Fairie Houses and Fanciful Fun!

This post is a little old as it was before we moved in May, however, summertime lends so well to Fairie play, that I thought I would share this one for the Carnival today!!

We spent Tuesday and Wednesday browsing (again) for property and previewing a house for rent and we ventured upon a beautiful piece of land overlooking a valley filled with apple and pear orchards, vineyards, and barley fields. Unfortunately this property wasn't for us (rather my dh's business) but the Fanciful Fun of it was that there was the most magnificant Sycamore tree with these incredible "spiny" balls (the fruit?) and they had dropped all over the lawn along with many leaves
and dead wood and a few itinerant wild flowers had begun to sprout in the overgrown lawn.

Violet received quite a few lovely books for her 10th birthday and quite a few had a "fairy" theme. Since Violet had been reading aloud in the car to the boys, they immediately set out collecting supplies and making a lavish fairie house. They had more fun and all the while they made up stories about what kind of fairies would visit and about the old grumpy troll who lived at the foot of the Sycamore tree, and whether he would bother the little fairies or not. (Reminds me quite a bit of Elsa Beskow's Children of the Forest that Seamus is enjoying right now!)

Later that same day we were enjoying discovering our new rental-to-be and the backyard became an oasis for fairy houses! And here I was all concerned because the backyard doesn't have a Playset for the little dears (children that is)!! LOL!! What more do you need for fanciful fun but a few pine needles, moss, bark, grass, some dried flowers and weeds and seed pods!! We will assuredly be seeing many more fairy houses in the weeks to come, probably all summer, til it's time for the Autumn and Winter fairies to take over residence!

For another look at Fairies, you might enjoy this lovely book as well!! Here's hoping you're having a fanciful summertime!! Thanks for visiting today!

NOTE: Top tree photo is copyright (c) 2002 by LoveToKnow Corp.

Comments

[KC]

Oh, that's what type of tree that is!! When we lived in Virginia, there were so many of these trees. I learn something new every day.

KC in TX

[Alison]

Love the pictures ! Our children must have been communicating(!), thought you might like to see our fairy houses.Today we're thinking of using seedpods etc to make little people for them

[Mamacita]

We had 'fairies at the bottom of the garden,' too. Even though my kids are grown and gone now, I still look for fairies when the fireflies are out, and once in a while I'll stumble on a fairy house one of the kids made and tucked back in the woods. Fairies live in the columbines, too, you know. Emily of New Moon said so. Therefore, we planted columbines and watched them carefully. How wonderful that you encourage this, too. Oh, and look closely when a butterfly flutters near; sometimes the fairies ride them.