Haus of Dachshund

09/10/2026

POV: You’re completely obsessed with dahlias and have absolutely no intention of making it your entire personality… 🌸

Michael Scott gets it. 😂

The colours, the petals, the ridiculously perfect blooms. Honestly, is there a more beautiful flower?

Dahlia season, you have my whole heart. 💗

Anyone else completely obsessed with dahlias, or is it just me? 👀

Shout out to - she grew these beauties! ❤️

08/10/2026

15/09/2026

It’s dahlia season (ish) Some absolutely stunning dahlias…. Noodle for scale 😂

I pressed these 18 months ago, they’re some of the first successful dahlias I ever pressed whole…. Finding it difficult to let them go and don’t want to use them but wanted to show you guys.

Bloody love dahlia season!

10/09/2026

🎃 CREATE YOUR OWN BOTANICAL RESIN JEWELLERY 🌸✨

Spaces booking up fast! Book early to avoid disappointment.

Come and join me at The Yorkshire Halloween Festival in York this October for a hands-on botanical resin jewellery workshop!

Using a beautiful selection of real pressed flowers, you’ll design and create your very own unique piece of resin jewellery to take home. 🌼

No experience needed — I’ll guide you through the whole process, with full tuition and all materials included.

🌿 Choose from a huge selection of real pressed flowers
✨ Design & create your own botanical jewellery
🌸 Full tuition & materials included
🎨 Completely beginner friendly
👻 Plus, enjoy everything The Yorkshire Halloween Festival has to offer!

📍 York City Centre
📅 22nd–30th October

Spaces are limited, so booking in advance is recommended!

🎟️ CLICK THE LINK IN MY BIO FOR FULL DETAILS & TO BOOK!

23/08/2026

I can’t quite believe I’m saying this… but my original Yorkshire piece has SOLD! 🌸🌿

I only finished creating this piece a month ago, after more than 70 hours of carefully placing hundreds of real pressed flowers and foliage — all grown and collected here in Yorkshire.

I knew it would be difficult to let the original go, especially so soon after finishing it, but I genuinely couldn’t be happier that it’s going to such a lovely home where it will be treasured. 💕

And to make the whole moment even more special, the lovely family who bought it wanted a photo of us together with the artwork before it went off to its new home — I genuinely felt like a little celebrity for a minute 😂🌸 Definitely a pinch-me moment!

The craziest part is that I haven’t even had chance to properly advertise the original yet! It came along to the shows with me and found its new home all by itself.

Thankfully, I created a very small Limited Edition of just 50 fine art prints of the original — and there are now only 30 left.

Once those 30 are gone, that’s it. There will never be another run.

A little piece of Yorkshire, made from Yorkshire flowers, preserved forever. 🌸

Thank you so much to everyone who has stopped to look at it, asked about how it was made, bought a print or simply told me how much they love it. This piece has been incredibly special to create, and seeing the response to it has meant so much. 🤍

17/08/2026

🎃 CREATE YOUR OWN BOTANICAL RESIN JEWELLERY 🌸✨

Come and join me at The Yorkshire Halloween Festival in York this October for a hands-on botanical resin jewellery workshop!

Using a beautiful selection of real pressed flowers, you’ll design and create your very own unique piece of resin jewellery to take home. 🌼

No experience needed — I’ll guide you through the whole process, with full tuition and all materials included.

🌿 Choose from a huge selection of real pressed flowers
✨ Design & create your own botanical jewellery
🌸 Full tuition & materials included
🎨 Completely beginner friendly
👻 Plus, enjoy everything The Yorkshire Halloween Festival has to offer!

📍 York City Centre
📅 22nd–30th October

Spaces are limited, so booking in advance is recommended!

🎟️ CLICK THE LINK IN MY BIO FOR FULL DETAILS & TO BOOK!

13/05/2026

🌼 “Perfect Purples” – Pressing Darker Flowers 2/5

Darker flowers behave really differently when you press them.

They tend to hold their colour better than lighter ones, but they can also dry much deeper than expected — sometimes losing a lot of their natural variation.

One thing that’s quite tricky with them is how they react once you start working with them again. Even though they’re fully dried, they’re still really sensitive.

As soon as you introduce glue, you’re also reintroducing a small amount of moisture back into the flower — and that can change the colour quite noticeably.

Even though I’m using the tiniest amount of glue, you can still see how delicate the process is and how much impact that small step can have.

You can see it here with the pink cosmos — parts of it have shifted more purple where the glue has interacted with the petal. It’s something you have to be really aware of, because once it happens, you can’t reverse it.

So it’s not just about pressing them well — it’s about how you handle them afterwards too.

Do you notice these colour changes, or is it something you’d only spot up close?

This is part 2 of 5 of my “Petal Stories” series ✨🌸

BehindTheScene

13/05/2026

💜 “Perfect Purples” - Composition 1/5

I’ve been sharing more about what goes into each piece as part of my “Petal Stories” series ✨

This time I’m focusing on this one — a more purple/blue-toned piece — and I’ll be breaking it down over the next 5 posts.

This one feels quite different to my pastel work. I kept the palette much tighter, so it’s more about subtle differences in tone rather than lots of contrast.

The composition is still quite full, but I’ve been a bit more controlled with placement so everything feels balanced without competing too much.

Do you prefer a more limited colour palette like this, or something with more variety?

This is part 1 of 5 of my “Petal Stories” series ✨🌸

ArtProcess

11/05/2026

✨ “Perfect Pastels” - Process & Real Talk 5/5

This is the final post for “Perfect Pastels”, next I’ll be talking about the “Perfect Purples” series.

This piece took waayyyyyy longer than I expected.

A big part of that is re-pressing — quite a few flowers didn’t come out right the first time, so they had to go back in. It’s a bit of a cycle, especially with more delicate ones.

Even once everything’s ready, it’s still really careful work. Adding glue can easily ruin a flower — too much, or in the wrong place, and it can stain or turn the petal translucent. Even worse - sometimes reintroducing moisture (from the glue), turns the flower brown, this is especially true when working with pastels and whites.

If that happens, you can’t just leave it… you have to (as gently as possible), remove the flower without damaging the surrounding flowers, and then find something to replace it with. It’s slow and a bit nerve-wracking at times. Luckily there’s no audio recordings that come with the compositions… it would be NSFW with all of the expletives 🤭

Then even when the piece looks “finished”, there’s still more to do. Every single petal has to be properly secured so nothing catches or chips when it’s being framed. After that, each flower is sealed with a protective varnish, and then the whole piece goes back into a large press to dry again after the gluing and sealing process. The bigger the piece of work, the longer it takes to re-dry the whole piece and let me tell you, it is absolutely NOT a fun wait.

There’s also the overall design to think about — choosing the flowers, keeping the palette balanced, making sure nothing feels too heavy in one area. It can feel a bit overwhelming in the middle of it all.

But once everything finally comes together, it’s (nearly) always worth it.

Do you prefer seeing this side of the process, or just the finished piece?

10/05/2026

🌿 Post 4 – Texture & Detail ✨

There’s actually quite a lot going on in this one when you look closely.

I’ve used a mix of different textures, sizes, and types — from really delicate petals to slightly more structured flowers, and small leaves alongside the florals.

It’s about how all those elements sit together so nothing feels out of place. Even though everything is quite different, it still needs to feel balanced and work as one piece.

I try to make sure the texture and detail flow symbiotically, so your eye moves naturally across it rather than stopping in one spot.

What’s your favourite part — the bigger flowers, the tiny details, or the leaves?

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