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Charlotte & Steven’s Preserved Wedding Flowers

Charlotte and her new husband Steven got married at the beautiful Dodmoor House, a barn wedding venue in Northamptonshire in October – The same venue I got married at in 2017 ❤️ Like many brides, Charlotte wanted to keep her flowers forever and contacted me after the wedding about having a vase and some heart trinket […]

How to Keep your Wedding Flowers Forever

I recently had the absolute pleasure of preserving the wedding flowers of Claire and Thomas, aka Dr & Mrs Ranaboldo who were married in June 2021. Their wedding ceremony was at Batemans Barn in Suffolk, with the reception at Grove Farm holiday cottages. Claire was kind enough to share some details with me about their […]

The Rose Press Garden

Earlier this year we had some work done to extend our garden at home. We originally had a brick wall separating our front and back garden. I call it ‘front garden’ but it was actually an ugly unused grass area that we maintained by mowing, but never used it for anything. We toyed with the […]

Newly Weds Preserve Wedding Flowers into Ceramic Keepsakes

Amy and Aaron were married in August at the beautiful Lains Barn in Oxfordshire. I made a plaque for Amy last year, using flowers she was given on what was supposed to be their original wedding date but was postponed due to Covid. After patiently waiting like many others, Amy and her husband were married […]

Wedding Bouquet Transformed into Forever Keepsakes

Laura and Matt got married in April 2021. It was a pleasure creating a ceramic vase and a ceramic wall tile as everlasting keepsakes for them, as a reminder of their special day. The Flowers Laura’s bouquet was a beautiful mix of stems by Welwyn Florists, and the flowers in jars on the tables were […]

40 Vases Supplied to Flower Farm

Sharing Business Values During the January 2021 lockdown, Bella from West End Flower Farm in Hampshire got in touch with me to enquire about some bespoke vases for her flower farm gift shop. I was so excited after looking at their website which looked right up my street – absolutely gorgeous farm grown flowers, exquisite […]

Student Surprises Teachers with Bespoke Gift

Colette, a lovely lady who had ordered a piece from me previously, got in touch a few months ago to enquire about a bespoke gift for the teachers at her daughters current school before she left to go to a residential school. We discussed what was required via e-mail and I suggested a ceramic heart […]

Beautiful Ceramic Tile Splashback in Country Kitchen

Following on from a previous post detailing this client botanical tile splashback for their country kitchen, I am thrilled to share the installed tile commission now that it is complete. The colour of the botanical tiles sit perfectly with this kitchen, and the odd plain ceramic tile thrown in between every other tile balances out […]

The Greener Earth Project Partnership

I am very excited to share that I have partnered with The Greener Earth Project – a local environmental charity tackling climate change through planting trees locally and where needed in the wider world. Since the clay material that I use for my work comes from the earth, and because of my passion for the […]

Handmade Soap & Dish Gift Sets Collaboration

I have teamed together with a local soap maker and together we have collaborated a little treat for you! We are very keen on being environmentally friendly and wanted to offer something money saving, bespoke and beautiful. Our ethos lies within the natural world, and we are passionate about Saving Our Amazing Planet. Our soap […]

Bespoke Botanical Ceramic Splashback Tiles

Last year during lockdown 2020, I made so many sets of bespoke botanical tiles for kitchen and bathroom splashbacks. From spending so much time in their homes, people seemed to be carrying out a lot of DIY (including us!) A couple of customers have kindly sent photographs of the tiles I made for them, now […]

Bee Beautiful with Seeds 4 Bees

Save our Bees To most of us bees are simply friendly visitors to our gardens, often seen buzzing around the flowers in spring and summer. However bees are vital as pollinators for both our food and for the plant life that make up the habitat for all of our wildlife. Bees face many threats, they are declining on a massive scale – from loss […]