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| CHELSEA IN BLOOM :- PETER JONES : OUR COMPETITION ENTRYHere we are with this year's entry into the annual ' Chelsea in Bloom' floral window-design competition - this was designed by my colleague, Mary, who went for the very patriotic Queen's head on a postage stamp image, densely packed with velvety dark red roses, many of which have been studded with tiny diamanté crystal pins in the centres - and it is absolutely beautiful !! This is in three layers from back to front - the background is an MDF panel wall-papered with a baroque design of silver on dark blue. The second layer is the white frame, hanging in the centre of the window, which is the edging of the stamp, and that has been covered with white mixed flowers, including creamy-white roses. Then the final layer is the very front one which is the actual Queen's head, covered in dark red roses, studded with crystals... You can vote for your favourite window design by going to the Chelsea in Bloom website here - this is the gallery page, where you can scroll down to choose your favourite:- http://www.chelseainbloom.co.uk/gallery/Please lend yo your support by voting for Peter Jones' Queen Elizabeth stamp !! | |
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| PETER JONES ON FACEBOOK... COME & VISIT...For anyone with a facebook profile, who has ever visited our lovely store in Chelsea, and even if you haven't, do us a favour and click on the like button - we get to keep our own personal store fb page if we get 100,000 likes within one month !! Come and like our Peter Jones Facebook page here:- http://www.facebook.com/PeterJonesSloaneSquare | |
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| PETER JONES : SERVICES WINDOW 46 - 52 AUGUST / SEPTEMBER 2011 Time to update my work files in here as I haven't spoken about any projects since Christmas, and there have been several things I have had involvement in over the last six months... Seeing as next week I am about to create another Peter Jones Services window in the same window-space, I thought it would be prudent to post about this window I did in August last year... Just to give you a little insight into what my work here at Peter Jones involves sometimes, I will talk about the planning process for a big window like this !! The window was to promote some of the services we offer - the Home Design Service, the Kitchen Planning Service and the Bedroom Planning Service - all of which required a little room-set to bring it to people's attention, and if there's one thing I really enjoy about my job, it's planning a little room-set !! ( Read more... ) | |
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| PLEASE DON'T LET THEM TAKE AWAY THE FREEDOM OF THE INTERNET ...
Remember - 'Anonymous' aren't all just a load of evil hackers - at least they are trying to do something to raise awareness - let's help them by reposting their message everywhere !!
ACT NOW TO STOP THIS MADNESS !! REPOST THIS TO YOUR OWN BLOG... | |
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| THE DANCE OF THE SPIRITS
This is fabulous !!
I have never really seen the Aurora Borealis in full action like this - this was filmed in January when there was a whole spate of sun-spot activity and major solar storms.
You have to view this in full-screen mode - it's just amazing !! The music is lovely too... | |
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| HAPPY NEW YEAR !! What an utterly spectacular fireworks display in the centre of London last night !! If you didn't see it, come in here and view the BBC video - it's worth seeing !! I loved all the pics from around the globe as various cities did their own thing at midnight too...so I have collected a few of them together for my New Year post today...Happy New Year everyone... ( Come and see all the fireworks.... ) | |
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|  It's Christmas again !! How fast the year has gone... I can't quite believe that this journal has been running for six years - I've just posted an opinion poll over at my other journal - 'The Fashion Police Files' (and if you are a friend of that journal you will already have seen it on your own Friends Page) - anyway, when I did, I realised that that journal has been running for five years, and it was started just under a year after this one... Have a lovely Christmas everyone and a really great New Year !! I hope that 2012 will bring you everything you wish for... | |
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| PETER JONES CHRISTMAS BLING !! COME AND SEE...Our Christmas windows and decs have been installed since the beginning of November, but because I've been so busy, what with loads of stuff to write about over at the Fashion Police Headquarters, and loads of Christmas shopping and other related stuff to do, the pics of our lovely department store have been on the back burner for a while...however, this weekend I have a little time to devote to showing you all just what I have been up to for the last two months... ( Do come and see what I've been up to. ) | |
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| WARNING: - There is currently a phishing attack on Live Journal - if you haven't read about this already on your own Profile/update page, read all about it here - do not enter your username and password into any pop-up that you come across on LiveJournal... http://lj-support.livejournal.com/840844.html | |
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| NEVER A TRUER WORD... Spoken in Jest...*Runs away laughing... | |
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| TOURING THE CANARY ISLANDS... TENERIFE, GRAN CANARIA & LANZAROTEAfter we departed from Madeira, we spent an entire day out to sea as we crossed the bit of ocean between Madeira and the Canary Islands - the next morning, we were greeted with this amazing sight from our balcony at about 7am...the sun was just rising to our left, and to our right, there was the blackest cloud I've ever seen - a massive thunderstorm over the island of Tenerife, and this beautiful rainbow appeared as the sun hit the waterdrops...stunning !! Our first port of call in the Canaries, and our second on the whole cruise, was Santa Cruz in Tenerife, followed the next day by Las Palmas in Gran Canaria, and then on our third day here, in Arrecife in Lanzarote...the ship did its sailing at night, and on most days, we were already in port by the next morning. ( Read more... ) | |
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| CRUISING THE OCEAN WAVE !! 1 : LIFE ABOARD SHIP...Here we are back in the land of the shore-bound and looking back at the hundreds of photos we have taken along the way - rest assured I'll be editing them down to just the very best, and there are some real crackers in here, I can tell you... Our first port of call was the incredibly beautiful Portuguese island of Madeira, stuck out in the middle of the Atlantic, just north of the Canaries, and waiting to tempt us with its lush gardens and delicious Sangria and Madeira wine !! I'll be chatting about Madeira in my next post, but first however, let's take a little photo-tour of this amazing ship's decks... ( Welcome aboard... ) | |
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| SHIP AHOY !! ALL ABOARD THE QUEEN MARY 2Tomorrow we are off to Southampton to board the illustrious ship the Queen Mary 2 for a ten day cruise around Madeira and the Canary Islands, with Adam's parents - so do come and see where we'll be staying... ( Come and see the ship and all her amenities here... ) | |
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| SUNDAY FILMING FUN !! Last Sunday, Adam and I were both roped into doing some work as extras on a short film, directed by David Jackson , which will be shown during the BFI London Film Festival next year...come and see what we got up to for twelve hours in a distinctly unglamourous underground car park, near Old St. tube station... ( Come and witness our dystopian future nightmare... ) | |
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| POLISH WEDDING FUN... (This is all you need to know about Polish weddings, right here - this picture says it all !!)Monster post coming with lots of pics - we've been in the Gdansk area for the past week, and it's astoundingly beautiful, so stay tuned !! | |
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| RHS FLOWER SHOW
HAMPTON COURT PALACE : 2011 1 : LARGE SHOW-GARDENSAbout ten days ago, on Saturday 9th July, I went off to the biggest Flower show in the world...yes, RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show is officially the largest, in square area, of all the flower shows that are held anywhere on the planet - that's some accolade, isn't it ?!! Yes - it's even bigger than Chelsea... Hampton Court Palace is of course, an RHS-run event, and therefore, by virtue of the fact that Adam works there, I am lucky enough to benefit from his free ticket allocation to all the shows, and I also get to take guests in too - isn't that great ? Two tickets for Chelsea and four tickets for this one...marvellous stuff !! I take shed-loads of photographs at these shows because I find them extremely inspiring in terms of their creativity, and the sheer amount of ideas for our own garden is mind-boggling - I hope you find them inspiring too - feel free to nick ideas if you find something that tickles your fancy !! In this post, I will look at the large Show-gardens at Hampton Court that I really liked this year - there were a few others which didn't really appeal to me so they didn't get a look in, I'm afraid !! ( Read more... ) | |
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| CESKY KRUMLOV 2011: THE FESTIVAL OF THE
FIVE-PETALLED ROSE !!We have just returned from Cesky Krumlov, a truly amazing little town down in Southern Bohemia in the Czech Republic, where we have been celebrating the ' Festival of the Petalled Rose'. Now then, all of you who have been reading this journal since 2005 will know that we go to this Festival every year if we possibly can. Last year, we were unable to go and we missed it more than I thought we would... ( Ren Faire costumers, come and see how the Czechs do it.. ) | |
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| CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW 2011
 2 : THE SMALL GARDENS & THE
GRAND PAVILION... Chelsea wasn't just about the huge Show Gardens, of course - there were also a number of much smaller gardens which caught my eye...there was also the Grand Pavilion, which had many wonderfully imaginative Show-stands, some of which were variations on prize-winning designs from last year, and others which were new to me - and there were also quite a few outdoor show-stands with eye-catching displays... ( So quite a lot for Part 2 here... ) | |
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| CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW 2011
 1 : THE SHOW GARDENS... We returned from Cornwall and stopped off at RHS Rosemoor on Friday 27th May and the next morning - Saturday 28th - I caught an early train back to London, arriving into Paddington at about 9.20 am...I had an important rendez-vous to make and I couldn't miss it for anything !! Yes, last week was Chelsea Flower Show week, and just because I was going to be a few hundred miles away in Cornwall doesn't mean that I was going to miss out - I get free tickets to this event and so I do feel that they should be used to their full advantage !! As we usually return from St Ives to Frome on the Friday anyway, we wouldn't be changing our usual plans, but it did mean that I had to be on that Saturday morning 7.55 am train back to London... Nipping round to Sloane Square on the Circle Line, I went and dumped all my luggage - one suitcase, and two bags - off at the security desk in Peter Jones ( how utterly convenient !!) and went back to the station to meet up with my friend and colleague Mary, who was going to be coming with me this year... ( Read more... ) | |
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| RHS ROSEMOOR  When we returned from St Ives, we stopped off at another of the gardens owned by the Royal Horticultural Society, where Adam works...this was RHS Rosemoor, near Great Torrington, North Devon...we stopped off for about two hours in all, as Mum had some Gift Vouchers to spend in the plant shop. It was also a good opportunity to have some lunch and see some of the truly beautiful little formal gardens... ( Read more... ) | |
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| A WEEK IN ST.IVES : WINDY WEATHER, ROUGH CORNISH SEAS, & A THREE MILE WALK ROUND THE BAY !!I have just returned to London from the West Country where I have been on holiday with my Mum, who is herself Cornish - being born in the little town of Camborne...she is now in her late seventies but still very active, and is the only one of her immediate family still alive. Everyone we used to visit in Camborne is now gone, but nevertheless, she still relishes going to visit our favourite seaside resort, which isn't that far away from Camborne, the not-so-little-any-more fishing town of St. Ives... ( Come and see what I did down in St. Ives this year... ) | |
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| POSTING TROUBLE...
Dear extensive Friends List,
Is anyone else having any trouble posting ? Over on my other journal 'Fashion Police Files', I am right in the middle of a huge post regarding the Royal Wedding dresses over the last hundred years or so, and I am suddenly unable to get the Rich Text or HTML options, and neither do I get any drop down menus from my Profile page, which I am guessing is part of the same issue...
Also, much more importantly, I cannot get the 'Restore from saved draft?' pop-up when I go back in...as this post is about three-quarters done, I am sure that you will understand when I say that I don't want to have to redo the whole lot again ( about six or seven hours work )so I have put in a help request to LJ to see if anyone can solve it...
At the moment I can only do basic posting like this, and this journal seems to be having the same problem - therefore, many apologies to anyone waiting for my next two Wedding Month posts, regarding the Royal Wedding, but everything suddenly went tits up yesterday !! | |
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| THE ROYAL WEDDING : ADVANCE PREVIEW...
Britain's latest T-Mobile ad - absolutely hilarious !! I am so looking forward to seeing the royal family dance down the aisle of Westminster Abbey...
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| ROYAL WEDDING FEVER !!... CELEBRATION WINDOWS AT PETER JONESNow it has probably passed you by, so I feel it behoves me to inform you that there's a Royal Wedding imminent... It may not particularly be common knowledge, but we, at the Peter Jones store, are Royal Warrant holders - both the Queen Mother, and Princess Diana, with the two boys William and Harry, were in the habit of shopping with us, and now, Prince Charles and Camilla, and Princess-in-waiting, Kate Middleton, all shop regularly with us too - therefore we are entitled to display their crests above the entrance doors and very smart they look too. Therefore, it was felt to be appropriate to create a particularly spectacular window display for all the celebratory Royal Wedding merchandise, both official and jokily unofficial, that has swamped our store to commemorate this once-in-a-while Right Royal Occasion.... ( Come and see... ) | |
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| RHS WISLEY  SPRING UPDATE...So off we went to RHS Wisley on Sunday for a sunny Spring afternoon visit... Adam, of course, gets to go here every day, but for me this was a rare opportunity to take photographs of this delightful place, and it turned out that the first time I ever visited this amazing garden was exactly one year ago this weekend - what are the odds ?!! ( Come, see how the garden grows... ) | |
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| ORCHID SHOW AT THE RHS HALLS... We have just had a very busy schedule this weekend with a visit to the Royal Orchid Society's Annual Orchid Show being held at the Royal Horticultural Halls, over in Victoria on Saturday...and an afternoon trip out to Wisley yesterday !! The orchid show was absolutely amazing, and the Wisley visit deserves an update all of its own, what with all the trees in blossom and the Spring flowers everywhere...so that will be next post after this one !! ( If you love orchids, come and see... ) | |
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| THE EARTH MOVES...
I'm sure that, just like me, you were all absolutely held spellbound at the news coverage of the terrible earthquake and tsunami over on the other side of the world - here's the most amazing footage from a Japanese park during the actual earthquake on Friday...you can see the ground opening up as the cameraman shoots the film... If you want to pray for the victims, by all means do, but the best way we can actually help is by sending donations to the Red Cross... www.redcross.org.uk/Donate-Now/Make-a-single-donation/Japan-Tsunami-Appeal | |
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