The Collage Company Blog

So we’ve celebrated our Western New Year hopefully with a good party or two involving family and friends and toasted in 2014, made our resolutions (and how are yours going so far??!!) and are perhaps now endeavoring to adhere to the grand plan of reducing food, alchohol and pretty much all expenditure possible! I always think January is the dreariest month, and then we make it even more dreary by denying oneself all the pleasures in life! It is then rather appealing to find that we can now celebrate the Chinese New Year which is traditionally entails a 15 day-long holiday!

Have you ever considered the fact that you are either a hat person or not a hat person?!

There are obviously those who wear some form of apparel on their bonce at every given opportunity, and others, like me, who avoid it at all costs! My aversion to hats of any sort stems mainly from having a head that is smaller than that of most two year olds, (hence the choice of good hats is limited to say the least!) - and also from a terror of ‘flat hat hair’.

Whilst I may not love hats personally, I definitely loved the amazing array spotted the other weekend at the wonderful Larmer Tree Festival held near Salisbury, Wilts. Every sort of hat imaginable - and more! - could be spotted over the weekend:

See this one ....and this..and what about this?!

We had a great time at the Bowood House Charity Dog Show and Summer Fair last weekend.

Emmy met lots of new faces, many of the canine variety who seemed to enjoy our collages (or maybe it was the cool of the tent!)

She also caught sight of Lady Chichester’s Bactrian camel - Therese.  Raised in Hampshire this Mongolian camel was seen striding out with her new beau - Temujin a nine year old Russian camel who wooed and won Therese’s heart.

Here is just a little collage of some of the four footed friends we made!

We are off to Blenheim Palace Flower Show  this weekend - a three day flower and garden show from 21st to 23rd June - see you there.

Badminton Horse Trials was the first of our fairs this year.  Braving the rain and bitter cold Emmy trekked off to Gloucestershire at the beginning of May in a horse box loaded with collages, food for the five day trip and a few bottles of wine for sustenance!