LOOKING FOR ROMANTIC ENCOURAGEMENT? CAKE TOPPERS INSTILL SWEET NOTION YOU'LL BE LUCKY IN LOVE.Byline: Brent Hopkins Staff Writer Kathy Lerner was a busy social worker, dating but unable to find the right guy to settle down with. Her friend Lisa Hall Lisa Hall (born 24 September 1967) is an English golfer. She competed as Lisa Hackney before she married English-born professional golfer Martin Hall in 1998. She graduated from the University of Florida in the United States with a BA in Sociology before turning pro on 8 , an interior designer with an eye for whimsical whim·si·cal adj. 1. Determined by, arising from, or marked by whim or caprice. See Synonyms at arbitrary. 2. Erratic in behavior or degree of unpredictability: a whimsical personality. gifts, surprised her with a miniature bride and groom cake topper Topper house he purchases is haunted by the young couple who owned it previously and their dog. [Am. Lit., Cin., TV: Topper in Halliwell, 718] See : Ghost Topper Hopalong Cassidy’s faithful horse. and these instructions: Imagine this on your wedding cake and you'll meet the man of your dreams. ``It was kind of strange, because soon afterwards af·ter·ward also af·ter·wards adv. At a later time; subsequently. afterwards or afterward Adverb later [Old English æfterweard] Adv. 1. , she met someone,'' Hall said. ``It's just putting the thought out there. When you have something you can focus on to believe in, things really happen.'' When a series of friends and relatives were presented with the offbeat off·beat n. Music An unaccented beat in a measure. adj. Slang Not conforming to an ordinary type or pattern; unconventional: offbeat humor. gift and also found love, Lerner figured what worked for them could work for the masses. Thus were born the Lucky Lovers, figurines that aim to keep the good fortune alive for others, with a little help from Chinese mass production and a retail giant. With a recent deal to get the charms into 35 local Sav- ons, Lerner hopes to recreate the good luck she found herself on a larger scale. With the topper in her room, Lerner crafted a personals ad, something she'd never done before. It caught the eye of David Lerner David Lerner (born in New York City in 1951; died 1997) is an American renegade poet who wrote 'poetry you can actually read.' After some time as a journalist, Lerner pursued a bohemian lifestyle and became involved in the notorious Cafe Babar in San Francisco, a group dubbed as , a free-lance production sound mixer mixer, either of two electronic devices in which two or more signals are combined. In the type of mixer used in radio receivers, radar receivers, and similar systems, a signal is translated upward or downward in frequency. who'd also been too busy to settle down. They started dating, fell in love and married. It's gotta got·ta Informal Contraction of got to: I gotta go home. be the topper, she theorized. Though she has no business training and David Lerner's experience was limited to patenting some lighting equipment years ago that never made him much money, the couple invested more than $75,000 to mass produce the figurines. A year into the enterprise they're slowly making their money back, selling through catalogs and their Web site. ``Getting these manufactured in China was certainly interesting,'' said David Lerner. ``The first ones came back with green skin and when we complained, they said, Gee, you sure are critical.'' Now that the company has secured a distribution deal with Sav-On and begun making its initial investment back, the Lerners can begin dreaming about where to go next. They've explored the idea of figures with different ethnicities or perhaps a same-sex couple A same-sex couple is a pair of people of the same gender who pursue a romantic or sexual relationship together. The term "same-sex relationship" may be used when the sexual orientation of participants in a same-sex relationship is not known. one day. The trick in transforming the toppers from something with a novel history among the Lerner circle of friends and family into a serious business lies in getting the public to buy in. The couple concedes there's nothing inherently lucky about a piece of plastic shipped across the sea from China, but says it comes from the buyer's willingness to believe. ``If you expect something wonderful to happen, you'll do things differently,'' she said. ``You act differently, you dress differently, you put yourself into new situations.'' Brent Hopkins, (818) 713-3738 brent.hopkins(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1 -- color) Kathy Lerner displays the cake topper she says may lead to romantic bliss and good fortune for buyers who believe. (2 -- color) no caption (cake topper) Tina Burch/Staff Photographer |
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