I had a problem with my computer while trying to get some pretty pictures and links for my page. I wasn’t as careful as I thought I was being and I let a virus in. They had my computer for more then a week and now it is back as good as new. I can finally show you some pictures of one of the fairy houses I just put up over the weekend.
This house is nothing fancy. When I find a place to make one along a public trail I don’t spend too much time with it. Other people walk by and wonder what you are up to. I gather a few things laying around on the ground and arrange them to look more like a house for a fairy.
I found a hole at the bottom of a tree and cleaned it out. I put in two uprights and placed a bark roof over the hole. I put more shorter legs into the ground and I made a bark table with two acorn bowls on it. I made a bench the same way, only I added a back to it. Some clean leaves for a bed back in the corner and a fence to keep critters out and I was done.
I usually only use things found around the spot I pick. Nothing living is killed for use, or to move out of the way.
When I do bring things to add they are only biodegradable. For example, if I use pictures to decorate the house, they are made with vegetable dyes on non bleached paper. I usually only bring shells, pebbles, and cotton or wool string with me into the woods.
This one didn’t last too long as a large dog came along after I was done with it as I was walking back to the car and he made a mess of my small creation. I saw it all flying out behind the dog as he dug out that spot probably because I had just opened it up and the smells were fresh.
Next time I go there I will make it again and hope it lasts longer.
I don’t have a problem with dogs walking in public places and doing dog like things. All critters have a place in this world. But I’m a cat person more then a dog person, thou I have neither at this time.
Most fairies like cats more then dogs. Dogs like to rearrange the landscape more than cats do. And cats hunt the critters that are a bother to fairies without bothering the fairies themselves. Cats and Fairies have an understanding.
House fairies have learned to live with dogs. Although you do know that when your dog barks at nothing at all, that a fairy just might be teasing your dog.
I will make more fairy houses as the weeks go by. Until then here is a link to a fun web site Fairy Woodland about fairies. There are fairy bedtime stories to listen to, as well as some things you can buy if you want to for making your own more permanent fairy houses. I look at the things here for ideas I can use or just to have a story told to me like when a was a child again. Even Fairies like to hear stories, but mostly they like stories about them.
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