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Top 4 Lockdown Push Presents

Top 4 Lockdown Push Presents

With motherhood at the heart of everything we do, our hand-engraved jewellery makes the perfect ‘push present’. Giving birth deserves a medal in itself, but with everything going on we’re all in awe at the amazing women we’ve seen and heard about doing this alone. Here are our top push presents: Personalised Gemstone Necklace This ...
Cervical Screening Awareness Week (15-21 June)

Cervical Screening Awareness Week (15-21 June)

Cervical cancer is the most common form of cancer in women under 35 with two women in the UK per day dying from the disease. Regular cervical screening appointments can prevent up to 75% of instances of cervical cancer, saving 5000 lives per year. Despite this, many women are reluctant to have this test done with a quarter of women not responding ...

June Birth Flower: Rose

Are you a June baby? Your birth flower is the romantic Rose! A Rose needs no introduction. Each colour, from red to rainbow, carries meaning and a message. Whether it’s love, pride, gratitude or joy, Rose’s symbolism is iconic and ever so pretty. Hand-engraved with words, names or dates of your choice, the Birth Flower Necklace makes the ...
Arts & Crafts To Do At Home

Arts & Crafts To Do At Home

We’ve been finding ways to keep ourselves entertained with little bits and bobs that we have laying around the house. Try one of the below for a fun task for you and your little ones. Toilet Roll Zoo We stole this great idea from @LifeWithBusbys! Collect a few toilet rolls, grab your paints and some googly eyes, and create any animal you ...
7 Ways To Celebrate Your Baby’s 1st Birthday

7 Ways To Celebrate Your Baby’s 1st Birthday

As a friend of Merci Maman, we asked Chelsea from Instagram account @chelsealouisewatson how she was celebrating her Scarlett’s first birthday in lockdown with the hope it can provide inspiration to anyone else with little birthdays approaching fast! She’s given us her top tips below with how she celebrated her little girl’s big ...
Your May Horoscope

Your May Horoscope

Every time we received a magazine in the office, Eve, our PR & Marketing Manager would do us the honours and read each and every one of us our horoscope. Now that we’re all WFH, we miss having these read to us so we’ve asked her to write her very own for us to enjoy from the comfort of our own home. Taurus ♉️April 20 – May 20 ...
Our Fave Stretches & Exercises To Do From Your Desk

Our Fave Stretches & Exercises To Do From Your Desk

Jean- Michel, our soon to be CEO, is a health and wellbeing advocate and has shared with us his favourite stretches and exercises to do from your desk while we’re still WFH. *As a little disclaimer, Jean-Michel is not a qualified practitioner but has been practising the art of yoga and meditation over the last 25 years. While we work, due to ...
The Peony, May Birth Flower with Personalised Necklace

The Peony, May Birth Flower with Personalised Necklace

Is your birthday in May? If so, what a lucky one! The birth flower for May is the delicate and romantic Peony, a very sought after flower. The beautiful Peony is a symbol of true romance, prosperity and compassion. With its full, rounded bloom, it also embodies prosperity and is regarded as an omen of good fortune. Hand-engraved with ...
MM Bakes: Easy Vegan Bakewell Tart

MM Bakes: Easy Vegan Bakewell Tart

  Our best recipe for a shortcrust pastry filled with cherry conserves and eggless frangipane. Servings: 12 Ingredients For the shortcrust pastry: 200 g Plain flour (1+⅔ cups) 110 g Vegan butter (½ cup) 2-3 tbsp Cold water For the filling: 250g Cherry Jam (¾ cup) ...
Birth Flowers: Discover the Meaning of the Flower of your Month

Birth Flowers: Discover the Meaning of the Flower of your Month

Each flower gets strength from its roots, which give it stability, life and growth. It changes and evolves from a small, tender seed to a beautiful blossom, just like a child that grows with the love from its mother. It is unique, as nature intended, but its purpose is the same. As mums, we all have the same task – to lead, support and love – ...
Queens Award 2020

Queens Award 2020

We are thrilled to receive The Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the International Trade category for a second time as a recognition for our consistent growth since 2007. Join us on our journey and discover our story so far. Béatrice created the first charm bracelet in 2007 at her kitchen table in Fulham. Merci Maman was born from ...
Silver Linings: The Organisation And Creativity of Our Content Team

Silver Linings: The Organisation And Creativity of Our Content Team

We want to be sharing as much as we can with you on how all of our team are doing and the revealing their highlights of their day-to-day schedules, such as playing dress-up to the park! We’ve asked Alix Stanworth, Country Manager for the UK, US and Rest Of World, how she’s finding staying at home with two little ones… “It was the worst ...
Our Work Out Playlist

Our Work Out Playlist

Whether you’ve taken to a mat in your front room or gone for a run whilst practising social distancing, we speak with Eve, our PR & Marketing Manager, who’s our resident office DJ and always provides the best music on Friday afternoons. Eve has shared with us her top 10 tunes that help to get her through her workout or run and boy are ...
International Cesarean Month

International Cesarean Month

April is International Cesarean Month and we have asked our UK Marketing Manager, Christie, to do a q&a with her mum, Lynn, on her experience with having a cesarean. Christie & her mum, Lynn Hi mum! This is definitely a different kind of blog post I typically write! For our readers, let’s start with a little about yourself. Hello ...
Creative Ways To Stay Connected

Creative Ways To Stay Connected

These troubling times have forced us all to be apart from friends, family and loved ones when we need each other’s support more than ever. However, this need not mean we don’t have fun together – we just have to be a bit more creative! Here are a few imaginative ideas to keep in contact with your nearest and dearest.  For a few of ...
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