I have one I bought on ebay, a lion's face made from a stiff plastic. I have made several, the first a fairy house front made from one I made out of clay and then painted latex mold material on. It had a limited life span and I only got 6 fairy fronts from it. Same with the gnome home I did. I did a ginger bread house last winter, that was a real project but it came out well. Recently I made one of a large leaf using a rubber mold making material. It is supposed to last longer than the latex.
Fairy Garden Swap: Interest and Chat Part 2
Jayme, sorry I wasn't here to answer your questions, but I think the volunteers gave you some great answers! No, you do not have to "make" anything. You can send plants, decorations, stones/rocks, etc. I will try to pair partners according to their preferences/wants/needs. For example, I am starting a miniature garden in my sunroom. I would prefer miniature plants suitable for indoors, small rocks/stones, small decorations, etc. Hope this helps!
Setting up my sunroom and spa! having fun! Y'all have a great weekend! ♥
Today we went to a festival in Marshall, mi. We walked around the stores and they had so many fairy garden items. And fairy gardens all put together. Really cute stuff. $$$$ is all I can say. Stores are really capitolizing on the trends now.
I thought about Elfie when I saw these ~
Have to give them a little touch up paint here an there.
These are just things I found around the house :) Going to decorate them
DIY ~ Do It Yourself
Patio set:
http://daily-colours.blogspot.com/2013/06/diy-flower-fairy-patio-set.html
miniature house
http://daily-colours.blogspot.com/2013/05/fairy-houses-cork-fairy-house-tutorial.html
miniature moss house
http://daily-colours.blogspot.com/2013/05/fairy-houses-moss-fairy-house_23.html
miniature fairy moss terrace
http://daily-colours.blogspot.com/2013/06/fairy-gardens-fairy-moss-terrace.html
so many ideas ~
DIY
succulents
http://daily-colours.blogspot.com/2013/06/diy-fairy-gardening-with-succulents.html
egg carton bird houses
http://daily-colours.blogspot.com/2013/05/fairy-houses-diy-egg-cartons-fairy-bird.html
FAiry garden contest 2013 - great ideas!
http://www.themagiconions.com/2013/04/fairy-garden-contest-2013.html
Badcat - Looks like you have the cement bug. Your photo remnds me of a couple of years ago I filled up a bunch of those plastic condiment cups and made pot "feet", I still use them.
I'll have to check out those links later, I'm off to Home Depot wiith my daughter who is going to build a rescue geese enclosure. I sure hope they are "nice" geese.
OMG! More wonderful ideas! Loving all the good stuff being shared!
Mushrooms out of door pulls: http://beneaththerowantree.blogspot.com/2010/05/magical-little-mushrooms-painted-drawer.html
Now, I must try. :)
I made some mushrooms out of fimo clay, oh at least 8 years ago, and they have really lasted, even outside in the sun. I wouldn't hesitate to make some fairy garden things from fimo.
Dee, maybe you need to do a tutorial on Fimo mushrooms for those of us who have never worked with it. :)
Gotta have mushrooms! Dee, please tell us how to make them!
Will definitely use the door pull idea! Thanks for the great ideas!
That would be nice!
Joycett makes mushrooms alo.
Well then, somebody please share? I have seen them, but reall have no idea what the best way is to make them. I am interested to find out. :)
All sorts of tutorials on you tube.
Here's a quick tutorial on how I did it.
Fimo is just clay you mold and then bake to make it hard. It's expensive so it's really only for small projects.
It's soft before you bake it so in order to make a mushroom they either need a fat bottom or a wire in the stem. Now the directions state "do not use wire" but being the rebel that I am I did.
The wire gets hot so you need EXTRA COOL TIME and your clay can scorch some so be aware your project may "brown" some.
I made 6 single mushrooms and this grouping with wires in them and they all look great.
The singles just have a straight wire coming out the bottom to "plant" them"
This one has been sitting in a houseplant for at least 8 years, the others are outside year round.
Dee ~ I absolutely love, love, love your mushrooms!
thanks for sharing....
This has got me thinking. I may have glued the caps on these. That would even make it possible to do this without the wire. If you make the stem and the cap separate and then glue them after baking.
You can also just make a wire "hole" in the stem by pressing a piece of wire up the stem and then removing it for baking. That way you have a hole to put the wire back in for planting.
Another good mushroom idea is to pour cement mushrooms in plastic Easter eggs, using copper refrigerator pipe as a stem. The pipe is flexible enough to make it interesting but stiff enough to hold the cement top in position. Using pipe as a base gives you something to put on a stake. I've even made huge mushrooms using pvc pipe as a stem. Cement sticks to pvc so you can paint it on so it matches the cap. Getting me to think is a dangerous thing.
When will this swap actually be?
Julie said... I am hosting a fairy garden swap in August. Names will be given out the first of September.
So we have lots of time!
So sign up will be in August, right?
that's the way I understand it
So I was walking and found this piece of kinda curved concrete..... I carried it home from across town!! I cleaned it up.... added shells and stones with an adhesive..... this is how it looks. Then I put it in my front yard. Now it looks like this! I think it turned out kinda cute. And it basically was free. I got the shells at a garage sale, rocks at the dollar store the most expensive item was the adhesive.
Very cute, I really like that!
That is really cute! Could be a bridge!
Sounds good.
good idea about a bridge...it is amazing what our mind will see.
love it Happ! And thank-you for recycling!
I have been thinking and what I would like to do, an outside 'fairy' garden. I want to build a mini garden around this bear and the elf on his foot ;) The elf is about 4 inches long. I have some elf's about that size, but nothing else. Hope this works with who ever gets my name. If not I will make another garden to match what they are able to send, I am easy to get along with. lol
LOL... love that bear + elf!
The possibilities you can have designing your outside fairy garden...
ah... the pointy ears.....
Hummm, sorry there Elfie you are so right, it is a gnome...LOL So I would like to do a "fairy gnome" garden...rofl.
Mushrooms! Concrete houses! So many great ideas!
Sign up will be in August. Is everyone ok with getting names mid-august and sending out by mid-September? Give me some ideas, please!
It's fine with me