Love it, love it, love it!!! This is how cool my life is. When my friend the amazing photographer Anne Robert needed a baby sitter one afternoon, I simply said YES. Anne has two precious girls and one of them is a sweet brand new baby!! Since I am always happy to have more kids around I was thrilled to have the girls over. Because Anne and I love to work together she offered to take some photos of my garden flowers. I quickly ran around the house grabbing china, props, and my garden flowers and voila`. I have an amazing shoot to show you with flowers completely from our garden!!!!!!!!! LOVE THIS!!!
I used zinnia, amaranthus, purple basil, salvia, celotia, sunflowers, queen annes lace, echinacea, and gladiolas.
My truly beautiful daughter Abigail found an old white sundress, so Anne and I were in business.
Love this close up of our flowers. Every single one of these blooms came from our property. This shoot shows the bounty of our gardens.
Don’t you just love my hanging window panes, and that vintage bed spread is to die for!!! I found the bedspread over a year ago and I have been itching to use it for a shoot.
I have a collection of black iron kettles and pots, and they also have been in the shed waiting for this day!!!
I am thrilled with the way this turned out. Seriously, Anne spent about 15 minutes shooting this and then she dashed off to go meet her clients. I love how resourceful busy moms are. You gotta make the best and the most of your day!!!
One other fun note, I met Anne exactly 2 years ago and it started over a photo shoot. This career has brought me the most wonderful friends!!! Here is the link to the shoot we did two years ago. Since then we have done many weddings together. I LOVE Anne Robert!!
The tablescape and garden setting are so inviting. So that is Holly on the spur of the moment. WOW! I have enjoyed seeing all of the beautiful bounties of your garden.
Oh….so pretty…..just makes you feel happy! Every detail is wonderful!
so beautiful! love the windows hanging in the trees!!
Holly this is fabulous! I’m dying to come do a luckett’s shopping trip after seeing that bedspread/tablecloth. Hugs!
LOVE….could envision stumbling upon this magical (LOVE THE WINDOWS) setting in dreams! Thinking of all of the little pieces of this shoot waiting to get called into action. Love the black kettles too and the yellow of the spread with its texture is super!
Seriously could you be any more talented?! And by the way, your daughter looks marvelous! I hope she’s enjoying college! Time flies…
Gorgeous! Do you have any tips to keep purple basil from wilting? I can’t find a rhyme or reason as to why sometime it lasts in arrangements and sometimes it doesn’t…
It certainly does better directly in water. I would not suggest using it with floral foam. Why can’t everything stand strong like a soldier?
[…] Holly is so honest and down-to-earth. I wish we could have spent two days learning from her. Check out her blog, The Full Bouquet (but don’t blame me if you’re still sitting here reading it a few hours from now)!! Holly showed us dozens of not-yet published or not-yet-revealed photos of her work. She routinely styles events and photoshoots for various photographers in her area in addition to all her weddings. Often the flowers for the shoots come directly from her garden – check out this beautiful shoot! […]