I told my oldest daughter (almost 3) to look out the window to let me know if she sees any mushrooms in the garden yet because once the mushrooms show up that means that the fairies are seriously considering moving in. She looked a couple of times over a day or two and still no mushrooms. But then, all of a sudden yesterday morning, there were mushrooms! We immediately had to go out to investigate and sat on the stones surrounding the garden discussing fairies for quite some time. The fairies visited us again and we are convinced they’ll be back!
Who knew when I started planning my fairy garden that fairies are the hot thing right now. Disney is even taking a princess break and going with all things Tinkerbell and fairy. Fairies are taking over my life. Just last week I even sewed a fairy skirt for my daughter to go with her fairy wings, crown and wand for Halloween. Of course, she wears her outfit constantly. Let’s hope the wings hold up until Halloween.
My fairy garden is coming right along. I recently made some Sculpy mushrooms, a blue fairy door, a well and a chimney. Still no homes, thought I did find an intriguing website called Enchanted Gardens that is dedicated to all things you might find in a fairy garden and I am considering ordering a home as a sample and otherwise may borrow some of their ideas. I love crafting and I’ll see what I come up with. Here are some updated pictures:
Did you spot all 5 mushrooms? One is a bit hidden ;) The well and bridge (from the aquarium section of Walmart) are also present though the blue door is still waiting for it’s house.
I have been doing a bit more research on fairy gardens and discovered that fairies like all things purple and I have that serendipitously covered as most plants in this fairy garden will bloom purple, including the mondo grass and baby’s tears- who knew! I need to add some sage as reportedly fairies like to sleep on sage. Fortunately I have a LOT of creeping sage elsewhere in my garden and I will relocate a few cuttings. Fiaries also supposedly like digitalis as a fashion statement but I am not putting that into this child-friendly garden as it is very poisonous (though I do have it elsewhere in the garden which will have to be good enough.) Then I’ll add some crocus for the spring and will have saffron covered as well. I fortunately also have St. John’s Wort in garden in case I need to counteract fairy spells which aren’t to my liking.
Oh boy, this is fun! I get to garden, craft, do internet searches and shopping all for the same project.
