Anything you couldn’t explain was magic then.

Anything you couldn’t explain was magic then.

It’s easy to believe in magic when you’re young.  Anything you couldn’t explain was magic then.  It didn’t matter if it was science or a fairy tale.  Electricity and elves were both infinitely mysterious and equally possible – elves probably … Continue reading 

Be gracious especially when your computer crashes.

Lions Portrait

Painted Cottage Box Lion Stare

For the past week things around the house have been crazy. There are times when energies build up and all of a sudden everything seems to go wrong. But do they go wrong or is our perception gone askew. When it happens all at once you may feel the universe is conspiring against you. Maybe you believe you are experiencing a run of bad luck. In the past I would have agreed until I realized just recently nothing ever happens to you that you can not make into a positive. This is not about faith and religion; it is about knowing. I know there are fairies among us just as there are angels, spirits and guides both animal and ancestral. They assist you when you need help and show you the truth when you ask. It is a subject most people ignore because they are afraid of being labeled crazy or a new age fanatic. So why do I know these things are real. Simply because I have seen them myself. After this past week I now do not question the positive lessons in everything that has gone right, not wrong.

It started with my computer crashing, a fatal crash. It was acting up again and just as I was attempting to restore the system I lost power just for a minute but at a crucial point. I tried to get the system back up but it was beyond my capabilities. So I found someone close by and took the computer there to hopefully be fixed. It turned out to be a neighbor. He did what he could, added some things, saved my files and gave me some great advise. I am grateful my guides helped me find him. Just before calling him I had spent an hour or so looking for any info or discs that would have come with the computer to help my dilemma and had torn apart the house only to not find anything for this computer, old one yes. I finally gave up  my search and stopped. I sat down quietly surrounded in the chaos and asked for help. It was Spirit or maybe the fairies or guides that guided me to get the help from a neighbor. No longer seeing the situation as a problem and found the blessing in this experience, I met a wonderful person and my computer is working better than ever with all my files saved. The next day I received an order covering my cost and more. This is happening all the time not getting money but answers and I know it is because I have changed my perception. Yes I tore apart my house but now I am reorganizing it and the energy in the house is flowing.

Years and not an easy ones brings me to this realization. You can read all the books and watch all the videos and attend all the seminars but until the switch is turned on you are only a believer. When things start making sense is when you know it is so. Words are not enough but you know the feeling when you arrive. Gratitude joy happiness even when your computer crashes.

 

Opened Between The Weeds Boutique.

I have opened a new boutique for Between The Weeds. For now it is a showcase for my mystical woodland fairy houses. I am hoping this boutique showcasing my woodland fairy houses will lead to a broader client base, people who believe in fairies as I do. These mystical abodes are very magical. They take hours to build. The pleasure I get from the finished sculpted artwork is immense. It is my joy and passion to explore the realm of unseen imagined beings.

As a spiritual being living within a corporeal body it is my imagination that allows me to see and experience the realm of fairies and earths magical energies.  Maybe it is just a thought in my imagination or is it reality because I believe it to be real. Until recently science and spirituality were worlds apart in theory, now scientist understand quantum relationships between energy fields. So why can not my fairy houses have fairies living inside? Could they just be existing in another energy field, a realm outside our reality, but are more advanced in their thinking so they and others can visit back and forth at will. Or is it a realm which was always there but we chose to forget how to reach? It is something you have to decide for yourself.

If you believe as I do then my fairy houses will absolutely delight your fairies that I know come to visit you and yourself. Please come and visit my new boutique at Between The Weeds.

Woodland fairies new cottage from Between The Weeds.

Woodland fairies new cottage from Between The Weeds.

This is the second cottage fairy house Briar and I completed this week for our shop. Every fairy house I create once the carcass framing is finished starts to form its own personality. There are times when I do not … Continue reading 

Great gift idea for woodland weddings.

bed woodland fairy house

Bed before added to fairy house.

Briar, head fairy at Between The Weeds,  is busy at her drafting table with plans for some of her newlywed friends. It is a lot of fun having someone so energetic assisting me in the fairy shop these days. This is one of the newly constructed woodland fairy house wedding cottages in my fairy shop at BetweenTheWeeds. What I like the most about this woodland cottage is the detailed work on the sides and the custom fabric bed. I have added a few more photos here of this sturdy mystical tree magic fairy house.

Woodland Honeymoon Fairy House Cottage

Woodland Honeymoon Fairy House Cottage
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Fairies have honeymoons too. A woodland cottage fairy house constructed by hand out of branches twigs and wood form this enchanting honeymoon cottage. Inside is a painted custom bed for two with canvas linens and a teal ribbon throw across the bottom. Next to the bed is a table from a branch. On the other side of the room is a chair and table with a clay pot hanging from the rafters for light. There is a chair at the foot of the bed and a bark floor. Moss is growing around the edges and twigs soften the one wall. Both side walls are painted a pretty shade of Indian Sky.

The outside of the house has bits and bobs of sea glass and raffia and a blank piece of wood across the front (for personalizing the house) with the name of the newlywed couple or date or just a sweet blessing to mark a special day. The back is formed with split branches and the sides are split branches moss pebbles and cones combined.

Outside measures 12″ x 11″ x 8″ roughly.
Built over a wood carcass and weighs about 4lbs.

These are my original designs and I hand craft each piece for my woodland fairy houses..
All rights are not transferable with the purchase of this painting and remain with the artist.
The copyright is for photographing and does not appear on the original.

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I ship everywhere please before you order ask for international shipping actual charge to your location. The price for shipping everywhere is only an estimate.

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Dragonfly fairy and a garden topiary complete this picture.

Dragonfly fairy and a garden topiary complete this picture.

Always drawn to garden topiary ever since my years in the floral industry is the inspiration behind the topiary painting and wood box. One of my favorite weddings I designed was on the theme of garden topiary. Each table stood … Continue reading 

Garden topiary with fairies and dragonfly in Etsy shop.

Garden topiary with fairies and dragonfly in Etsy shop.

There are some new woodland inspired fairy art in the studio and over in the Etsy shop BetweenTheWeeds. The fairies told me they are fascinated with topiary trees. Dragonflies are great very good friends of the fairies and Briar just … Continue reading 

Wish you were a wizard? Maybe the faeries will show you.

Wish you were a wizard? Maybe the faeries will show you.

A wizard fairy works his mystical magic with this enchanting faerie house setting. Great for ladies and gents of all ages after all the fairy wizard does not mind. Every piece is handmade and hand embellished. This fairy house is … Continue reading 

Let me introduce you to Briar Goblinwitch, head faerie.

When the winds of March are wakening the crocuses and crickets,
Did you ever find a fairy near some budding little thickets,…
And when she sees you creeping up to get a closer peek
She tumbles through the daffodils, a playing hide and seek.
~Marjorie Barrows

Sweet Pea Fairy House for Garden

My studio is very busy collaborating with my faerie friend. New houses and furniture are in the works for all those wonderful gardens.

By the way let me introduce you to the head faerie and my dear friend Briar Goblinwitch. She has been very annoyed with me for not introducing her sooner. I do apologize. I am very lucky to have her in my life. She is indispensable in my studio, she coordinates her faerie friends who find all the bits and bobs of nature I use in the making of the houses and furniture.

In her faerie realm she lives in a leafy dell and a bluebell glade is near. Though I see her whenever I ask because she has deemed me worthy, to everyone else she can be seen in the enchanted moments between sleep and waking. Briar has dark spiked hair and intense blue eyes pointed ears with tiny wren feather earrings. She wears the softest suede navy pants, a bluebell blue wispy tunic with silver threads, a gold sunbeam belt cinched about her tiny waist and green wings like a butterfly. Briar is tall for a faerie and always has a devilish smile. You can not help but feel good when Briar is around. She has high flat boots and keeps her magical wand tucked in the right boot. Dangling around her neck on a silver chain is something that is very sacred to all faeries, their faerie dust. It is how they move from our realm to their own and without it, well you do not want to know. Forget about mama if a faerie ain’t happy nobody is happy.

Fairies moved out today.

Fairies moved out today.

I can not say how thrilled I was when the fairies in my living room moved into their custom-built woodland fairy home. Last night it was nice to hear silence and not the little giggles from my cheerful house guests. … Continue reading