Thoughtful gifting in Jersey. Celebrating our new and old stockists, and making it easy to send gifts to a loved on across the island we call home.

Harriet & Rose offer a gift list and wish list service alongside their online gift shop and shop at 71 King Street, St Helier. Thoughtful gifting and delivery in Jersey, Channel Islands made simple. Perfect for wedding gifts, housewarming, Christmas and birthdays.

Buying online at www.harrietandrose.co.uk.

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It’s fair to say that the ‘shop renovating’ journey - were it a shape - would have many sides. So many. So many corners have been turned over the course of the last two months, but after every one a whole new heap of things to do is spawned.

I’ve been dangling these like the proverbial carrot. Previews ahead of the shop opening on the 17th August. And finally I’m certain that the corner has been turned in terms of being ready, and so I’m ready to firm up the preview events.

And not just in a customer capacity! Whilst I live and breathe all thing Harriet & Rose at the moment (and sleep, and dream, and essentially consume all living hours with shop stuff), I know that it’ll be nothing without you.

Spoiler, I haven’t. Not yet anyway. But I’m working on it.

I never thought that moving the business from being online to bricks and mortar would be easy, but I have to say, it’s harder than I ever imagined. Just in terms of the logistics!

It’s been a little while since I posted a blog post. I have to say, that’s not because there hasn’t been stuff going on, but rather that any ‘stuff’ has been fairly dull, and mostly involved me up a ladder painting ceiling tiles gold. Niche. And that doesn’t make particularly great reading!

Shop renovations… I was daunted at first. I’m confident in my ability to choose a paint, or a tile. I’m a dab hand at buying too many cushions, and you can never have too many pictures in the ‘to frame’ pile.

We’re opening a shop. Yes, that’s right, Harriet and Rose, the online-only gifting website founded in Jersey in 2019 is moving to bricks and mortar, and therefore no longer online-only. We’re going to the High Street… the very busy central High Street of St Helier. You’ll soon find us at 71 King Street.

In 2021 being an Influencer is a bone fide career. As someone who has worked in retail, hospitality and run their own business since 2005, this isn’t really a new career… it’s just that it used to be called marketing. The difference? In theory, anyone can become an influencer, and make good money from it, just by having a good instagram following and affiliate links.

There are two types of people in this world… the organised gift givers, and the disorganised ones. I - believe it or not (and the irony is not lost on me) - fall firmly into the latter. Which is actually one of the reasons why I founded Harriet and Rose.

We launched almost two years ago, and in that time we’ve always said that we would focus on Jersey first and foremost. This has not changed! We were founded in, and are based in Jersey, to provide a gifting service that we couldn’t find on island.

When I first launched Harriet and Rose, almost two years ago now (and my, has that time gone both quickly and slowly all at once), I had a plan. It was a good plan, and it was one that I’d spent the best part of a year honing and refining (not to mention designing, and writing copy for), but I always knew that day one of the website would be just the beginning.

Business ownership is not always an easy thing, especially when you are a small one, and you as the owner have to become master of all the business aspects.

Hampers. Care packages. What’s the difference?

We were thinking about this long and hard the other day (our head is an interesting place to be sometimes!), and it occurred to us that so often hampers and care packages are used interchangeably.