4 Post Fairy Bed

Create a lovely fairy bed for use as a decoration or imaginative play.

The inspiration for this piece was a posting over at The Magic Onions. http://themagiconions.blogspot.com/2009/09/how-to-make-fairys-bed.html

Items used:

• Popsicle or craft sticks
• Silk flowers and leaves
• Sea shells
• Fabric paint or glitter glue
• Hot glue gun and glue
• Craft scissors
• Clear acrylic spray (optional)

To make the bed, use the craft scissors to cut one of the sticks in half. Glue down 6 sticks to each piece of the cut half.

Glue down the the flower and leaves to the top fo the bed.

Glue a shell to each corner of the bed on the bottom.

To make the posts, use two sticks and glue a small conical shell about 1/2 inch from each edge so the open side is up. Put a stick in each shell and glue the stick to shell.

Glue a conical shell to the top of each post then decorate with fabric paint or glitter glue.

Glue the posts to the bottom of the bed. Spray with clear acrylic paint for protection from elements if using for an outside decoration.

Fairy Bath

Make a fairy bath out of shells for a fairy garden or small action figures.

This is a project that I found over at The Magic Onions with a picture tutorial and knew it was perfect for my own fairy garden.

http://themagiconions.blogspot.com/2009/09/how-to-make-fairys-bath.html

Items needed (all of them you can pick up at the dollar store):

• Bag of decorative shells
• Hot glue gun and glue sticks

Pick out from the bag of shells 1 large scallop shell for the tub, 4 small scallop shells for the feet of the tub and 1 small conical shell for the faucet.

Position the four samll shells for the feet and test out by putting the large shell until it sits level, then apply glue to the small shells and place the large shell on top of them. Glue the small conical shell to the straight edge of the large shell.

Tiny Rock Furniture

Make rock furniture for a Fairy Garden or could be adapted used for action figures or small dolls. I had originally seen this over at One Pretty thing and a tutorial with much more clear pictures and instructions are at The Magic Onions http://themagiconions.blogspot.com/2009/09/how-to-make-fairy-furniture-chair-and.html

Items used:

• 1 bag small decorative stones
• 1 bag large decorative stones
• Glue gun and glue sticks

All items are from the dollar store.

Pick out the stones you want to use for the table - you will need 1 large stone and two small stones.

Pick out the stones to make the chair. You will need two large stones and four small stones.

Use the hot glue gun to glue the two stones to the bottom of table.

Glue the stones to the bottom of the chair.

Glue the top of the stone to the seat of the chair.

Fairy Angel

Turn a figurine or doll into an fairy.

The inspiration for this project by Filth Wizardry where she made a Barbie into a fairy using paper wings (she even has a template for making the wings on her site)

http://filthwizardry.blogspot.com/2009/07/fairy-houses-and-fairy-wings-for-your.html

Items used:

• Doll or figurine
• Clear plastic soda bottle
• Thin elastic or rubber band
• Sharpie markers
• Craft Scissors and/or Xacto knife
• Hot glue and glue gun

For this project I bought the figurine at the dollar store and that was my only cost out of pocket. The plastic was a 20 oz Diet Coke bottle and the elastic was from the tag attached to the figurine.

To determine the size of the wings, I put the figurine next to the bottle and then decided where I wanted to cut the bottle.

I then used a sharpie to freehand the wings shape on the bottle.

Use craft scissors and/or an Xacto knife to cut out the wings. I started cutting the bottle with the Xacto knife, then used the craft scicssors to finish cutting out.

Use the markers to create and color any design you want on the wings.

Slide the circle of elastic or rubber band around the center of the wings and continue until you have just enough stretch to slide it over the figurine or doll at the waist and do so(you may have to try it a few times to get it right - you don't want it too tight or too loose).

Pull up the wings slightly and use the hot glue gun to add small dabs of glue to the figurine or doll to secure the wings, then press the wings down.

MY FAIRY/WHIMSY GARDEN

Items Left to Right Angel fairy, rock frog, toad house, part of an old Winnie the Pooh playhouse, fairy houses and paper bag mushroom, a barrel, fly pod with fly man. In the center is the frog pond with a rock frog on a lily pad. As my garden was obliterated by the lawn service, I decided to make the area a fairy/whimsy garden using dollar store items and recycled items and have entered it into Craftster's Dollar Store Challenge. http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=319872.0 I have already posted tutorials for several of the items here and links that have inspired the projects. The garden itself is still a work in process and as I run across inspirations or come up with ideas, I will add to it. Here is another item that I added after the above picure was taken - it is a wooden lean-to made out of a DVD case.