Miriam Bat-Rachel is the name I chose to honor my beloved mother Ray (Mrs. Larry) Gold, a talented artist and devoted mother, who passed away in September 2002. I took my mother's Hebrew name (Rachel), joined it with my own (Miriam), and then added the Hebrew term Bat, meaning "daughter of"...and Miriam Bat-Rachel was born.

Mom had a great sense of color and design that she expressed in many works of art. In addition to needlepoint, she worked with an ancient technique called paper tole. Mom's paper sculptures of people and animals were thoughtfully framed and sold in a local shop near my father's shoe store, with others given lovingly to family and friends. As Mom grew older, she stopped working with paper sculpture because her arthritic hands could not manage the delicate maneuvers of the tiny scissors and other materials...nor could she withstand the fumes of the glue that would hold the sculptures together.

My father also had an artistic eye that he expressed in beautiful photography. His "portraits" of animals taken at the Bronx and Phoenix Zoos were among his favorites - next to the photos he took of his children and grandchildren. Especially for "Pop," I take all the product photos for the Moonbeams website, as well as for all the Moonbeams advertising materials.

In memory of my mother - and my dad, who passed away in September 2000 - I have created unique pens, bookmarks and jewelry - one-of-a-kind designs that can be collected for personal use or given as loving gifts.

I know my mother would have really loved the bookmarks to use in her collection of cookbooks. And the pens, well, they would have been joyfully placed alongside my father's collection of ballpoint pens - which numbered in the hundreds!

To learn more about "Miriam's Journey of Love and Remembrance," click here to download her story.

(Note: The photo of Miriam was taken by Yerucham Ben Reuven-Syma)