Friday Fancies {on a Saturday Afternoon}

Whoops! it’s not quite Friday again –  sorry!! This week has absolutely flown by, a trip to Manchester, several meetings, prep for next weeks shoot , Number 57 and house hunting have kept me very busy indeed but here are a few things that have caught my eye this past week…

1. Mr Jason Grant is a very stylish chap, when I first started freelancing in Sydney he was Style Director at Real Living so our paths crossed frequently. He’s now freelance himself and in addition to working on stacks of styling projects he’s just launched his 3rd Paint range with Murobond. If you’re in Sydney this weekend be sure to pop into their showrooms to visit the  paper flower shop with everlasting blooms made by Paper Couture’s Jo Neville from many recycled & collected papers using Jason’s Grey Scale Garden palette for more details click here.

2. I’m a little bit obsessed with oversized scissors {have you seen our ceramic ones at Number 57?} so I love Bianca Hall’s new “Chop Chop” cushion.

3. Whilst on the subject of paint check out Fired Earth’s new range – love them all!

4. I discovered Surfacephilia at Tent last year I love Helen’s digital print wallpapers and I just discovered she has a range of ceramics too, check them out here.

 

Sainsbury’s Jubilee Shoot

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!

 

 

Seaside Snapshots

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…

Postcard from Poland

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…

 

New From Christy {SS12 Shot}

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!

New {ish} From Little Greene

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!