Easter Decoration and Ideas

It's hard to even imagine that it's Spring and  that Easter is merely a few days away! As I write this weeks blog I'm looking out my window at a blizzard of Snow!!! On the upside it's safe to say the Easter Bunny and Mother Goose won't have to worry about any of their freshly laid chocolate eggs melting as they deliver their yummable treats on Saturday night :),

I just love thinking and planning about how I'm going to surprise the kids and decorate our little Fairy door.  This Easter I decided to go Big on the decorations I just can't get enough of the adorable little stickers n sprinkles! They are too cute. 

Each year we make and decorate an Easter Tree for our house, so today I thought Perfect I will have a bash at making a fairy sized Easter tree and it turned out Amazing!!! I ws given a gift of some Easter sprinkles and stickers from my mum last week needless to say they came in handy for this little project. She picked them up in the 2Euro shop here in Ireland but I'm sure most local craft stores will carry similar.

Bracing the snowy elements I headed out to find some moss and a few twigs.  I literally took the cap off a bottle of a mini hairspray bottle and covered it with paper. Then I brushed on some pva glue and sprinkled it with gold glitter to make a sparkly pot for my Easter Tree. Once it was dry I popped a good blob of blue tack in the bottom of the pot to keep the twigs in place. Then I positioned my twigs, making sure they were firmly stuck into the blue tac. Once the twigs were in place I broke off little pieces of moss and stuck it in between the branches and filled in any gaps.

 

The decorations were so easy to make, the sheet of stickers had doubles of each little sticker so I literally stook them to each other (back to back) so the image was on both sides. Taking a needle I pierced a hole through the top of the little sticker and threaded through some thread tied it easy as!

 

Then I simply hung them on the little Easter Tree branches, Placed the tree by the door, stuck a few Easter stickers around the door and sprinkled some easter sprinkles infront of the fairy door.

 

Here's How the tiny 'Fairy Sized Easter Tree' turned out.....

The kids were blown away! They just loved it...... it only took me 30mins to make it was worth every minute. I've made and bought a fantastic collection of Fairy Door decorations for each of the holiday seasons. Each year I will add to my collection and I look forward to the day my kids will use the same decorations to bring the magic of the fairy's into their own childrens lives a little extra childhood magic.

 

On Easter Sunday I've planned a Fairy sized Easter Egg hunt around the house for the kids. 'Fleur' our Fairy will leave a fairy sized note at the door with the first clue... Should be fun! For Fairy sized Easter eggs I bought some mini eggs and some malteaster mini chocolate bunnies. I plan on hiding them  around the house for the kids to figure out the clues and find!

 

What will your Fairy be getting up to for Easter?

 

Have a 'Hippadee Hoppadee Easter'

 

The Fairies x

 

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Some Fairy Door Inspiration....

One of our very first customers was a Lovely Lady from New York who purchased a Leprechaun door for her Children to bring a little extra Irish magic into her home for St. Patricks Day! Cindy has so kindly shared all the goings on with her Leprechaun since he arrived and last week she sent us a reel of pictures depicting 'One Year on living with Paddy the Leprechaun' it's far too good not to be shared!



One year ago, on St Patrick's Day morning 2012, we discovered that a leprechaun had moved into our house and set up home under our stairs....absolutely could not believe it
 

 

Chocolate coins and Irish pennies were left outside his door along with a note and a festive sprinkling of shiny shamrock confetti. What in the blarney stone was going on?

 

 

A leprechaun has always visited our house on the night before St Pat's leaving money and treats in our shoes that are left outside our bedroom doors. But.....to actually have him move in?? Beyond magical.

 

 

Before too long he started decorating! Lots of banging noises at night and a faint sound of Irish music all started to make sense now

 

 

 Now a potted plant and evidence of his shenanigans!! Such an amazing surprise, but I have to admit that I wasn't too happy about the dirt left on my floor :-)

 

A lamp appeared one day and we were all dumbfounded....WHAT? But then we realized that it's so dark in our house at night when we've all gone to sleep that any self respecting leprechaun would need to find his way home after a night at the pub. We completely understood ;-)

 

 

October rolled around and he haunted his tiny home much to my delight! LOVED it and decided to forgive him for all the late night noises and countless times that he has hid our shoes and car keys :-) He's a trickster that wee one!

 

 

Christmas time was here and he decked the halls like nobody's business....we were quite impressed. He left us a lovely card, small chocolate treats and a miniature bottle of Irish whiskey, which went promptly in my decaf coffee on Christmas night ;)

 

 

There's nothing more magical than a leprechaun's Christmas tree....except maybe a sprinkling of sparkling snowflakes! I'm still finding little shimmery pieces around. He's been such a fun house guest....how can I get mad over it? We're so lucky to have him here with us ;-)


St. Patricks day 2013 this is what we woke up to find!

 A magical surprise from Paddy this mornin'! And....a back door has now appeared in our kitchen! I knew he was up to somethin' ;-)


We just love it, it just goes to show the magic of our little Fairy doors is really only limited by your creativity and imagination.  Cindy certainly sets the bar when it comes to making the magic happen..........creating magical memories her children will remember throughout their lives and hopefully pass the magic of Paddy onto their children..

Sparkle Bright,

The Fairies x

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