Another photoshoot

It was nice to catch up with David & Pat again yesterday - as they came back to shoot my bathrooms. It's always interesting to see your home through someone else's eyes, and in the top floor bathroom they had decided to introduce a shot of peacock blue - the starting point was a very pretty pair of wooden sandles I had bought on a trip to the market in Vietnam, hand painted with sparkly bits. Rarely worn, but they look gorgeous - having wooden soles they make a bit of a din when you walk around!!
I had added a few of my blue glass pieces I used to collect - along with some perfume bottles, and flowers in the lovely Linda Bloomfield jug. Plus of course our zesty honey hand wash and hand lotion, and soy wax candles. Emma from The Naked Soap company had sent along some of her gorgeous soaps - (they smell divine), and suddenly the bathroom looked very different.
The worst bit is always having to pose for the pictures - there are only so many ways you can pretend to be folding a towel, as if it was normal behaviour!
David now has to edit / photoshop and generally work his magic, whilst Pat puts together a synopsis to entice the mags onboard. I will keep you posted as to when and where the article will appear.

Sheer Luxe Conference

I am very excited to be attending the SheerLuxe conference this week, in Fulham. Titled "Gearing up for Christmas", it is aimed at online businesses, and covers a wide range of topics from some top industry pundits. I'm hoping to pick up some tips, as well as do some essential networking. There is a really interesting mix of people attending, from fashion companies, to homewares and food.

We have had more press coverage this month for our Cut Flower Bouquets. In the Western Mail Home section, our bouquets were recommended by Design Guru, Nicola Wilkes, as the answer to eco friendly and stylish flowers. Nicola runs a great interiors website, with large and small companies, as well as design advice, and news on the latest trends. go to www.WalesAtHome.co.uk to see more.
We have also been selected as Editors choice in the Gloucestershire Preview, summer edition, for our handcrafted wooden napkin rings.

I've had a preview of our house pictures, that David Giles took a few weeks ago, and they look fantastic. Our house looks so big and light, fingers crossed a magazine is interested. I also managed to get a few tips off David regarding photography, which I will put to the test next week, when, hopefully weather permitting I will be doing some wedding pictures in Kim's garden. Kim has a gorgeous garden, as you would expect from someone who sells lavender plants for a living. Check out her website, she has over 60 different varieties of lavender!

Sunday Afternnon Photoshoot

Paul & I had an unusual afternoon on Sunday doing a spot of modelling for the photoshoot of our house. Although as usual Gert was the star turn, when she could be bothered to drag herself from her box.
I had laid the table with or Organic Ochre & Ocre table linen, as well as some jugs of our Herefordshire Homegrown flowers in the different rooms.
We were lucky with the weather and the rain held off so we were able to grab some pictures outside.
The photographer was David Giles, who has done loads of interesting interior pieces, check out his website. Pat Garratt was the stylist / free lance journalist, who had first made contact with me at The Country Living Fair last March.
Paul & I have built the house in the back garden of an old cottage, that we had bought at auction a few years ago. When we bought the plot it already had planning permission - so we were able to get going quite quickly with some small amends. I was actually in Hong Kong at the time of the auction. I remember sitting in my room, watching HK harbour at about 3 in the morning, nervously waiting for the phonecall from Paul to find out where we were going to live next! He was bidding on 2 plots that evening, so it was a really nail biting time waiting to see which one, (if any!), we got.
We moved in last August, after just over a year building it - still work to be done at the front, but it is a lovely home.
Fingers crossed they are able to sell our house and story to a magazine in the near future - we will keep you posted.
Don't forget to come and see us at The Good food show if you are at the NEC this week!