Fairy Gardens

For a while now I am following a magical Blog called The Magic Onions (see link below) and in the summer there is a lot happening on this site because it is the time of the Fairy garden contest. Since my daughter Lisa and I love Fairies we got really inspired by all those magical gardens. Last year on holiday in France my daughter made her very first Fairy garden. Since we were camping in France and  had not brought any extra supplies she only used whatever we could find on site. It was mostly pine cones, pebbles and seashells. But she did make a little bed for the Fairies and they sure loved that little bed and we are quite sure they really slept in it because every morning to our surprise we would find a freshly picked flower on the bed as a thank you from the Fairies ! How magical is that… 

  

Lisa had so much fun creating this Fairy garden and she got her new found friends to join in as well. This year she made a Fairy garden in a Flower pot. I helped her find some treasures she could use, a tiny teaset from my own childhood, a toadstool candle, lots of flowers, picked from the garden and fabric ones to last a little longer and lots of other bits and pieces. Lisa got started and created this happy colourful Fairy garden all by her self. She created a table with the teaset so the Fairies could sip from their little teacups. And a very soft and luscious bed filled with sheepswool and a soft velours blanked.

I loved watching her making this colourful Fairy garden and she looks so proud with the result. Lisa is now 6 and she is a real child of the summer, she will turn 7 on august the 7th. Although we are a little intimidated by all the gorgeous Fairy gardens allready entered in the competition we decided to give it a go and we will enter her garden in the competition this year. If you are inspired as well do check out the Magic Onions website you have until August 1st to enter: http://themagiconions.blogspot.nl/2012/07/fairy-gardens-weekly-sneak-peek.html and make sure you look at the wonderful prices you can win.