Where the idea starts
It starts with a drawing on a kitchen table. Someone small has pressed too hard with a crayon, and the result is a lopsided family under a very large sun. It is handed over with total confidence. The adult says it is wonderful, and means it.
Then the drawing joins the pile. ByMyKid is a response to that pile.
We are not a company with a long origin tale to recite, and we will not invent one. What we have is a philosophy, and it is worth stating clearly: children make things out of pure instinct, and those things deserve better than a drawer. The rest of this page is how we try to act on that.
A tagline that says it plainly
Their art. Your keepsake. Those few words are the whole brief. The art belongs to the child, and the keepsake belongs to the grown-up who treasures it. Our job sits in between: translating one into the other without losing what made it special.
That means paying attention to what the child actually did: the colours they pressed hardest, the corner they ran out of space in, the detail they added last. Those are the choices that make a drawing theirs.
Why drawings are hard to keep
Paper folds, fades and fills cupboards. Nobody wants to throw a child’s work away, yet nobody can keep all of it. Families end up choosing between clutter and guilt.
A keepsake offers a third option: keep one thing, properly, in a way that earns a place in daily life.
Why handwriting matters too
We often talk about drawings, but handwriting is just as fleeting. A child’s name written for the first time, a birthday message with letters going downhill: these change within months and never come back.
Capturing a line of real handwriting preserves something a photograph of a card can’t quite hold onto.
Adult keepsakes, not novelty items
Many children’s-art products look like children’s products. We want the opposite: pieces a grown-up would wear to work, to dinner, to a wedding. The child’s lines supply the personality; the design around them stays quiet and considered.
The wobble is the point
Our principle is to keep the mark as it was made. We do not redraw, correct or replace a child’s lines with something tidier. A shaky circle stays shaky. The uneven spacing in a name stays uneven.
If a design ever looks too perfect, we have probably gone wrong.
Wobble is evidence. It shows a hand still learning its own strength and a mind busy with the story behind the picture. Many adults find that the lines they once might have corrected are exactly what they come to love most.
If a design ever looks too perfect, we have probably gone wrong.
The original is never the casualty
Your child’s original drawing is irreplaceable, so the process is built around leaving it alone. We work from a photo or scan. The paper stays with you, and you remain free to frame it, file it or stick it back on the fridge.
A digital proof is how we show you our reading of the drawing, so you can judge whether we have been faithful to it. If we have not, you tell us, and we try again.
Four concepts to begin with
Today there are four design concepts: The Little Drawing Necklace, The Handwritten Necklace, The Keepsake Bracelet and The Pocket Keepsake. They are starting points for a conversation rather than a shelf of finished stock.
If your idea sits between two of them, that is fine. Tell us what you have in mind.
Each concept answers a different kind of person. Some want a pendant, some a bracelet, and some would rather carry something in a pocket. None of them is a finished product waiting in a box; each is a design to be shaped around your child’s work.
Order with care, or start with a conversation
Priced keepsakes can be selected with your artwork and added to your basket. When checkout is enabled, shipping and any tax are shown before you pay by card through Stripe or by the bank transfer / FPS option shown at checkout. A design enquiry remains a conversation, not an order.
A keepsake made from a child’s work deserves a pause, a proof and a decision made calmly. Checkout does not remove the care that goes into the design.
Honest about what is not decided yet
Metal, finish and size are not fixed in advance. They are confirmed with you in a personal quote, along with the price. You can tell us whether you lean toward gold-tone, silver-tone or have no idea yet, and that is a perfectly good answer.
We would rather leave a detail open than promise something we cannot yet stand behind.
That honesty runs through everything here. The product pages describe ideas and say plainly which details are still to be agreed.
Proof before production
Before anything is made, you receive a digital proof of the design. You can ask for changes, take time to think, or decide not to go ahead. Only an approval from you moves a design forward.
That step matters to us because the artwork is not ours. You know the child and the story, and you are the best judge of whether a design feels right.
Children’s art, handled with care
Children’s artwork is personal. Uploads are kept private to your browsing session and are never shown publicly. We ask for a parent or guardian’s consent before artwork is submitted, and we explain our handling in plain words on the privacy page.
We try to ask for as little as we need, and to say clearly what happens to it. If anything is unclear, the privacy page and the terms are there to answer it.
Made for the grown-up, inspired by the child
The best keepsakes have two people in them. The child who made the mark and the adult who wears it. Often the child is part of the process, choosing which drawing, adding a word, handing over the finished gift.
We hope that moment is as much the product as the object.
A keepsake that arrives with a story attached, the child proudly explaining which drawing it came from, is worth more than a perfectly made object that arrives with none.
What we will not do
We will not invent reviews, quote customer numbers we do not have, or tell stories about where things come from unless they are true. We will not describe a material until it is confirmed. If we do not know something yet, we will say so.
Trust is built slowly and lost quickly, and a young project has no reason to borrow credibility it has not earned. We would rather be modest and accurate.
We would rather be modest and accurate.
Who it is for
Mums and dads, grandparents, partners, aunts and uncles, teachers: anyone who has ever been handed a drawing and wished they could keep it close. Our gift guides and occasion pages are there to help you decide what might suit.
Where to begin
Pick a drawing, or a line of handwriting, that you cannot imagine losing. Browse the concepts, read how the process works, and send a design request when you are ready. Take your time. Their art will keep.
There is no rush built into this site. Nobody is counting down a sale, and a request commits you to nothing. Many families begin by simply photographing a few drawings and sitting with them for a while.
When you do send a request, you will be asked for the things that help us think well: which concept you lean towards, who the keepsake is for, and whether gold-tone, silver-tone or neither feels right. Everything else is decided together, step by step, with your approval at each important point. That is the whole philosophy in practice: the child makes it, you decide, and we try to do it justice.
