12 is now a very special number to me.
i just want it because i like that sort of stuff. good luck to me!
It’s so beautiful! I would get an “R” for my married last to celebrate my husband of 14 years and my 3 beautiful children!
My sister–a phenomenal high school English teacher–is about to receive tenure. I am so proud of her accomplishments and passion! I know a gift of a wax seal necklace would be both the perfect gift, and greatly treasured.
My sisters Taylor, Taryn and I all visibly have names that begin with the letter “T”. Above the obvious and below the surface is a deeper meaning behind that initial. I an 10 and 13 years older than both if them (respectfully) and although there have been times that our developmental phases have clashed, we have consistently worked hard to always have some common ground in order to relate to one another. Further Compounding that obstacle is the fact that I live in Northen VA and they are both still living at home with our father and my step mother in Ohio.
One unifying character trait we have been blessed with and most likely is the reason we have successfully maintained this close bond is our empathetic, caring nature, our tendency to alwys put the needs of others before our own and our over achieving, perfectionist attitudes that prevent us from ever giving up once we have set a goal for ourselves.
I currently work as a high school math and science teacher educating students with learning disabilities who are still responsible for meeting all of VA’s general Ed curriculum. It is exceptionally challenging to develop and differentiate instruction on the spot ti somehow find a way to explain these complex topics to a roomfull pf stidents that all process information differently. My tenacious spirit combined with my relationship with my younger sisters enable me to persevere. My sisters are the same age as my students so I am very comfortable interacting with this age group and do not encounter the classroom management issues that the majority of my colleagues do. I have bonded with each and every young adult that I have had the pleasure of teaching over the course if the past 3 years and am proud to report that my student pass rate for the Standards of Learning end of course exams is higher than most of the general education teachers within the science and math departments I work in.
My experiences and relationships with my sisters Taylor and Taryn have given me the gift to inspire and motivate an otherwise apathetic population of students who have developed deeply rooted misconceptions of their abilities by the time they reach high school. Albeit exhausting and thankless most of the time, I love my job and could not imagine doing anything else that would prove as rewarding.
The cherry on top: my students refer to me as Ms. T because of my difficult last name : )
I would give this to my daughter to celebrate the birth of her first child (my first grandchild)in March 2011.
Very nice!!!
My husband and I used wax seals on our wedding invitation so this would be a great 11-year anniversary gift to commemorate that.
I’d celebrate my wedding April 24th and get my new last initial “s”
I’d celebrate finishing my novel!
I’d celebrate God for saving me so many times
I would put a G on one side for my boyfriend and a J on the other side for me 🙂
oh- there’s only one side, so maybe just a G for my boyfriend’s initial
What a lovely idea!
Only pic one letter to commemorate someone or something? Wow, that would be hard! I would probably go with a “B” for our last name. That way I could pass it down to my boys someday. Could definitely be an heirloom piece!
It would be great for Christmas letters!
I would get a ‘K’ because I just moved in with my best friend, whose name starts with a ‘K’ (Kenzie) as well. She’s really become like a sister to me, she is my family now – and her birthday is coming up.
I would get an “S” for my lovely daughter. She just started in 4th grade and although she struggles with dyslexia she worked hard and obtained a 100 on her spelling test after getting a zero on the pre-test. She is my champion!
I would get and “S” for my married last name and to celebrate that great event 11 1/2 years ago!
I would commemorate my wedding date or the birth of my first and only daughter.
I would commemorate the daughter who is now 5 weeks old of my Best friend who passed away on Monday September 13, 2010. My Best friend had battled Cystic Fibrosis her entire life so at the age of 32 she adopted a daughter and in the process learned that she was pregnant. She had a good pregnancy even though it was high risk. While delivering the baby 6 weeks early, she was in the hospital and caught hospital acquired pnuemonia which spread to all 5 lobes of her already over-worked lungs. She battled over 50 days in the hospital ICU while on and off ventilators, feeding tubes, trach, ect – most of us would have only made it days, but she lasted weeks because she wanted to be here for her daughters. Her daughter, Naomi Rose, is now flourishing and healthy in honor of her mother, Katie who recently passed. It is just like Katie’s manner to leave her physical DNA of beauty, strength, and an awesome spirit here on earth to continue where her path seemed to end. “W” for Naomi Rose Wingard. Her mother was so proud her, the miracle baby and as her friend, I would commemorate this special being for being here full of love and truth in human will and strength that her mother showed us everyday until the end.
I would celebrate my three babies! They are my heart. Daily I can not wait to wake up to their little faces. An “H” for my beautiful babies and my wonderful husband that blessed me with them.
I would celebrate my existence. If I had a “J” it would remind me of my own value and uniqueness since I am considered the “tail of the dog” at my work.
My former high school English teacher would love this! Or better yet she would love to receive a letter with a wax seal. She is a stickler for good grammar and spelling, and appreciates the written word. Let’s hear it for Ms. Wiley!
I’m turning 21 in october, and what a better way to send invitations, then with a wax seal “D”. (Also useful in case I ever get married and change my last name.) This way, I can make it a theme party, and get everyone to dress up. Twenty-one is one of those marker birthdays, the kind that you’re supposed to remember forever. It also marks the day that you are (supposed) to be a full fledged adult.
I would want to give this to my Aunt.
My cousin battled Type 1 Primary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis for the last 20 years. It stole his entire life, and he passed away young, just over two months ago. I’ve lost a cousin, but my Aunt and Uncle have lost their only son. The entire family has lost someone they loved dearly.
I think it would really mean something special for my Aunt to have this as a namesake with her. I can see her using it to seal christmas cards and letters and it would be such a wonderful way to keep a tangible reminder that he’s in our hearts.
A “K” for kenneth
July 26, 2011