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Elderflower Syrup

Extras • Liquids • Sweet Sauces

I think probably everyone has a family or friends recipe for Elderflower syrup (or if your super retro cordial). This is mine. It makes a lovely thick syrup which isn’t too sweet, but if you like it sweeter add half a lemon’s juice not a whole one.

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For the Syrup

Zest the Lemon and add to the Sugar and Water in a pan, bring to the boil.
Add the Elderflowers and allow to boil for a minute.
Leave to cool and then add the lemon juice.
Strain through muslin and bottle.

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Syrup Life

This recipe will keep in the fridge for a year.

Try it pink

You can also use pink elderflowers which will make a beautiful rich pink coloured syrup. I made some this year so I will try and photograph it soon so you can see what I mean.

Photos by Peony Lim

Fashion

Peony Lim x Chanel – Country Horse

Collaborations • Editorials • On Location • Outfits

Saving the best till last, for the final post in my Peony Lim x Chanel week, the focus is on this beautiful sequinned dress from the Paris-Dallas collection. You might have seen this piece in Chanel’s adverts.

Although I have to say, I was really in love with the hat and bag. They were so effortlessly perfect, in a way only the french can create.

This shoot, featuring this beautiful bay horse was one of the most complicated Kit and I have every attempted. For a start, I no longer have horses, so I had to find one (harder than you would think), not to mention persuading Kit to come into a paddock of loose horses with me, (as an urban bell, she wasn’t very keen on the possibility of being kicked – who would be?!), but we got there in the end. I hope you enjoy the photos enough to have made it worth while.

What I'm Wearing

All clothes and accessories Chanel,

from the Paris-Dallas Pre-Fall 2014.

See the other posts in this series here…

Beauty and Casual.

Photos by Kit Lee

Fashion

Peony Lim x Chanel – Country Casual

Collaborations • Editorials • On Location • Outfits

Sitting on a fence in the middle of nowhere in the South West of England. The sun glowing through the trees making the afternoon smell like grass. If you had told me 6 years ago that I would have been draped in Chanel and running a site, I would have laughed. It’s so strange how life works. Sometimes I think the key is to make the most of the opportunities you get, that has definitely been my blessing.

For the second part of my Chanel Week, I’m looking at casual clothes. I think we all love getting dressed up but mostly look best in our natural state. Jeans are my natural state, they’re a neutral, onto which you add excitements. Denim and Tweed were made to be lovers, I was so excited when Chanel showed the Paris-Dallas collection in the states. It felt like such a natural connection of influences. Plus how amazing did Caroline de Maigret look as an American Indian?! Only she could pull that off with her classic Parisian nonchalance.

The collection has just arrived in store, so hurry down to your nearest Chanel boutique to see it.