Pancake Tuesday

Who knew that the fairies celebrate "Pancake Tuesday"!

We found the tiniest short stack of pancakes outside our little fairy door.

They were delicious :0),

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Valentines Day

On Valentines morning the kids woke to find this outside our Fairy Door!

A tiny jar of "Fairy Wishes"

I had hoped to pop a few pieces off a dandelion clocks head into the jar for the kids to wish on, so they could then blow them away. Being winter and all I had to opt for a couple of coloured star shaped sprinkles and a pinch of white opalescent glitter.  It worked a treat and the kids are still deciding on what to wish for Bless! 

The Fairies x

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A little Fairy Reminder!

I'm sure everyone will agree getting kids to eat their greens is next to ImPoSsIbLe............


I thought a friendly reminder from our fairy friend Fleur might get the point across in a fun way.


Fleur our fairy  left a tiny box of "Fairy Cabbages" (Spussel Sprouts in the base of a matchbox) sprinkled with a little edible glitter outside our fairy door today.  In her letter to the kids she exclaimed "Although us fairies invented and absolutely adore fairy cakes, it is super important to eat up all your vegetables. So I picked some yummy fairy cabbages from my garden for you to enjoy.  I seen last year that you grew some vegetables and herbs in your garden, I had a little word with the garden fairies this morning and they have promise to make your garden bloom come spring." she also promised to reward them with a fairy cake (aka a mini chocolate chip muffin) if they eat all their vegetables for one whole week!!!

It will be interesting to see if this works :0),

I came across this picture on google images of a broccoli fairy house. I re sized it to the size of a stamp, printed it off and wrote the letter on the reverse side like a postcard.

Garden Fairies Summer House.............

x The Fairies

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Unicorn Poop..........

On Wednesday morning, the kids woke up to find a trail of white glitter and what appeared to be tiny horse hoof marks trailed across our fireplace and window sill.  The next day there was a "Fairy Mail" waiting for the kids when they got home from school. In the letter Fleur our fairy apologised for the mess she had made :0), she went on to explain that she was having so much fun playing with her unicorn "Gem" all night that she didn't realise it was morning until she heard the kids running down the stairs.  She had to dash as fairies are very shy and didn't have time to clean up her Unicorns poop!!! How messy is our little Fairy :0),

To do this I designed, printed and cut out a stencil of some horse shoes.  Then I placed it on the fireplace and sieved some icing sugar over it, lifted the stencil very carefully to reveal the tiny horse hooves.  I sprinkles some white glitter, along with some smarties and multi-coloured sprinkles.  I wanted to use white chocolate chips and multicoloured star sprinkles but my local shopping centre was sold out :0(, But this worked just fine!

I've attached a copy of the stencil I made in-case you fancy doing this for your kids!

Just right click, Save, Print & Cut out

Sparkle Bright!

The Fairies x

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"Fairy Going's on..........."

There has been alot of Fairy going's on in our house of late.  Last Thursday morning we spotted a set of teenie tiny fairy footprints outside our Fairy door.  There was a trail of footprints leading from the fairy door towards a pile of fairy trinkets she had left for the kids, with a trail of footprints leading back towards the door.  The kids were blown away by them and the buttons and thimbles she had left for them to find.  After breakfast the kids went straight back to investigate the footprints only to find Max our dog licking the footprints off the floor! Yes, there were lots of tears.......


Here's a few pictures of the Fairy Footprints:

You may notice the little silver plant pot in the above picture, on Sunday our fairy left the kids a present of some magic seeds, the instruction said to plant the seeds and water them everyday and on the 4th day something fantastic will grow! We are going to plant them today so stay posted, we will let you know what magically grows :0),

Today our Fairy left the kids some Fairy Cakes from "The Fairy Cakery Bakery".  One of the tiniest chocolate fudge cake's that we ever did see and a box of fairy doughnuts.  They were almost to nice to eat!! :0), Almost!

What has your fairy been up to of late? We love to hear all about your Fairy Tales.

The Fairies x

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Kindness Is Always In Style, It Looks Great On Everyone...

Yeap, tomorrow's the 1st Of December "let the count down to Christmas begin" I don't know about you but It feels like we've just packed away the Halloween decorations!! Where did October and November go..


To embrace the true meaning of the Holiday Season, this year we have decided to spread a little Extra Christmas Cheer by participating in some Random Acts of Christmas Kindness.  (R.A.C.K)


For my daily act of kindness all year I've been putting sweet little lunch box notes in between the kids sandwiches, I love doing it and I know they secretly love getting them too. Here is a link to the fab lunch box notes I've been using, designed by the talented Lori from fresh picked whimsy.  Just click on the link, print, cut out and pop into their lunch boxes it's as simple as.


http://freshpickedwhimsy.typepad.com/fresh_picked_whimsy/downloads/lunchbox_notes/lunchbox%20notes%20downloads%202.pdf


Here are some of the R.A.C.K we are planning on doing this month:


- Stick a €1 or €2 coin to a trolley in the shopping centre.
- Share a smile :0),
- Share your umbrella,
- Help some one carry their grocery bags
- leave some money stuck to the pay and display machine or the 
  Luas ticket machine.
- Hold the door
- Stop the bus for someone running to catch it.
- Bake some Christmas cookies to share in school.
- Donate unwanted toys to Charity.
- Get up 10mins earlier in the morning and de-ice your neighbours   
  car windows.
- Courtesy of Lori from Fresh picked whimsy print, cut out and
  leave these happy notes on bus benches in shops or just about
  anywhere:


http://freshpickedwhimsy.typepad.com/fresh_picked_whimsy/downloads/happy_notes/happy%20notes%20-%20summer%202010.pdf


I've designed an anonymous Random Acts Of Kindness Card to leave where ever you do your good deed!
Just right click, save picture and print.

Our first Random Act Of Kindness:

Go on make someones day!

Have fun,

The Fairies x
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Poitin Stil, Rathcoole, Co. Dublin - Fairy Pub

Only in Ireland Right!!!


James the manager of the Poitin Stil in Rathcoole, contacted us last week. What seemed to be a Fairy Pub had mysteriously appeared in their restaurant.  Of course Fairies don't drink alcohol but they do love music and a good old dance. 


We just had to go up and see for ourselves........

Could we have spotted a glimpse of a fairy flitting by?

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