Comic Relief Crafternoon

So yesterday was Comic Relief. The fairies decided that they wanted to join in and do their bit. The obvious way was doing a bit of crafting. It took a while to track down the Mollie Makes Crafternoon book, but it was well worth it, There are so many things that the girls wanted to make.

 

The first things to be made had to be the red noses. Unfortunately the pattern in the book was slightly to big for small fairies, so we had to play about to get the right sizes.

 

 

The girls also spotted that Comic relief was being supported by their favourite chocolate. Fairies don't really need any excuse to eat chocolate but this made them very happy .

 

 

Lots of fun was had and the girls invited some of their friends to join in the activities. Some were a bit better than others with the challenge of putting on a red nose.

 

 

If anyone else would like to follow the fairies lead and get crafty for charity they recommend getting a copy of Crafternoon from Mollie Makes

Have fun

Katie  x x

Fashion For Fairies

The fairies decided new dresses were way overdue. Orders were placed for how they would like their dresses to look, then I was left with the challenge of creating their dream outfits.

Fairies can be very particular, and if they don't like what they are given they won't sugar coat it, you now exactly how they feel!

So I wrote down all their requirements and took their measurements, then got to work with my hook and yarn.

 

 

Fairies are also very impatient, they constantly wanted to know when dresses would be ready, and who was going to get their dress first (this caused a lot of squabbling between them).

 

Tabitha was first to try her dress, she seemed rather happy as she jumped and fluttered around the room. Phew, one happy fairy.

 

 

Next to be fitted for her dress was Tallulah. She had wanted a dress that made her feel like a spring flower and a ballerina. I think I managed to satisfy the brief.

 

 

Tootles wanted a dress that would make her feel like a princess. The only problem now is that she has decided that she simply must have a tiara and plenty of sparkly jewels.

 

 

Topsy wanted to make sure she would still have some black in her outfit, even if it is coming up to spring. She was rather pleased with the details around the waistband.

 

 

All in all a very successful collection of fairy fashion x x

 

 

Katie x x

 

Valentine

Tootles is rather excited this morning as she woke up to find a bouquet of flowers had been left for her by a secret valentine. 

Now we all know how mischievous fairies can be, so I am hoping it is not one of the other girls playing a trick on her, as she would be furious.

 

 

 

 

 The mission now is to find out who sent the flowers. Tootles has been looking for clues but is not having much luck.

 

 It's not often we see young men fairies in these parts, so it should be easy to spot one if he comes around. Tootles is hoping for someone tall,dark, and handsome. The other fairies think he is more likely to look like a toad.

 

Tootles has told them that they are only saying that because they are jealous as they weren't given any valentine gifts.

 

 

 

For any of you out there who didn't receive anything either, she has been busy making hearts to share with you all.

 

Spreading the love fairy style

 

x x x

 

 

Snow!

The fairies have been a little excited this week as we had snow, not a lot, but enough for fairies to play in.

 

Tabitha loved making snow angels (or should that be snow fairies?)

It's a good job that fairies don't feel the cold the same way that we do.

 

 

 

It seems that Brambles hasn't really got the hang of making snowmen, but she had fun trying.

 

 

The birds came to remind the fairies that the bird feeders really did need topping up, so Tallulah got busy making sure there was a good choice for all our feathered visitors.

 

 

 

The robin was a little surprised to find another couple of visitors to the garden! They seem to have got a little lost and are definitely feeling the chill.

 

 

 

Not happy with simply staying in the garden, Brambles wondered if there would be snow on the beach. She was a little disappointed that the sea wasn't frozen over for to skate on.

 

Hoping that the snow stays away now till next winter x x x

Watching the birds

The fairies have been busy getting the garden ready for the rspb Big Garden Birdwatch. All the fairies love to welcome the local wildlife into the garden.

 

 

They have been gathering seeds and nuts and taking over the kitchen making delicious 'fat balls' for the birds to dine on.

 

The first guest to be seated was a rather feisty robin, who didn't seem to want share and chased off a number of other feathered visitors.

 

 

Fairies are not very good at spending a whole hour being quiet, so it is a good job that birds are very friendly with the fairies and aren't easily scared off by them.

 

 

 

Bramble loves to spend time rummaging through the leaf litter and so do the birds who visit us.

 

 

Not all of the birds who flew in to our garden were as obliging as this little fellow, most were much too quick to get their picture taken!

 

 

 

 

The girls have promised all the birds that they will continue to keep the bird feeders well stocked and that they will always have a place to roost x

Hello again!!

Oh giddy, it has been such a long time since I have popped up here. Next year I must do better!!

So to catch up I will post a few pictures from the run up to Christmas, then next year I will hopefully get back in the swing of things x

Merry Christmas x

Big Butterfly Count

The fairies have taken some time out from all the running and playing they normally do, to sit for a while and count the butterflies that visit our magical little garden, so they could submit the numbers to the Big Butterfly Count.

 

 

The fairies decided that the best place to be was sitting on the buddleia, as that is were we always find the most butterflies.

The only problem is seem to be that fairies aren't very good at counting lot's of moving butterflies (they are too easily distracted and forget where they were up to) and at one point they had to be told that there were only 23 peacock butterflies fluttering around them and not 116.

 

 

 

Peacock butterflies weren't the only little lovelies that they spotted.

 

 

 

 

We do get rather a large variety of butterflies who like to visit!

 

The fairies wanted to find out what the collective noun for butterflies is and we found out that some say a flutter and others say a flight. The girls decided they preferred it to be a flutter of butterflies.

 

 

While the fairies were in the garden, butterflies weren't the only visitors that we had.

 

 

Well the girls helped to put all their butterflies onto the butterfly count website, but they still plan on spending time in the garden watching for more.

 

The one thing the girls are a bit sad about  is that apart from there friend Hattie, we have had no other hedgehog s popping by this year.

 

 

Last year we were lucky enough for a mother hedgehog to nest in our garden, the fairies were very shocked one afternoon when we found 5 baby hedgehogs running about in the grass!

 

 

The fairies all hope that you have lots of fun looking for the magic around you x x