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Beautiful wedding photoshoot at Chateau De Brives

March 6, 2022by Marie Wiik1 Comment

I had the great pleasure of working with a group of talented people last week at Chateau De Brives. We all gathered for a 3-day long collaberation where we created several floral designs to photograph, these photos are from our session in the Church which is just across the road from Sara and Georges Chateau.

Sarah, Nikki and I created a foam free meadow installation in front of the alter using spring flowers like lilacs, daffodils, stocks and ranunculus. We used latifolia as a green filler for our base which we foraged from the Chateau grounds

The photos turned out so beautifully and I couldn’t be more greatful to everyone who participated. A special thanks to Hoek Flowers for providing such stunning selection of flowers for both our photoshoot. More photos coming soon!

Marie Xx

Venue: Chateau de Brives

Flowers: Hoek Flowers

Extra hands: Nichola Taylor, Sarah Haslett

Photography: James Brown Photo and Jonathan Bruneteau

In collaboration with Hoek Flowers

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On Instagram

January 30, 2021by Marie Wiik3 Comments

Hello lovelies, happy Saturday

I´ve had a wonderful and very relaxed start to the weekend. Well, if relaxing means having a tidy floral studio aaand bedroom, then yes. Heh. I had a very productive day yesterday, and I felt good. Happy! I actually spent the whole evening by myself, just recharging. I did feel a little bit guilty for not joining the others, but I really needed a little timeout. If youré a introvert like me, you will understand I´m sure.

Today have been good as well. I started of with some research and studies for work (meaning watching a lot´s of how-to video´s on various subjects). Love doing this, especially if it can make me work better. Then I actually did a sweaty workout, which felt nice.

The evening is not set in stone yet, but I think I´m going to watch a movie with Stephanie and Philip. Have a lovely evening everyone.

Oh, by the way. Make sure to follow me on Instagram, at @mariewiik1 to see more updates on my everyday life.

Marie x

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Le fleur

January 22, 2021January 22, 2021by Marie Wiik15 Comments

Hello from Hunfleur

How are you? I´ve just had the most loveliest day, and I am so happy. I´m currently in Normandie at Chateau Gonneville sur Honfleur visiting Anna and Philip. They have the most beautiful little Chateau which I´m completley in love with. I´ve been making florals and shooting content all day and we just finished a lovely dinner.

a few photos from today

I´ve been wanting to come here for ages and I´m so greatful I finally did. Being here and meeting Anna and Philip + there two daughters have been incredibly heartwarming as well as refreshing. I hope to be back again soon!

Dinner was delish, we had baked cammenbert with rosmary and honey as a starter. For dinner we had roast beef (not for me of course), baked carrots and parsnips with a yummy cabbage salad. Dessert was pure blizz, smooth chocolade mousse. Felt so treated!

Right, I´m off to bed now. I´m shooting more content tomorrow before we make our way back to Lalande.

Marie xx

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The velvet sofa

January 14, 2021by Marie Wiik36 Comments

Hello everyone, how are you?

I can´t beleive it´s time for another blogpost, time goes by so quickly, or am I the only one? Heh. Anyways, here are a few photos from Instagram stories. The picture above is from New Years Eve, I really liked the dress I wore. Should wear green more often.

It´s been raining all day so I´ve kept indoors most of the day. I´ve been writing contracts and I hope to finish them as soon as possible since I have to send them off to a few clients already. Yay! It´s really nice to see things progress. Otherwise we´re doing a “Lalande cook-off” competition this weekend!! I love tv-show´s like “come and dine with me” and I thought it would be fun to do something different for a change. So this weekend will be a culinary experience (hopefully, hehe..)

Lalande the other day, a typical day in January

I recived my approval for a pre-settlement status in the Uk today, which made me really happy. I do miss England and I look forward to being settled there again. Please don´t get me wrong, I adore living here at Lalande, but I want to settle down a little bit more then I have done for the last few years. I´v been wanting to get a velvet sofa for years now, but I´ve never stayed long enough in one place to do so. So, let´s hope this year will be the time for the velvet sofa.

photo from Pinterest

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

Marie xx

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I love my own company

January 7, 2021by Marie Wiik6 Comments

First Thursday of 2021. Yay

Hi lovelies. I have re-arranged my studio and taken down the Christmas decorations, well not all of it (big house you know, hehe). I like to start the new year feeling refreshed and ready.

I´ve been feeling very peaceful and happy this week, especially today. I´ve had a lot of p&q after our friends left Lalande (peace and quiet), which may have something to do with it. I love my own company way too much, hehe. This January will be pretty quiet (but busy), I´m dedicated to get a lot of essential work done, like planning the year, producing content for my website and writing contracts for my floral design services. Lot´s to do but I´m enjoying it, which makes me feel proud of myself.

Otherwise I am getting back to my normal and healthy habits again, which means I´ve given up on eating up all the temptations in this house, there is just too much!!. I´m going to try to hid them instead and hope for the best, hah.

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

Love, Marie xx

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First Thursday in December

December 3, 2020by Marie Wiik2 Comments

Hello Thursday, time for a new blogpost again.

I must say, I like these scheduled days where I know what I´m doing, it gives me so much peace of mind. So, what´s happening? I burned my hand earlier by trying to microwave my oat milk. There is that. Otherwise, everything is pretty peaceful. My hair is growing longer, which pleases me greatly. I´ve been wanting my long and thick hair back for years, now it´s finally growing.!! Although, it may have something to do with the B12 I´m taking (as well as not being silly and cutting it myself).

Things are looking much better in the studio these days, it´s so lovely how moving some furniture around can change the atmosphere in a room. I think it´s so important to feel comfortable and inspired by your surroundings and what better time to make that happened then right now?

This week will be peaceful but fun (It´s so quiet here, but there will be friends coming for Christmas so I´m enjoying this semi quiet time).. I´m doing some more filming for my IGTV-videos for with marie, then I´m filming another video with Stephanie for her advent calendar vlog. I think we´re also having some parties, so all in all, a good few days coming up. Oh, and Cheryl have sent me the first draft of my website, I´m going to review it shortly so that we can get on with the first alterations. So exciting.

Have a lovely weekend everyone xx