As a kid, I loved those fairy circles that would sometimes appear in the grass. I totally believed fairies danced around them when I wasn’t looking.
As an adult, I still love whimsical things – one of my favorites is putting ceramic fairy houses under the leaves of my plants on the deck. I have a couple houses, each one different, from the Minnesota Renaissance Festival and various art festivals around the Metro. I do not own one of these (out of my price range by quite a bit), but I love them.
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| One of my fairy houses! |
THRIFTY MISSION: Can I make fairy houses for the girls’ bedroom for around $90.00 less than the fairy houses I love but can’t afford? Of course!
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| Fairy bedroom! |
I had this craft in the back of my mind for a while – since the girls’ bedroom was coming together as fairyland – so I kept my eyes peeled for sales on the right goods. As it happens, I found the wooden houses I used for the girls’ houses at JoAnn for $1.00 on sale. I bought stickers, paint and brushes for around $5.00 total (on sale). Moldable clay to make chimneys costs about $2.00 and comes in a zillion colors.
With these goodies in hand, I painted my fairy houses in bright colors, molded and baked the clay chimneys, then embellished with stickers, ribbon, and ladybug buttons. For cute!
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| That was bare wood to start with! |
To make a house to show you on the blog, I found this little wooden, bark house at Walgreen’s for $1.50 on after-Christmas clearance. I used all of the materials I had from the girls’ houses, plus a few extras I had in my craft stash.
First, I painted the roof ‘shingles’ in a partial checkerboard of green, and also used the green to paint lines of vine climbing up the side of the house. With yellow and pink paint, I made floral dots along the vine. Stickers and glitter sprinkled on Elmer’s glue finished it up.
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| Glitter, glue, stickers and paint - FREE from the stash! I ended up taking the chimney off cuz it was too heavy. |
How cute? How easy? Pulling the materials out of my craft tub took longer than actually decorating the little house. J
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| Can you see the ivy and flowers I painted up the sides? |
Mission Success!
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