Back on a chilly day in January I teamed up with Dan and the girls at Camron PR to shoot Sainsbury’s new Jubilee range. Despite the imminent promise of showers we managed to get all the shots in the bag and looking like a “marvelous British bash! I don’t know about you but I can’t wait to join in the street parties and get all patriotic this summer!
It was such a beautiful weekend here in the Uk that we made two trips to the coast, Eastbourne on Saturday and Whitstable on Sunday…
After a slightly delayed start {2 cancelled flights and 4 countries in 24hrs!} I made it to Poznan, Poland’s fifth largest city. Arriving some what later than planned did mean we were dashing about but I did get a chance to take a few snaps of the colourful old town and a few other things that caught my eye…
Back in the Autumn the lovely teams at Hillgate and Christy asked me if I’d be interested in Styling their new Spring Summer 2012 collection. Of course I said yes, Christy are such a well established textiles firm who’s name is synonymous with quality but what was most exciting for me was that they had new design manager Lucy on board and were looking to move the brand forward. With a strong selection of designs falling into three ranges Vintage, Artisan and Simplicity , we hunted out locations, and got snapping! {If only it was that simple!!} The new brochure popped through my letterbox last week and they’ve done an amazing job, it looks fantastic and is printed on lovely” un-coated stock” {as Simon would say} to me it’s just lovely paper that smells good too!
Pheeew… sorry stacks of images! and that’s just a handful of what we shot with the boys from Ikon Photography! I think my favourite new design is the Sparkle linen from the Simplicity range but I love the ticking stripe pillowcases from Artisan too! When I return from Poland I’m heading up to Manchester to catch up with the lovely girls at Christy and get a sneak peep at the new A/W collection which we’ll be shooting next month – very exciting!
While on my little “blogging holiday” this new{ish} wallpaper collection from Little Greene was one of the things that made it into my “must blog soon” file. As you know I’m a sucker for a bit of strong colour and a bold print – so clearly I love their Retrospective collection. It’s made up of 8 authentic patterns taken from archives from the 60’s & 70’s. The perfect way to bring a little bit of retro style to your walls. I’m thinking the black and white fern leaf might find it’s way into my new house, if/when we get it!
I have a bit of a confession to make…I kind of forgot that Habitat are still around. I know, I feel awful, they were always one of my favourite places to pop for a bit of inspiration but after the closure of so many of their stores they kinda disappeared of my radar for a bit. But not any more – I was reminded of them last week when my friend Heather {from this lovely blog} tweeted a pic of some new cushions she’d just purchased and rather lovely cushions they were too. So off I popped to their website and look what little beauties I found! …
How great are those dining chairs? – they remind me of Very Good & Propers Canteen Chairs and I love the colourful “Hove” street cushion, whats more it’s only £12!!.
