The Magic Onions' Fairy Garden Contest...

Hi, Everyone!

 

I've been meaning to post this all week...:^)

 

Remember my Fairy House and Garden I did last spring? (You can click here and here for those posts)...

 

 Someone suggested that I enter it in The Magic Onions' Fairy Garden Contest, something the lovely New Zealand-based blog folks have been doing for a few years, now.

 

So, I did.




It was fun, the sweet messages I would get just out of the blue all summer, when someone came upon my little house in The Magic Onions' post...



Then one day last week they let me know that I was one of their 2012 winners ~ I was delighted!



You can click here for the winning entries post...



I'm very honored!

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Of course, most of my tiny herbs got big over the summer...



I'm going to replant them in my raised herb beds, and hopefully will be able

 to use some of them again next year,

  if I do another Fairy Garden...

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I was so pleased with my marigolds! They were all started from seed, and I'm afraid I

didn't thin them like I was supposed to...they just sort of grew...(like Topsy ~ ;^)

I love how they are used in the Mexican Day of the Dead (Los Dias de Los Muertos ) celebrations...


I was wondering why the marigold, and found this information at www.MexConnect.com

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Flowers, symbolizing the brevity of life, are massed and fashioned into garlands, wreaths and crosses to decorate the altar and the grave. The marigold is the most traditional flower of the season. In Aztec times it was called the cempasuchil, the flower of 400 lives.

The fragrance of the cempasuchil leads the spirits home. Sometimes paths of the petals lead out of the cemetery and to the house to guide the spirits. A cross of marigold petals is formed on the floor so that as the spirit approaches the altar, he will step on the cross and expel his guilt.

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Interesting!

There is lots more really good information explaining the holiday on that site.



Marigolds do have a rather pungent fragrance; I like it, personally, but I think is an acquired taste!



I hope we don't have a frost before Halloween, so I can use lots of them in my party decor!



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Some pretty mums...does anyone else like the way crushed Chrysanthemum
leaves or petals smell?

Am I weird?

I just love it...I've even been known to pinch a tiny leaf or bud out in a store, just to breathe in that Autumn fragrance!

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A potential Fairy House for next year...

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There are still so many blooms and tiny baby gourds on the vines!

I don't know if they'll have time to mature before the frost gets them or not...

fingers crossed...

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I've had this cute vintage postcard for a long time...

I think she's so sweet, in her little Mary Janes!

I may do an art-card of Tallulah in this pose...

If anyone would like a larger scan of this card, please feel free to e-mail me ~ :)

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Have a wonderful evening!

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Sharing this post at Savvy Southern Style's Wow-Us Wednesday ~ :)

and Ivy & Elephants' What's It Wednesday