Saturdays Are Fun: Fairy Garden Inspiration
Published July 2, 2011 | 
Julie Ann Shahin, Social Media Team
Today’s installment of “Saturdays Are Fun” is inspired by my own mother! She is a life-long believer in fairies, perhaps it’s due to her Irish heritage and belief in Irish fairies. I was looking for garden ideas on Pinterest when I stumbled upon this photo of a fairy door. I immediately thought of my mother, and sent this idea to her.
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Then I saw another fairy garden, and realized that these photos would make great inspiration to share with you all. There are fairy gardens in bird-baths, in planters, fairy homes in vintage wagons, with awesome leaf roofs, in wheelbarrows, picnic baskets, vintage crates, books, chairs, and gourds. Plus many more fairy doors, even a steampunk door (scroll to the end). Lots of eye candy as I know fairies are quite popular. After all, Tangie has a handful of kits with fairy elements in her store: ATC Fairy Grace, ATC Fairy Queens, My Fairy Friends 1 to 5. Check out these super delightful and adorable gardens and then you can see my own page that I was motivated to create at the end of this post. I hope you’ll be inspired too!
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Source: web.mac.com via Holly Ledingham on Pinterest
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Source: miniaturegardenshoppe.com via Kathleen on Pinterest
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Here is my layout:
Fairy Home by Julie Ann Shahin
I wanted to make a fairy door in a tree, and loved the butterflies in Tangie’s kit My Fairy Friends 4. Here are the supplies:
My Fairy Friends Mini-Kit Vol. 1
My Fairy Friends Mini-Kit Vol. 1 By Tangie
My Fairy Friends Mini-Kit Vol. 4
My Fairy Friends Mini-Kit Vol. 4 By Tangie
My Fairy Friends Mini-Kit Vol. 5
My Fairy Friends Mini-Kit Vol. 5 By Tangie
{TBD Classics} ATC 9 PACKAGE BUNDLE
{TBD Classics} ATC 9 PACKAGE BUNDLE By Tangie
Julie Ann Shahin is a New York-based art journaler, scrapbooker, mixed media craftster who specializes in hybrid and altered art techniques. She will be blogging regularly for tangiebaxter.com on Tuesdays and Saturdays. You may contact Julie Ann directly at julieann dot shahin at gmail dot com
tiny little worlds, like a secret garden within a garden…how delightful!
Exactly Sherry! Thanks for stopping by. xoxo
Ohhhhh LOVE all the pretty fairies. Very inspiring : )
Aren’t they awesome? I thought they would be wonderful for a Saturday afternoon! xoxo
Gorgeous inspiration – so whimsical and fun! Love your piece!
Thank you so much Christie! I had so much fun finding these photos.
xoxo
I love all of the ideas and have gathered stuff to make my own fairy garden. Thanks for all of the inspiration.
Of course Mom! xoxo
I want a fairy garden too!!!!
Thanks sis!!! xoxo
What adorable Fairie Gardens, thank you so much for sharing.
Thanks Carol! I appreciate you stopping by!!! xoxo
I am so going to have to MAKE some time to give building a fairy garden a try. It’s so unique and whimsical. Thanks for this awesome post!
You are welcome Balinda, aren’t the gardens awesome? xoxo
Thanks for sharing this Julie if you go to our website you will see that we also believe.
Fabulous inspiration for fairy gardens – Thank You !!!
Love your gardens. My dad purchased some untouched land recently and I am looking for something to put there that is surprising and wonderous – or rather add something to it…it is already lovely. Your things are so inspiring. I pinned one and in the time it took to scroll down it has already been repinned four times…. Pinterest is how I found you!
WOW! These are beautiful! Found you on pinterest. Hope you don’t mind but I may steal one of your ideas and surprise my 4 year old for her birthday.