‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, in hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there. The Petal & Feast girls were nestled all snug in their beds, while visions of sugar plums danced […]

Back at the end of April, I spent a lovely day with Jayne doing flowers for her daughter Fran’s wedding… Obviously where Jayne goes her camera is never far behind, and so I thought it about time I put some up on here. Fran wanted bright and cheerful, seasonal blooms. We went for English Ranunculus, […]

photo from Ruby Roux Amber-Bom-Bamber, the flower in Petal & Feast’s hair crown. Practically Perfect in every way, if she wasn’t so bloody nice you might secretly vom a bit. So, without further a do here are 10 reasons we love Amber. 1. Amber loves flowers. We have a lovely time snipping, sorting and faffing. […]

FOR THE LOVE OF LIZ!

February 10, 2017

Liz amongst the Hollyhocks – Photo from honorary Petal Sacco Photography. Petal & Feasters, past and present will know Liz as our Admin Queen, our Health and Safety Executive, creator of the Mega Form and Invoicing Guru. They may also have had an email with the sentence “I’ll be emailing you about dull things like […]

2016 ROUND UP

February 1, 2017

I have ummed and urred about putting up a 2016 post. For personal reasons it was the saddest, darkest, blackest year we’ve known. As a family we had to do stuff that never seemed possible and was never ever part of anybody’s plan. Somehow or other we got through it, it’s gone past in a […]

GOOD LUCK BAMBEROONY!

March 23, 2015

On our recent-ish trip down to Devon with The Gang, for our inaugural Petal & Feast staff do , there were prizes, prizes for everyone as they all have their very own own super-powers. Amber won the prize for being Practically Perfect in Every Way, just like Mary Poppins. She is fun, oh so creative […]

One of the perks of running Petal & Feast has been meeting some lovely people, both couples and suppliers. Jayne Sacco – or Sacco Pants as we affectionately call her, is a wizz with her camera and she has been meaning to do a shoot with the kids for agessssss. Last weekend she popped up […]

It was a dark, wild and stormy evening as I hid under my duffle coat, jiggling about inside Hannah’s big old van which was trying it’s best to make it up the steepest, slipperiest hill I’d ever had the misfortune of needing to get up. Even Hannah seemed slightly nervous, which I knew meant it […]

Happy Birthday to our beautiful, intrepid 9 year old. Loving your plans of being a travelling artist / living in a van in 6 fields when you are not off exploring, and generally saving the world – if anyone can do it I think it might be you. xxx Acrylics work so much better than […]

THE SRI LANKA BLOG

October 13, 2014

This time last year we were booking plane tickets, sorting out rabies jabs, reading guide books, and getting excited about our India / Sri Lanka adventure. I blogged the India trip a while ago and then things got hectic and the Sri Lanka leg got left on the back burner. With this dreary weather I […]