CONES

 Paper cones are so easy to make and they can really brighten up the day.  Just a small piece of paper twisted into a cone and stuck with Pritt Stick. 

Vintage card cones come in all sorts of shades and patterns and a basket full of vintage card cones of confetti can be really effective.  You can match the theme of your special day or just be brave and have an assortment of colours

Vintage card here shown with just simple ivory petals - perfect to brighten up single colour confetti

Pale blue card filled with Cadbury blue petals - making a colourful bold statement

Simple handmade lokta paper cones - these are my favourite.

Basket of cones

These lovely large round baskets have proved to be popular this season filled with cones of natural confetti.  Here we have two different types of cones.  These baskets have been filled with cones just before dispatch to the customer.  The confetti has to travel separately of course as it would be all over the place by the time it reaches its destination!

If you are interested in a large basket with 50 cones filled with natural confetti, please email me.

Simply gorgeous wedding

Natural shades of green and cream theme created a simply gorgeous wedding.  The bouquet complimented the table settings, the cake and the confetti.  The beautiful cake was made by the bride's mother, including the floral decorations. Such a clever lady! The bride chose pale green cones and ivory natural confetti.

Trip to Turkey for bougainvillea

Sitting on a plane on my way to Turkey to join family out there. They are lucky enough to have a villa there in the hills that is literally surrounded by pink, yellow, orange and white bougainvillea wild flowers. The petals dry quickly out in the sun and we are able to send them home. Bougainvillea make lovely floaty confetti petals. When thrown up they float down like fairies. They look lovely just loose in baskets as they are not really suitable for cones and small organza bags as the petals are very large, similar size to larger rose petals.

Favourite colours for 2013

These two simple colours, raspberry and ivory, certainly seem to be the favourite for 2013!
A mixture of raspberry delphinium petals and ivory delphinium petals in mulberry paper cones, or simply loose in a pretty little basket.

Simple but effective

Thanks to Jan of Essential Images Jan for taking this amazing picture of a gorgeous couple who recently married at Careys Manor. They chose plain ivory delphinium petals for their natural confetti in cones handmade with mulberry paper. Simple yet so effective!

Wicker baskets

Wicker baskets full of lovely Natural Confetti for your wedding. These lovely little handmade cones are perfect for your guests, I just made 80 of these, took me about 4 hours but it was worth it to see them sitting in a large basket filled with lovely natural petals.

And after the wedding, if there are any petals left over, the children can have fun and throw them in the air!!

More natural wicker baskets

The wedding season seems to get earlier every year and our baskets are so very popular indeed. Another order gone out this afternoon for three lucky bridesmaids. Three lovely little baskets filled with cones of raspberry and ivory natural confetti, my favourite colour mix.
Miniature organza bags are also a great idea for a handful of natural confetti. They are perfect in baskets too, or little jute bags, and little girls love to hand them out to guests.

Bespoke Confetti

We put this gorgeous basket of confetti together for a wedding today in Virginia Water.  Pale green cones made from gorgeous paper that we sourced from France.  The cones are filled with ivory delphiniums.   The mother of the bride bought this basket and filled it with 50 of the little cones, decorated the handle with gorgeous ribbon and here is the result.  Just beautiful bespoke confetti!  We are hoping and praying that the weather stayed fine today for the lovely bride and we look forward to some fab pics.  With the brides permission we shall be publishing the photos really soon!

The Vintage Wedding

With the latest trends heading towards vintage style weddings, I per chance stumbled on this lovely vintage paper to make pretty cones for our natural confetti.  It is such lovely paper to work with and designs on either side of the paper are varied and in fabulous pastel colours.  The pattern on the inside of the cone is different to the outside but the colour shades are the same - very subtle.                                                                             

We are thrilled with these stunning confetti cones.  And any pastel shade of petal looks great with them.

Cones, cones and more cones!

Just provided the natural petal confetti for a big wedding in the South East - all hush hush!  Fantastic - although exhausting making all those delicate little cones!  Phew! Pics coming soon hopefully..........