Adio from Kid British loves Me&Yu

Adio from Kid British popped in to Me&Yu Afflecks - he's been touring with UB40 and is back in Manchester for Christmas. He couldn't resist a little Me&Yu fix and is seen in his new Art Theft Sweatshirt! Currently finishing their debut album they'll be touring again in 2011, check out their music and all the latest news here: http://iamkidbritish.com

Christmas Grotto Winner

Congratulations to Genesia Meynell who won our Christmas Grotto competition, she'll now have a christmas full of loads of Me&Yu clothes and jewellery, robots and a pink christmas tree!!!!
We will be drawing our Win Me&Yu for a year online competition next week.

Christmas Grotto Winning Ticket

We we're supposed to draw the winning ticket over the weekend but all the snow chaos delayed us a day or so... but NOW all tickets have been counted and verified, folded and drawn.

We got Afflecks worker Chris to draw the winning ticket and can announce it is......number 150!

Check all your Me&Yu Christmas Cards to see if you're number has come up - the winner needs to contact us by email to angie@meandyu.com to arrange delivery / collection by 1st January. If
no-one comes forward with the winning ticket we'll draw another number!

Happy Christmas

A Winter's Tale in Preston

At the last minute Me&Yu has joined in the fun planned in Preston this weekend. There's two amazing linked events going on in the centre of Preston on the flagmarkets and it looks like it will be a fabulous festive celebration for anyone who wants to get in the Christmas Spirit.

The New Continental Pub in Preston is organising this fabulous 4 day Christmas Beer Festival - the tent is up, the kegs are ready and for a mere £2.50 entry you can enjoy all the fun. There's 100+ cask ales and real ciders, a lager, wine and spirit bar as well as speciality foods and a whole hog roast. As well as the food and drink - there is a host of musical treats to keep you entertained.

Across the road in the Old Post Office is Bazaar! A fabulous art and craft market with over 25 stalls of original products and gifts unique gifts that you just can't get on the high street. Me&Yu has a select range of products from cards and handmade gifts to our best selling tees and hoodies - and you can also pick up your FREE Christmas Card Flyer from us which can be re-used as a discount voucher for January. Only £1 entry or free if you've been to the Beer Festival.

Both events are running for a whopping 4 days - Thursday 16th December to Sunday 19th December from 12.00 midday to 7pm. And as the snowflakes are starting to fall it promises to be a fabulous winter wonderland to get you in the mood for Christmas!

Christmas Info

Facebook Competition.....

You may have seen recently that we've set up a Facebook Fanpage. Our 'person' page Meandyu Afflecks has already got thousands of friends and Facebook will only let you have so many. So we've set up a fanpage to spread the word about Me&Yu and hopefully reach out to more people across the globe.

The NEW FANPAGE is the place for latest news about Me&Yu, style guides, celeb watch and best of all COMPETITIONS!!!

Every month we'll be giving away one of our latest designs to one lucky person. All you have to do to enter is:

1. Join the fanpage at facebook.com/lovemeandyu
2. Tag yourself in the photo

At the end of the month 1 lucky person will be drawn at random and will win the item in the size of their choice.

The first competition is now live - TAG TO WIN!!!!! this great Art Theft Hoodie!

This is just the beginning - we have lots more great things planned .................... watch this space!

Me&Yu on Tour!

This weekend sees Me&Yu on tour! We'll be cropping up at a few craft and vintage fairs over the next couple of weeks.....here's the lowdown..

The first event is THIS SATURDAY 4th DECEMBER in Lancaster at the Storey Gallery.
We've just got a few cards and accessories tagged onto Lisa Wigham's stall at this great event which has a selection of handmade gifts, art and vintage.

Sunday 5th December sees Me&Yu visiting Prestwich, Manchester and joining in the festivities at the Prestwich Christmas Market. We'll be selling a select range of our handmade cards and gifts - including buttons, craft packs and vintage haberdashery (and a few t-shirts too!)

And last but by no means least is the Love Vintage London Christmas Festival. Roxanne will be heading down the motorway with a car load of Me&Yu clothing and accessories to show the London crowd what they've been missing - some Me&Yu!!!!!!!!!

Christmas Cards

We handprinted some more christmas cards today, online now!!! (ish) and instore tomorrow

Some scenes from the shop!

Well yesterday was a winter wonderland in Manchester. Have a look at the little film I made - hopefully it will make you feel Christmasssy!

And here's some pictures of our Christmas Grotto and our Gift Wrapping Cabin!

 So you can now get FREE Gify Wrapping with any purchase!

And these are some shots of our Christmas Grotto. One lucky customer will win everything you see in here - including the tree! If you fancy your chances simply spend over £10 to get your raffle ticket!

FREE T-Shirts

I finally got time to print the t-shirts we're giving away if you spend over £30 (instore or online), believe it or not this is the first time we've had a t-shirt design with our name on it (I think) - only took 5 years.

Facebook Fanpage...

You may have seen recently that we set up not one but two Facebook Fanpages! Such is the nature of facebook - we set the first one up with the wrong name and then discovered we coudn't change it! (we're deleting the original one!) So please have a look, click LIKE and spread the word about Me&Yu to all your friends.

We're planning a few competitions and events for everyone who joins in the fun!

Printing Wrapping Paper

We've handprinted some Christmas wrapping paper today, look out for it if you order online or if you call into Afflecks we will happily gift wrap your purchases for you

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Festive Nonsense..........

Well we've been planning our Christmas activities for six months but a poorly car, a never-ending illness and guess what, everything is coming together at the last minute again!!

We decided this year that instead of going to The Clothes Show Live in Birmingham we would concentrate our festive celebrations on the website and the shop in Manchester - for the whole of December!

We've got some great competitions and give-away's lined up so REMEMBER Me&Yu THIS CHRISTMAS!!!!

Christmas Card - £1

One of the things we planned to do is hand-print our own Christmas cards and wrapping paper. The first card design is on the website already and even though it's December on Wednesday we only drew some of the designs for the other cards and gift-wrap last night!

These will be transformed by magic* (Gordon) to lovely cards and wrapping paper, hopefully before the 1st!!!

Here's also a sneak peek at our LIMITED EDITION Christmas design:

This design will be printed in festive red on a white tee and the only way you can your hands on one of these beauties is to spend over £30 on the webite or instore this December.

Then you'll get it FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

If you make any purchase over £10 you'll also be entered into one of our PRIZE DRAW competitions.

Call into the store for your FREE Christmas Card Flyer, it has details of all the offers and includes a discount voucher for January, and if you want to spread the love - take a poster and put it up in your dorm / common room / staff room / office / canteen.

Me&Yu LOVES Christmas!!!!

Christmas Stuff

Well, soon it will be Christmas at Me&Yu!!!!!, we've just got all our posters and christmas cards!!!
We now have to fold about 5000 flyers in half!!!

A Few New Designs

We've been working on a few new designs over the past weeks, but car trouble and illness seem to be delaying us a little. However we've managed to get a couple of them printed and in Afflecks!!!. They also should be online sometime over the weekend (probably sunday)

Posters

We've just had some posters made of the photograph Jensen took as part of our Spring Summer photoshoot, we had lots of comments and people asking for a copy so we decided to make it into a poster in time for Christmas. They are available in the shop for £2.00.

Manchester's Northern Quarter is the best place to be!

When you think of a good neighborhood - you don't automatically think of a city centre location but Manchester's Northern Quarter had just won a nationwide best neighborhood award! And our lovely Afflecks get's a mention! Judges were impressed by the mix of apartments and shops and the way its has retained a unique character whilst undergoing a great period of change and regeneration.

The thing I love about the Northern Quarter is that everyone is so friendly - as a shopkeeper in the NQ we all know each other and if we can't help out a customer we're happy to send them along to our friends down the street. I'll happily reccommend a variety of different stores, cafes and restaurants in the local area. A visitor to the Northern Quarter feels welcomed and looked after. I remember a stray Londoner amazed that I would take the time to give him detailled diections - I even drew a map!

When you're used to shopping 'on the high street' somewhere like the Northern Quarter with its independent stores and quirky shops is a real revelation - try it you might like it!

see the article larger on the Manchester Evening News Website...