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We had a big week last week.
On Wednesday 11 people spent the day at my house taking part in Tim Coulson's London Nursery workshop - a one day photography crash course and then on Saturday we had a party for Hugh's 40th birthday.
Today, I'm recovering and gently getting our house back to normal.
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Left over unused cutlery, forks were much more popular than knives...
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Flowers, balloons and left over matchbox 'cameras' - made by some of the children.
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An almost empty cask of beer and lots of left-over wine...
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Flowers - a mix of bought agapanthus and catmint from the garden (which one of the first guests kindly cut and put in water from me as I hadn't got around to doing the flowers when people started arriving).
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A corner of my home-made photobooth (which was good - but not quite as good as it could/should have been) and lots of presents and cards, am slowing gathering together gifts that I keep finding stashed around the house...
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Props from the aforementioned photobooth.
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Lots of lists, on lots of random bits of paper - all can be filed in the bin now.
I fully intend to do justice to both events with some proper posts before the memories fade.
If I forget to mention it later, we had lots of fun.
I love those bottles of flowers. Beautiful beautiful!
ReplyDeletesounds like quite a weekend! i did the nursery here in sydney and learned so much. totally changed the way i take photos.
ReplyDeleteI am 100% pinching your bottles & jam jar ideas for my little garden party project this weekend! Doesn't your milk man knock for your empties?! I think mine would - going to test that out :)
ReplyDeleteSounds like lots of fun and I just love the idea of a homemade photobooth, can we have a whole post just on that please? :)
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