From small acorns...

My favourite season. Autumn. 

There's so much to love about this time of the year, the colours, the smells, the sights. Like a putting to bed of the world, tucking it in nice and snug for the cold winter months ahead. 

I've always been a fan or oranges, golds and velvety reds so perhaps that's why I am happiest at this time of year. I love to style Autumnal scenes and am looking forward to doing another photo shoot this autumn with Sarah Riley, Shirley Dee and all. 

I bought some lovely wooden and gold acorns today and decided to do a couple of " mock up wedding sets" around an autumnal, woodland scene... Hope you like the pics and props I used...

Inspiration: Pinterest!, Acorns, gourds, orange satin, red berries, poppies, country checks and tweeds, trees, leaves, bark texture, toffee apples, carnival glass, leather, wooden crates, burlap...

Love these place name ideas for autumnal weddings...

Also going to get some fabric leaves that people can 

"leaf" a message on in a gold pen :-) 

and create some sort of guest book idea from them.

...and while we're on the subject of leaves just look at this lovely, simple but so effective centrepiece...

That would look fab with a light underneath it.

Also, going to attempt to make these amazing roses from leaves...

But for now, here is my take on a vintage autumnal wedding...

On the look out now for country tweeds, pictures of stags heads and other country bits n bobs to add. I've also made a buttonhole from an used bullet cartridge from clay pigeon shooting!

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Red and Gold hearts

 Making some more Christmas decorations. These are made from Fimo clay which air dries, so no need to bother with heating it/cooking it etc.

I rolled out the fimo clay onto a piece of greaseproof paper and then cut out the heart shapes with a cookie cutter.

I made a hole in the top of each one to thread my hanging ribbon/wire through and left them to dry. On two of them I made a small indenation (not going all the way through) so that I can add a pretty button (and shank) later.

 

When they had dried I painted them with some left over sample paint I had in a deep red colour.

I painted both sides and when dry, lay some odd scraps of lace ontop of them

 

I then sprayed the surface with gold paint and lifted off the lace. Some lace works better than others. I experiemented until i found a particular pattern that i liked and then used this "Fan" piece of lace to do most of them.

 

 

then I added some buttons and thin ribbon to hang.

 

I'm going to add these to some of my parcels this year, but they look equally as good as a tree/home decoration.

Thinking they would look great for a wedding gold or silver on white/ivory background??

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For a Nordic looking theme with this idea,

leave the hearts white and spray the lace red :-)

 

Ruby Red Bride!

I've been commissioned to design a posy for a bride wearing ivory and burgandy...
here's what I've come up with so far...