Featured Seller

We love the natural range from our first featured seller, Rosie Ellis of Bespoke Confetti, and really wanted to find out more about this wonderful business.

Rosie grows organically many native flowers from which they create colourful all natural confetti and real petal papers - perfect for a special celebration.  She has also forged relationships with local artisan basket weavers who use their local Somerset willow to make baskets just for her.  These are baskets that make you want to replace shopping bags.  Her range is available through her Muddy Carrot shop.

Here is a little view behind the scene of this lovely green business.

Bespoke Confetti

How did you get started - well a long story, but it's not an original idea, as there are some very large growers of petal confetti in the UK.
However our ethos became growing flowers organically, to handpick the petals & provide a real petal confetti as ecologically as possible. To that end, no chemicals, dyes or other intervention, other than hard work, goes into every single petal of confetti.Our labour force are the local 6th form students and university students home for the holidays.We provide petals for petal paper and sell a range of bespoke confetti baskets from Somerset willow, made by a local lady weaver especially for us.
So here we are, year 5, with a very successful small business growing a product that we are immensely proud of, keeping a small colony of bees & extending our business to incorporate other local enterprises with the same business ethic.

I am very passionate about the British flower industry, and the resurgence of interest in British flowers has been amazing. We have extended our business into growing seasonal flowers for a local high street florist & have recently been part of The Natural Wedding Company roadtrip, visiting sustainable and ethical businesses in the South West.
The person you most admire - Women in business in general, but one of our local Somerset based business women, Deborah Meaden She supports small businesses, has a very keen eye for regeneration & sustainability, and I feel is balanced in her approach to life.

What you listen to - in the background - Absolute radio - I have to be able to concentrate & find that radio 4/5 can be quite distracting. In my quiet times, Cohen has always been a firm favorite, but I rarely have quiet times.
Your favourite item of clothing - Has to be my hoe - seen wearing it most days!
Your favourite drink - Gin and tonic - Plymouth gin! Or a chilled Pouilly Fuisse
Perfect holiday - Has to be somewhere warm where, for R & R, I can recharge the batteries and read a good book!