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Here’s a big smile. We all need some more smiles

Here’s a big smile. We all need some more smiles in our life at the moment 😁
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This is quite a long post, it starts with this photo taken by one of our builders a while back... we were in the middle of our cottage renovation project. I rejected it back then for the grid it at the time because it’s was too smiley 😆🤷‍♀️
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I was then in a busy season of work... exhausted but loving building my business 🤹‍♀️
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I’m feeling sad about it all this evening as guidelines about Weddings seem to be changing ALL the time 😥
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My policy since the C word started has been to remain positive and mega flexible for my clients. I’m on your side, your team, standing by to help make your wedding dreams a reality when we can 🤍
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I have been studiously penciling and unpencilling, responding to new enquiries, writing quotes, and moving dates - quietly getting sadder that the business I have literally busted my guts to build around three small children is completely on pause 😐
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I’m pivoting over at @flowersoverthewallpodcast and thankful for my husband who is diligently ploughing through his work to keep us all going 👩‍❤️‍👨
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Our three wild children are keeping me on my toes throwing me curve balls one after the other daily 👦👧👧 I’m enjoying spending more time with them, learning about phonics, camping and other things. We have so much to be grateful for 🙏 there is a lot going on in the world at the moment which is frightening.
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I’m sending love to all my lovely Wedding Industry colleagues who are feeling similar 💖
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I’m not quite sure really how to end this post, apart from to say sorry it’s a bit more melancholy than usual, and that I’m not as present as I normally am here or on emails really either. I hope I’m not moaning... it wouldn’t feel authentic to stay quiet the longer this goes on 🤔 there’s a brilliant blog by @lovemydress #whataboutweddings take a 👀
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Thank you for being here - and for reading this far if you get there #keepontrucking and I’ll #keeponpenciling #postponedontcancel I know that next year is going to be one hugely magnificent year of flowers 💖😊🌸

Hello 👋 on this rainy Saturday! Thinking of all

Hello 👋 on this rainy Saturday! Thinking of all the lovely weddings past and in the future... here’s a beautiful bouquet made for @glamma_nicki last summer 🤍
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Made with a combination of British Grown Roses, garden flowers and a handful of @david_austin_roses Juliette. Scented with chocolate mint and eucalyptus 🌿
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These are my kind of flowers 🌸

How lovely is this picture of Gemma and her beauti

How lovely is this picture of Gemma and her beautiful girl gang taken this time last year... 💗
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We all need our good friends around us. I know that I’m incredibly grateful for mine 🙏
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I can’t wait to start flowering weddings again... this time last year I was top of the pops and moved a my workshop to my parents house in Devon for a short while. Anything is possible if you set you mind to it.
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Happy Anniversary Gemma and Dave, it was such pleasure and an honor to be a part of your special day x
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Awesome photography by @joshua_gooding 🙌

Great to get some flowers back in the workshop thi

Great to get some flowers back in the workshop this week 🌸

It was such a pleasure to make this special birthday bouquet. All Hampshire grown blooms with a beautiful scent by the professionals... 🙌🥰

.... with a cornflower or two, mint and a few stems of Ami from my very own cutting patch! 💡

Gosh I really love flowers. Going to be talking about them quite a lot over at @flowersoverthewallpodcast on the device of your choosing soon! 😁

These days my thinking time is when I get out for

These days my thinking time is when I get out for a run 💨
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Today I saw some giant ferns and was reminded of this lovely open day at @thelongbarn last year 🌿
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Joe @keeleyskitchen was cooking up delicious canapés🥂🍕 and @jacqueslloydphotography doing his thing taking lots of awesome photographs like this one 📷 he generously shares the photographs after the day. How nice is that? ⠀⠀
Happy days ☺️🌿🤍💭🍀

I can’t wait to get back to working at scale 🌟🌼🌳 It’s about the details, I’m not sure if you can see any little glass globes filled with air plants and pop lights handing on those blossom trees or the most at the base and bottles of scented spring bulb flowers 👀
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I loved working to Charlie’s wonderful brief last year at @thelongbarn 😊

Working under this framework of wooden beams, fairy lights with the light pouring into windows is really special. One of my favourite venues to work at for sure. I really hope I’ll be back there soon...?🤞🌸☺️
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Awesome 😎 photography as always by: @jacqueslloydphotography

Do you ever get days when your head is full of ide

Do you ever get days when your head is full of ideas? 💭 ⠀⠀
A snapshot of my progress developing my thoughts into something to share with you 🎧💗 ⠀⠀
It felt good to have a play... and gather those thoughts 💭 of which there are many!
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I started by I picking a handful of blooms from my patch in the garden, 🌿 then added a splash of colour 🌷with some of the sweet peas bought at @westendflowerfarm yesterday 🌧🌸
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Today’s Treasure:
🌸: Garden Flowers 🧵: SGFD Silk Ribbon ‘Primrose’
🌹: Flowers for the Bath 🍰: Cake Plate
🗺: Map of Wickham Walks 🍶: Vintage Bottles & glasses 💵: Rupee Note & Gandhi 🌱: Cutting Patch Seeds 📖: Bookworm materials 🏡: Favourite Fireplace

It’s British Flower Week 💐 ⠀⠀ This time l

It’s British Flower Week 💐
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This time last year I was hosting the most lovely of workshops around my kitchen table. We made bouquets with Hampshire Grown Flowers. This one was made and photographed by flower lover @louisebowditch 🌸
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I love working with British Flowers, and always have since training when I started chopping herbs from the garden for my buttonholes and had the privilege to visit the @therealflowerco farm a good few years ago. ⠀⠀
British Blooms not only are better for the planet 🌎 they tend to be less uniform, completely seasonal and often scented 🌸🌱
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We’re heading over to @westendflowerfarm today to collect some delicious treats from their farm shop 🌸🥕🥚☕️

Sunday Play... 🌿 all these flowers were picked

Sunday Play... 🌿 all these flowers were picked this morning from our garden ✨

I have been nurturing and tweaking the flower boarders with some of the work and styling I had planned this summer in mind... my cutting patches will never be quite big enough but I can add to bigger orders and make pretty bespoke buttonholes 🌸

Lovely flowing summer Jasmine (a cutting bought last year at the Church Fete), Roses from a plant bought with my Mum a while ago, White Lavender, Ami and Phlox from my @sarahravensgarden Wall Paper Collection seedlings 🌱

Hope you’re enjoying a restful weekend 🌿

While I’ve been in the kitchen this week, I’ve

While I’ve been in the kitchen this week, I’ve been listening to the awesome @girlflowerpodcast it’s been so refreshing to listen to fellow florists stories 🌿👩‍💻💫 There are so many wonderful people who love their job as much as I do, good to know I’m not alone waiting patiently in the wings to get back to it 🙏🌸
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Sharing this photograph by @kathrynphotos 🙌 of lovely client Amy on her a wedding day 😊

I still remember meeting Amy for the first time for coffee somewhere in #southampton I walked around for ages trying to find a cafe I hadn’t been to before, and then was daydreaming so much about my ideas for the flowers 💡 I lost my car afterwards in the car park 😆🤦‍♀️ this is typical when I’m the creative zone 💭😳
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After all the planning I REALLY enjoyed making her garden style bouquet and putting those flowers together. They had the most beautiful scent 🌸💫
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The story continues as last summer it was so very lovely to welcome her to a workshop in my kitchen with some similar blooms as we made bouquets 💐 ⠀⠀
I’m not sure how workshops will work at the moment... ? I’m having a big think - online / in a field / loud speaker?! 🤷‍♀️ If you have any ideas or thoughts of how this could work let me know 🤔👇☺️ x

‘You have to find what sparks a light in you so

‘You have to find what sparks a light in you so that you in your own way can illuminate the world’’ 💫
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I borrowed some more words for today 👆from Oprah Winfrey ✨💗✨ Yesterday to sprinkle a bit of love around I delivered flowers for some of my local friends. (at a distance obs) No one needs to miss Peony season because of all of this. We need our friends always ✨🙌💫 🌸💗☺️

This is my happy place. Delivering flowers and smi

This is my happy place. Delivering flowers and smiles to lovely people 💗⭐️🥰
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Bringing to life the ideas and dreams my clients have for big days, sad days and special moments in their lives 🌦
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It is such a privilege. I’m not complacent. I’m so hugely grateful for so many things including my family, health and home, but I have been missing my work, and the people who feature as a part of it like a limb 💪.
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There are so many people out there doing incredible life changing essential things everyday. I am in awe of them. And I am also in awe of everyone else - the many - just navigating through each day 👊💗 I haven’t felt comfortable until now to share how devastating it has been to reschedule work that has been planned meticulously, and press pause on a part of my life I have worked so hard to create 👀
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Since lockdown, our world seems to have have got so small as I have been purely focused on our children. Gosh I love them, one of the reasons I started this was so I could work around them 💭
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This week there is change in the air, we transition again, and begin to carve out another new normal. And as part of that I need to work out how to start working again, safely, slowly, at a distance 🤍

Because we need more joy about us ☀️ I need some joy!! 😁

Flowers can distract us just for a bit from all the big things. They are frivolous, but they bring us hope 🌈⛅️🌤☀️
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There’s nothing like declaring an intention publicly, so I have to do things I have planned now! 😬

Thanks for getting this far. And your follow, likes and shares. Watch this space 🤍
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‘Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age an

‘Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age and dreams are forever’ said Walt Disney 📝🤍 We’ve been enjoying Walts legacy quite a bit lately here at the cottage. This morning it’s the little 🧜‍♀️🐠 with the larks ☕️ 🌅☀️ Who doesn’t love a happy ending? 🤔🌸 Incredible photography here from the wedding of Charlotte and James by @jacqueslloydphotography who really is the most wonderfully talented and good to work with human 🙌 📸 I so enjoyed a bit of styling with @kalmkitchenltd that day too☺️🍰💐

Morning 👋 another sunny day... had to share thi

Morning 👋 another sunny day... had to share this little flower girl bouquet again... it’s too sweet not to. ⠀⠀ What are you doing with your Saturday? I’m about to join a zoom HIIT class... a lovely friend is hosting it via Zoom - she’s a mega motivator 🙌
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Once I’ve done that I won’t feel guilty about mooching about the garden and not doing very much with the gang apart from tying up some sweet peas. ⠀⠀ Mr G is away (and back soon) fingers crossed this will be my last weekend solo with small people for a while phew! 😅

This climbing rose is bringing me so joy at the mo

This climbing rose is bringing me so joy at the moment! ☀️💭 It starts off with yellow buds, goes to white and fades into pink flowers. Pure magic 🌿☀️💭🌸 Next week my little gang start the transition back at nursery and big school 👦👧👧 So here starts my gentle return to work with a few fresh ideas 💡 for how to take this thing in our new normal 👩‍💻 As always all my existing 2020 Wedding Clients do get in touch to talk about your plans and I can help I will 💗💭💡🧚

Who loves a Peony? We wait for most of the year fo

Who loves a Peony? We wait for most of the year for these gorgeous flowers to come into season... 💗🌸 For florists these are sooo special, their scent, size and potential for joy! Peonies have such a short season, they’re temperamental to work with, and are one of those flowers that I feel I need to check every few hours on the lead up to a wedding... is it going to refuse to open, bloom perfectly, or blow like this one.
I’m not sure whether any of that matters at the moment? Is anyone else finding that their letting go of little silly stresses as our lives have become simpler? 🤔🌸💗 A behind the scenes picture from a gorgeous shoot organized by @blackdiamondweddings around this time last year 🙌 I’ve tagged the lovely gang of suppliers too. Miss you guys!! 😘 xx

Up with my little larks 👧👧 this morning... ☀️ It’s got me thinking of crisp spring mornings making buttonholes in my workshop ✂️🌸🧵 Made around this time last year (give or take a day or two!) for Charlotte. Soft Blooms: Peony, Roses, Blossom, White Bells. A graceful bouquet for a beautiful Bride! 💗

Happy (nearly) Anniversary @charlsaf & @drsaffy_real 🙌

Super photographer @jacqueslloydphotography took some amazing photos @thelongbarn that day 📸 xx

It’s not always flower potions and flapjacks her

It’s not always flower potions and flapjacks here... 🌸🌿😄 ... quite a strange week, we’ve had more coughs so have self-isolated again. It’s amazing how you can miss a daily walk 🌳🌦 Today while the small ones make more potions, I started having a play with things we have snipped and collected from the garden 🥚🌸☕️ I am also REALLY missing my wedding work... and more so all the lovely friends, clients and suppliers that go with that. Silly as it sounds curating this has really helped me turn my frown around 🙃🌿🌸 I started off with a jug of flowers, and a bowl of eggs. But it wasn’t working. So I grabbed a backdrop and a tea cup and made this flat lay ☕️🌿🌸🐓🥚 It’s lovely how these can document the day... I think I’ll do these more often 🤔

Today is ‘May Day’ and includes scented Lilac growing over our hedge, a three egg day (well done chickens 🐓), clematis and I’m excited to discover the return of some apple mint - this stuff is good in a gin 🍸🌿 See my stories for the process and outtakes 🤫🌿🌸👋

All this talk of flowers... can’t wait to get th

All this talk of flowers... can’t wait to get them in my hands again 👩‍💻🤷‍♀️🌿 Just before lock down I had just bought a new stash of kit, had begun ironing and pressing bespoke home dyed coloured ribbons for buttonholes and corsages... 🤍🎀 It’s all waiting in the wings ready to go in prep for when it’s safe to get going again 💗
Have a lovely Sunday whatever you may be doing at home or work today 🏡 xx
📷: @kathrynphotos

Letting the flowers do the talking... it doesn’t

Letting the flowers do the talking... it doesn’t always need to be big 🤍🌸🌿 Super soft blush blooms, set on a backdrop of crates and props by @lovebydesignweddings
Flowers presented in a collection of vases, jars and bottles. Happy Saturday. Stay safe and all 💗
🌸🍾🧁 Captured by @kathrynphotos 📷🙌🤍

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