In 1985 in Los Angeles, Meredithe (whose childhood nickname was Meri Meri) sitting at her kitchen table with some scissors and pens and a big pot of glitter making cards. Local stationery stores in Los Angeles loved those cards and asked for more. She needed lots of kitchen tables and an enormous pot of glitter. Then in 1987, she presented her range of handmade cards at the National Stationery Show in New York. The response was phenomenal. The company grew from that little network of Mums working from home to now working in a 400-year-old building, overlooking an ancient churchyard in a little town called Cheltenham, one hour west of London.