Paul Lowe’s aptly-named blog, {Sweet Paul}, takes readers on a magical journey through delicious images, delightful food musings, and recipes to die for! The 42 year old food and prop stylist/crafter has written 18 cookbooks; the latest, {SLURP}. Paul’s work can be seen in Country Living, Real Simple, In Style, People, Essence etc. Originally from Oslo, Norway he now lives in New York with partner Otis and dog Tanner. SWS gets the skinny from the oh-so-very-sweet Paul.
You must be dreaming of beautiful settings/images/creations every day. What are you swirling around in your head right now that you would just love to bring to life? My head is at all times full of ideas about what I can create next. What I do is that I create an “idea wall”, where I put up all the ideas I’m working on at the moment. The wall changes from week to week, all depends what Im into that week. Right now Im working on ideas for a new craft book about old fabrics. {photo by Paul Lowe}
What inspires you? Anything can inspire me. A book, a movie, food packaging, a picture etc. I have all these little notebooks that I write down ideas in. I always have one at hand, including on my night stand. But the place I get the most inspiration is in the bathtub. Im driving my partner Otis crazy with my hour long baths.
DIY tricks for the bride: Don’t buy the ready made favor boxes and those horrible chiffon bags. Get all your friends together for an evening of favors and wine. Buy some cheep boxes and cover them with beautiful paper. A good tips is to buy a roll of a beautiful wallpaper. You will have a fun evening!
What project are you most proud of? I’m most proud of my doilie story for Country Living. I bought a box of old doilies on ebay and turned them in to craft projects. I love to take something that most people would not look at and turn it into something cool. I also think your readers would love this, its kinda wedding’ish.
Most challenging project? Every project is challenging, all in different ways. But trying to make some foods look great can sometimes be quite hard. Esp ice cream; you have to work super fast. And its really bad for your hands to make like 200 ice cream scoops a day.
Favorite Blogs, Magazines, Sources: I love {Design Sponge}, {Housemartin} and {The Bedlams of Beefy}. I loved Blueprint, very sad they closed it down, but I buy Australian Vouge Home, Elle Decoration, Gourmet and Country Living.
What’s next for you? Next for me is more books. I’m working on some ideas for some cool craft books at the moment.
Isn’t Paul’s work delightful?! How about the ice tea in Mason jars, coconut cookies, or leaf-wrapped raspberry drinks for your southern soiree? Lovely! Thank you, Paul, for sharing these details with our readers. We can’t wait to see what’s next on {Sweet Paul}.
[Photo Credits (clockwise from top left): knitted tea pic {Steve Guiralt}, next 6 images {Frances Janisch}, blue cookies {Colin Cooke}, cupcakes {Frances Janisch}, pink drinks {Dreyer Hensley}, ice cubes {Dreyer Hensley}, coconut cookies {Steve Guiralt}.
I simply adore the green accents…love attention detail. ~Leah
These are BEAUTIFUL! I love her veil!
The veil is vintage-southern elegance..love it.