Sweethearts Heart-Shaped Candy

Sweethearts Valentine Heart-Shaped Love Hearts Candy. Sweethearts are the small heart-shaped candies with a peak selling season around Valentines Day. Sweethearts are available for a 6 week period each year from January 1st through February 14th and then disappear until the next season.

To me, Sweethearts are THE candy for the Valentines Day holiday. Hey Valentine : how about YOU?

I remember when we gave out Sweethearts in grade school. Well, I am no longer in grade school, but I still enjoy giving and receiving this heart-shaped candy with lovely sayings for Valentines Day. How about you?

I really do love this heart-shaped candy, also known as Conversation Hearts, and very popular in the UK as Love Hearts!

Think about gifting your loved one with some Sweethearts!

Photo Credit: A sweet vintage Sweethearts by Necco candy tin.


Conversation Hearts : I Love You!

8 billion Sweethearts made per year!

About 8 billion hearts will be produced this year; that’s enough candy to stretch from Rome, Italy to Valentine, Ariz. and back again 20 times.

About 250 billion have been made to date!

How are Sweethearts made?
First sugar, color and other ingredients are mixed together. When the mix feels like dough, it is ready to be made into hearts. Workers pick up the dough and take it to a machine that flattens it.

Another machine stamps a saying like ‘cutie pie’ on it. The same machine also will cut the dough into hearts. The candy drops on a conveyor belt that takes the conversation hearts to a dryer.

Once the candy is dry, it gets mixed in with other colors. Finally, the hearts are boxed and shipped.

Original Equipment is used!
History is still at work in the manufacturing process of conversation hearts. It takes a combination of machines and skilled candy makers to produce conversation hearts. Many of the machines used to make this candy are the original machines or exact replicas.

The History of Conversation Hearts:
Back to the time of Shakespeare? It has been suggested that Queen Gertrude in Shakespeare’s Hamlet might have originated the tradition with her “Sweets to the Sweet.” Offering up sweet candies to her loved one.

The American colonists were known to make candies on which they etched love notes for Valentine’s Day.

Then, along came the New England Confectionary Company, known more popularly as NECCO, who capitalized on the colonists’ idea. In the mid-1800s, NECCO created conversation hearts aka sweethearts.

Sweetheart Sayings: 10 New Sweethearts Sayings At least 10 new conversation heart sayings are introduced each year. Recent additions include "Yeah Right," "Call Home" and "Puppy Love."

That makes well over 100 original sayings in total!

Sold for Limited Time Each Year!
Sweethearts are sold 1/1 - 2/14 The peak selling season for Sweethearts conversation hearts last only six weeks, but confectioners produce the candy for nearly eleven months of the year.

They're available January 1st through February 14th.

Love them??
Do you love this little candies? Can you remember when you first gave or received these? I’d love to hear your memories … let me know!

History: Sweethearts : Valentine Love Hearts was originally created on Squidoo by JaguarJulie on January 10, 2008. Highest lensrank ever achieved: #1,853 overall. Lens #232 in the quest for Giant Squid 300 Club.

The Art of Cupid

I have always loved angels and angel art. And, I have a finer appreciation for cupid. Cupid's arrow has struck me more than a few times in my illustrious life as a blonde that does it herself.

Thinking of The Art of Cupid - we encourage you to share the love especially @ Valentines Day and wedding anniversaries. Heck, share it everyday. You know that I was actually married on Valentines Day in 2003? Unfortunately, I was divorced 7.5 years later - after going through that seven year itch.

Ah, Hello CUPID! Why not take a moment to spread a little niceness and share the love. Too bad cupid is not flying around the world today shooting his arrow to instill love in people! Share that cupid love already!

Ah, yes art is all around us, but maybe not enough love. As beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so can there be beauty and love in the art of cupid.

Welcome to the art of cupid where you can find some beautiful cupid love art posters and items! Share that love ... the art of cupid. ;)

I think we could all be touched by an angel and instilled with more human kindnesses. To reach out to our friends and loved ones to show them how much we care. Today, in the whirlwind of the internet, it is too easy to lose our way. Stop and think for a moment. OK, now leave me a message please. Blessings to you my dear!
The Art of Cupid Poll: We would love for you to answer our little question. Have you been touched by the art of cupid?

1. Cupid's artful bow has struck me several times!
2. I have been struck by cupid's artful bow just once!
3. I am awaiting a hit by the artful bow of cupid.

EROTES, the winged gods of love, a multplication of Eros.

EROS, in Latin, Amor or Cupid, the god of love.

In the sense in which he is usually conceived, Eros is the creature of the later Greek poets; and in order to understand the ancients properly we must distinguish three Erotes.

The Eros of the ancient cosmogonies, the Eros of the philosophers and mysteries, who bears great resemblance to the first, and the Eros whom we meet with in the epigrammatic and erotic poets, whose witty and playful descriptions of the god, however, can scarcely be considered as a part of the ancient religious belief of the Greeks.

From its beginnings as a royal fortress to the magnificent structure we see today, the Louvre Museum embodies the concept of that of a universal institution.

Dedicated to conservation, restoration and the development of artistic treasures from all over the world, the Louvre welcomes over 6 million visitors through its doors each year and houses 35,000 works of art.


Sculptures of the Louvre is a 7-part series highlighting masterpieces of sculpture on exhibit.

Each piece is put into its historical context - enabling a better understanding of the sculpture itself as well as the artistic movement that inspired it.

I think we could all be touched by an angel and instilled with more human kindnesses. To reach out to our friends and loved ones to show them how much we care.

Today, in the whirlwind of the internet, it is too easy to lose our way. Stop and think for a moment. OK, now leave me a message please. Blessings to you my dear!

History: The Art of Cupid : Share the Cupid Love was originally created on Squidoo by JaguarJulie October 17, 2009.Highest lensrank ever achieved: #1,760 overall. Lens #518 in the quest for Giant Squid 600 Club.