styling the seasons | june

I’ve been trying to decide whether or not to join in and style the seasons this month. You see there aren’t many photogenic corners in my house at the moment. Each week is seeing progress but with boxes everywhere and furniture in the corners I usually use, I’ve lost some of my enthusiasm for taking pretty photographs. My creative side has hit a block…

But then I thought actually, lets go with a styled flat lay (one of my favourite things) and see what happens. So I set myself a little ‘studio’ up by the open doors, enjoying the sunshine while sitting in the shade, and actually I’m happy with the result! Creative success! For me at least. The light is a bit blue. I can live with that.

I decided I would start beside the sea. As it warms up our family beach hunts become so much more pleasurable and we linger in the evening light collecting treasures. It’s not always just about the pretty shells, we like to learn as we go and these observer books are so useful for that (not just as a photo prop)!

Then as I was arranging the beach finds I could smell these sweet peas which are scrambling up a willow support just outside the door, so it only seemed right to share them here too, to bring the garden in as June is my favourite month for garden flowers. I thought I would line the sweet peas up in their flowering cycle, plants are incredibly clever, from a seed to this in a few months. Baffling.

So what does June mean to me…? So much more than I could capture here. Lets just say  growth and life and the great outdoors pretty much sum it up. Oh and tennis and Pimms… I enjoyed finding a quiet hour to photograph and type with doors wide open and the warm breeze filled with the scent of sweet peas. Moments like these are pretty much all it takes to make me happy.

Styling the seasons is a monthly styling challenge run by Katy from Apartment Apothecary and Charlotte from Lotts and lots and can be found across social media under #stylingtheseasons.

I hope your month of June is a happy one.

Julia x