Wednesday, 29 September 2010

Valley of Scum...here she comes!

Heres are some pickactuaries from mylee & banjo�s shoot last week.
A field of daisies YES!
Casual boot flinging in the sand YES!
Kazzooing in the gentle breeze YES! 

CANT HANDLE IT! TOO AWESOME.

Photos by

Flower headpieces by
Jolly Holly and Smiley Mylee


 



WARNING this is not flower related

Here are a few images and clips from a campaign I worked on back in 2008, or was it early 2009? What year is it now? When are the cyborgs coming to get us? Was it before the GFC came along and scared everyone into saving their hard earned pennies, gone with the days of spending cash like its on fire in your hot little hands. BTW aussie dollar is totally raging right now, so lets get on shopbob.com and spend all our money on new clogs. (sorry for accidental tangent) ((GFC is over as far as im aware)) (((GFC stands for global financial crisis, not grand fort-building contest)))
Hmm... Well It was definitely after the great banana drought of 2006 thats for sure.
ANYWAY, let me interrupt myself. 
These clips are from Insights Dopamine women's campaign.  All I can tell you about this top secret location is that it has mandatory stops at mc donalds drive thru for early early morning breakfast� im talking so early, one time breakfast hadn�t even started yet and I had to get a cheeseburger. Early.
Concept � Steve & George Gorrow
Creative Direction � Jay Quirk
Producer � Dopamine Jo Ryan & Holly Hipwell ; Dopamine II Holly Hipwell 
Styling � Natalie Wood & Holly Hipwell 
Location � Cant tell


Did I ever tell you that I am Holly Hipwell...yeah me, i did all this stuff!








Monday, 27 September 2010

Happy Birthday Gabrielloooo Bemarosa

Everyones favourite blonde girl is celebrating her birthday today!
So glad i got to see her quickly this morning and wish her a happy birthday and give her some flowers. 


                                                oh so surprised ! xxx gabriello and her mini quet 

jack and the magic beanstalk

I was riding my bike through manly on Saturday, and some magic beans caught my eye. Colleen her name was, the magic bean beholder, talk under water she could� She told me to pop these little fi fo fum beans nearly half way into some soil, give them a good water every day, tell them a couple of stories every now and then and in about six weeks I should be having myself my very own rain forest. Can you hardly wait?



Budd Budd giving the mr beans some extra good luck before they get into their new dirt bed

Colleen wrote some instructions on there for me

Behind the schemes

You remember mylee? You met her a few posts ago� you know, the one surfing in a dress?  Yeah, her. 
I went up to her house the other night to whip together some flower headpieces for her upcoming album shoot. We ate some thai, tried on some outfits, I told some boring stories which put rocky to sleep and made a bit of a mess. Heres the work in progress.. Ill post some shots from the actual shoot soon, so keep your eyes peeled.







lovely mylee with tuckered out rocky river. boy o boy, he would be so mad if he knew we were dressing his head up with  flowers while he was sleeping! 

Tuesday, 21 September 2010

Have you got your back packed?

We saw this lady the other morning at the flower markets. I had to scoot up super close behind her to get you this photo... luckily she didnt notice me paparazzi'ing her backside! 


Im going to call her Ruthie the Ranunculus Ransacker 

Tuesday night dinner conversation

Do you think poppies are called poppies because they just cant wait to POP open?



                   



Poppies, Ranunculus, Freesias & Kangaroo Paw 

Monday, 20 September 2010

Oh! Miss Flower Vogue Korea March 2010

Truly unbearably awesome. 



If i loved this anymore that i already do, i'd probably end up in hospital

Sunday, 19 September 2010

la De da a wedding hooraah!

A couple of photos from Ron & Adelas lovely afternoon garden wedding that i floralized
The bride wanted all gardenias! And that�s what she got. Only after a minor disaster�
We ordered something like 57 bunches, after opening the box and counting 35, I asked the supplier, "why haven�t we got our full order?" to that they responded 
�didn�t have enough�. OK THEN?
After running around the flower market like a crazy lady, screaming out I NEED GARDENIAS we managed to round up enough to do the job right. It was very similar to being at the scene of an accident and yelling out, IS ANYONE A DOCTOR?  Very stressful stuff I tell you!
I don�t have any photos of the table arrangements (yet) 
Here are a couple of happy snaps of the beautiful bride and the most gorgeous flower girl ever. I wanted to steal her but figured her parents might notice that she was missing.
Weddings make me cry, and I hate crying. I suppose crying because you are happy is ok. Crying from chopping up onions, is not ok.
I have some more photos to come from this LOVEly day. Show you soon





                                                  





Happy Birthday Tubarosa

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR TUBAROSA !
For the birthday girl: Kangaroo Paws, Freesias, Ranunculus & Poppies


Turbo Zoooooom to http://tubarosa.com/

Friday, 17 September 2010

Goooood Morning Vieetnaaaaaaaaam

Super excellent top secret very early adventure tomorrow with Mylee. Wait till you see what we find!

This is mylee, she likes flowers too. You should listen to her music hereMylee Grace 



Gypsy rock n roll from a great young heart with a golden old soul...

Thursday, 16 September 2010

Friedrich Heinrich Theodor Freese aka Mr Freesia

 Some 200 years ago, a fellow by the name of Dr. Christian P Ecklon was lolling about in South Africa, and discovered the nose pleasing freesia, he named the flower after his buddy Friedrich Heinrich Theodor Freese... Sounds like a pretty manly day out if you ask me.

Freesias represent sweetness friendship & trust.I think you should go and buy some for your bestie, their house will smell nice for around 10 days!





Wednesday, 15 September 2010

Good Welcome

Well hello! Good welcome to the flower drum. Im your new best friend. COOL!
I have so much to share with you... to keep it simple -  Flower tips & trips

Please remember, if you're going to san francisco be sure to wear some flowers in your hair. Actually, make that - if you are going anywhere make sure you wear lots of flowers everywhere!
holly x