The Small Business Shopping Guide
Inspired by last weeks Chelsea Flower Show, I decided to create a shop small showcase around the theme of flower and garden lovers products.
If you love discovering small businesses online, you’re in the right place.
I love sharing UK small businesses. If you have one, I would love to include you in a future shop small showcase. Find out more here.
When you buy from a small business, you support real people, real families, creativity, passion and livelihoods.
Independent shops often offer products you simply won’t find on the high street or giant marketplaces.
Every order makes a difference to our lives.
I hope you have enjoyed this week product picks. The UK online shops featured in this Indie Showcase are all members of my shopping directory. You can find details of them all below.
Beyond Measure is a wonderfully curated shop full of products for folks who make. The focus is on yarn and textile based crafts with some paper crafts too. A well chosen collection with some unique items. Tools, supplies, books, patterns and lots more. Perfect to buy for yourself or to buy as a gift.
Colmers Hill Fashion is a beautiful and award winning women’s fashion boutique based in Dorset. It is also online, showcasing a wide range of different design labels. In addition they also have their own label of wearable art clothing, From My Mother’s Garden. A gorgeous and beautifully curated range of women’s clothes and accessories.
Daffodowndilly have a unique range of colourful and beautifully designed gifts. Inspired by nature and a joyful life. Their range includes notebooks, greetings cards, postcards, wall prints, book marks, stickers, writing paper and gift notes. They also have a wide range of pin badges, keyrings and bag charms. All in their distinct designs.
Earlybird Designs for greetings cards, gifts and party things. Their range includes their own in-house designed cards plus lots of others from British independent designers. Plus, they have a lovely curated collection of small gifts and party ware. A wide range and lovely selection.
From My Mother’s Garden is a wearable art clothing label. The beautiful prints is what sets the range apart. Penny, the designer behind this label, was inspired by her Mother’s garden, the times they spent there and the close mother and daughter bond. The range includes limited edition clothing in exclusive prints of vibrant colours and nature. Kimonos, robes, dresses, skirts, trousers, tops, accessories and homeware.
Home Gifts Garden offer a range of unique and distinctive pieces, many of which will be handmade from artisans and small scale cottage industries from around the world. Perfect for the home and garden, also as gifts. From Buddha statues to wooden bamboo root ducks, wall clocks to gift selections for house warming, birthdays and Christmas.
Pen Pusher is a stationery shop specialising in sustainable stationery and caliigraphy. Their range is extensive and includes creative pens for hand lettering and calligraphy, notebooks, Washi tape and other stationery items. Pen Pusher hand pick the best independent UK brands for their online shop.
Poppy Treffry have gorgeous textile accessories, home decor and gifts. Mostly machine embroidery and lots of lovely prints too. All inspired by the beauty of the Cornish Coast. They also do a wide range of craft kits and sewing projects, including some wonderful subscription clubs which would make a brilliant gift.
Seasons Green is a gorgeous gift shop and gallery, inspired by coast and countryside. Their range includes unusual gifts, crafts and art from independent makers across the UK and some bigger brands too. They stock a broad range including home accessories & lighting, stationery, gardening & outdoors gifts, crafting supplies, jewellery, women’s accessories, gifts for children, women, men and pets.
Ribbonsforyou sell all things fabric ribbons. With over 30,000 reels in stock, they have something for everyone. Whether it be for your wedding, your business, your craft projects, for Christmas. Their website has a massive range of all different themes, materials, widths and colours. They also have ribbon craft kits to make wreaths and other decorations. Plus, if you want some ribbon printed especially to your own design, they can do this too.
Siop Cwlwm is a Welsh gift shop. Here you can find Welsh books, greetings cards, home decor, learning resources for children and adults, games and lots more. All either in the Welsh language, have a Welsh theme or made by a small business in Wales.
Sister Sister sell gorgeous illustrations on hand painted ceramics, pins, artwork, tea towels, jigsaw puzzles and more. Lots of beautiful dog illustrations on ceramic hearts. Each one is painted by hand. Plus, they have some great pin badges and some have Welsh words on them too. A wide range of themes and illustrations to choose from.
SN cards are fine art greetings cards and gifts, created from still life photographs. Shelley is a fine artist photographer influenced by the style of Dutch Masters. Each photograph takes hours (often days) to create and make the most stunning artwork. The cards and gifts are created from this stunning artwork and reproduced on quality cards, mugs and coasters.
The Chiswick Gift Company is a London based design studio selling all kinds of great gifts. Fun, quirky, useful, some sweary and many creating great keepsakes. Their range include pin badges, notebooks, mugs and more.
Wiggly Wigglers is an award winning business with a passion for nature and here to help you bring your garden to life. They are Bokashi composting experts and sell a wide range of home composting products to make it easy for you to manage your organic waste. They also sell home grown bird feed (grown on their Duchey Farm) and British bird products perfect for our garden birds. Plus, they sell worms, no garden can thrive without them.
I have shown only a small selection of the shops product picks here. Click the images to be taken to where you can find and buy, plus see lots more of their other products.
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I hope you have enjoyed this Indie Showcase and you now feel inspired to shop with some of these wonderful shops.
There is lots more inspiration over on my blog here.
Happy shopping!
Barbara
All opinions in this blog post are mine. At the time of writing all shops mentioned are members of my shopping directory.
Though I mention lots of shops here, you must form your own opinion as to whether the shop and their products are for you.
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