Fellow bloggers Katy from Apartment Apothecary and Charlotte from Lotts and Lots made a call to arms to bloggers and creatives for a seasonal styling session. The task was simple: style any surface in your home, from the dining table or sideboard to mantelpiece or kitchen worktop, to represent the change of month. Then share your photographs on any day this month – using Facebook, Instagram, Twitter or your blog, if you have one and the hashtag #StylingTheSeasons.
September is my favourite month of the year, partly because it’s my birthday month. I still have to wait two weeks but Olivier and I are going away for the weekend either to Amsterdam or Basel (I’m not allowed to know where, it’s a surprise!). In the meantime, I’ve moved offices to Farringdon, which I am really enjoying because I get to walk to work. On my way back from work the other day I discovered this sweet little old lady selling flowers near Exmouth Market (just up from The Quality Chop House, which has a fab new butcher and deli). When you walk through the door, there is a small pathway weaved through the mounds of lilies, delphiniums and eucalyptus foliage (and I mean mounds, she told me she doesn’t like to throw anything out; she wouldn’t want to be put in her coffin if she had once ounce of breath left…). Part of the experience is just chatting to this lovely lady, a world away from buying flowers in a supermarket.
So for my styling session I bought some thistles and gypsophila, a frothy mass of tiny white flowers that reminds me of autumn or winter. Figs are just entering their second season from late summer to early autumn (their first is early summer) so I thought they would be the perfect September fruit to share over breakfast with croissants from my favourite French patisserie and freshly made coffee. At the moment I’m obsessed with this Bodum Latteo milk frothed, it makes perfect cappuccinos and macchiatos. So, here’s to the weekend and don’t forget to share you own #stylingtheseasons!
Images: my own and Apartment Apothecary‘s instructions, below:
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