painting flowers

* gallery via ginny branch stelling

high-priority to low-priority

i've got approximately 40 mins to get out of the house for a meeting so why am i taking photos of flowers in old spice pots? please excuse the dusty window on picture five, i am tardy too. but don't fritillaria, helleborus and sweet peas make a dapper combination...

flower delivery clydebank style

* via chapel club

back on the flowers

finally some pictures of flowers! it's a wonder anyone is still reading to be honest. i forgot to take my camera to the venue so i couldn't get any pictures of the tables all set up. you'll just have to take my word for it that they looked good. 

prep

i made a start. 

i've been conditioning roses in my pajamas this morning. a photographer is coming over later to do a 'day in the life' piece. i won't be wearing my pj's then though, that would be weird.

re-home

when i was 17 i had an art teacher who used to collect stuff. he had pretty much every copy of vogue from 1960 (or thereabouts). i thought he was a bit weird at the time but i would kill for that kind of collection now.

weddings start up this weekend again in earnest and i'm frantically trying to organise myself before they do. i've been on a mad spring-cleaning tip the past couple of weeks. when we moved house last summer the plan was for me to use the garage building in the garden as a workshop. after this winter however i've had to revise that as we've realised that it aint exactly watertight. also the electrics are a bit iffy.

so i'm moving back inside. this is better because:

a) it's watertight

b) the electrics aren't iffy

c) i'm nearer the coffee source

d) i've got wi-fi

flowers are arriving friday. i'll try and take some pictures of pretty then.

tim walker you can do no wrong

*tim walker and rhia thierstein for italian vogue

rose bowls

newly acquired and heading towards my stash of all-time favourites.

grace coddington

i love her.

habits of highly effective people (no.1)

i have reached a new low in desktop organisation. am tidying this mess up as we speak but wanted to record it for posterity before i did. 

whoa

shiny + pretty by confetti system, brooklyn, NY

friday again

it feels like my life is flashing before my eyes at the moment. the weeks are just hurtling past. 

i'm nearly finished my knitting which is a bonus as hot wool probably isn't what i'd tend to want to wear come summer. after the past few weeks of consultation and quote craziness, jobs are starting to come back in. in an unprecedented flurry i got 4 weddings confirmed yesterday. IN ONE DAY. not done that before.

greta is ill again and watching rastamouse. i am looking forward to the weekend. 

the wonder of you

these are the same pink ranuncs i've had in the house for a few weeks now (what can i say, i'm a hoarder). when i bought them they all looked the same but now on their slow amble towards death's door they have all softly changed colour. clever, no? flowers never cease to amaze me.

also is anyone else right into this song lately too?

the kings speech

i know it's won oscars and blah blah blah, but what really got me was the set design. everything looked so beautiful - the rooms were so dark and sumptuous with paint and plaster peeling off the walls. right up my rue.

colin firth however isn't really my bag.

sunday

it's been a wedding-free weekend here. instead i've met with new brides and am working my way through a pile of quotes whilst listening to this on repeat. 

i got this new picture of flowers which i really like. it was only 50p which makes me like it even more.

the owl lamp is a new acquisition this weekend and is my customised version of an abigail ahern one. if you squint at it with one eye you can barely tell the difference, no?

also we got fuel. anyone with a wood-burning stove will attest to the fact that a freshly delivered and stacked load of logs pretty much equates to happiness.

lotte and bloom hit the maldives!

well, kind of. 

my inbox pinged this morning with this picture from a customer who had bought a bag last year and used it as hand luggage for a trip to the maldives. nice work if you can get it. apparently it was "perfect for the laptop and other travel bits and bobs." don't say we don't look after you.