A she-me Christmas

We had a handmade Christmas again this year and gave only handmade presents to one another. 

We made and received some very special gifts.

Bea made some delicious cranberry chutney and sea salt crackers to have with cheese.

I gave handmade soaps, perfumes and oils, and covered sketch books in swatches of leather and hand-painted initials on hat-boxes instead of wrapping them.

Our Mum drew pictures of our three crazy cats and our Dad painted scenes from our family holiday in Mallorca in the summer.

Makes us feel very lucky and proud to have such a creative family.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Christmas cut-outs LIMITED EDITION

For one week only we have Limited edition paper cut-outs for sale.

£8.50 each

Hand-cut paper cut out with accompanying pale blue paper for writing your Christmas greeting on

'Winter wonderland' in eggshell

Paper cut-out- 20cm x 14cm

Accompanying paper- 21.5 cm x 15cm

Plain paper C5 envelope included

'The Nutcracker' in burgundy

Paper cut-out- 20cm x 12.5cm

Accompanying paper- 21.5 cm x 15cm

Plain paper C5 envelope included

Due to these being limited edition pieces they are not being put in our she-me shop

Please email beatrice on the Bea@she-me.com

Stating how many cutouts you require.

Last day for orders is Saturday 15th December

Bea in Marie Claire

 I was featured in Marie Claire Magazine this month. The lovely Marie Claire ladies took some snaps of me in my Garden and flat and chatted to me about all things style over a cup of tea or three.

New baby commemorative cut-out

All our friends are having babies- must be that time of year.

To celebrate we have cut out our first new baby cut-out.

 We will be releasing a 'new baby' section on our website next month. this will include commemorative hand-cut pieces to send or frame to give to new parents.

Until then here is sneak preview of one we created for Sophie, the newest little lady in town..

Bestival 2012

We dressed up, we danced, we sang...

 

New commemorative cut-outs

We have been busy working on a few new cut-outs recently...

The first a new theme for us- a leaving present.

 A very personal cut-out, with lots of entertaining elements in it, decided upon by the client. We loved making this cut-out, It was great to work on a new theme and create some mad ideas from design to cut.

The second, a birthday present. Cut on brown/grey textured paper mounted on white card and framed.

 We got a real chance to experiment with texture and the size of the cut elements in this particular cut-out.

Company Magazine

Us she-me girls were in company magazine last month. Along with our dad we got all dressed up and had a good old natter about growing up with a father in fashion, our she-me work and family life.
 We had so much fun on the shoot, laughing and joking around.

Hen do

We've just got back from my most amazing hen do in Mallorca. My mum and sister went to so much effort to make it everything I had dreamed of and more. The house looked beautiful and we even had a bell tent to accommodate the gaggle of girls. 

It was heaven being there with all my favourite ladies. 

Just had to share the photographs. We had a fabulous time.

Thank you Bea! 

x Tess

Love is in the air..

..and the wedding season has definitely begun.

 We have had several commemorative wedding artworks to cut out this month. One of our clients very kindly let us share their cut-out with you all. We loved designing and creating this one. An A4 sized cut-out on our favourite colour choice - mint.

  Hearing the romantic stories that each newly wed couple share and getting to design and then cut that story into paper, is truly uplifting and makes us feel all warm and fuzzy. 

If you would like us to produce a cut-out for you, please go to www.she-me.com for more information

Queenie

Just had to post this - we've seen alot of Jubliee themed shop windows in London recently but we especially like this one at McQueens flower shop. The Queen's head is made entirely from flowers.

Queen's Diamond Jubilee - Thames Flotilla

The Queen's diamond jubilee river pageant completed a tour of the River Thames with a 1,000-strong flotilla passing under Tower Bridge.

We made ourselves a picnic and headed down to the Chelsea embankment and luckily mangaged to get close to the river and set ourselves up near one of the big screens to watch the proceedings.

Thousands of people cheered on the flotilla from the bridges and embankments of the River Thames as it made its way from Chelsea to Tower Bridge. There were people sitting on telephone boxes, up trees and ladders and balconies overlooking the river were heaving with people.

We even got to see the boats before it started to rain.

Field Day

We took a break from cutting and creating during the royal jubilee holiday and took ourselves down to Field Day. 

She-me girls love a festival and this always means the start of summer for us. The rain held off for the day, we got to see some great bands and found ourselves in a hay fight too.