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Craft Tutorials | Adult Crafts | Crafts for Seniors | Fairy House & Garden: Year #2

Fairy House & Garden: Year #2

Author by Amanda Davis on June 23, 2016 Updated on March 27, 2019

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I’ve been operating out of my studio for over a year now. I moved in here April of 2015 and during that summer I built this fairy garden. The fairy house you see here is the same exact fairy house from last year, but the moss, which was beautiful and green at the start, faded terribly in the sun. Then before Halloween, my daughter and I made this pumpkin fairy house and we ran out of moss. So we actually used the faded moss from the fairy house roof to fill in some gaps. That meant that when this summer rolled around, I had to do something to replace the roof of my fairy house so I could put it back outside.

Turn an ordinary $1.00 wooden birdhouse into an adorable fairy house nestled in a moss covered outdoor fairy garden!

 

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Fairy House Year #2

I used small stones I bought from Michaels and Liquid Fusion glue to attach them to the roof. It’s not a fast-dry glue, so I had to do one side at a time, allowing it to dry for several hours in between.

Turn an ordinary $1.00 wooden birdhouse into an adorable fairy house nestled in a moss covered outdoor fairy garden!

If you’ve read my post from last year about this fairy garden, you know that the planter box where I place my fairy garden is a dead zone. There’s an awning above it, so even if it rains it remains dry unless I manually water it. Last year my flowers on that side died, so this year I chose a variety of succulents instead.

The photos in this post are from the day I planted everything, so I’ll edit this post in a month or so after they’ve filled out to let you know how they are holding up!

Turn an ordinary $1.00 wooden birdhouse into an adorable fairy house nestled in a moss covered outdoor fairy garden!

This year I actually used the base from the pumpkin fairy house to set the scene. Some succulents and a few rocks later (not to mention the Purslane that grows wild in these planters) and Fairy Garden Year #2 is born!

Turn an ordinary $1.00 wooden birdhouse into an adorable fairy house nestled in a moss covered outdoor fairy garden!

Links to projects you may find helpful:

To learn how I made my first fairy garden click here.

How to Start a Fairy Garden - Amanda Formaro, Crafts by Amanda

To learn how I made the base click here (moss, birds, pathway, etc).

An adorable pumpkin fairy house! Use a pumpkin, natural elements such as twigs and wood, and moss and silk flowers to create a fall themed fairy garden.

You can make these adorable fairy house night lights out of plastic bottles.

Turn empty plastic water bottles into adorable little fairy houses that double as night lights! Fun for a child's room or a nursery, or even the garden.

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Amanda Davis is the crafty, entrepreneurial mother of four children. She loves to bake, cook, make kid's crafts and create decorative items for her home. She is a crafting expert and guru in the kitchen and has appeared online and in print publications many times over the years.
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  1. Sheila the Mamma Kangaroo says

    October 4, 2017 at 1:31 pm

    I built my first fairy garden this summer in Reno, Nevada. The entire neighborhood got involved. And by that, I mean, all the men/fathers/brothers weren’t shy about pointing out better ways to do things. It got so bad (but so good with all the feedback) that I actually re-built it 3 times before I was finished. Some national guardsmen put up photos of it in the war room on base, and drew counter-attacks by a village of gnomes (ugh, gnomes!). To which I fortified my garden with a dragon’s lair complete with a dragon that matched a coleus growing nearby. All the kids that played in my garden all summer wanted to keep the dragon, but I couldn’t let them have it. Nobody stole anything, although I had around $300 bucks worth of accessories just sitting there. The trade off for all the help from the menfolk was: 2018 will be a miniature 9-hole golf course in the same spot, while my fairy garden waits for 2019 to re-emerge. Until then, I will dream of new roads and walkways that I’m planning already.

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    • Amanda Formaro says

      October 5, 2017 at 4:41 pm

      Wow, Sheila, that sounds so awesome! Post a picture if you have one, I’d love to see it! :)

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  2. Dr. Sadaf says

    January 11, 2017 at 7:12 am

    That’s was really awesome. I appreciate your talent.

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  3. Valerie Brown says

    August 4, 2016 at 10:06 pm

    I love your update on the fairy house & it was good to see you again today in Richter’s.

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    • Amanda Formaro says

      August 8, 2016 at 9:36 am

      it was good to see you too Valerie!

      Reply
  4. Abigail Cain says

    July 7, 2016 at 6:11 pm

    These are so gorgeous! Looks like it took you a lot of time, such amazing detail. :-)

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    • Amanda Formaro says

      July 9, 2016 at 9:28 am

      Thanks Abigail! A labor of love for sure :)

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  5. Brenda O. says

    June 24, 2016 at 5:05 pm

    Absolutely charming! Mahalo for sharing tips and techniques for a fairy house builder wannabe.

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