thank you Jen this really touched me
In the words of Tao:

“To be whole, let yourself break.
To be straight, let yourself bend.
To be full, let yourself be empty.
To be new, let yourself wear out.
To have everything, give everything up.

Knowing others is a kind of knowledge;
knowing yourself is wisdom.
Conquering others requires strength;
conquering yourself is true power.
To realize that you have enough is true wealth.
Pushing ahead may succeed,
but staying put brings endurance.
Die without perishing, and find the eternal.

To know that you do not know is strength.
Not knowing that you do not know is a sickness.
The cure begins with the recognition of the
sickness.

Knowing what is permanent: enlightenment.
Not knowing what is permanent: disaster.
Knowing what is permanent opens the mind.
Open mind, open heart.
Open heart, magnanimity.”

via yellowtrace my new favorite blog

A little while ago i had an email from one of those fancy pant 2 million followers design blogs across the seas in the USA. I was knocked off my seat.What an amazing opportunity! They wanted to ME to submit some photos of my home. Now deep down i know that my little home is no designer home and really deep down i knew that no matter how much I cleaned and prettied the place up it just wouldn’t do. Some how i really wanted to prove myself wrong….but i was right. I received my rejection email…lovely but not quite right for us. I’m not going to lie to you i did cry for about 30 seconds and then i managed to laugh and laugh and laugh. I am over it now but at the time the embarrassment was too much, did i need approval from an American design blog to make me feel good about myself? about my home? about my life? well it would have been nice!

sarah took this xx

get in the garden

Just got an email from my amazing rose grower Clare. This seasons garden roses and David Austin’s are only another month off. YUM.  Nothing better than a van full of perfumed roses to make your job the best in the world.

Oh and would you believe Lilly of the Valley has just started and I don’t have one bride that i can talk in to having a Lilly of the Valley bouquet like last year. I’ll just have to buy them for myself and sniff them so much they don’t smell anymore. C’est la vie.

da dreamy

julia and pink

antique dream

Here’s some shots that Lindsey took

“The violets thinks, with her timid blue eye, To pass for a blossom enchantingly shy.”  Frances S. Osgood

Preparing for our very exciting cecilia fox shed warming. I got a tear or two or three;;;

cecilia fox, come this way...

feast

i could bottle a magnolia bloom

je vous remercie de tout cœur.

violet champagne mademoiselle?

IS bunting

elisabeth taylor

magnolia

photos by the one and only Isadora Vaughan

These are a couple of photos from a wedding we did last March? Such an easy lovely bride. I feel so bad cause it was such a frantic day and i did not deliver them my self as i was setting up another wedding….and i forgot one of the Mums corsages!! It still makes me feel a bit sick. I don’t think i have ever forgotten anything. I rang straight away and emailed and got no response…  Anyway it was all too little too late and they were leaving for the country side.  I found these photos somewhere on a blog but i just can not find it again for the life of me. So if these are you photos, they are beautiful! and so sorry i haven’t credited you. Anwyn, you looked amazing and apologies again..

euroa wedding 2

euroa wedding