DIY - A FAIRY GARDEN

Being summer, the kids and I at the weekend we thinking we would make a fairy garden for our fairy "Fleur" :),


So simple but so sweet and the kids had so much fun collecting a deciding what to put into it.


Here's what we used to make our fairy garden, you can go on a little nature walk with the kids and get them to forage for the pieces to make the fairy garden.

All you need is some flower petals, Live moss ( we found a bunch on an old  tree stump) some pretty stones or sea shells, some decorations (we used sprinkles) and lastly a good pinch of fairy dust to make it magical!!!


Using a glass tumbler, old candle jar or even the end of a clear plastic bottle. Arrange the garden in layers, first place your sea shells to cover the bottom of your container, next pop in the moss, Easy as! To decorate it  place your dried flowers neatly around the moss and sprinkle with sprinkle shapes and fairy dust.  Your Fairy Garden just needs a few drops of water each day to keep it growing....and best to keep it in a sunny place like a window ledge.


Much to the kids surprise the following day our Fairy Fleur left them a little note thanking them for making her such a wonderful fairy garden :), She also left them a tiny closed clam shell, with a tag placed beside it that said "Plant ME" The kids carefully opened the tiny shell and inside was some green moss a blue bean and a sprinkling of gold fairy dust.  Straight away the kids planted the little blue bean in the Fairy Garden. Their imaginations were running wild  thinking about what might grow! Jay was convinced a beanstalk was going to magically appear in the garden )Too cute!!!

On the first morning look what grew in our Fairy Garden....

A wooden stick!

This had the kids baffled! When the skipped down the stairs on day four this is what they found...

A Pixie Pop Had grown, Yes just one!!! gosh didn't our fairy know we had two kids!!! much to their disappointment they had to share.... :),

 The Fairies xx

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Fairy Wishes

If you had a fist full of Fairy Wishes, What would you wish for?

St. Patrick's Day Fun!

Gosh it really has been a busy few weeks!!! Finally Spring is in full swing!!! Yea,  I'm sure your fairies like ours have been busily blooming & painting  flowers in the garden :0),


Cindy a wonderful lady from America sent us this wonderful photo/email. Thinking it was too sweet not to be shared Cindy has kindly allowed us to share it with you all :

"Hope you had a wonderful St Patrick's Celebration! The leprechaun door was such a magical hit here at our house on St Patrick's morning! My tradition, since I was a child, was to leave your shoes outside your bedroom door the night before St Patrick's Day and the leprechaun would leave little chocolate treats and coins. It's one of my favourite childhood memories from my Grandmother McDevitt. I've passed it on, of course, to my children. We have tons of shamrocks/clovers that grow around our house every year and I would always tell my boys that leprechauns were nearby leaving them for us for good luck. So...now one has moved in with us and it's very exciting! I'm sending along a couple of photos - he lives under the staircase :)"

It's just amazing to think that we were able to add a little extra magic to Cindy's St. Patrick's day Tradition.
We just love to hear all your fairy news, you can get in touch by emailing us at:


fairies@mudpiesandrainbows.com


A big thank you to everyone who sent us in pictures of  the  Leprechaun traps set by their kids on St. Patrick's Day, We hope you managed to catch your Leprechaun and his crock of gold :0), they were all So Super creative and So stinking cute!!!!


Here was one of our Fav's

Sparkle Bright,


The Fairies x




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Fairy Trinkets

We are super excited about our NEW range of "Fairy Trinkets".  We hope to inspire you all to start a cabinet of Fairyosity.  We have some enchanting miniature glass antique style cabinets coming very soon to house and showcase all of your Fairy Treasures. 


We hope that your Fairydoor will become a Family heirloom that you can pass down from generation to generation.  Each generation can add their own fairy letters and trinkets to the cabinet of Fairyosity.......... spreading a little fairy magic through the generations!


Here's how our Fairy decorated her door!! I think we have a very posh or important faairy in our house with such grand an entrance to fairyland :0),

Sparkle Bright,


The Fairies x

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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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