Glowing Fairy Cottage in a Jar

While chipping away at some new projects for you, I stumbled upon the cutest project from one of my favourite YouTube accounts, The Miniature World of Kit and Cabooders. Check out their Glowing Autumn Scene in a Jar and see for yourself why I immediately had to create my own.

Aside: Why the heck do fairies and jars go together so well?

I grabbed that inspiration by the hand and created my own version. It's not exactly the same, but created in the same spirit as the original. Everything I used was on hand, with supplies already in my stash. 

Now, I'm not saying don't go out and buy some adorable fairy jar supplies... I'm just saying that sometimes it's really nice to just use what you have, to make do, and not have to run out to buy more more more.

In my version I used the following supplies:
• glass jar and lid
• battery powered tea light
• small piece of foamcore (corrugated cardboard would work too)
• florist foam (use a sponge in a pinch) 
• Sculpey oven bake clay (you could make your cottage out of anything at all!)
• a twig and other accessories (acorns, tiny paper leaves, wee mushrooms)
• faux grass/greenery (i.e. flocking, moss, wool fiber, felt, ribbons, fabric)
• glues of various types
• paints

This project comes together really quickly, rather easily, and the end results are just adorable.

To see my tutorial for this project pop your cute bum over HERE to my YouTube channel

Have a lovely day, my beautiful friend.

Fossilized Fairy Footprints

 

Oh my word.

Being a gal who loves history, folklore, artifacts and making magic, this project is the bees knees. I hope you think so too.

First I made tiny feet, then pressed them into clay (DAS) along with some leaves, let it dry, painted her up, then tagged and framed the artifact. 

I mean, how sweet would this be as gift to a believer in the fair folk?!

To be honest, this isn't where I intended this project to go. I had other plans. Perfectly good plans! But, as often happens, my project took me elsewhere. That's kind of a great thing though, as now I have a couple of extra projects in my back pocket for the future, and a perfectly good reason to keep those little fairy feet I created safely tucked away. 

(I realize putting things in a safe space is actually the very worst place to keep them as they always go missing, but we'll cross our fingers this doesn't happen.)

And as sweet as the framed artifact is, how freaking magical would it be to allow someone else to discover, uncover, one in the wild?!

 

Imagine stumbling upon fairy footprints nestled in a bed of moss. Or maybe just poking out from under the earth, dusted with soil. Sure, you'd have to take extra caution so that the elements didn't destroy your artifact... but oh the magic of it!

If you'd like to jump on the crazy wagon and make one for yourself you can find the YouTube tutorial here. Just remember to keep your fairy feet for future projects!

Have a splendid day lovely internet friend!