What’s behind the name

Miss Babs & Miss Berta hand poured soy candles in the Dandenong Ranges Melbourne

Miss Babs & Miss Berta is owned by Marrianne Sansom who lives in the Dandenong Ranges and is originally from England. She named her home fragrances business after her Dad’s favourite English comedy Acorn Antiques.

Acorn Antiques is an all-singing, all-dancing, all-macarooned show following the lives and loves, the marigold gloves and macaroon adventures of staff at an antiques shop in the fictional town of Manchesterford, UK. When shop after shop on the high street closes, will Miss Berta and Miss Babs keep the business open? Will Mr Clifford recover from his amnesia and remember who his fiancée is? Most importantly, can Mrs Overall keep hold of her tea tray while she tap dances?

Miss Berta is rather desperate, but she's also sickeningly positive, no matter what comes her way. She's desperately in love with Mr Clifford, but unfortunately he has no recollection of her after his terrible antiques accident involving a beech veneer button-back banquette. He now has no memory of his life before that but she's still pining after him putting a ring on her finger.

As for Miss Babs, well, she's desperate but in a very different way, she's after any man she can get her mitts on in Manchesterford, until she sets her sights on Tony from Credit Cronies. Tony's been on the Fatkins Diet, so he's chiselled and lean and he definitely doesn't eat macaroons, so she's desperately trying to get him to fall in love with her and run away to a little hideaway like Cheltenham. He's only after the money but that doesn't stop her trying.

Miss Babs & Miss Berta hand poured soy candles in the Dandenong Ranges Melbourne