First, some pictures of impatiens on our front porch, salvia on the back porch, and some of our homemade hanging-bag tomatoes. For Idaho, this is progress! We have two more tomatoes to plant - Stupice, which is an heirloom variety known for great flavor, and we have some more flowers to plant in pots. We also have a mini-grapevine and some chives and deep red dianthus. We're almost farmers! Secondly, if you'll feast your eyes below, there are some pictures of Ben and Linda, including some of them on Father's Day. Thanks, Campbell and Cripe families, for the Valkyrie DVD for Mark. I'll enjoy it, too! ;)
Thirdly, below those pictures, you'll note a wondrously beautiful fairy house...This is what Tamathy made for me, out of little pieces of Oregon! Can you believe it? I can't. It's covered with bark and birch bark and moss and rocks, and it has every little detail you could want, including a little mailbox (see picture of little scrolls by the front door), acorn cap toadstools in a fairy ring, and roses made from fall leaves that you roll up and fold. Crazy, huh?
I know, you're all jealous. Just take this as inspiration for your own fairy houses, 'cause I'm keeping mine!
And thank you to Tamathy's children and Jeff for finding some of the materials for the fairy house. That makes it even more meaningful to me, which is saying a lot.
Thank you, Tamathy (from whom I stole some of these pictures)!
(To be continued)
5 comments:
Your fairy house is beautiful, and a PERFECT gift for you! Any inhabitants yet?
Ben and Linda look happy. I bet Linda's feeling ready to have that baby!
I cannot believe they just made that fairy house out of twigs and bark! It's sooo pretty, I bet you love it. How cute that it has a little mailbox and everything. And isn't Linda cute preggo? I think if she feels anything like me (which I know she is!), she's definitely feeling ready to have that baby.
Isn't that fairy house amazing? It's much larger than it appears in the pictures, with a small doll house for the basic frame and the tree trunk (made from bark) and the roots (from bark) on cut-up egg carton frames that she made. You've got to see it in real life! (And if anyone sees a curio cabinet, like octagonal shaped, that could display it, please let me know!)
Also, of course I want to make inhabitants for the house, and suitable, natural furnishings and decor, probably of polymer clay and twigs, etc. That would be so fun, and I hope they would be worthy of the house itself.
Tamathy also used parts of pinecones as shingles, and pieces of glass (flat, clear marbles) for steps and window sills. Do you see the leaf-roses on the roof to one side?
Sorry, the clear glass was used as the stairs and it looks like blue sea glass was used for window sills and on the sides of the home, with regular polished rocks. The birch bark is used above the rocks, on the outside walls (the kind of bark that is shed naturally - more like thin paper than the actual bark), and provides the perfect natural texture for them. :)
If you enlarge the pictures, you can see so many little details.
Also, the house opens up, completely - even the tree part.
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