New for Spring!  Fairy wreaths are very much a symbol of Beltane and I’ve begun making kits so you can craft one yourself.  Each kit comes with a variety of natural materials such as moss, dried flowers, berries, ferns, usnea, and lichen.  I provide the red birch bare wreath, a handmade hanger, and a packet of clear glue stapled to my business card, so you can use your imagination and make one the way you want.  Stay tuned to my Instagram and Facebook page for announcements of where I’ll be selling these this summer. $15 each.
I've been making tiny fairy wreaths for a couple of years now, but here's a portal into The Otherworld.  I got the idea from this meme.  Fairy portals are found in the unlikeliest spots in nature, as this blog post describes, but they should never be entered by humans...or else you might find yourself staying for a few hundred years....  Some up-close detail using all of my favorite materials, moss, lichen, dried flowers and fronds.  Some trumpet lichen and star anise. The next one I make will be bigger, like a wreath.
Here are custom fairy wreaths, made from circles of red birch and decorated with wildflowers I've collected ($15). Each comes with a fiddlehead bejeweled hanger.    Wreaths are associated with the pagan rituals of the changing seasons and here are a few tiny fairy wreaths to hold you over until spring.  These ones are handmade from pine branches, dried fern, flowers and berries.  These are also from dried and pressed fern from our property and dressed up with flowers and buds and usnea    I shot these days after an ice storm which made all of the iced over branches sound like tinkling chandeliers.  I got the idea from making round fairy doors. Why not make them even smaller and add botanicals?  Each comes with a custom "fiddlehead" fairy hanger. Perfect ornaments for a pagan tree!  This shows how small they are: about two inches wide.  I only had enough materials to make five of them. They can be found at Brambles in Belfast, Maine.  |
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