Fairy Gardens!

Ok, I've become a bit obsessed with fairy gardens.

I mean, I love plants.
I love little things.
I love fairy tales.
I love designing.

Put them together and you have a magical hobby creating magical places for fairies to come hide!


It started when my friend gave me this incredible apothecary jar; I instantly knew what I wanted to do with it: fairy garden!

I bought two little plants and a cute little wheelbarrow

Love the vibrancy of this leaf!

 (and later added the mushrooms), went out to my backyard to get some moss, used old fish tank stones and built a little hobbit hole garden!

But where'd I get the door?!

Dearest husband carved it for me and I painted it!
(Still haven't found a good button for the door knob, though :-/ )

It sits on my desk at work bringing me much happiness!

Well that's it - I was hooked!

I then started seeing concepts for making fairy gardens from broken pots and I just happened to have some broken pots handy!




I was SO please with how this one turned out!

It's all moss, weeds and mushrooms from my backyard along with plant clippings from my original one and then some miniatures I'd bought at a fairy store many years before.




Just waiting for fairies to come sit down to tea...






Unfortunately I may have made a slightly important strategic error...

Forgot to put rocks in the bottom :-(

So the water just runs right through and takes dirt with it. The whole thing is sinking.
Plus, it's a pretty rough design to keep watered since there is so much open space.

This is sadly how it looks now...

When I did my first one -  plants have definitely
taken off since then! (See below for now)

But oh the ideas I have to come!   😇


It is rather a common thing, after seeing pictures or discussing ideas, to hear me exclaim "Fairy Gardens Everywhere!"   or   "The world would be a much happier place if everyone had fairy gardens".


I couldn't find a meme that said it, so I made my own.


Words to live by, folks...