One of my dear ones is in the middle of a major downsize, so I was a bit stumped for a birthday gift. She’s now living in the woods (like me!) which gave me the idea for making a fairy door to hang on a tree in her yard! I turned into a fairy front porch.
I wanted it to look as much like it was made from things fairies had found or “borrowed” and I think I did pretty well with that! Wanna see? I hope so, because I took A LOT of detail shots.
Access ladder and shiny “borrowed” things under to the porch.
Porch rail.
The porch “light” and trim detail.
I deliberately distressed the hanging hardware in the hope that it would age more quickly and blend into tree bark to look more like a “real” fairy porch. There’s also a birthday greeting wood burned on the back.
I must tip my hat to my… shall we say, thorough… stash for this project during quarantine. The only thing that I had to go out to buy was exterior adhesive that would work on all the surfaces. I must also begrudgingly thank my local hoodlum squirrels who stripped the pinecone scales from the cone for me, because those things are POINTY and painful to strip.
SO dang cute! I like the champagne cork cage for a chair. And I applaud your use of local wildlife labor to get the pinecone scales. And I like the idea of “found” objects. Why shouldn’t fairies have little windchimes and porch accessories!
There’s also a birthday greeting wood burned on the back.
And I like the idea of “found” objects. Why shouldn’t fairies have little windchimes and porch accessories!