The Kettle Fairy Garden ~ 2013 ~ a little furin the paint

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Good Friday evening, everyone!

I've been playing outside again...

Things have been so busy here that we haven't had a chance

to go to Arkansas for more gourds,

So I thought I would recreate my little "Fairy-Garden-in-a-Kettle"

with a few of this years houses...

(See last year's post about the kettle and garden here ~ )

I still plan on doing a larger "village" in the raised herb bed...

But I wanted to play now...:^)

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I love, love, love using tiny-leaved Thyme as Fairy "landscaping"...

Here I used Common Thyme on each side of the steps,

and Orange Thyme back by the Toad House...

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I know, I have a blogging week's worth of photos...;^)

There are a lot more, actually...

What did we do before digital photography??

(I myself took rolls and rolls and rolls of film...and hoped for the best!)

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Uh, oh!

The Fairy has left her slippers out in the rain!

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The path to a Fairy~Friend's house is never long...

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The "Mini" Fairy House...

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Aren't these little Pansy "faces" sweet?

And the yellow and white striped Calibrachoas ~ "Lemon Slice" ~

(Love that ~ I am such a pushover for a name!

I think companies that don't name their products (no matter what they are)

...or maybe just number them ~

are totally missing the boat, don't you agree?) ~

were an early Mother's Day gift (as well as the Alyssum) from daughter Katie...:^)

♥

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These don't even look real, do they?

They look like little silk flowers...but the are a "mounding perennial"...so pretty!

Neon Rose Saxifraga...

Tiny and very "Fairy-ish"~looking!

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I'll post a tutorial for these on Saturday...another fun little project!

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We found this rock that looks like a little cave

in a creek near Meramac Caverns...

I made a little polymer banner...in the hope that we see Peter (the Toad) again this year...♥

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