I've been playing with a new idea, or a project. I've always wanted to know more about food styling and photography. I love every single thing about food and I eat far too much of it. Really, I eat at least every two hours and if I wasn't this tallish, I would have been a very round girl indeed. When I was expecting my boys, I gained over 20kg with each pregnancy. I ate alll the things and listened to my body and I am neverrrr doing that again.
So I've been collecting decorative little things. If you've read my blog for more than five minutes, then you know that I get all my pretty food, event and party things at
In Good Company - their stuff is available online or in store and I love them. I also collect trinkets at the Milnerton market here. I collect plates for my one-day giant plate wall. I love textiles, cloths, napkins, old silver, enamel, really old coppery cutlery and any crockery at all. I recently got a stash of wooden plates from Love Milo, which I'm going to tell you about a bit later. A friend of mine introduced us to each other and I will not stop until I own everything they make. I love being obsessed!
My friend
Jacqui is an excellent photographer and a pleasure to work with. By pleasure I mean great wine, good conversation, professionalism, speed & attention to detail. I cannot wait to show you her pictures. We were working on a job for another side project / client today and I really am starting to get in to food styling. Today was my second 'professional' session, and the difference to our previous shoot is astounding. I really am enjoying this more than I ever thought I would. I'm no pro food stylist like (who I consider by far the best in the country)
Vanessa Lewis, but I enjoy playing around with it and learning as I go. I love digging and scratching to find interesting pieces to style with and I really love cooking for the family and discovering new recipes to add to the regulars. I haven't had a hobby of sorts for many years, so it feels great to get in to something interesting and creative again.
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| Photos by Jacqui van Staden. A nervous stylist & a curious Noah |
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| A few 'textures' that we got at Milnerton market this morning |
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| A few little treasures from Milnerton market today. Silver jug, fish plate and fish knife to add to my collection. |
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| The Jacqui. |
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| Photo of a sad rabbit by Jacqui |
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| This is one half of the plates we were looking through in the selection and pairing process today. And those are my shoes. |
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| Graeme playing art-director-art-director. Kidding. He is actually an art director in real life. No really, in advertising. |
Too pretty you are and yay for new hobbies! I'm sure you'll be great at it :)
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