What a great start to the month, before Christmas I was preparing myself for a quite January, how wrong I was.  It’s been great but a little crazy, last week we shot all the new images for Kersaint Cobb, where I was working with the fantastic Jon Day, he’s such a great photographer and always captures a stunning image.  We were lucky enough to be shooting at LordshipPark, so thank you to Sarah & Brian for being so relaxed, thank you to Carrie for helping to sort some props and lastly, great to work with the lovely girls at Hillgate x.

I was also shooting on Saturday but didn’t mind giving up my day as it was a great project.  The shoot was for the cover of a celebrity’s new book.  Jemma Watts was the photographer and also shot the rest of the book, well done Jemma, you have done a fantastic job in such a quick turnaround!

This week we are working on a piece for Beautiful Kitchens magazine (May issue), a Nikon job, another lifestyle  Ad shoot and starting to prep for a Hotpoint job.  I have a piece in the Q&A section of Beautiful Kitchens, February 2012 issue, where I am on their Expert Panel.

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Happy New Year everyone! I hope you all had a great Christmas break. It’s my first day back in the office after nearly 3 weeks and so I’m a little overwhelmed with work ;0)
As you will have seen, the blogging was nonexistent while I was away, sorry about, full steam ahead now though.
We had a great end to 2011, styling a shoot for Nikon with Melanie Sykes, it was great fun as we had to recreate a picture from her Childhood. She was so lovely to work with, you can see the feature here: Melanie Sykes

I then did a stint on national radio for LG Electronics, talking about how to have a stress free Christmas – ill post the link so you can have a listen.

We’re now working on another job for Nikon and a big lifestyle shoot for Kersaint Cobb, which I am really excited about ;0)

Bye for now x

We have been working on a shoot for a major camera brand and celebrity all week, it was a great brief and the shoot yesterday went really well. I was lucky to work with the celebrity photographer Daniel Kennedy who has such a great style of shooting, I’ll look forward to sharing the images with you once it has been published in all the consumer titles.
I’ll be carrying on with my Hotpoint work next week and then I move home, so the blog posts may be a little sparse…

As ever, it has been a busy few months for PJI.  I guess the biggest news is that I won an award; ‘Crown Paints Stylist Blogger of the Year 2011′!  Sadly, I was unable to attend the awards ceremony, as I had a little knock in my car but I received this beautiful framed certificate (below), thank you Crown Paints!

Other news, we have started our work with the launch of Luce by Hotpoint.   I am now their style expert, offering professional content including ‘choosing the right kitchen for your lifestyle’ (now live) and ‘Choosing the right floor for your kitchen’, we have many more subjects that will run over the next 6 months.  We are also working towards the official launch (January 2012), where we will be unveiling the gorgeous new range.

Our Bright & Graphic shoot will be appearing on Channel 4 Homes in the next few weeks.  I’ll be posting it as a feature on the site but here is a sneak preview (below).  It’s always a pleasure shooting with Jemma Watts, when you find a photographer that shares the same eye, you can really push the creative.

Last week saw us styling for the Figleaves A/W and Christmas press show at the gorgeous Powder Rooms in Soho.  It was quite a challenge due to the budget we had but we we did it.

A huge thank you needs to go out to ChristmasTimeUK.com for their press loan.  What a fantastic array of products!  If you need ANYTHING in terms of Christmas styling then this is the place to shop, thanks Jules! Tel – 01427 667270

Another big thanks has to go to the lovely Katie at DZD who kindly provided all of our Autumnal props (also suppliers of Christmas).

Below are some of Figleaves gorgeous slippers form their new collection – I am loving the red ones, and the grey ones and the beige ones, ahhh, I want them all!

Finally, we are working flat out ready for the launch of a new service on the blog.  I am so excited but it just can’t happen soon enough!