Hi, I'm Annabelle.

Petal Daze is a one-woman studio in Afton, Minnesota. I press every bouquet myself, on presses we built by hand, and I lay out every petal myself. I won't hand your flowers to anyone else.

That means I take a limited number of bouquets each season, and it means the frame you get back was made slowly, on purpose. I love the slow parts most: the paper changes, and the day the press opens and you finally see what it did.

Pressed flowers are honest. Colors soften. A rose goes deeper and moodier than it was. A daisy stays almost exactly itself. That's the point: it isn't a photo of your bouquet, it's the bouquet, still on the wall years later.

Annabelle