Edges Wild Studio

Edges Wild Studio Folk Art Floristry by Hannah Mitchell Lowery (she/her) for weddings and special events. I'm most active on Instagram

Friends. Today I got my first dose of the Moderna vaccine for Covid-19. And I feel great. Still no side-effects. I am in...
03/04/2021

Friends. Today I got my first dose of the Moderna vaccine for Covid-19. And I feel great. Still no side-effects. I am in Texas's group 1B because I have Crohn's disease, and have been on immunosuppresant therapy for ten years now, and it's kind of unbelievable that I could be looking at personal innoculation from a virus that is particularly risky to immunocompromised individuals by the end of this month. I'm so relieved I could cry.

I have been very priveleged to be able to put a lot of Edges Wild's operations on pause this past year in order to protect my health. And I have been so grateful to every client and colleague who--between this March and last--has rescheduled, downsized, moved events outdoors, and otherwise made adjustments for the health and safety of their friends, family, and vendors, because whether you knew it or not, I have greatly benefited too. Thank you.

I feel about this whole past year the way an acquaintance recently wrote of our collective winter storm experience of the TX power grid going down: nothing like a threat to basic safety to remind us of our "creatureliness."

And isn't it true? Whether we work manual labor or public-facing jobs or not, our bodies are everything. And when they meet a worthy opponent, even a mocroscopic one, we all feel that vulnerability acutely. So that needle in my arm today felt like the power coming back on to warm a shivering human. Like cactus spines deflecting a hungry jackrabbit. Like an armadillo shell protecting...whatever's going on under an armadillo's shell. Like this creature is going to make it out of a brush with danger, her body unharmed. It's taken a lot of work and hard decisions and nervous waiting to secure that, but I am so, so grateful. We are not out of the woods, and also this new mRNA technology is incredible. We are close to safety.

But we have to stay vigilant. So keep taking care of yourselves, your loved ones and your next-door strangers. We have all kinds of happy gatherings on the way, but in the meantime, our most exposed still need all our best and fiercest protections. May we all keep our dreams alive and our masks on for the days ahead. Stay well.

Texans, this has been a hell of a week. I know it feels like we are never not either in the middle of or recovering from...
02/19/2021

Texans, this has been a hell of a week. I know it feels like we are never not either in the middle of or recovering from a weather-related disaster, and on top of the already slow-moving crisis of Covid-19, it feels a bit (to my empathic-overdrive, sometimes melodramatic Enneagram 4 self) like this is just our life now: survival mode. As Rebecca Solint has written of other moments of societal breakdown, "This is an extraordinary time full of vital, transformative movements that could not be foreseen. It's also a nightmarish time. Full engagement requires the ability to percieve both."

So. Take care of yourself first. That is one lovely, responsible action you can take today. And then we can all take care of each other better, and do the societal re-build part. Place your hand on your own chest and feel your heart beating. It might be cornball, but it can be very soothing. You are alive. You are resourceful. You have people in your corner. Local folxs, if you have power, hurray! Stay warm. If you have water in your tap, yay! Boil it, and then drink it without guilt. If you have a pet, go stroke their ears and whisper to them about how good they are. If you don't have a pet, cradle your own face in your hands and tell yourself how good you are. Maybe do that either way.

And then if you feel you can safely extend beyond your immediate circle too, here are some Houston groups working to get basic resources out to our neighbors who need them most:

West Street Recovery
HTX Mutual Aid Coalition
Houston Food Bank

Make one caring + surviving move, check to see if you have energy for a second, and however many you got, let it be enough for today. Love you all.

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It’s Jacob’s wedding day. Jacob, one of my five beloved siblings, the chill middle child, the fan favorite. In a matter ...
07/24/2020

It’s Jacob’s wedding day.

Jacob, one of my five beloved siblings, the chill middle child, the fan favorite. In a matter of hours, he’s marrying his sweetie in Indiana. And I’m at home in my house in Texas. Texting my sister who is at home in her house in North Carolina.

Covid is a bitch, y’all.

We’ve never not been all together for something this significant. And we are lucky that our family bond is strong enough to bend but not break under the pressure of a situation outside of everyone’s control, in which we all came to different conclusions about our ability to travel and participate responsibly mid-crisis.

We keep reminding each other that there will be many more together-times, someday.

But in the meantime, I want to cap off this message I’m sending to my sister by tapping every single emoji as if I were running my hands down the rows of buttons on a highrise elevator panel, and see where I end up by the 6pm ceremony start time.

So this is for you, peeps.
For all my clients who shifted plans, knowing that every seat that disappeared from your reception layout represented someone you will ache to not have present,

For all of you who chose to pick up your whole much-anticipated 2020 celebration and set it down somewhere in 2021,

For all of you who were supposed to be witnesses at ceremonies or guests at tables that suddenly couldn’t be set, for all of you who RSVP’d in the affirmative and then had to retract,

Please know that it’s ok to also be upset. That weddings, which are already complex emotion salads layered with expectations you didn’t know you had for events, for people, and for the synergy between the two, are, in this pandemic era, the most complex they’ll ever be. And that maybe all this discomfort is the growing pain signaling that we’re all developing more spaciousness and understanding for each other around how multifaceted communal rites of passage really are, even in the best of times.

Feelings, central.

So I raise my kitchen glass to Jacob and his bride Kara, to you, and to this moment. May we honor all this year’s important dates, and open our hearts to what IS right along with what could have been and what will yet be.

Christmas, but make it Texas.
12/14/2019

Christmas, but make it Texas.

Let's hear it for of , Alecia of and Michelle of for creating the coziest, most vibrant market expetience. We're at i...
12/14/2019

Let's hear it for of , Alecia of and Michelle of for creating the coziest, most vibrant market expetience. We're at it again today at 1711 Rutland in the Heights from 11a-4p! Check out for details and pictures of what's shakin'


Fresh flowers for : winter whites with yellows, moss greens, and just the faintest hints of raspberry blush. A couple ti...
12/13/2019

Fresh flowers for : winter whites with yellows, moss greens, and just the faintest hints of raspberry blush. A couple times a year we side step out of event mode into market mode, making single pieces for individuals available! So here come arrangements, ISO dining room tables, desks, and nightstands. We kick off the Scout Market tonight, Friday the 13th (I know, I know, stay with me) from 6pm-10pm, 1711 Rutland, at the corner of 18th in the Heights, and we'll have these sweet woodsy arrangements for sale there. Come see us! There will be snacks, there will be mocktails, there will be a vintage tinsel tree, there will be Gulf Coast appropriate holiday trimmings made with magnolia leaves and ferns, because the high today (and probably for the rest of December) is 73 degrees. Get into it



This is a sneak peek. Of what Abbey and I worked on all day (fueled by peppermint-heavy hot chocolate, synthesizer-heavy...
12/12/2019

This is a sneak peek. Of what Abbey and I worked on all day (fueled by peppermint-heavy hot chocolate, synthesizer-heavy Amy Grant Christmas tracks, and then a mid-afternoon workbench viewing of the 1994 version of Little Women). All in preparation for a very special event this weekend, to which YOU are invited! We're participating in the first , a two-day arts and maker's market and community hang in the cozy, Wes Anderson worthy Boy Scout hall at Rutland and 18th in the Heights, organized by Reed Bussey (manager and buyer for ) and Alecia Gray (of ), two champions of thoughtful, local shopping, and generally rad community organizers. Swipe on over for details, and stay tuned here for more glances at what we'll be selling there this weekend


American poet/civil engineer (which I love, because aren't all poets civil engineers?) Richard Blanco has written a piec...
12/08/2019

American poet/civil engineer (which I love, because aren't all poets civil engineers?) Richard Blanco has written a piece called "The Declaration of Interdependence," suggesting that a deepening national sense of the same is the next step toward our communal flourishing. I'm into that. And it's a good articulation of what has surprised and delighted me most about the experience of earning a living in the event industry. The degree to which our work and our artistry depends on other people with other talents and other perspectives is exactly what makes this sector of service offerings work. And with well-chosen collaborators, it makes our day-to-day endlessly fascinating, since almost every project we undertake turns into an open-source information exchange in the interest of doing our own work with ever-increasing excellence. So as is typically the case, this collection of images features Edges Wild detail, but is largely impactful because of (and wouldn't have been possible without) other dedicated folks. In this instance: , photographer and venue proprietor. calligrapher and stationary designer. cake baker. And floral supplier. So cheers to "friendors" (i.e. vendor friends) and the bald fact that we need each other

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Some tiny hints here of "classic blue," the newly revealed Pantone color of 2020. Which is rare in the botanical world, ...
12/06/2019

Some tiny hints here of "classic blue," the newly revealed Pantone color of 2020. Which is rare in the botanical world, as plants don't produce any true blue pigments; blue presenters just "perform a sort of floral trickery," (Tom Oder, MNN) by modifying red anthocyanins. . But get ready. I'm sure we'll be finding and highlighting the few occurances of the colorant contortionists a lot next year.
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My mother always said wryly she was a "hack job" when it came to sewing, but she more than competently taught me the bas...
12/04/2019

My mother always said wryly she was a "hack job" when it came to sewing, but she more than competently taught me the basics on her 1970's beige metal Kenmore when I was eight years old, and they've served me well over a lifetime. And given me enough bravado to get myself into trouble following grand illusions such that I occasionally hear myself say--in situations where the wardrobe in our mind's eye doesn't materialize from any of the usual sources--things like "what if I MADE us a dress for this shoot?" Here's the bouquet-testing, dress-draping near-end of a process that almost, as my mother's mother used to say of her own sewing experiences, "made me lose my religion." There's a reason we have experts clothing the world, but overall interdisciplinary amateur hour was still a good time.




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