Fairy bed from found objects. 7 1/2” x 9 1/2” x 7”
Well, cases of Covid are on the rise, so I have retreated back into fairy land (not that I ever fully emerged!). I am back making stuff with sticks and flowers. Really, what can be more fun than that?! One of the first things I made with twigs (months ago now) was a baby fairy bed. This time I decided to go bigger. I had some nice pieces of bark to use as the footboard and my daughter pointed out that it actually looks like a bird (serendipity). I decorated it with pressed flowers from the garden. I made a cute little mattress with felted wool and then found some fabric scraps to make a pillow and coverlet (having way to much fun!) This bed is 7 1/2 inches high, 9 1/2 inches long and 7 inches wide. Plenty of room for a fairy and their wings. Although I only have one bed, so they’ll have to take turns - a bit of “hot bunking” for the fairies! Lol! (no doubt there will be complaints!)
Here is the bed without its covers. I need to find a source of more interesting shaped twigs, so I might have to venture further from home on my foraging trips. This one was harder to glue together than other pieces of furniture I’ve made. I think the glue wasn’t sticking to the bark on some of the twigs, or it wasn’t getting hot enough….I hope my glue gun isn’t on the fritz. Anyway, it seems sturdy enough now it’s all dried. I used some acrylic varnish over the flowers to help preserve them. When I put it on it looked all gloppy and ugly so I thought I’d made a mess of it. Now it’s dried it looks ok - phew!