Botanical artist. Country living. Dog loving. Based in Sussex. My little place in this big wide world.
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For the Bride...
Fede's scrumptious choice of dried flowers left me in awe of this everlasting.
This design really did have the most perfect combination - from the umbellifers and lunaria peeping through to the subtle blue undertones in the hydrangeas and poppy heads to finally the little pops of ochre to help lift the rest of the tones - I just adored it!
For the maids...
A few months ago I was asked to flower for a wedding that took place in Italy over the weekend by the loveliest lady - Fede had a clear vision of the style she wanted and ideas for some of the dried florals included in the designs too - a beautiful plan was most definitely coming together.
An everlasting wreath for the bride accompanied by a comb for her hair, a buttonhole for the groom and these deliciously, textural wrist corsages for the bridesmaids.
A pallette of pure joy for me to get working on and such special keepsakes for the bridal party after.
There's something about glasshouse windowledges in which it means it's acceptable to have a spanner and an old, dirty pot combined with the most glorious dried blooms.
This room is, at a snails pace, coming together and I can't wait to share it with you all. Elodie's enthralled with the fact that every window is at head height so squirrel watching can resume from the warmth of inside.
I just love it, it's a little slice of paradise once the sun's been out for an hour or two!
As the evenings draw in, it will soon be time to start lighting the fire in the evenings - one of my all time favourite parts about home in the Autumn, the nostalgic sooty smell a reminder of all the exciting times just around the corner.
For now the fireplace is dressed with an abundance of florals before they move onto their forever homes.
Phew it's been a hot minute since I posted on here, whilst my Instagrams up to date with Copper and Moss' going ons Facebook unfortunately took a backseat...
So heres a snippet of how the last few months have been looking!
The cutting garden thrived and is now about to have its Autumnal slumber warming up Spring bulbs; I now have a fully grown pup child, who somehow turns 1 next month; I have worked on some beautiful projects, some of which I am still waiting to share so keep your eyes peeled for those; there's everlastings around the globe now which seems all a bit bonkers from my little studio here in Sussex - absolutely loving every second of this journey!
I hope you're all well and I will try to keep here just as updated from here on! H x
Whilst it's been a little too Autumnal and blustery outside, I've been working on a whole world of newness in the studio.
I've been curating a couple of new collections and collating ideas on what makes Copper and Moss, Copper and Moss which I'm really looking forward to sharing with you all.
Here's a little peak at my lovely new plantable thank you cards and beautiful hessian that will both be making an appearance very soon...!
I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!
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After all the love on my recent post about our wonderful Dodo, I told him about it and he was absolutely blown away that something he's made has been seen on different continents!
This was such a small project to him, he helped build a few of our local hospitals during his career and then ran a nursery selling plants from home for a while too. Despite shielding for over a year now, Dodo and my Nanny have somehow acquired, and what now resembles, a small garden centres worth of plants for their garden this year.
So here it is in use, the first of his projects, an absolutely ginormous flower press and when I say ginormous, it's currently got a3 sheets in it and I have about 30cm deep of pressing room! He made it one afternoon back in November whilst I was at home a little poorly. I got a phone call to go and look in the porch and he had left it there with some homemade sausage rolls courtesy of our wonderful Nanny - they quite literally are my inspiration and my absolute heroes!
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6. M O N T H S. O L D.
A dog will always be more than 'just a dog' they truly are blessings.
I wasn't actually able to choose Elodie as she was the last puppy without a family, when I finally met her, I understood the timing of it all.
She had a very slight white crest on her chest which has now turned into just a few hairs, but is quite unusual for a retriever - the first dog that my Dad had got when I was little, Daisy, had a white crest on her chest so it somewhat feels as though they joined up and left their mark when they chose her for me.
She's been the brightest light and the most bonkers company on days when I've needed someone most over the last four months and I'm so looking forward to a lifetime of adventures with her!
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I was utterly swooning over this beautiful, bespoke, Birthday order earlier in the week.
I've always been told to be my most authentic self so when I'm given a brief to work with, I just put together what naturally feels right and this one ticked all the boxes... Luckily it left the studio before I fell even more in love with it and want to keep it for myself!
Happy Friday!
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T H E. C U T T I N G. P A T C H.
This is actually the second of my wonderful Grandad, Dodo's, projects, the first one I will show you next week, but for now this takes centre stage.
For the last 2 years Dodo has kept on at me how I should move my old greenhouse, it currently resides behind the house and has been much forgotten about in recent years and turn this part of the garden into a cutting patch.
This year he was thrilled I had FINALLY decided to start growing enough and propagating seeds for a cutting patch, a cutting patch that did not actually even exist, until one day last week when I came home to three raised planters he had made that day... He is 90. He is blooming incredible and absolutely bloody marvellous if you ask me!
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Three little squirrels sat on my window,
And they told me, at this point I should probably worry...
Unfortunately it wasn't a morning fuelled by Corinne Bailey Ray's classic yesterday...
Since the beginning of last years lockdown I've had a squirrel determined to get into my house, it has successfully completed this mission twice already, but yesterday morning it was taken to a bizarre whole other level, it brought friends.
With the wild, woodland trio safely secured outside, I got to work with this whimsical trio inside.
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Sometimes the chaos and raucous in my mind transcends into this and I'm more than okay with that, it's my perfect remedy.
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It's been a wild and whimsical day in the studio, much like the weather over the weekend... It was as though the wind and the rain just wanted us to sit back and listen to the secrets it had to tell.
I've got some super exciting projects going on at the moment and one that involves my blooming inspirational 90 year old grandad also known as Dodo (pronounced as "Doo-doo" as opposed to the bird because he can literally do anything!)
Keep your eyes peeled!
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Collecting windfall treasures to fill little apothecary bottles on the kitchen windowledge...
Proof there's beauty after every storm.
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I had every intention to start teaching myself embroidery, but I got a little inspired so I got a little busy instead...
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L I T T L E. D I P P E R.
We all know what happens on a Thursday and it's National Gardening Week, combine the two together and here's one outcome...
My little gardening pal, Miss Elodie, after a hard day's work, snoozing on my wellies - at 5 and half months old it's seems a little bonkers to already be posting throwbacks, but she's already bigger than most of the fully grown hounds around here!
I'm sure I'm not the only one who has a little company by a four legged friend out in the garden and we would love to get to know some of yours too so who's out in the garden/allotment with you?!
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W I L L O W. B A S E S.
These willow bases are an absolute delight to make and all of the willow comes from the sweeping branches of our beautiful tree at the bottom of the garden.
The process always feels so much more natural and instinctual; the designs always look less refined and wild in style and my goodness, I am all here for it!
An understated, natural piece of gloriousness.
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Earthy neutrals will always have a big place in my heart, my entire house can tell you just that!
I can just imagine this everlasting against so many different feature walls!
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Anyone else feeling this chill more than the others?! My studio is currently housing all of my seedlings and amazingly they are all relatively happy still - bar the one Elodie decided to become a herbivore for!
So hoping slightly warmer weather isn't too far off now, Im so eager to get these cutting beds going, I can't wait to show you the varieties and colours I've got coming!
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I am absolutely in love with this beautiful photo!
I had so much fun creating this everlasting botanical with Kirsty , the first full wreath I've created entirely from dried flowers - with fresh materials, full wreaths filled with all the textures and tiny details are usually where I can lose myself, they are my absolute favourites, but a fully dried wreath was somewhat out of my comfort zone!
Kirsty had a vision of what she would like and inspired by some new beauties in the studio I got working away. Filled to the seams with last summers bounty and pops of colour I could have very easily have kept this one!!
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Hoping you have all had a wonderful Easter weekend!
We've had a lovely time making the most of the weather, seeing friends, having the first bbq of the year and eating yummy foods!
Elodie has been so super excited to be a part of it all and to finally meet some of our friends🤍
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B L O S S O M
Could there be a bigger sign of Spring and right on time for the Easter weekend too! How glorious is this blossom popping in the garden at the moment, absolutely drooling!
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How is that Wednesday and the last day of March finished already?!
Feeling fully emersed in Spring with the past couple of days weather, it's been oh so lovely to see the sun again!
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Have spent much of today in the garden sorting out beds, pots, finally getting all my seeds propagating and cutting some of springs beautiful bounty to bring inside like these hellebores!
I've decided to trial with some cutting beds this year and I'm so excited, I'm already absolutely swooning over the colours and I can't wait to share this little journey with you all - tips as always will be greatly appreciated!!
Hope you have all had a lovely day and a chance to get out and enjoy this glorious weather! 🤍
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"Sometimes it's the smallest things that take the most room in your heart" and the mini everlastings are no exception.
I feel so honoured to have been asked to create so many of these smaller botanical hoops that are being designed and created to be put up on feature walls in nursery's at the moment.
Over the last year both of my sisters have been styling their nurseries and I can quite see why they've both become their favourite rooms in the house - both so peaceful yet inspiring!
Sally, my lovely sister in law, has started a beautiful little business .and.goose
where she's designing beautiful enchantments absolutely perfect for nursery decor. Her Instagram features one of those nurseries I was talking about and it is swoon worthy!
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I have thought long and hard about posting this on this platform as it is very personal and something I have been coming to terms with over the last few months, but it is really important and I want to do my part in helping to raise awareness for it.
This month is endometriosis awareness month, it impacts 1 in 10 women and takes an average of 8 years to actually be diagnosed which for some can be too late; the condition effects womens ability to conceive amongst an array of other debilitating symptoms and up until last November, I didn't know, but it's a part of who I am.
Despite knowing something was wrong for years, I had never really anticipated this. Years of hearing "it's all normal", "you will grow out of it", and "it's just your hormones settling down" - but there it was, endometriosis, a relief to finally have a diagnosis, but a blow to discover I need surgery on my ovaries at the same time.
Having always experienced painful and irregular periods, this seemed the norm to me, but over the last 18 months I began having pains from under my kidneys down to my thigh, the epicentre around my left o***y, some days its manageable, but some days have been total write offs.
Its invisible. Around the time of my diagnosis I heard that I'd just been "pretending" - feeling like I needed to justify what was happening to my body during a time that was already physically and emotionally hurting me is something I don't think I will ever forget, it really highlighted the lack of awareness for endometriosis to me.
This is by no means a sympathy post, I am remaining positive and optimistic, if I want to have a future Copper and Moss rugby team, then of course I will do everything I can to make it happen, but this is me doing my part to help raise awareness.
Endometriosis UK has launched the 1 in 10 challenges and I've got involved in the move 10 challenge.
If you would like to support my challenge then that would mean the absolute world to me and I will link it below, but if not please pop over to the .uk page for more information about the condition.
Thank you so much for reading,
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https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/hannah-williams133
Does anyone else occasionally greet the postman with a riot of colour and chaos or is that just me?
Seeing this memory from April 2 years ago has me so excited for the spring blooms to fully start popping again!
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Today, for the first time ever, I decided to cut some snowdrops to cheer up a corner of the house and I think they look simply glorious!
Though they are truly tiny, they are always the first little blooms to appear in the garden after the dormant, cold period which I think shows such strength and courage, this year not of the big freeze could stop them.
The gardens carpet of them grows each year and they still remind of the magic my Dad bestowed in the garden. So beautiful and pure.
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M A R C H
It's Monday and a new month which for myself and Els means new goals and new plans - there's a fair few of them this month.
We have business goals, etsy goals, personal goals, fitness goals, house goals and most importantly, biscuit goals (Els not me - maybe slightly me).
For now we're enjoying the sunshine and in particular these little guys that are now standing so proudly.
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Sipping on coffee in the sun, hairs in a messy bun, outfit currently consists of pyjamas and wellies, the pups currently sliding in the morning dew, the world's still so quiet - my perfect start to a Sunday.
The sun has been most welcome the past couple of days and has been casting whimsical shadows all around the house. Elodie has been finding sunny spots around the house to bathe in so it looks like I'm not the only one enjoying it at home.
Hope you're all having a wonderful weekend🤍
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