For Mothering
Sunday.
Mothering Sunday is 14 March 2027. If you're thinking about a gift more thoughtful than a card, this is a short note about what we can do — and when to write to us by.
The photograph your mother kept is in a box. It's the wedding portrait of her parents, or her at four in the dress her grandmother sewed, or the photograph she pointed to on the wall when you were small and said "that's my father."
By 14 March 2027 — if you write to us by 28 February — we can have it restored by hand, framed in walnut, and in her hands the morning of Mothering Sunday.
The three options.
A single photograph, framed. £49 for the restoration plus £20 colourisation if needed plus £72 for an 11×14 walnut frame and Royal Mail Special Delivery. About £141 depending on damage. Arrives in a kraft mailer with a handwritten note.
A family bundle. £199 for up to eight photographs from the box in the attic. Includes colourisation. Digital files delivered; a print set in 5×7 lustre is a £65 add-on. The gift here is the volume — eight years of family history brought back at once.
A memorial bundle — if your mother lost her own mother recently, or if you're working toward a milestone year. £499 for 12 photographs restored, a 11×14 walnut-framed centerpiece, a slideshow video on a USB, and a presentation box. Built around one hero photograph.
The booking windows.
- By 28 February 2027 for guaranteed Mothering Sunday delivery (single photographs and family bundles)
- By 22 February 2027 for memorial bundles (more production time)
- By 14 February 2027 if you want the rush-free, no-anxiety path
The packaging.
Everything ships in plain white-label packaging — no studio branding on the outside, so the surprise is intact when she opens it. The framed piece is wrapped in tissue and a wax-sealed sleeve. The handwritten note inside addresses her by name (we ask for her first name on the intake form).
If you'd like the package to go directly to her — rather than to you, to wrap — we can do that. We recommend the digital proof come to you first so you can approve the restoration before her surprise.
What to send us.
The photograph itself — original by Royal Mail Special Delivery (we send a kit if you'd like) or a high-resolution scan by email. Plus your intake note: who the photograph is of, what the occasion is, anything we should know about her or about the people in the photograph that should inform the work.
"Her smile was always slightly crooked, don't fix that" is the kind of thing that helps. We don't fix what you didn't ask us to fix.
Begin an order at keptandkin.com/order or write to hello@keptandkin.com. We write back the same day, by hand.