The first pixie house that didn't survive a few rain storms. You can see the swing on the left.
Our new and improved pixie house. The table and empty bowls (acorns) on the left, camp fire (battery operated tea light), glass blown blue bird.
Top lifted: Mantel with candle sticks made from tiny cut pine cones.
"flower" pine cones in fungus flower pot, and in the top right of the photo is a acorn hollowed out with a light inside used for a porch light.
Light made out of an acorn and stuffed with clock flower (fluffy white and feathery). Birch porch, I love the curl on the end.
Corner post with worm designs.
Side wall with fungus, bark and moss.
Pixie broom is one of my favorite creations.
Campfire made from battery operated tea light.
I probably have my friend Gina to thank for getting started on this Pixie House. For Presley's birthday she gave Presley a Fairy House starter kit. It was filled with adorable little trinkets to get us started on a fairy house. We’ve made a few since then, this last one being the biggest project yet. Being in the Adirondack Mountains I knew we would have so many supplies in our own back yard.
The first fairy house we did this summer was with Presley’s summer cousins and we spend 5 hours straight working on them! The girls (6yrs., 9yrs., & 13yrs.) had such a great time I had a hard time pulling away from their fairy village. However after the first rain storm the houses were pretty quickly damaged. Presley was pretty upset by this, it was then I had decided I would make one a little more durable.
While working on the first set of fairy houses I had found these small branches that had carvings created by worms that looked very decorative. I knew that those would be used as the corner posts. For the four walls I purchased .25 inch plywood, this would be inset from the corner posts and then later covered with tree bark. I used peeled birch bark to cover the door. A small rock as the door pull, hard dried fungus a flower pot, rock for house sign, a twig and pine needles for a broom, and cut mini pine cones as candle stick holders and flowers.
The project would not be nearly as adorable if it was not for help from a few friends. Our friend Terry from Silver Bay kindly offered to cut the corner posts for us ( I didn’t have the tools for this) and this really gave us our start. Mark (hubby) constructed the “bones” of the building. As the summer ticked by and people saw me working on this they started bringing Presley “supplies”. Sandy (who we rent from) brought back some birch bark (front porch), pine cones and twigs (mantle) from a kayak ride to Little O’Dell Island and Matt (Mark’s business partner) found the chimney on the golf course.
There are still a few design items that I have not photographed and a few that I have not remade since the storm. Presley had a great idea to make a swing, it was so cute but was damaged by the storm (or by someone stepping on it). This is our last week here and I’m not sure how much more time I will spend on 3 Pixie Hollow. As much fun as it’s been part of me would like to leave the rest for next year. The interior is pretty much empty for now. I have a table made but there is still a lot more that needs to be done.
I’ve really enjoyed my time working on the house and Sandy and her sister Laurie have made a few fairy houses too and they keep popping up around, The Little Red Cabins. We’ve already joked about making more each year an creating a fairy village under the trees... I’m not sure I can wait that long, I’d love a Christmas theme fairy house.