Personalised Christmas gifts to give your family all the feels I love to try to find Christmas gifts that are special and meaningful to each family member. Personalized gifts are perfect place to start. And if you combine something personalized with your family member’s hobbies and their journey through life, you have the perfect gift right there! I’ve put together this list of unique and personalized gifts for all your family which will make them smile, laugh and maybe even cry a little. Your child’s drawing embroidered on a handkerchief Children’s drawings have always made fantastic gifts, now go one step further and have a keepsake made from their art that your child’s father can keep and treasure for ever.…
What’s Happening This Week – 4th September 2017
What Did I do Last Week? Last week was the first full week of September, so I’m starting to receive plenty of Christmas orders. (I know, in September!!) I’ll try to keep as many of the Christmas things until December or the New Year, as I don’t want to spoil any surprises. Of course, you can find my current sneek-peek here, and a full archive of the behind-the-scenes series over here. So what happened last week? Last week I was asked to make a special cushion. This is a memorial gift using handwriting from the customer’s father-in-law. She asked me to take some text from a greetings card and embroider it, to be given to her mother-in-law. Here is…
What’s Happening This Week – 28th August 2017
What am I working on? This is hopefully going to be a regular feature here on the MTC blog. In this series of posts, I will keep a record of the products featured on my ‘behind the scenes’ page. You can find this week’s studio activities there, with a full archive to start up here. So what happened last week? Last week, I was asked by Rachel to take some text from a greetings card, move it around and embroider it for a framed picture. The preview image looked like this: This beautiful gift has now been completed and is winging its way over to Rachel. When the work was all done, this is what Rachel is going to…
The Best Children’s Advent Calendars?
Are we the best? Well, the people at the British broadsheet newspaper The Independent think so. Memory Thread Co. was been featured in The Indy’s 2015 Best Kid’s Advent Calendars selection as one of only fifteen featured calendars to be enjoyed by children. Of course the Little Beanie is also in their main image, too! This doesn’t mean that older children (adults?) can’t enjoy our advent calendars. After all, they’re now officially the best. Browse the full collection of Bow Beanie’s Quilted Advent Calendars here
Not Just Children’s Art…
I’m sure everyone is well aware by now how much I love reproducing children’s art in handmade keepsakes or as something a bit more useful. However when I was recently approached to reproduce something from a hand-made wedding invitation to be made in to a keepsake wedding gift for the bride, I couldn’t refuse. Mr Beanie and I had an exceptionally small wedding and given that more than half of the attendees were children, we had very few gifts at our wedding, but it was enough to know that a present with real heart and thought is rare. (Small note: last week Mr Beanie smashed the last of our wedding gift wine glasses, so we now have not a single…
Positive Barbie Alternatives
So a timely post… World Doll Day seems to be today! The Little Beanie’s birthday is now fast approaching and we’ve been looking at some gift ideas. Aside from the obvious hand-made little bits and pieces (perhaps a new personalised superhero cape might be in order as she’s really grown since the last one! [also watch this space for news on these returning to Bow Beanie’s shop in an all-new format]) the Little Beanie herself has been asking for a Barbie doll. The specific doll she is after is the Barbie Rainbow Makeover Hair (thanks to the unrelenting advertising on Channel Five!) but Mr Beanie has put his foot down against any doll that pigeon-holes women into both unrealistic body expectations…
Mothers’ Day Competition Winner
It was Mothers’ day in America yesterday, am I right? Well in any case back on this side of the pond, I ran a giveaway on my facebook page for the United Kingdom’s Mums (It’s the sorta thing I do, because I’m a generous soul!) The winner of the giveaway was a lovely lady with a little boy with a thing for Spiderman; look at this picture he drew (clever little sausage!) The prize was for me to reproduce the child’s drawing on fabric to produce a wonderful framed keepsake picture to treasure. The Little Beanie quite likes Spider-Man too; she wanted to keep it to decorate her room with. Actually she puts forward a good case to keep…
Every Day Mum
Mothers’ day is just around the corner, From now until the 15th March I will be offering a 15% discount both here and in my Etsy shop. Just use the code EVERYDAYMUM when you checkout. I have a whole new range of products which are perfect as gifts for mothers and grandmothers, or anybody really – let’s face it, they are adorable. You can have a child’s artwork reproduced faithfully onto fabric to produce a framed picture, a bag, a cushion cover, a hankie… I could put your child’s picture on a nightie if you want! The possibilities are endless and I’m very happy to work with you on a special project
Mr Beanie’s Grown-up Advent Calendar
There’s all sorts of things you can put in these little pockets, as Mr Beanie has proved. Cheers and Merry Christmas! Don’t miss out on the fun, order one here and fill it full of miniatures
Advent Calendar Perfection
I love the countdown to Christmas. As a child I had one of these (ok, so I’m using the term ‘child’ quite loosely; my mum kept buying me one until I bought my own house!) But for 2014 and each and every subsequent year I have my new, improved advent calendar And this is what I shall be filling it with You can order yours here