A peek behind the scenes...

Well as always it's been awhile, so there is lots to share, but for now I thought I would let you have a peek behind the scenes. Michael from Jackson & Co Photography came round for tea and cake a few weeks ago and took some beautiful pictures of my little studio in the forest and me hard at work.

For his full post on choosing a florist and a day in the life of me, head over to his blog and see all the pics. But for now I leave you with a little taster.

About time!

So as always I have been very slack on the blog front. I promise this is because I have been very busy playing with pretty flowers and creating all sorts of loveliness for weddings and then Christmas and as always time just slipped away! Christmas was followed by a well deserved and needed holiday and now I am refreshed and ready to face an even busier year ahead. Bring it on!!
So for now I thought I would share some summer snaps of a shoot I worked on with the lovely Festival Brides, captured beautifully by Kirsten Mavric which was featured in Perfect Wedding magazine last year
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Just a little excited!!

So if you are a regular on my facebook page or follow me on twitter then you will already know why I am excited, if not then  I am about to tell you...

I am very excited to have been shortlisted for the hitched breakthrough awards 2012 in the best new wedding florist category! Having been shortlisted it is now over to you guys to vote, so if you would like to vote for me (and seriously make my day, week, month, year....) then please, please do pop over to the hitched page and click away. (I am there as Katherine Craft rather than Florist in the Forest, just to confuse matters.) Huge, huge thanks in advance for your votes. I will keep you posted.

And in the mean time I leave you with some flowers from today's wedding, a touch of autumn.

Summer Weddings...

Wow, how time has flown, I can't believe it has been 2 months since my last post!
It has been a very busy summer season of weddings and the autumn season is set to be just as exciting.
So here is a taster of what we have been up to.

Courtesy of Joanna Millington Photography

 I think that's enough for now, more to share another time...

Festival Fun

Last week I took part in a very exciting and mammoth photo shoot arranged by festival brides. It was third time lucky as the previous two dates had to be cancelled due to our temperamental weather, although typical of festivals, it was not quite what we had in mind for the shoot. It was worth the wait though as we had a beautiful day, even if we did have to battle with the wind a little. We had flower garlands, bouquets, flower belts, hanging vases and lots of bottles of flowers dotted around.

A sneak peek at what was going on...

Image from Call Me chim blog with me scurrying away in the background.

Once I have the official pics I will be sure to share, can't wait.

As if having a photoshoot wasn't enough I also had two very different weddings this weekend.
The first was a natural country garden style of just white flowers, including lots from the cutting garden. The scent of the bouquet was amazing with scented pelargonium, sweet peas, freesias, sage and rosemary to name a few.

The other was an olympic themed wedding and so the bride chose mango callas for the effect of the torch for her bridesmaids and then a trailing bouquet for herself.

What started as a relaxing couple of days away for our anniversary turned in to a manic week of funerals, orders, contracts, photoshoot and weddings! Phew, so therefore enjoying a slightly calmer day today and sorting out the studio ready for the next wedding (next weekend - a collection of 96 vintage glass vases, better get washing up!!).

Enjoy the rest of your weekend.

Vintage peonies

Wedding Inspiration: Vintage Peonies & Mason Jars
Images from Style me pretty and pinterest

 A little inspiration for this weeks wedding. The bride and groom have given a lot of thought to all the details for their wedding, collecting mason jars and making candles and bunting. The flowers will be a mix of pretty early summer blooms with a lot of peonies. Can't wait.

Here are a few of my favourite things

Currently loving Lilac ...

 

and Foxgloves ...

and dainty vases and bottles for this years' brides ...

 

and the first tulips from the cutting garden, of which there are much much more to come.

Growth...

It's been a while since I have been able to post about life in the cutting garden. That's not to say I've not been busy doing, but it just hasn't looked like much through a lens. Well finally everything is starting to burst in to life, some waiting to be picked and others to just look pretty exactly where they are.

So it won't be long now until I can start adding home grown beauties in to all the bouquets.