Since growing up in the Deep South, I have heard this “Bless Your Heart” all my life, but never had to explain it to someone who doesn’t live down here.

Thanks to cottageintheoaks.com, I found the perfect way to describe this old phrase as “a form of empathy and used as a big hug”. It can mean you are sympathetic to someone’s plight or you are sarcastically surprised that someone doesn’t know how to do things correctly.

These three sweet, cute and funny words are hand stamped on the state of Mississippi that is hand cut from aluminum sheet metal. You choose whether you want it to be on a 16 inch or 18 inch chain.