Thread: Fairy garden

Looks great granddaughter will be pleased.

She is very Blessed to have you both as Grand Parents

Thanks guys. I’ve now been requested to make fairy playground apparatus eg swing, seesaw and merry go round thingo??

I've found that the old wire clothes hangers make for great toy swing frames. Newer ones not so much... they tend to be a much thinner gauge.

In worst case scenarios they can be easily bent back into shape.

I just bend 'em into a pair of trianglular end frames with the cut ends together at the top. Make a wooden beam, drill holes near each end and glue the wires in. A coupla eye-hooks, some string or light chain et voila!

Their's a triple reward for you here Bob.
First the fun of making.
Second the smile on SWMO face
AND THIRD, the best of all; the joy & smiles the granddaughter is having playing with her hand made fairy garden.
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Cheers Peter

Originally Posted by crowie

Their's a triple reward for you here Bob.
First the fun of making.
Second the smile on SWMO face
AND THIRD, the best of all; the joy & smiles the granddaughter is having playing with her hand made fairy garden.
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Cheers Peter

Cheers Peter,

This all started just before Xmas when our grandies came for a sleepover.
For something to do we went for a walk in the evening to see the few Xmas lights in the neighbourhood. About a block from our place we stumbled across a fairy garden set up on a verge around a large gnarly old peppermint tree. It had about 20 little tableaus around and up into the tree plus of course fairly lights. The grandies were mesmerised and we spent about half an hour there until is started to become dark. Then we had to go back and see it next morning and every time the come over they want to go see it. A few weeks back the granddaughter asked if she could have her own fairy garden and so it began.

We soon found out that anything to do with fairies is expensive so SWMBO has taken up the challenge to needle felt some fairies.
She's pretty capable so I reckon she can do it.
This was a Xmas nativity set she knocked back in 2020.
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Love it, I can just picture the granddaughters imagination kicking in and hours of fun play time.

I can see grandad being conjoined to play with me papa

Originally Posted by Tonyz

I can see grandad being conjoined to play with me papa

Being of Italian extraction I'm called "nonno", pronounced "non-no", with the "o's" as in "ought" ,although my grandson calls me "no-nu" which reminds me of "nanu-nanu"

I also was asked to make a fairy house for the garden so made it from a log the great-grandaughter loved it. I am sure that they enjoy theirs that you have made and get hours of fun from it

We were going to locate the fairy garden somewhere in our garden (er tip! ) but instead have decided to give it a try on a large plastic tray.
That way they can play with it inside when the weather is not so nice.
Some cheap synthetic turf lining the bottom of the tray. A pop-stick fence and window frame with curtains courtesy of SWMBO.
Ive added another 3D printed toadstool that needs to be painted, and a wonky bridge from some Norfolk Island Pine offcuts.

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They say "build it and they will come" and sure enough look what turned up today.

OK, so it's a "giant fairy " but it's SWMBOs first effort at a fairy.
Wool from a sheep back was washed, carded, dyed, and then manipulated.
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More additions to the fairy garden.

I made swing and . . . . lo and behold . . . .another fairy appeared!
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A very clever potter friend of ours made the teeny-weeny pots and loaded them up with live baby cacti.
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I chipped in with some 3D printed figurines.
These small figurines are very tricky to make - I had to print the fairy twice and the purple dragon 3 times and even then I managed to snap the fairy's head and 3 of the dragons feet of - superglue is a real saviour in these situations.
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