Some New Faerie Houses and a New Bird Potholder Design

So, it's been forever since we posted.  Sorry.  In the meantime we've been working on lots of things.  First we have a new design of a bird potholder.

We've also used a similar design on notebook covers.  There the bird is bigger and has eggs and a hatchling around it.

Next a new faerie house by Aline.

And one by Lorena.

Assorted Faerie Stuff

First I wanted to give you a list of great faerie related books. These all link to Amazon, but we are also proponents of your local library. That is until you find out how great they are and have to buy them!

Felt Wee Folk This is a great instructional book about making little faery figures. It includes some great pictures of groups of faeries that I find very inspiring
Fairy Island This is probably my favorite faerie book. It is a little thin on story but the pictures are so incredible! They are incredibly detailed pictures of these houses that the author found on a faerie island.

Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book I just bought this one and am so excited! There are multiple Lady Cottington books and they are all brilliant and funny. My fiance described this book as similar to how people press flowers...but with faeries.
Fairie-ality This is a great book of fashion designs for faeries. They are made form natural materials and the book includes both design drawings and photographs of the finished products.
A Witch's Guide to Faery Folk This one is less of a picture inspiration and more of just text about faeries in general. It is a great book to lean about the different types of faeries and such, and who knows what will inspire you!

And here's a little bit of fun, a Faerie Name Generator! <3 Aline

Your fairy is called Gossamer Willowdancer

She is a caster of weird dreams.

She lives in spiderwebbed wonderlands and insect grottos.

She is only seen when the bees swarm and the crickets chirrup.

She wears tiny black spiders on her dresses. She has delicate green coloured wings like a cicada.

Get your free fairy name here!

Mini Suitcase Swap

So, my first swap from Swap-bot is for a matchbox...that's really all the requirements. So I made a faery suitcase for my fellow faery loving partner.

I just covered a matchbox with leather and glued the straps on top. The old fashioned customs stickers are printed out from the computer.

Inside I put the faery's favorite things, a tiny faery house out of sculpy, some ribbon and stickers, faery charms, a mini candle, bell and tea cup, and a mini passport. I also made a little shirt from wool I had laying around (thanks mom). The shirt was inspired by Salley Mavor and her book Wee Felt Folk.

I also wrote a letter form the 'Faery Adoption Agency' and printed it on nice paper, I couldn't get a good picture though.

I hope my swap partner likes it, I had loads of fun making it and my mind is already forming new matchboxes to add to my etsy line...

-Aline

Beachcomber Faery House

So I've been working on making little houses for faeries to live in lately. I have lots nearing completion, but this is the only one totally finished. I'm thinking that the faery who would live here lives near a beach and is really into gardening. You'll notice that all the natural growth is brown, and the faery has grown green things, flowers, and even veggies.

Let me know what you think and I'll post more pictures as I finish other ones. I'd love some more ideas of themes. I have this beach one, a deep forest one, and I'm just starting a pretty pink little girls dream house.

So, I hope you enjoy these pictures and please give me feedback!

-Aline