Mira Alicki is the owner of Mira jewelry design

Mira Alicki is the owner of Mira jewelry design, located at 476 main St. In Middletown, CT for the past 21 years. She is a master goldsmith and went through years of intensive training on how to design and make jewelry in Poland where 100% of their jewelry was handmade.

She chose to open her business here in Middletown years ago, because she loved the downtown area and thought the city had a great community that she wanted to be a part of and today she realizes it was a great choice.

Mira is a huge animal lover and she always wanted a to combine her jewelry design talents with giving back to the animal community, but never came up with the right approach to do so until 2012 when she suffered the loss of Amber, her beloved canine companion.

As she grieved the loss, she searched various remembrance items, for a way to commemorate Amber after she was gone. To her dismay, she was unsuccessful in finding a fine jewelry remembrance piece that can be worn as a beautiful pendant, but at the same time hold Amber's ashes. That's how a new line of customizable, handmade remembrance jewelry was born called Forever In My Heart. Mira's goal in designing this line was for the pieces to be one of a kind, unique and personalized to suit her clients.

Whether it be a pet crossing the "rainbow bridge" or a friend or relative moving onto the afterlife, forever in my heart jewelry provides those left behind a unique way to remember those who have moved on, as a cremation jewelry or just a memorial piece to commemorate your loved ones.

Mira realizes that not everyone is in the market for remembrance jewelry, but most of us are in a market for jewelry, therefore she created an online store to benefit charities like: Groton's Friday’s Rescue Foundation:

. The website offers a full line of the remembrance pieces and free customization, also animal themed jewelry as well as an expanding selection of casual jewelry.

For every purchase made on this website, Mira donates forty percent (40%) of the profits to a no-kill animal charity partner of the client's choice.

On her website you can also find a memorial page dedicated to everyone that passed on, people can send pictures and short stories of their loved ones that they have lost, Mira posts them, so their legacy can live on.

When you walk in to the store, you notice her creativity and originality, from the copper and wood jewelry cases designed by her, to huge variety of gold and silver, one of a kind pieces.

According to Mira "my business is built on trust, great service and personal relationships with our customers. All of the jewelry work is done on premises in a secure and controlled environment. We always deliver on our promises and provide the same great quality service to all of our customers. We put our hearts and souls into making sure that every piece that leaves the store is right. My customers come back here with the anticipation that they will be provided with one of a kind, timeless pieces, that someday will become a family heirloom."

You can visit her website at www.foreverinmyheartjewelry.com or find her on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin or just stop by the store at at 476 main St. In Middletown.