Three keepsakes made from your photographs and five short stories. One £99 payment. Printed locally, shipped gently, on your doorstep within the week.
All three keepsakes
£119 outside UK
Commission № 0147
"She sat exactly here, every morning, for seventeen years."
01 / 02 / 03
Painted-style portrait from your photograph. Printed on cotton canvas, stretched on FSC-certified slim wood, matte varnish. Local-network printing in UK, EU, US, AU or JP — no customs drama, no 3-week cargo ships.
Draft · Warm · 427 words
For Elsie, who waited by the door.
She came home in a shoebox in the autumn of 2009, small enough to fit inside a slipper, and left seventeen years later having made every room feel like hers. She was the shape of our weekends…
She never once came when called, and we always went anyway.
Three drafts in three registers — Warm, Full, Brief Victorian. Every sentence passes a strict brand validator: no dated events we can't verify, no pronoun flips, no phrases we wouldn't say aloud. Keep all three.
2009 — 2026 · Camden
She came home in a shoebox in the autumn of 2009…
A quiet page at smallgoodbyes.com/memorial/[name]. Photos, narrative, optional guestbook. Public by default, passcode-protectable in one click, hidden from search engines unless you opt in. Hosted for a year.
04 / 05 / 06
The same painting, mounted in a solid wood frame and delivered ready to hang. Three sizes, three frame colours (black, dark wood, natural wood) — all at the same price per size.
The Memoir
28 pages · 20 × 20cm
A 28-page hardcover photobook. Cloth-matt cover, coated silk paper. Your photographs, the Warm eulogy, and your answers to our prompts — laid out as editorial spreads. Printed once, for your family.
Ten A6 folded cards with envelopes. Painted portrait on the front, eulogy excerpt inside on the left, blank on the right for your handwriting. For sending to people who knew them.
All three are also available together as the Keepsake bundle — £219, which pairs them with the Essential (canvas, eulogy, tribute page), three years of hosting, and a £15 donation to Dogs Trust. Saves £76 over buying everything individually.
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Pricing, plainly
The middle ground between forty-pound text-on-canvas and five-hundred-pound commissioned oil. Warm, dignified, not artisan-priced. If we get it wrong, you get all of it back.
Not of them, not of anyone.
A still memory, not a moving haunting.
We write about your pet, never as them.
Painted-style is painted-style. The photos on the tribute page are only ever yours.
Sooner on request. Originals never kept.
A warm reply and the money back.
Twenty minutes of writing. The doorbell by the end of the week.
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