The Queen's Handmaiden These beauties now have a home at H&H Mercantile. If you didn't already know, The Wee Folk's Queen depends on these helpers, choosing them for their beauty, so they may assist in brushing her hair, carrying her silken spider web train of her gown, or sitting with her and playing music to while away the afternoons.  Made from birch bark and blue hydrangea growing on my property, this is a gorgeous, colorful reminder that fall produces the best hues in Maine. As most of my Queen's Handmaidens are a toasty, fawn color, this rare blue beauty is one of a kind. I won't make another until next summer. The Cranberry Fairy  This pretty one is made from paper birch and Highbush cranberry. She is an attractor of wildlife and pollinators, her dress serving as host plants to numerous butterflies and moths. Her role in the rath is to dance and sing when Spring comes alive.  The Reindeer Muse. I’m making more small-batch fairy dresses for the summer!    The Cranberry Fairy-dried white petals    The Cranberry Fairy has been hiding out all winter underground and at the forest edge.  Her dress is made from paper birch and Highbush cranberry. She is an attractor of wildlife and pollinators, her dress serving as host plants to numerous butterflies and moths. Her role in the rath is to dance and sing when Spring comes alive.  Her corsage is made from a dried floret.  Detail on her sash includes tiny dried flowers and florets.  Stitched up the back with brown thread to match the toasty color of her birch bodice, The Cranberry Fairy is one of The Wee Folk's prettier lasses.
This wee fairy only comes out in the fall, when the rath is preparing to harvest before they go underground for the winter. She likes to hide in the damp forests and forest edges.  The bodice is made from dried grass and birchand the lovely variagated skirt is the natural changing colors of the high cranberry bush in Autumn. She is one of a kind and I think, one of the prettiest fairies I can make this time of year.  Here is some up close detail of the bodice and skirt.
 I will have this fairy and other handcrafted ones for sale for Maine Craft Weekend Oct. 2-3. Stay tuned for details.  |
Tonic of the Woods
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