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WELCOME TO OUR SHINY NEW WEBSITE
It’s here… our shiny new website and blog! Pull up a pew, pour out a cuppa, and cut yourself a slice of cake. Make yourself at home- explore all the pages, press all the pretty buttons. We are very...
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MEET THE GANG & FOOD SHOOT, A DAY WITH JOANNA BROWN
I can’t tell you how many lists ‘get some food pics’ and ‘remember photos of the gang’ has been scrawled on. At weddings things are always too hectic to get round to it, we are lucky if in between...
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HOW TO MAKE A SEASONAL AUTUMN FLOWER URN
STEP ONE: CHOOSE YOUR FLOWERS. I have gone for full-on-sexy dahlias. STEP TWO: Get some foliage and fillers – the structure and fluff that gives these things their shape. Such a shame I have no photo...
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The Raven and The Farm
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one...
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AT HOME WITH THE BESTS – FAMILY SHOOT WITH LISA DEVLIN
Last week was half term. The kids had a lovely time. They ‘Trick or Treated’, visited Mimi and Baggy (my Mum and Dad), and the big two ‘middle-classed it up’ at Fishbourne Roman Palace, being Roman...
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VICTORIA & JON’S BEAUTIFUL BIGNOR WEDDING.
Victoria and Jon were married in August at beautiful Bignor House, just down the road from us. It’s a great venue, although it is a country house it’s not stuffy or stiff, if you know what I mean. It’s...
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FRANCESCA & WILL GET WED AT THE SUSSEX BARN {AND WE DO THE FOOD AND SOME...
By the time Will and Fran’ got married I felt like I knew them. She had got in touch about 2 years before the day and we had met up a few time, chatted on the phone lots and exchanged around 1000...
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SOPHIE & GAVIN’S BATHOLOMEW BARN WEDDING
Sophie and Gavin were married at Bartholomew Barn, just outside Petworth this year and they asked us to do the flowers and come along with the ice cream bike in the evening. The barn is set deep in the...
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FRANCESCA & CHARLIE’S GARDEN PARTY WEDDING
Francesca & Charlie were married at the local church before coming back to Charlie’s parents stunning country garden in Poynings, in the South Downs, Sussex, for the reception and wedding...
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CHRISTMAS WREATH WORKSHOP – COMIN’ AT YA
You may have already heard about our Christmas Wreath Workshop at Beautiful Bignor this Sunday 1st December 2013. Our morning session has now sold out but we’re pleased to announce that there’s now an...
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CHRISTMAS WREATH WORKSHOP ROUND UP
We set off early(ish !) this morning for Bignor Park and got everything set up for our very first workshop EVER.We set up their tools, lit the wood burner, put the tea urn on and waited for our gang to...
View ArticleREALLY EASY MINCEMEAT RECIPE
So, after our first Wreath Workshop at beautiful Bignor on Saturday everything it really is beginning to feel a lot like Christmas. Here is a really easy recipe for Mincemeat so you can whip up some...
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FORAGING AND CHRISTMAS WREATH MAKING
Last weekend, before our Christmas Wreath making course, lovely Jayne came along with me and the boys, foraging for ingredients, (the girls opted for warmth and friends instead and played at...
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2013 IN PICTURES
2013 has whooshed past in a right hurry. Here is a tiny snippet of photos from this year, of work and play… {photographers names under each picture}. Enjoy! Spirit of Beltane Shoot {above} Me Alexa and...
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PETAL AND FEAST GO PROVENÇAL – ALEXA & SARAH GET MARRIED
When Alexa got in touch last Christmas to ask if we could help with her South of France wedding we were so excited. I had to keep remembering we would be going to work and not just waft about in...
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WEDDING FLOWER WORKSHOPS FOR 2014
image from Joanna Brown at our Peter Pan Shoot The New Year will be bringing a few more *NEW* things to Petal & Feast’s (alfresco) table (with festoon lights strung up above it, under a tree,...
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ANASTASIA & PINKY’S VINTAGE LONDON WEDDING
As my train pulled in on my way to meet Anastasia for the first time, I got this text message. “…. Just so you recognise me, I have long blonde hair and a chihuahua with a red coat.” … Amazing!...
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ORANGES ARE NOT THE ONLY FRUIT, ADVENTURES IN MARMALADE
Last Saturday, on our way home from an enforced walk (of the kids and the dog), we stopped at The Sussex Produce, in the village for some bits (if you’ve not been in there, you need to go! They sell...
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SIX GO MAD IN THE SUBCONTINENT
Back in the day – post Art College and pre-houses, and children and responsibilities Andy and I spent a couple of years back-packing. We had a lot of time and hardly any money. We inched our way from...
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RELAXED COUNTRY STYLE WEDDING IN HAMPSHIRE
Tarja got in touch last January about her up and coming wedding plans. We met up in a cafe in Brighton and went through the plans – drank lots of coffee, chatted it all through and looked at lots of...
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