It's International Faerie Day!
Oh behalf of The Clay Potters and myself, Faerie Amma, we would like to wish everyone a very magical day.
And exactly who are The Clay Potters, well in no particular order we have here at the Faerie Nursery....
The Pixies... Pixie Bess, Pixie Grace, Pixie Heather, Pixie Ivy, Pixie Jinx, Pixie Sunburst, Pixie Tilly and Sapphire the Pixie.
The Sprites... Sprite Enwedhan, Benny the Buttery Sprite, Ella the Sprite and Sprite SugarPlum.
Of the Moss People... Missy May of the Moss People and Ros of the Moss People.
The Others... Chich of the Tuatha de Donaan, Domi the Bally Bog, Nipper the Churichaun and Servan the Traveller.
The Fae, Faeries, and Faery's... Ariadne the Derva Faery, Fae Bella, Faerie Bosh, Faerie Cabela, Faerie Edie of the Bean-Tighe, Faerie Lucilleadelle, Faerie Mia, Faerie Nettle, Mouse the Ashray Faerie and of course, myself, Faerie Amma.
A Faerie Nursery!!
Our nursery is certainly not your everyday garden by any means.
As if mingled with the seeds sprinkled in an ornamental garden...which have been dipped in hues
of a coloured rainbow...kissed with aroma of a midsummer's bouquet...bringing a breathtaking
and magical feel that can only be found in our enchanted nursery.
Welcome to the nursery..... www.faerienursery.com
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Wednesday, June 24, 2020
It's International Faerie Day - June 24, 2020
Thursday, November 16, 2017
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Tuesday, August 1, 2017
Book Review: Pretty Petals Trilogy by Fiona Hayes
Book Review ...
Pretty Petals Trilogy
Author: Fiona Hayes
Illustrators: Chris Gaisey & Wojciech Kuzminski
Published in 2016 by Kappa
ISBN: not registered
This set of three brightly coloured, doubled sided, swivel board books are set in an enchanted glade where Fairies Lily, Bluebell, Daisy, Rose and the Fairy Queen play, sing, dance and celebrate summer.
The Enchanted Garden Party ...
In the Enchanted Glade, the fairies arrive in their finest clothes to play games and sing magical music. Fairy Daisy looks beautiful in her purple dress, Rose is busy making pretty hats, Bluebell and Lily are riding snails and playing find-the-fairy.
Midsummer Magic ...
Getting ready for a summer feast, Fairy Rose reminds everyone of the Midsummer's Day festival, while Lily adds sparkling fairy dust to the dew drops and Daisy chases away the clouds with her wand just in time for the arrival of the Fairy Queen.
A Midnight Feast for Fairies ...
You can purchase them through your local bookstore or online through Amazon.com and Dollartree.com.
As I love to add little books to my faerie library, these 3 are ever so cute as you get to watch the fairies as they celebrate summer with garden parties, games, snacks and singing songs.
Pretty Petals Trilogy
Author: Fiona Hayes
Illustrators: Chris Gaisey & Wojciech Kuzminski
Published in 2016 by Kappa
ISBN: not registered
This set of three brightly coloured, doubled sided, swivel board books are set in an enchanted glade where Fairies Lily, Bluebell, Daisy, Rose and the Fairy Queen play, sing, dance and celebrate summer.
In the Enchanted Glade, the fairies arrive in their finest clothes to play games and sing magical music. Fairy Daisy looks beautiful in her purple dress, Rose is busy making pretty hats, Bluebell and Lily are riding snails and playing find-the-fairy.Midsummer Magic ...
Getting ready for a summer feast, Fairy Rose reminds everyone of the Midsummer's Day festival, while Lily adds sparkling fairy dust to the dew drops and Daisy chases away the clouds with her wand just in time for the arrival of the Fairy Queen.A Midnight Feast for Fairies ...
Fairy Rose lights the way with her glowing wand so Bluebell, Daisy and Lily can bring their blueberries, biscuits and acorns filled with sweet nectar to the midnight fairy feast being held under the bright moon.
You can purchase them through your local bookstore or online through Amazon.com and Dollartree.com.
As I love to add little books to my faerie library, these 3 are ever so cute as you get to watch the fairies as they celebrate summer with garden parties, games, snacks and singing songs.
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Tuesday, July 18, 2017
Book Review: Fairy Friends by Claire Freedman
Book Review ...
Fairy Friends
Author: Claire Freedman
Illustrator: Gail Yerrill
Published in 2007 by Little Tiger Press London
ISBN 10: 1845064666 13: 9781845064662
"Find a poem for YOUR best friend in this beautiful book about the friendships that fairies share."
This is a storybook about the importance of friendships whether you are a wee faerie or not. Drawn within patchwork borders, each page looks magical and enchanting as Ms. Yerrill has done an excellent job of sketching the cute expressive faces on the faeries as they each seem to be smiling right back at you. Told within the setting of pretty flower garden, Ms. Freedman tells a tale through a series of poems about the love that can be found when sharing with others. Throughout the book the faeries show you how to enjoy the fun days of summer including garden parties, finding fairy dust at the end of a rainbow and the hiding of tiny treasures.
You can find this book at your library or you can purchase it through your local bookstore or online through both Amazon.ca and Amazon.uk. Ms. Freedman is a successful children's picture book author who resides in Essex, be sure to check out her acclaimed Aliens Love Underpants series too.
When picking out a new book for the Nursery's library, I guess I must be like any other faerie for as I look for the graphics, the colours and of course the uniqueness of a book and in this case who couldn't resist a cover that has purple and silver stars along with sparkly pink faerie dust floating in a bubble. I highly recommend this book to both children and adults as each verse told by Ms. Freedman brings with it a feeling of euphoria when explaining and depicting the beauty of friends and your friendships with them.
Fairy Friends
Author: Claire Freedman
Illustrator: Gail Yerrill
Published in 2007 by Little Tiger Press London
ISBN 10: 1845064666 13: 9781845064662
"Find a poem for YOUR best friend in this beautiful book about the friendships that fairies share."
This is a storybook about the importance of friendships whether you are a wee faerie or not. Drawn within patchwork borders, each page looks magical and enchanting as Ms. Yerrill has done an excellent job of sketching the cute expressive faces on the faeries as they each seem to be smiling right back at you. Told within the setting of pretty flower garden, Ms. Freedman tells a tale through a series of poems about the love that can be found when sharing with others. Throughout the book the faeries show you how to enjoy the fun days of summer including garden parties, finding fairy dust at the end of a rainbow and the hiding of tiny treasures. You can find this book at your library or you can purchase it through your local bookstore or online through both Amazon.ca and Amazon.uk. Ms. Freedman is a successful children's picture book author who resides in Essex, be sure to check out her acclaimed Aliens Love Underpants series too.
When picking out a new book for the Nursery's library, I guess I must be like any other faerie for as I look for the graphics, the colours and of course the uniqueness of a book and in this case who couldn't resist a cover that has purple and silver stars along with sparkly pink faerie dust floating in a bubble. I highly recommend this book to both children and adults as each verse told by Ms. Freedman brings with it a feeling of euphoria when explaining and depicting the beauty of friends and your friendships with them.
Tuesday, July 4, 2017
Book Review: Fairy Houses ... Everywhere by Barry & Tracy Kane
Book Review ...
Fairy Houses ... Everywhere
Authors: Barry & Tracy Kane
Originally Published in 2006 by Light Beams Publishing
ISBN 10:097081044X ISBN 13:9780970810441
"... just turn these pages and discover a world filled with whimsical habitats constructed from natural materials."
Filled with beautiful photos of faerie houses that have been build in the woodlands, on the beach, in meadows, in backyard gardens and in the air you are transported to a land that only those that believe in faeries can actually see. It is like when you are told to 'stop and smell the roses', faerie houses are just the same, they can hide in plain sight but once you spot one you are always on the lookout for more.
This book not only shows tiny homes but it gives you a chance to see how with just an acorn, or a seashell, or a feather or even a pretty leaf can be put to good use when building a house. As the words nature and faerie are synonymous with each other, it is easy to see how with just a bit of imagination anyone and everyone can construct a dwelling made for the wee folk. It doesn't stop with just houses though, Barry & Tracy bring to life full little villages including boats made of seedpods docked on a lake, apartment buildings made from tree trunks, mansions with individual rooms decorated with miniatures, to seasonal homes of pumpkins and snowy boughs. Truly an inspiration to all those that are young at heart.
You can purchase this book through your local bookstore or online through both Chapters/Indigo and Amazon. Be sure to check out the rest of The Fairy Houses Series®: Fairy Houses, Fairy Houses ... Unbelievable!: A Photographic Tour, Fairy Houses and Beyond!, Fairy Flight, Fairy Boat, Forest Secrets: A Fairy Houses Mystery, Ocean Secrets: A Fairy Houses Mystery No. 2 and Kristen's Fairy House DVD.
I purchased this book way back when I had started my Faerie Nursery in 2011 thinking it was a great place to start to look for ideas for my faeries. Now, thanks to this book, I have a whole line of faerie doors and garden nurseries which just happen to cary you off into a land of magic, imagination and enchantment.
Fairy Houses ... Everywhere
Authors: Barry & Tracy Kane
Originally Published in 2006 by Light Beams Publishing
ISBN 10:097081044X ISBN 13:9780970810441
"... just turn these pages and discover a world filled with whimsical habitats constructed from natural materials."
Filled with beautiful photos of faerie houses that have been build in the woodlands, on the beach, in meadows, in backyard gardens and in the air you are transported to a land that only those that believe in faeries can actually see. It is like when you are told to 'stop and smell the roses', faerie houses are just the same, they can hide in plain sight but once you spot one you are always on the lookout for more.
This book not only shows tiny homes but it gives you a chance to see how with just an acorn, or a seashell, or a feather or even a pretty leaf can be put to good use when building a house. As the words nature and faerie are synonymous with each other, it is easy to see how with just a bit of imagination anyone and everyone can construct a dwelling made for the wee folk. It doesn't stop with just houses though, Barry & Tracy bring to life full little villages including boats made of seedpods docked on a lake, apartment buildings made from tree trunks, mansions with individual rooms decorated with miniatures, to seasonal homes of pumpkins and snowy boughs. Truly an inspiration to all those that are young at heart.
You can purchase this book through your local bookstore or online through both Chapters/Indigo and Amazon. Be sure to check out the rest of The Fairy Houses Series®: Fairy Houses, Fairy Houses ... Unbelievable!: A Photographic Tour, Fairy Houses and Beyond!, Fairy Flight, Fairy Boat, Forest Secrets: A Fairy Houses Mystery, Ocean Secrets: A Fairy Houses Mystery No. 2 and Kristen's Fairy House DVD.
I purchased this book way back when I had started my Faerie Nursery in 2011 thinking it was a great place to start to look for ideas for my faeries. Now, thanks to this book, I have a whole line of faerie doors and garden nurseries which just happen to cary you off into a land of magic, imagination and enchantment.
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Sunday, March 5, 2017
Welcome to the Faerie Luna Gardens
The Nursery has opened up yet another Instagram account titled faerielunagardens to showcase what the Faeries have growing in their gardens. So far, during the first few months of living here on Vancouver Island and living with the Little Qualicum Falls Provincial Park backing onto our property line, we have been awed by finding different mushrooms, flowers, plants and trees local in this area.
With this new account we will post photos of our old and new Nursery will all of the splendour that nature has to offer.
A bit about the Nursery:
Created/founded in Fort Smith, NT, located just above the 60th parallel in Canada's north. The weather there can swing from -30C in the winter to +30C in the summer.
Fort Smith has a Dry Continental Subarctic climate with very long harsh winters combined with warm but relatively short summers. With this diverse temperature the environment of this area can be both stark and barren in the cold but lush and green in the heat. Most gardens and flowerbeds are raised as the permafrost stills lingers just meters beneath the surface of the ground but this doesn't stop the Faeries from gardening.
Now the Nursery has relocated Qualicum Beach, BC where the climate is classified as a Warm-Summer Mediterranean climate. Meaning that it has cool, wet winters and relatively dry summers allowing it to be considered to have the mildest climate in Canada. The average temperature during the rainy winter hovers around +1-3C and during the heat of summer it reaches to a balmy +25C. The area is known for its amazing gardens so I can't wait for spring/summer to get here. With this just being the first week of March (2017), the Faeries have been busy preparing for spring planting as the local markets have already held their 'seed sales' and bedding plants can be found outside of shops ready for sale.
Let us celebrate the wonders of the outdoors ... welcome to the faerielunagardens.......
With this new account we will post photos of our old and new Nursery will all of the splendour that nature has to offer.
A bit about the Nursery:
Created/founded in Fort Smith, NT, located just above the 60th parallel in Canada's north. The weather there can swing from -30C in the winter to +30C in the summer.
Fort Smith has a Dry Continental Subarctic climate with very long harsh winters combined with warm but relatively short summers. With this diverse temperature the environment of this area can be both stark and barren in the cold but lush and green in the heat. Most gardens and flowerbeds are raised as the permafrost stills lingers just meters beneath the surface of the ground but this doesn't stop the Faeries from gardening.
Now the Nursery has relocated Qualicum Beach, BC where the climate is classified as a Warm-Summer Mediterranean climate. Meaning that it has cool, wet winters and relatively dry summers allowing it to be considered to have the mildest climate in Canada. The average temperature during the rainy winter hovers around +1-3C and during the heat of summer it reaches to a balmy +25C. The area is known for its amazing gardens so I can't wait for spring/summer to get here. With this just being the first week of March (2017), the Faeries have been busy preparing for spring planting as the local markets have already held their 'seed sales' and bedding plants can be found outside of shops ready for sale.
Let us celebrate the wonders of the outdoors ... welcome to the faerielunagardens.......
Saturday, June 25, 2016
where'd the balloon go?
the celebration is over
(well for Faeries, is it really ever over?)
faces are no longer yellow
(but i'm sure that won't last too long)
someone has gone and weeded the garden
(how dare they)
tree trunks are still being used for chairs
(as everything is still way too dizzy and i hear
that dance classes will begin immediately)
bandaids and ice cubes are running out of supply
(should of known that when playing with
the neighbourhood stingers
pricklilies are bound to find little Faerie bums)
the pretty ribbons are still being found in the weirdest of places but not necessarily in braided Faerie hair but instead they seem to be twisted and intertwined around thorny roses bushes
(do you know how hard it is to untie a ribbon
from a rose bush? i have heard that
more bandaids just might be in order)
singing, yes, singing, yes indeed, singing....
enough said about that
(hmmmmmm, yes, enough said about that)
i'm figuring that the frolicking and chatting away while playing in the mud needs to quiet down a bit as it just might help the Faeries and their friends to stay focused and to help their silly pom poms attached to their acorn hats from fallen off
(this activity needs to be readdressed to include water bottles, snacks and plump cushions
to relax on along the way)
and lastly but not to be forgotten, what exactly was happening with those socks and shoes?
(that's all i need to know, how can socks be taken off all the while their shoes are still on?)
i can't even imagine what games and shenanigans the Faeries have in store for next year
but i'm hoping that the little girl that lives so close to the garden doesn't go ahead and pick the daisies as then i will need to find another hiding place
thank you for the fun and the giggles
and tons of things to whisper
oh, and wasn't there something about a balloon?
Wednesday, June 1, 2016
Starting from Scratch
when my monsters were old enough to grasp and kinda understand through demonstrations, the world of teaching opened up far beyond their store bought toys. life itself when growing up is all about learning while playing, and in truth the accomplishment of mastering something new is what drives each of us to success today.
bringing home massive tractor tires and filling them with dirt was the first step in the art of creating life as it's one thing to play in the sandbox or down at the beach with your shovels and pails but when using those same tools for in a different manner is how a garden grows.
being handed a packet and opening it up to reveal what still looks like specks of dust, planting them with stubby little fingers and then carrying sand pails full of water back and forth from the kitchen sink all to bring the look of awe and amazement when that first little green shoot poked its head above the dirt. after the whole neighbourhood not only heard about all of the goings-on but were given the whole tour of their garden began the process of learning something new, whether it be for gardening or perhaps not, as not everyone has what is called a 'green thumb'.
looking back upon that time shows us our own growth, as at first one methodically following the instructions written on the back of the seed packet to now, winging it to see what can happen when you experiment while doing something like this or like that.
this is how my nursery does things as it's hard to play by the rules when there are no rules to be followed. it's something like having a whole handful of seeds, placing them into that same sand pail and then scattering them all across the garden. my guess is that this is how faeries are made.
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Tuesday, May 10, 2016
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
Faerie Magic
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| Magical Faerie Trinket Chest |
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| The Holidays |
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| The Innards |
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| The Snack |
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| The Garden |
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| The Wine |
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| The Artist |
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| The Dentist |
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| The Violin |
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