tulip season

We are in the midst of tulip season here in Sydney.
These beauties have been on my kitchen bench over the weekend and I've loved their splash of colour and the way they keep growing, moving and evolving.
Definitely one of my favourite flowers. Yes indeedy!

Woodland wedding styling

Team Dragonfly did the styling and floristry for a beautiful wedding at Centennial Parklands restaurant on Sunday.
Logs, moss, grapes, miniature pears, succulent heads, parrot tulips, phalaenopsis orchid stems, dodder vine, banana leaves, trailing ivy, pomegranate, limes, berries and gumnuts...

 

For the ceremony we lined the aisle with metal buckets of apples, grapes, white flowers and foliages.

 

 

At the end of the aisle were sandstone urns filled with foliages, lillies, orchids and berries.

 

The bar area for the ceremony was lined with a vignette of vessels filled with fruit, flowers, moss, vines and logs.

 

 

The gift table had a vignette which include gorgeous little jars of jam as bonbonniere for the guests

 

 

 

We hung "chandeliers" made from mossy sticks, tortured magnolia, dodder vine and trailing ivy

 

 



The 14 guest tables each had an individualised vignette

The cake table... what a feast!

 

 

 

It was such a privilege to be part of such a beautiful wedding.

Mazal tov Michelle and Leon! 



Parisian packaging

Location: Paris

Photographer: Lisa Mattock

 

While we were in Paris last year I kept commenting (over & over again!!) on the beautiful packaging on the food.

Check out the gorgeous baskets that the fruit came in at the local supermarket (top pic), and the biscuit tins (bottom pic)



LOV food shoot (baked eggs)

 

Location: in the studio

Photography: Odile Garner for LOV food

 

The three of us who make up the team called "LOV food" are so pleased with how this pic turned out for our client.

Valerie is our recipe developer.

Odile is our photographer.

And little ol' me, well I'm the stylist....

 



apothecary jars

Location: Doug Up On Bourke

Photography: Lisa Mattock

 

Apothecary jars...

What's not to love!?

We have an every growing collection at home, and I also use them a lot with flowers for events, especially in clusters for weddings.

As with most of the things I love and collect, the older, the better!



white field roses

Location: Dragonfly, Bondi Junction

Photography: Lisa Mattock

 

Gorgeous white, locally grown roses used for a Clairns install today. Ooh la la!!

the great cutlery scavenger hunt!

Location: The Salvos,Tempe and Rozelle markets.

 

I can admit it.

Yes, I am OBSESSED with cutlery!

I will always stop at a flea market, garage sale or charity shop and rummage around in their odds and ends.

I'm never looking for matching pairs, always just looking for pieces that have a beautiful patina.