The delicate wire structures under the bounty of silk flowers (below) are examples of the unusual french term, fils de fir or fil de fer. I’ve only ever seen (live & on-line) such items in Anthropologie and Ballard Designs. So when a shoppe near-by called Tutto Bella displayed about a dozen of these [...]

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Fairies need as many crowning glory garlands of flowers– as their human counterparts need –pairs of shoes.  If you are so inclined, you can very easily make a few of these garlands for your  own little winged one.  Assembling the materials will be as much fun as creating each one.

Early Decisions:
1.  How wide will the circlet [...]

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It has been 25 years since Brian Froud first published Fairy, the adorable crouching little one on a white cover–many say he is the reason this subject has found its way into daily lives, book stores, craft tables and bed stands.  Not only has Brian & actually, his wife Wendy too, created innumerable  spin-offs (Lady [...]

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Rumor has it that meadow loving faeries cannot resist a picnic. So if you want to have a good long chat with them, do it up right.  Pull together a dainty tea set, pretty linens and sparkly, come-hither beads to lure the most hesitant winged creatures.

Personally, I believe the grape vine tendrils are [...]

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How delightful would it be to discover a tiny clothes line of feathery, leafy faeries’ frocks? These little clothes lines have been found strung across trees, under window sills, in the bushes, among shoes in the bottom of a closet– even across dusty tomes on a book shelf. But [...]

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The thrill of finding a shapely, antique wooden bird cage is multiplied when you imagine how to transform it into a faerie’s luxury castle! The darker it is, the more important it is to prepare it with a spray paint primer & when dry, then you can spray with a pastel colour of your [...]

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How better to surprise a young one this summer than assembling a gift basket for them with materials to build their neighborhood faeries a splendid home.  What would such a gift basket contain?
Suggested materials:
Moss (dried packages in floral crafts aisles) or live! moss
Vines of ivy (found with silk flowers — or live too!)
Twigs, grape vine [...]

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Most of us have never given much thought to faeries.   We just automatically think faeries do not exist and the myth is child’s play.   I personally have suspended such a weighty decision and focus on a much more rewarding aspect of the issue:  I have been devoting effort to designing “gifts” that a faerie would leave to provoke a burst [...]

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