Really excited to be on location for The Fabulous Fleece Co’s very first photoshoot this week - taking lifestyle images for this year’s autumn/winter range.

The cut-out images we already had are great for seeing detail on the product pages - but we also wanted atmospheric shots of the rugs etc in a homely setting help to really visualise how good things will look in your own home and life!

Imagining winter in June

We needed to take the pictures now before the frenzied pre-Christmas activity gets going late summer. With a majority of our items being seasonal and made for colder climes, we also needed to create cosy, wintery scenes. You'd think this would be challenging in June - but considering this month’s dreary weather, it’s not so hard to imagine!

The photoshoot location

We enlisted our photographer Mike Harrington to capture the scenes, who came along with assistants Annie and Brydon to help with styling.

Our destination was Lime Kiln Farm, a lovely English cottage B&B in Banham on the Norfolk/Suffolk border. Many thanks to owners Margaret and Tony Wilkin for letting us use their lovely farmhouse for the day. Do keep them in mind if you ever come to stay in Norfolk.

As well as providing the warm and welcoming interiors ideal for our indoor shots, the setting outdoors is wonderful. The farmhouse has beautiful gardens looking out towards the surrounding marshland.

The Lime Kiln is no longer a working farm but does still have stables - in fact, Puzzle the resident horse was rather curious to see all our activity disturbing his usual peace.

Ruby (my dog) was rather bored by it all, but she did a star turn as our model for the sheepskin and luxury pet bed shots. We had great fun trying to get her to look out the window at the right time for a shot of the sheepskins on the bed - our tactic involved placing Mike’s phone on the windowsill and setting the alarm off!

A good day's work

Margaret prepared a lovely lunch to keep energy our levels up. Bar this short break, we worked flat out 9am until 7pm to get the images we wanted. It was worth it though - really pleased with the results, which really add colour and appeal to the website! Many thanks to Mike and his team for their hard work.

My favourite picture? Probably the Jacob’s sheepskins hanging outside on the washing line, although the cosy fireplace shots that we are saving until late autumn to reveal are great too - watch this space!