Festival Themed Photoshoot Bo Ho Chic

A while ago I was contacted by photographer Holly Booth as she was organizing a photo shoot with a festival theme in mind for designer Kate Wrigglesworth. 

Holly contacted me as she thought my festival bohemian style hair garlands would accessorise the outfits perfectly and wow didn't they just!

Holly is a professional freelance photographer based in Derby who produces work for a variety of clients all over the UK including Beatrix Brown, AIRR Clothing and a number of up & coming young designers. She has also recently photographed Pearl Lowe's stationery collection.

Holly really captures a theme brilliantly and brings ideas to life from fun shoots like this to sultry shots with intensity, definitely a name to look out for in the future.

I have just had the go ahead to share these beautiful images that were taken and had to post them on here for you to see as I have fallen in love with them.

Warning these pictures will make you long for summer days!

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter everyone! Hope you are all enjoying your chocolate induced food comas. 

Yesterday I made an attempt of a bunny butt cake, the idea is it's supposed to look like the bunny is digging in the dirt, i'll let you be the judge of that....no laughing! Hehe.
Here he is.....

What are you upto for Easter hope everyone is having a lovely time with family and friends wherever you are.

We started off our morning painting faces on our eggs and soldiers, childhood memories flooding back and will be having a big fat roast dinner later on, yum!

Stratford-Upon-Avon

Mum and dad came up for a surprise visit for my birthday on Thursday and it was so nice spending quality time together as they live 3hrs away from us. 

We decided to have a day trip to Stratford Upon Avon town of shakespeare himself as they hadn't been before and we all had a great day out.

There is so much to do in Stratford and if you haven't been yet it really is worth a visit.

The only downside was it was a bit cold so we're definitely going to plan a trip back in the summer as i'm dying to test out a row boat. 

Stratford is only 40mins away from us so isn't too far at all and what a beautiful town it is.

We popped into a favourite tourist attraction of mine the butterfly farm which is the UKs biggest tropical butterfly farm then on to have lunch at Cox's Yard and then traced down shakespeares house and the church where shakespeare and his wife Anne Hathaway were burried.

Here's some pics from the day...

The coolest Easter Bunny!

Arriving in Stratford

Little one enjoying the butterflies

Friendly butterflies, so tame!

Magical world of beautiful coloured butterflys

Amazing multicoloured flower

And of course no trip to Stratford is complete without a visit to Lakelands. Been looking for french fancy cases like this for ages and got some silicone mould ducks for half price £2.99, bargain!

Another Year Older

Hi everyone hope you are having a lovely weekend i've had such a busy week, where to start?

Thursday was my birthday (25 years after birth) to be exact and I was under strict instructions from the mister man to not leave the house before 1pm, all very exciting!

I had a few deliveries that day which just added to the suspense and i even went to the extremes of taking my hair dryer downstairs and drying my hair in the lounge where I could see if anything came, was determined not to miss this delivery and delivery people can be so sneaky at times.

Our post man who delivers our packages in a little van is so annoying he bangs the door really hard and leaves the package on the step and drives off what kind of service is that?!

So finally a package came and I immediately noticed Kenwood on the box, opened it up and couldn't believe it!

Oooooooh aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.........

Isn't it pretty?!?!

This machine is seriously the best machine ever I was in a state of shock couldn't believe it I had read about these last year and the reviews are all excellent. 

It makes light work of cake making and makes the lightest fluffiest cakes with no work involved at all. 

It has an amazing fold function so after you've sieved the flour in it gently folds the flour in enough folds and then stops. 

My little cakes have never risen as much as this they were really domed on the top was so impressed.

I have been undeservedly spoilt this year and also had some gorgeous rings I absolutely love the concept of these rings. Jian of London make stackable rings for every birthstone and in my collection I have all my little family's birthstones diamond for me being April. Topaz for my daughter's birthstone in March and also Citrine for my boyfriend's birthstone.
I originally had a white gold engagement ring but I found out I can't wear white gold as I have a reaction to Nickel so I traded it for these as there is alot more meaning behind these rings and I love having the birthstones of everyone who is special to me on my engagement finger.
These make great presents to treasure and come in lots of different varieties on their website.
http://uk.jianlondon.com/

Here they are:

Bleuuurgggh Weather = Comfort Food

So the gorgeous spring heat wave didn't last long as we knew it wouldn't. I really tried to make the most of it by making up my orders in the evening and morning and being free to sepnd the midday sun out in the garden with my little girl.

Chance of the sand actually staying in the sandpit was slim to none but it was heaven. 

Sun loungers out and kindle in hand it really felt like someone had spun the earth on it's axis and Britain was now where spain should be!

Today on the other hand is a totaly different story and when it rains there's only one thing for it, comfort food!

Here are my chocolate cupcakes I made today with homemade chocolates, who wants some?

Picture Friday

Here are my favourite pictures i've collected and stumbled acros this week with usual girlyness and some "awwwwwwww cute" thrown in too for good measure.

Happy Friday everyone hope you all have a lovely weekend I am obsessed with baking lately so stay tuned for lots more recipes and baking tips for those of you that share the interest. Ooooh and I will be making my first ever easter cake, wish me luck.

I LOVE this dress and will one day own it and wear it everywhere and refuse to take it off, beautiful layers of pale pink in a very french romantic style just heavenly.

Ooooh I say! I know! I thought the same thing "who would buy this let alone display it in their house!?" Brings a whole new meaning to the expression let it all hang out.

How gorgeous is this you literally would never have anywhere to wear it because it's too dressy for a nightclub or bar and a bit risky for a formal event but that doesn't mean we can't bathe in it's gorgeousness, big bird just got sexy!

It's the easter bunny! One day I will have him and love him and call him hop!

Sleeping Pug!

This is something my toddler would do!

Bring back love notes!

How adorable and perfectly pointed toes. Ballet was a big part of my childhood, love anything ballet but this is just too cute!

This is my absolute favourite image from my picture friday and I would love to frame it and have it up in my studio somewhere to gaze at when i'm making :) So genious love the way the skirts match the actions of the model. In the second picture the skirt is sprayed out to match her action which looks as though she is twirling, AMAZING!

Perfect wardrobe colour palette for the summer lovely feminine and chic.

Raspberry Victoria Sponge Cake

Now that my daughter is starting nursery I have more time on my hands for doing things I love such as baking... so will be posting recipes and pictures of all my latest creations up on my blog.

Today I made this yummy raspberry victoria sponge cake with raspberry jam, buttercream and fresh raspberries my fella's favourite. This is such a lovely summery cake with the weather we're having lately I couldn't resist.

Firstly here's how mine turned out....

Here's how to make it:

Ingredients

200g Caster Sugar

200g Unsalted Butter

4 Medium Eggs

200g Self-Raising Flour

1 Tsp Baking Powder

• Preheat oven to 180 degrees. Using an elecrtic mixer or by hand in a bowl mix together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
• Next add the eggs one at a time beating well until the mixture is smooth.
• Sift the flour and baking powder and fold into the mixture (if mixture is looking dry add a little milk)
• Grease or line two 8" cake tins and divide the mixture in two level with the back of a spoon and put in the centre of the oven for 20 minutes. Check it after 20 minutes it should be cooked but if not do the knife test in the centre and judge it by your personal oven. Allow to cool on a rack until completely cold.

Time to make it look pretty and taste gorgeous

Buttercream

200g Icing Sugar

100g Butter

1 Teaspoon Vanilla Essence.

• Put the butter in a a bowl or electric mixer, sift the icing sugar over the top and add the vanilla essence. Mix well intil light and fluffy. 
• Put a layer of buttercream in the centre of the cake and put raspberry jam on the top of the buttercream to sandwich the two cakes together. 
• Now put the buttercreamon the top cake and then decorate with fresh raspberries and your done! Bon appetite!

Let me know if you make this would love to see your pics.