Mix and match alfresco dining
It does seem slightly odd to posting this on what is perhaps the most miserable days weather we’ve had all summer but last month I was asked by Ireland Homes and Interiors Magazine to do an article with a few ideas on outdoor summer styling. So for those of you that haven’t seen it here…
Hampton Court RHS Flower Show 2015
If you’d have told me 20 years ago - when the only way my Mum could convince me to go to a garden centre was at the promise of a peek around the tropical fish section with potential purchase to follow - that today I would be the one booking us tickets and planning days…
The New Katie Alice Online Shop
Hello and welcome to the oh-so-shiny and new Katie Alice website complete with it’s very own Online Shop! Big Cheer! And while you’re here I’d also like to say an official welcome to the first new proper member of the Katie Alice team who started back in March – Hello Matt! Matt has not only…
Katie Alice Summerhouse
INTRODUCING THE KATIE ALICE SUMMERHOUSE A collaboration with Scott’s of Thrapston that launched this week at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. I started working with Scott’s last year when they asked me to style their summerhouses at the 2014 Chelsea Flower Show, and after a successful summer of shows for them I was very happy to be asked to work together on creating a summerhouse…
I made you a mixtape!
Wow what a busy couple of months it’s been! As much as I’d like to be one of those marvellously organised business women who stylishly shimmy’s around their busy schedule, ticking jobs orderly off a very well written list, I know I never will be. And thats fine (- although not so much to my…
Crushing on Satchels
THIS SPRING I AM TOTALLY CRUSHING ON THE NEW PASTEL COLOURS FROM THE CAMBRIDGE SATCHEL COMPANY. Having always been a bit of satchel fan, the release of these beautiful handmade bags in mint green, pale lemon and candy pink literally couldn’t be any further up my street other than if they came filled with whippet…
Country Living Spring Fair
THIS YEAR I’M REALLY EXCITED TO BE ATTENDING THE COUNTRY LIVING SPRING FAIR WHERE I WILL PERSONALLY BE SELLING DIRECTLY TO YOU WONDERFUL LOT FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER! Long have I been a fan of country living magazine. Curling up in my sunny bay window at home while flicking through it’s pages of perfectly arranged…
Pancake Day
WHO DOESN’T LOVE PANCAKE DAY, …or to go by it’s more serious and far less appetising name, Shrove Tuesday. I have always been a little confused as to why this religious festival, intended for reflection and life assessment, has become a day where millions of atheists around the world gather together to ferociously flip pancakes and…
River Cottage Cookery School
I LOVE FOOD. I love everything about food. I love cooking it, I love eating it, I love sharing it and I love understanding it. Last Christmas my boyfriend bought me a voucher to attend a one day cookery school at River Cottage and almost a year later I finally made it to the Devon farmhouse I had…
Yuletide Sleighride Christmas competition
IS THERE ANOTHER MOMENT IN TIME QUITE AS DISAPPOINTING AS DISCOVERING YOUR HOMEMADE BUN DOUGH HASN’T RISEN. And you suddenly realise you are going to have to offer your friends who are due in half an hour some shop bought mince pies instead of the freshly baked cinnamon buns you tempted them over with. Oh…
Feeling Christmassy
LOOK, IT’S NOT MY FAULT THAT I’M FEELING CHRISTMASSY. I’ve been forced to watch christmas adverts, read christmas gift idea emails and eat mince pies for almost a month now so it’s bound to start rubbing off eventually. (I’m lying when I say that I’ve been forced to eat mince pies, no one will ever…
Spring-Summer 2015 photoshoot
THIS WEEK I GOT TO DO ONE OF MY ABSOLUTE FAVOURITE “THINGS THAT KATIE ALICE DOES” – ORDER PRETTY FLOWERS, PICK OUT LOVELY PROPS AND GENERALLY BE A BIT OF A STYLIST FOR THE DAY. It was the Spring-Summer 2015 photoshoot for the new Creative Tops catalogue which will be featuring a brand new Katie…
Horst at the V&A
Last week me and a friend visited the lovely V&A museum in London to see the Horst exhibition which had caught my eye in my favourite sunday supplement magazine a month or so ago (thanks Culture Mag, keep up the good work). If you are a fan of either fashion, photography or pretty girls in corsets (girls – I’d say…
Celery Soup For Dinner
A MIGHTY SOUP THAT’S WORTHY OF A DINNER. Every time I tell my boyfriend that I’m going to make soup for dinner he always looks at me in that same grateful but unsure way and I can almost hear him mentally going through the contents of the fridge as he wonders desperately what he will…
facethefoliage
OH THE WONDERS OF THE AMAZING CREATIVE THINGS YOU FIND ON INSTAGRAM. How could I do anything but fall in love with these beautiful floral portraits by Justina Blakeney. Her hashtag #facethefoliage has started a mini revolution of blossoming features across my favourite social media site. Their aloof glances remind me of an art deco picture…
How food blogs won me over
Blogging does not come naturally to me. A couple of years ago you couldn’t have recommended a blog highly enough to me that it would actually make me sit down and enter its URL into my search bar. And trying to get me to update my then pitiful blog was like trying to make Mary…
Autumn/Winter 2014 Photoshoot
A couple of weeks ago I got to do one of my favourite parts of the job – photography for the new catalogue! I love getting involved styling and propping the photos and lets face it – everyone loves a day out the office. Especially a scorcher like this one! Quite bazaar trying to create…
Raspberry and rosewater cupcakes
I suppose it would go without saying that my love for flowers extends beyond growing them in the garden and putting them in a vase. I love wearing them, drawing them and giving them. I also love cooking with them and am especially in love with rosewater and orange flower water in baking. A couple…
Katie's Blog
Hello! Welcome to the Katie Alice blog! This little space is where I can keep you up to date with what we’ve been busy doing, as well as new product and collection launches. I also like to throw in the odd recipe, music playlist or competition, and sometimes just a bit of general chit-chat is in order. And almost always with pretty photos... Enjoy!
