Cabin

We stayed in the most gorgeous Swedish summerhouse. It couldn't have been more perfect with its mix of old and new furnishings, natural wood and linens. Surrounded by luscious greenery, Maisie and Bertie were able to explore and roam about freely. We spent every evening out on the deck, eating dinner, absorbing the views and watching the late sunsets. Such a relaxing place. The most rested and contented I have felt in a very long time!

If you're interested, I found the cabin through Airbnb and would recommend it to anyone! It is very reasonably priced too. Find out more here.

Sweden

Hello, I hope you are all well - I do wonder if there is anyone still out there reading my neglected blog! Anyway, our little family of four recently had the most wonderful holiday on the island of Tjorn in Sweden, so I wanted to share a few pictures. Quite possibly the most beautiful part of the world I have visited so far.... We were so lucky to have blue skies and warm sunshine all week, plus being out of season, there were hardly any humans around (my kind of place!).

Here's a little taster anyway - many more to follow!

In other news, we have now moved house and are no longer Londoners. We're back in Exeter, setting up our new home a studio for Seventy Tree and preparing for our fifth family member in September!

See you soon!

The Nursery - Tim Coulson's Workshop

Hello, I'm just popping in quickly to tell you about a very special workshop that's taking place in London on June 19th. Many of you, I am sure, will be familiar with Tim Coulson's wonderful photography, so if you are fairly local to London, or even in the UK (it's definitely worth traveling to) do consider taking part as I believe there are a few places left. I know a couple of you bloggy people have already enrolled, and I am hoping to get there myself.....

Anyway, so what's it all about? Here's what Tim has to say  - - -

"Teaching has become a big part of what I do. Last year I ran twelve workshops and I'm pretty sure that I learnt more than the beautiful people who came to learn from me. I love these workshops. I have faith in them and their ability to help you become a better photographer."

Click here to book and see below for all the details.

The Nursery is a single day photography workshop that finds and fosters the creative photographer within all of us. The workshop is tailored for amateur and beginner photographers and focuses on:
1. Emotional shooting: learning how to connect with your subject.
2. Technical shooting: understanding the principles of creating your own exposure through shooting on manual.
3. Live shoot: using your new skill set and a chance to shoot one on one with me.
4. Workflow: learning what to do with your images once you get home (culling, editing, exporting for web/print, archiving).
You'll need a DSLR to attend. The workshop runs for one day, from 10am - 4:30pm and is being offered on either a Friday or Saturday. The London workshop will be run on a Wednesday. Workshops are limited to twelve attendees.

Sounds amazing I think!

So that's all for now - I am in the process of moving house again. We're going back to Devon, where we have a new studio for Seventy Tree and my husband will be coming on board to work with me too - hoorah! But first, we're spending a much needed week in Sweden (Yay!).

Hope you're all well and I'll see you soon (more often I hope too as I'll have more time for blogging now Seventy Tree is expanding!)

:)

Lately.......

Hello friendlies. It's been a while - we've been busy. I've been working. Alot.

It has been constantly cold.

Bertie has a new cheesy smile face.

We spent Easter weekend in Norfolk, which was lovely (that's the view from the grubby steam train window you see there).

Dan has been wearing his nice yellow jumper.

My trays are now in my shop.
I've booked us a holiday to Sweden (the island of Tjorn) and I can't wait!

We're making more life changing (ish - not that exciting!) plans.

Oh, and speaking of life - I'm expecting a baby in case you didn't already know from Instagram/Facebook. Due in September, hooray!

At The Chapel

Hello folks, hope you're all keeping better than I am! Still not so tip-top over here, extremely busy work-wise and feeling guilty for not being able to keep up with the Project 52 portrait series (hmph) On a jollier note........

Here are a few pictures from a very special 24 hours the husband and I spent together a couple of weeks back. For Christmas, my present to Dan was a night away with dinner at a beautiful converted chapel in Bruton, Somerset, called At The Chapel. I really cannot recommend it highly enough. The room was gorgeous; huge bed with lots of puffy pillows - oh so comfortable and enormous windows with views over the village rooftops, the bathroom; so luxurious, the food; delicious! Everything was perfect. They even delivered freshly-baked-in-the-wood-oven croissants to our door in the morning. 

It was the first night we'd spent alone in over three years (however, I still barely slept a wink without my Bertie - him kicking and head buttng me all night must be more welcome than I thought :-/ !). This aside, it still felt very relaxing and it was so nice to be on our own together for a change!

If you get a chance to go there - you must!