Personalised Jewellery Blog
- Merci Maman
- 15 May 2020
- 136views
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
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- Merci Maman
- 6 May 2020
- 134views
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 ...
- Merci Maman
- 29 Apr 2020
- 2296views
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 ...
- Merci Maman
- 29 Apr 2020
- 225views
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)
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- Merci Maman
- 23 Apr 2020
- 398views
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 – ...
- Merci Maman
- 21 Apr 2020
- 192views
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 ...
- Merci Maman
- 9 Apr 2020
- 410views
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 ...
- Merci Maman
- 8 Apr 2020
- 134views
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 ...
- Merci Maman
- 2 Apr 2020
- 138views
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 ...
- Merci Maman
- 27 Mar 2020
- 137views
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 ...
- Merci Maman
- 25 Mar 2020
- 152views
Introducing: Birthstone Chain Collection
Introducing our Birthstone Chain Collection, featuring a dainty birthstone that represents your special month. We’ve been working so hard on this colourful collection and we couldn’t wait any longer to share it with you.
Delivered right through your letterbox, this personalised present will reach your loved ones on their birthdays, even ...
- Merci Maman
- 23 Mar 2020
- 185views
Top 10 books to read suggested by Merci Maman member Clemmie
We’ve spoken to some of Merci Maman’s very own to find out how they are passing their spare time without getting overly bored whilst staying put. Clemmie, Key Accounts, manages our platforms and has been with us for around 3 years. From Etsy to Not On The High Street to John Lewis, it’s Clemmie who handles your orders.
Always bright and ...
- Merci Maman
- 19 Mar 2020
- 147views
From Us, To You
We have thought long and hard about how best to handle our messaging to you during this frankly surreal time and we have questioned what we think you want to see and how we should be addressing it. Back and forth, back and forth we have gone deciding what to be during this time. Informative? Educational? Upbeat?
Then came the question: Are we ...
- Merci Maman
- 16 Mar 2020
- 148views
Our Note From Our Founder
Over the last 12 years, we have been celebrating motherhood, sisterhood, births, weddings, unique bonds, togetherness & other beautiful occasions with personalised jewellery.
This fairytale which started humbly from our kitchen table led us to meet her Majesty The Queen in Buckingham Palace & create 40 jobs. We have been designing & ...
- Merci Maman
- 11 Mar 2020
- 135views
Mother’s Day, After Losing A Child
We know Mother’s Day can be a sensitive time for some of us for various different reasons. It can be the hardest month of the year, whether we know it or not, but we hope that along with our podcast we are able to provide a platform that allows others to take comfort in knowing you are not alone.
We spoke with a good friend of ours, Lauren Frost ...