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As I sit writing this from my gorgeous room at The Waldorf, Covent Garden (my winter treat!) I mostly cannot believe this is my twelfth journal post! I’ve been so lucky working with fabulous couples on their wedding dreams this year, it’s been a really memorable one! With jewel-flowered elopements,…

Winter is beginning to up her game; storms blow in the front of the month and out the back! I have started making plans for Christmas decorating, workshops with abundant shiny English foliage and dried fruits, my ribbon box filling up with metres of lovely wide jewel-coloured ribbon. Bottles of…

The bewitching month of October when the veil between the worlds is thin, with darker nights and the smell of woodsmoke in the air. I am always secretly pleased about the coming of winter, a time to rest a bit more, get cosy and not feel you have to be…

Considering there are only 30 days in September, I was astonished by all the things in my diary for the month! From breathtaking weddings to unexpected collaborations and imaginative photoshoots. Family celebrations, a night in my tipi tent for the spectacular full blood moon and a sacred sound circle with…

There is a definite change in the air as I write my summer journal post. Summer brought with her a bounty of fruit and I’ve already made blackberry jam and spiced pear crumble, which feels early and really should be a more autumnal pursuit! August was a busy and wonderful…

Modern life and long daylight hours can take it out of you! Pressure to ‘make the most of it’ – seeing friends, making trips, eating late, and squeezing as much as possible into each day can take its toll and leave you feeling depleted. Time for a creative top up;…

With the longest day passed and the foxgloves going to seed, I always feel a bit melancholy at the thought of another June drawing to a close. The hedgerows are at their peak of brilliance in early June, with the following summer weeks starting to bleach the grasses and transform…

May you have been a very merry month! With sunny days and bursting hedgerows. To celebrate the season I planned a little Regency-inspired garden tea. I cut and folded into big flouncy bows a lovely pink cotton toile fabric, I then wired the bows onto jars, popped in some sherbet…

April has been glorious, watching the trees leaf up and the cherry blossoms bloom (one of my favourites). It’s a great day when dining can begin alfresco with regular lunch and breakfasts in the garden and our first dinner of the season tonight! There are all sorts of flower seeds…