I had the pleasure of taking some pics for two of my favourite people this week. My daughters BFF and her lovely mama.. ( who is no end of help to me …I thank you lady!)
Thought I would share some pics with you….. enjoy!
Love ~*
Holly Bobs xXx
The last wedding of this season was a wonderful one, full of love and exciting details for me as a photogrpaher.
Sam and Charles wanted to express their passion for medieval re-inactments in their wedding. The guests had no idea about many of the details of the wedding ( I was in the know, and all the more excited for it!!)
They married at Otterbourne Church, by Revd Prescott, who cut his holiday short as this is a church dear to their family. Sam and the Guests arrived in two beautiful vintage Bedford coaches from Mervyns Coaches.
Dressed in a gorgeous and traditional gown, with a cheeky pair of Sparkly Red Dorothy Shoes underneath!
Once back to Old Alresford Place, the guests were lead into the beautifully dressed marque, a feast of details from bunting, made by a friend, candles and long tables in the style of a medieval banquet. Sam and Charles changed into their medieval outfits and entered through an arch of swords to medieval music played by some beautifully dressed musicians from Ledbury Waytes.
The banquet began with bread and cheeses, quince jelly and plenty of Mead, a medieval and very potent honey wine! Each guest had a bread roll, you had to eat the top with your bread and scoop out the centre in readiness for the second course, the soup or pottage which was poured into the roll as your bowl.
Then came out the hog roast and beautifully roasted vegetables.
The whole meal was accompanied by live music and traditional medieval songs from the musicians.
Their were so many lovely details to the day and Sam and Charles had really made it personal to them. The house, which we moved into after the feast, was full of photographs of their families, their grandparents and parents wedding photographs. The whole day was very personal to them and it was a privilege to share it with them.
Congratulations and ‘Wassail’ ( Medieval hurah!!)
A lovely Autumn family shoot with a gorgeous family…Need I say more 
Love Holly Bobs xXx
Well what a job I have! I am a very lucky girl I know.
I have recently got back from Rhodes, Greece where I had the honour of photographing Jo and Ricky’s wedding.
And here are some of the photos from just a gorgeous day …….
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The Ceremony was held at St Peters Chapel in Lindos
The reception was at Lindos Memories Hotel
The wedding was planned and organised by Karen from Infinity Weddings in Lindos. She organised all the flowers and hairdresser and liaised with the hotel about the reception.
Its half term … its raining .. standard. A friend calls me and says do I want tickets to see Tom Thumb at The Point in Eastleigh tomorrow afternoon? Yea … cool … something to do…cultural for the kids, a bit of theatre … being a good mum … blah blah!!
We went to see this production by Lyngo Theatre not knowing what to expect. We had 3 adults and 7 kids, front row seats.
An intriguing set up on the stage, lit by a single light…a wooden table, dust, pulleys, suitcases, a light made out of a drum symbol suspended above the set (spotted by Ava )… simple but beautiful.
Handing out sweets and drinks we waited for the story to begin….
What unfolded before my eyes was just a wonderful and delicate and creativly imaginative peice of theatre. A one man performance from Patrick Lynch ( from Cbeebies story telling programme RazzleDazzle … those with kids of ‘that’ age will know it well..I always liked it..)
It told the story of Tom Thumb using this simple set up, but incorporating some brilliant twists of prop use, feathers twirling on a stick to show the birds, dust, feathers, candles, a clever use of twigs and lighting, a terrifying skull, napkins and walnuts, which met a sticky end … Patrick Lynch played all the characters, building up personalities in a simple, but clear way, giving life to each one. A brilliant use of physical theatre too, never over the top and gently done…..all in all made this a spell binding 50 minutes.
I sat for the whole time with a smile on my face transfixed and transported to a magical world, where I could visualise all of the story that was woven in front of me.
I loved every minute of it, left me feeling I was floating on the feathers that drifted over Toms tiny house.
Worth a cultural trip to the theatre, with or without kids! Holly Bobs x ~*
You can find The Lingo Theatre Company website here and also their Twitter page here
Among my many talents (?!) time wasting and procrastination is something I excel at. Being self employed and largely on your own at home all day makes this an easy state to slip into!
I was sat yesterday with artwork to get on with and a wedding to edit but was distracted by the winter sun dimly trying to shine through the grubby windows and showing all the sticky handprints and dust that seems to be everywhere.
Don’t get me wrong, I am no domestic goddess … this is my autumn clean, the next one will be the spring clean .. I am a bi-annual kinda cleaner…. But I decided that today I really must tackle it rather then getting on with the work that needs doing…..
If I wasn’t such a hoarder of things, stones, bottles, shells, found objects, my dusting job would be much easier…but these are the things I love, so I moved each and everyone and cleared the dusty blanket that seems to cover it all. Much lego was hoovered up …. ‘if you can’t tidy up kids, its gone’ harsh but true…. although I did rescue Darth and Yoda from under the sofa …… god under the sofa and down the sides of it were despicable!!
4 hours later I feel so much better …. We are living a dust and grime free house …. I even did under the fridge and hovered the tops of my books! I managed to clear out 3 bags of rubbish, find a missing Who cd, and my mind is now clear to get on with the things I should be.
Couldn’t quite face tackling the kids den/playroom…..another day maybe ……
I even managed to whip up a fish pie for the kids dinner…. Maybe I am a domestic goddess after all!
So sometimes I think you need to procrastinate and do the things that are niggling at you before you can get on with the rest of it.
So I’ll hang up my marigolds now……..
Although all this cleaning has made me notice that the walls could really do with a paint ….. maybe a spot of decorating before work???
Holly Bobs xX ~*
Well I arrived back safely from Rhodes after an awkward flight home, sat next to a couple with a ( thankfully sleeping baby ) who seemed to have lost their house/car keys and proceeded to argue back and forth for about an hour, then didn’t speak to each other for 3 hours and then started again on landing… I hope they got home okay!! Also thankful to have got home at all as some of the group from the wedding are stuck out there due to the strikes in Greece …. not a bad place to get stuck to be fair!
I had a wonderful week in Greece, at the wedding of Ricky and Jo … I will blog the wedding soon. I haven’t quite got the speedy Lisa Devlin edit down to a fine art yet!
I thought I would share a few of my iPhone photos with you….
I got home and visited a friend, who had just had their oh so healthy Veg box delivered and there was the most beautiful broccoli in there … I had never seen one of these before …. its a Romanesco broccoli, I was informed by a twitterer when I posted a pic yesterday … it tasted like cauliflower tho! The most amazing fractal patterns … stunning!
On top of trying to acclimatize to the freezing weather after the greek sunshine, the kids had a Viking day at school so I have spent the last couple of evenings trying to cobble together some outfits for them! I know now why I am such a hoarder …. the dress I made for my daughter is from some material that I have had for about 10 years … I knew it would be useful one day! Apparently its the cloth they use to wrap pig carcasses in at the butchers…nice (I didn’t mention this to my daughter!) Being a vegetarian I really don’t know how I came to have this!
So its been a random week, and to top it off I am off to teach an art class this afternoon … I’ve gone with mexican Day of the Dead theme … much fun to be had I am sure ….!!
Holly Bobs ~*
