♥ my sweet fairy ♥

Let's meet up

2011-07-24T22:27:00.004+02:00

Sometimes after months of routine work, things suddenly get hectic.

It is right now happening in ALL areas of my life. The quiet village life is suddenly disturbed by big decisions, and the crafting, for once, takes the back seat. I live and breath my craft, but it has kind of smothered the other things I should be doing, meeting friends and enjoying more than work.

I had quite a few tough years in my personnal life, and working making fairies has been a screen that protected me from feeling too much, as long as I was working it was enough. Work helped me keep my sanity, but was also used as an excuse for not questioning too deeply what my life was about.

One big piece of news is that I will be at the spirit of christmas fair again this year, so see you there , maybe?

My phone killed my blog and put me on facebook

2011-06-24T17:05:00.005+02:00

My blog is kind of abandonned...for two reasons, I have little time and therefore always put blogging at the very very bottom of my list, so much so it never gets done. And I find it difficult to share anything else than professional news, and well nothing extaordinarily new recently.

I can also say that my smart phone has put my computer on holidays, I can now spend weeks without opening it and I still spend millions of hours on the internet, in queues at the post office, in the dentist waiting room. It has freed me from my desk, but because blogging from a phone is a bit more difficult I ended up not doing it for quite some time now.

But it made facebook so quick to use.

Having facebook on my iphone made keeping up with everybody's news so much quicker, so I kind of read less and less blogs too, if they are not linked with facebook.So if you want to follow the fairies news follow me on facebook.

Anyway, I am still making fairies ( I have started to work on christmas stock this week), and I still do fairs. This november I will be as usual at the Country Living fair in London, and maybe, but still to be confirmed, the Spirit of christmas fair in London Kensington. Over the summer I will go to Portobello market (London W11) on most fridays, and Camden lock market (London NW1) on saturdays and sundays, weather permitting, if it is pouring with rain it makes it difficult for me to display the fairies.

I will try to come back and post more often here, but I know I always prefer to sit in my studio making fairies, crafting is my breathing.

Back from the country living fair

2010-11-18T18:44:00.004+01:00

I just got back from the country living fair, and as usual it didn't disapoint, lovely fair, lovely christmas scents, lovely people :)

Autumn is there

2010-09-21T09:47:00.003+02:00

The nights are getting colder, but the days are quite warm. Yesterday the grapes harvest have started here, and my village that is usually so quiet is buzzing with people. In the champagne region the grapes have to be picked by hands, no machine there.

I am completely immersed in christmas stuff, working three months ahead as usual, and I just would love to skip work to go outside... I really have to force myself to stay anchored to my desk and work, one of those days hey!

Newbies

2010-09-07T08:38:00.004+02:00

The days are shortening, time to forget the garden for a while (still so much things to do before winter though). Even though I seemed to have disappeared from the virtual world, I am still going modeling clay every single day in my studio,which needs a good clear out too !

The little newbies are in the shop right now.

The carnations are in !

2010-07-07T13:24:00.003+02:00

I love carnations, I know they had a bad press for along time , I am thinking of the long-stems- crying-out-for-some-love at the petrol stations ones , these ones are garden ones, the short, pink very smelly ones, love their peppery smell!

In the garden

2010-06-16T15:20:00.004+02:00

I am spending lots of time in the garden right now, and the rest of it I am making fairy cakes for the next exhibition which will be at the RHS flower show in Tatton park . I won't be going on holidays this year, and the most exciting trip I will take will probably be a shopping one around Manchester...But I am very excited just as much as I left for holidays in Italy last year ! I love garden shows, because I can shop too for my garden. And mine is still a very blank canvas except for the wendy house I set up for my daughter a couple of years ago, I though she would be thrilled, she very rarely goes in there...she prefers to climb trees ! But she does enjoy the garden too in her own way !

Eggs and bunnies

2010-03-20T18:53:00.003+01:00

The very tiny ones

2010-03-10T08:14:00.002+01:00

7 Years

2009-12-28T10:02:00.009+01:00

It has been already 7 years since this little rabbit has become the focus of every outing ("did we take rabbit" "do not forget bunny")...And a very full life it had so far, after being with us for ten month her little owner baptised it " dadine"...This little furry thing spent many hours in the washing machine after being torned, pulled, droped, forgotten on the lawn.

This little dadine has visited 7 countries...has been lost several times (many thanks to the kind lady at Marks and Spencer who brought it back to the till ! IT REALLY SAVED THE DAY).

It has been the witness of tooth ache and cries of joy too...

This little rabbit is not abandonned yet, it still goes to bed every night in the (too fast) growing arms of her owner, and she pulls its ears on a regular basis.

When this little rabbit will be very tired I will frame it and look at it every day , forever the reminder of the joy of having my little one, my little toddler who will be seven tomorrow...

To celebrate, this little bunny is going with us to see the Tales of Peter Rabbit at the Royal Opera House, we are very excited to see rabbits with ballet shoes!

My sweet fairy loves snow

2009-12-17T18:35:00.003+01:00

The silly things we get excited about...here we don't get much snow, not very much, not very often, so I couldn't help getting a little bit overexcited (an understatement) when by midday the house looked like it was coated in icing sugar...

I already overdo it a bit at christmas: this year we chose a christmas tree way too big for the cottage sized living room, but we don't care, it has filled the air with scent and that feels good...

Even if It does obstruct the view of the tv slightly from the sofa ...

And tonight I just realised I do suck at snowballs fight...was never very good at aiming at anything !

2009-12-07T07:13:00.000+01:00

Country Living fair 2009

2009-11-26T09:29:00.011+01:00

Back from the country living fair I wasn't able to take lots of pictures as I was stuck to my stand working all day . But I saw that Ruby's mama took quite good ones, and her blog is lovely!

I had a lovely time over there, and I thank all the people who visited me there, you are all so kind !

Sweet november

2009-11-05T21:02:00.005+01:00

For me November used to be just a damp and cold month, not any more... It is still damp and cold, but it is time for a change in my lifestyle. It is time to swap the wellies for the high heels, and the loneliness of my studio for the jolly crowd of christmas fair. I love living in the countryside in my tiny village in my tiny cottage, I love this slow pace of life. But there is nothing more revigorating at the begining of the cold season, than to emigrate a fortnight to busy London. It is just long enough to appreciate the restaurants, the theaters, mmm and the shopping too !

Out with the country girl , I am off to the city!

I may see you there next week with all the baubles on stand D3 at the country living magazine fair.

Scary halloween !

2009-11-01T19:00:00.003+01:00

A day late, I am always behind !

Busy bee

2009-10-15T08:47:00.005+02:00

I am working on sweet unedible stuff for the fair next month. I love it when I manage to produce fake cakes that look perfectly yummy. Some days I wake up thinking what a silly job, doesn't sounds very serious and still it is my "profession".

It always is a very akward moment (for me) when people I just met ask me:

"And what do you do ?

-...Fairies...

-Sorry, I didn't quite get that.

-Fairies, and then faced with their blank look, I mumble again, fairies, you know,... with wings."

Then comes the big "Oh!" pronounced with a tone of commiseration that is quite puzzling to me.

They very often jump to the conclusion that "oh god! poor girl , she must be struggling to make a living."

And in less than two minutes all the credibility and seriousness that I gained slowly over the past ten years (took me quite a while to look my age, when I was 25,some people thought I was 16, I am now 34 and looks it), all this just goes, and they assume I must be one of those silly head in the clouds girl with her head not properly screwed on!

It was the anniversary of my business in september, and it has been going on for 12 years now , so the good side of it, is: when the people who asked me several years ago what I was doing how I am today and they add "Still doing fairies?"

Yep! I still do ! And more than I ever did...

And then comes the "It is a nice little business you have here, working for yourself, nobody to boss you around..."

Yes it is, and I cherish every moment of it.

We are the choices that we make !

Back to school...back to work !

2009-09-05T17:57:00.004+02:00

After long, very long holidays...I can go back to work now that my daughter is back to school, and so I start accumulating stock for the Country Living fair and all the other christmas markets I am going to attend. The blog is bottom on the list of priorities unfortunately . I would love to be able to share all I saw this summer and I have just visited a brilliant trade fair in Paris but I don't think I will ever be able to make time for everything. Hence, as usual a quick picture a quick hello! and back to work!

From the Hampton court flower show

2009-07-12T07:44:00.004+02:00

I visited it for the first time this year, and I have to say it is the best show I have seen ever (it tops Chelsea!)...really worth the trip! It takes about 6 hours just to walk down every corner...so imagine to decide on what to buy!
The british can really be proud of their Royal Horticultural society!

They are back

2009-06-04T19:28:00.001+02:00

I have made those again, I will be putting some in the shop soon.

Roses and lavender

2009-05-30T12:47:00.006+02:00

I visited the Chelsea flower show last week, and I was amazed by the displays, and always puzzled, how do they manage to get all their roses and lavender to flower just for that week, the timing must be something of a nightmare...last week my roses were all in buds but nowhere close to a proper bloom, and with one day of sunshine they all blossomed.Are they putting them back in the fridge if the weather gets too hot ?
Only in this kind of show you can see tulips and roses in bloom together. In my garden I always get a kind of a break between tulips and roses, everything green, but no flowers to be seen...
If you want to see some more pictures of the chelsea flower show, my mother blogged about it there.

60 minutes makeover

2009-03-31T19:58:00.004+02:00

I can honestly say that I can do up a room in less than 12 minutes for less than 3£ !
And it does feel good. I am looking for Cath Kidston wallpaper in a1/12th scale for the living room, I think I will have to use the drawer liner, it will definitely do the job.

My little fairy keeps asking me to bake miniature food for her tiny friends !

The egg has been found

2009-03-24T07:14:00.003+01:00

I have asked my little fairy to draw the winner, and it is Dolce Cotta.
Congratulations communicate me your adress and I will send you the easter egg.

Egg chase...

2009-03-18T16:56:00.003+01:00

I have just added some eggs to the shop. If you want to win a glass egg with a fairy on top please leave a comment in this post and I will hold a draw next monday !

Little cats

2009-03-09T14:42:00.004+01:00

These little ones are just about an inch high...I have been making lots of Easter and spring things since january, and I just got fed up with lime green and yellow.So it looks like I am already starting on christmas stock...

Mushroomania

2009-03-01T21:17:00.001+01:00

Sweet heart

2009-01-26T15:37:00.003+01:00

After a month spent hibernating, I am gradually going back to work, following the season.
The valentine's stock is done and I am currently doing the rabbits and chicks for Easter.

Christmas fairs

2008-12-04T22:42:00.004+01:00

I have left again a month pass without posting...As soon as I got back from London, I was on my way to set up my hometown christmas market stall in a chalet...The country living fair in London was lovely and I met nice people again, the very talented Claire from Elfie and me, and the lovely Cherry from Cherrymenlove.
It was a lovely trip, and I must have been british in another life, I just love british style, I am in love with their polka dots and their faded colour roses...and the fair was full of it.

Sweet christmas

2008-11-04T19:12:00.003+01:00

I am on my way to London to prepare my stand at the Country Living fair in Islington. This year, I will try to take more pictures and post more about this lovely fair...But I always rush from one place to the next so, I just hope I will find some time ...

Fancy a little nap?

2008-10-04T15:08:00.001+02:00

I am preparing my stock for the Country Living Xmas fair , and I have definitely no time for a nap. Every year, however early I try to start on the Christmas decorations, I always tend to fall behind...Getting older I suppose...

Sweet indulgence

2008-09-15T12:22:00.001+02:00

Just like a piece of cake is a sweet indulgence, I have been delighted to discover that the latest novel from Alexander Mc Call Smith will be published online from today, with a chapter every day.This will start my day brilliantly...I love serial novels, the way the intrigue and the character develops, and the icing of the cake is that the readers will be able to voice their wishes for the weeks to come...I suppose it is just like watching a soap, but with all the pleasure of the delightfull writing and the witty insight.

Ich spreche kein deutsche...

2008-09-03T21:20:00.001+02:00

This little fairy is about to depart for Germany, where one of the biggest european craftmarket is held this week end. Need to brush up my german quickly, I think I can remember how to count to ten and that is pretty much it!

Welcome to Betty Bib !

2008-08-06T18:25:00.000+02:00

© Betty Bib

Welcome to Lesley who is behind Betty Bib and good luck with her new blog, her illustrations are lovely, and her fairies so sweet. I do recommend her books too !

Tea party

2008-07-22T15:32:00.000+02:00

The fairies are closing shop for a week until the 28th of july, they are going to have a nice tea party!

Girly graffiti

2008-06-26T22:14:00.001+02:00

I am working on children's room graffiti. And I am spending time in my garden taking care of the roses ... watching my tomatoes grow has to take priority over spending time on the computer!

Sweet fairy

2008-06-10T19:58:00.000+02:00

They definitely do have a sweet tooth...

Sweet polka dots

2008-06-09T09:04:00.000+02:00

My mother loves polka dots.She is now painting on them.

It really does take the biscuit !

2008-05-29T19:10:00.000+02:00

I am awarding myself the worst blog award, I seem to never be able to find time to write a proper post...just rushing through things, I can find five minutes to do it but never ten...and I am ashamed of the state of my garden at the moment, so I will be either weeding or making fairies but not blogging.Oh! and I am feeling guilty about it, just like a little girl not doing her homework.Personal message to Ruby Begonias, I would like to talk to you but your comment doesn't link back to a blog , and I do not know how to contact you.

Sweetness is back

2008-05-23T14:38:00.000+02:00

As usual on my way to somewhere, no time to stop, I should be kicked out of blogging ;)!

A naughty one...

2008-04-29T12:17:00.000+02:00

2008-04-20T18:02:00.000+02:00

The pocket fairy

2008-04-02T21:18:00.000+02:00

2008-03-24T11:39:00.000+01:00

Spring is coming

2008-03-05T18:01:00.000+01:00

I am trying to do some spring cleaning, but I am not much of a homemaker unfortunately.I would rather go in my little attic , and make some new fairies...

I feel like sleeping in a cabbage

2008-02-17T15:36:00.000+01:00

I am working on different new fairies for baby christening. I have no enthusiasm at the moment, I am suffering from a very common infection that has affected many of my fellow crafters since the invention of the internet, The copycats (in my case they are all french, and they even copy the titles of my posts from my french blog, it feels like looking at yourself in a funny mirror). Well I suppose it is the downside of the internet, will resort to eating chocolate in front of the weekly rerun of Eastenders to cheer me up.

A winter heart

2008-02-06T16:23:00.000+01:00

© Claudine Ponsard
The snow drops came out last week in my garden. And here is a heart that my mother painted. As long as i can remember, she always had a paint brush in her hand every single day . When i was 8 she gave up a very secure job to become a crafter...I guess the apple doesn't fall far from the tree ! She is the one who started selling my things when I was just 13 (I was very proud to get my own money then). So as a just return, i helped set up her shop on the internet.

The fairy bunnies

2008-02-04T16:03:00.000+01:00

I really enjoy working on things with lovely spring colours.These bunnies are available in the shop.

Marie Claire Idées

2008-01-30T21:07:00.000+01:00

Marie claire Idées may be a magazine that have just 4 issues a year (one per season), but they always have beautiful crafts projects. I know it is a french magazine, hence in french, so you may wonder why I post about it here, but i noticed quite a lot of english speaking people love their pictures as well as we do in France.This month the magazine launched their blog, so yes it is in french (pity they don't translate it!) but you can still click on the links they give you, and at the moment they are showing a beautiful photo gallery of crafts room...

A spring bunch !

2008-01-27T09:38:00.001+01:00

Happy new year!

2008-01-21T16:53:00.000+01:00

I left it a little bit late to send you my best wishes for the new year, and i have no excuse for it.

I went on holidays and lazed around for three weeks...Now it is back to the drawing board, i am working on spring and easter stock. I will post some pictures soon.

Christmas and the "cottage industry"

2007-12-08T22:26:00.000+01:00

If I didn't have a daughter who loves unpacking the christmas decorations, I don't know if I would have the "courage" to have a tree. Christmas is incredibly important to my small business (I have just discovered that in english it could be qualified as "cottage industry", and it does suits it so well, as i live and work in a cottage where you couldn't swing a cat, but it is a lovely place).Unfortunately, I miss the cheer of the xmas season, no time to bake and invite friends, clean the house and give it a xmas feel. The xmas market where I sell most of the fairies in december is open until the 27th, hence no rest, no time...The cottage industry is not a business type, it feels like a way of life, with its good sides and the independence it gives, but its downsides too.
The feeling of having to forget the dust in the corners because i have to devote all my time to making fairies...To be a crafter making a living, i don't think there is another way...

From Country living christmas fair 2007

2007-11-20T16:50:00.000+01:00

I swapped the grey for a very deep moss green...Plenty things to show and tell from my two weeks in London but just no time now, bills letters and about hundred mails to answer to (i didn't have a wifi connection at my London accomodation!).

From chaos to tidyness?

2007-11-10T00:55:00.000+01:00

Actually that just might be from tydiness to a chaos of fairies.You can still visit me on the stand at the London Olympia until sunday.And next week at the business design center in Islington at the Country living fair.

The stressed out fairy...

2007-11-02T12:38:00.000+01:00

I am getting ready for my London fortnight with the spirit of xmas fair exhibition and The Country Living Fair , and i confess that i am really stressed out, trying to tie loose ends and not forgetting anything. London is a lovely city, but i know it is quite a difficult one regarding parking and all transports.

I will be on my stand (if I am not wandering around and doing my own christmas shopping: temptations ahead !) and as usual i will be with my paint brush writing anything you would like me to write on fairylike xmas baubles.

So if you want to celebrate a new baby, or your other half, i will be delighted to customize a bauble for you.

I will be on stand D139 (in the central alley near the champagne bar) at the Spirit of Xmas fair and D2A ( straight left after the main entrance) at the Country Living fair.Impatient to be there!

2007-09-24T19:05:00.000+02:00

If imagination doesn't run out, time does and i feel behind with christmas stock just as I always do at this time of the year, I need a second pair of hands...Regarding this bauble inspiration , i think i spend too much time daydreaming in the new Cath Kidston catalogue...

Once upon a time

2007-08-24T12:40:00.000+02:00

My wolf is not really frightening...

Inspiration

2007-08-20T19:03:00.000+02:00

I have been asked quite often where my inspiration came from, for this fairy it was page 63 of the US magazine "Romantic Home" issue of july 2007.Show me a beautifull picture and a fairy will pop up in my head, this one is a work in progress: she doesn't have her skirt yet.

Inspirational blog

2007-08-17T12:05:00.000+02:00

Here is the kind of things i am working on, still on christmas stock...
This baubles inspiration came after having a look of the "style me pretty" blog, which is about wedding styling, and although i am not personally concerned by the matter I love looking at the pictures, it is amazing the contrentation of "prettiness"!The inspiration board are beautiful, another example of the delightful creativity going on in the blogging world.
This baubles inspiration came from the picture of a cake.

Sweet sight

2007-08-10T21:16:00.001+02:00

This is a corner of my studio, i am addicted to polka dots and jingle bells.

Mixed seasons

2007-08-05T16:26:00.001+02:00

It is the middle of summer and i am in full christmas mode!i tend to do baubles with summery colours though.

the headache of stand setting

2007-07-28T22:42:00.000+02:00

I need to hurry up now to sort out my stand for the christmas fairs, and start making the list of what i will need.It might seem a bit early but actually it is not, i will soon have to send the stand design to the exhibitions organizers, and i still have my doubts.

I am not a stylist and i don't know where to start, and i have so many restrictions to think about...First i don't have a lorry so I can't take a big amount of furniture to set it as nicely I would like to, and the stands are very small especially the Country Living fair one (2 meters by 1.5m !).

I have quite a little collection of french plaster frames, and i think the fairies will sit nicely in them, but i still haven't found a idea to present the baubles nicely.

Another of my problems is: where to hide the stock that i will need to keep on stand on busy days...?bearing in mind the square footage...

If you have an idea, please let me know, i am running out of inspiration...

my little fairy's room

2007-07-23T19:27:00.001+02:00

I haven't been much on the computer lately hence the blog lacks some attention. I had to transform this mess in the first picture into the "tidy" second one.I am in the middle of home improvements and I am happy to feel that soon my tiny cottage will go back to normal (an improved version of what it was) , a few more days and I will get my bathroom back, brand new ! I am very happy with the cath kidston wallpaper, I looked for polka dots for ages and found it in the Cath Kidston shop on kings road in London. After all this mess I will be glad to go back to the fairy making I am already starting on the christmas stock and will post pictures of the baubles soon.

the daffodil fairy

2007-06-27T15:24:00.000+02:00

We have a very cold windy weather, april was much better than june turns out to be...so the daffodil fairy is making a come back!

Leisure time...

2007-06-20T20:26:00.000+02:00

Because making fairies is work and feels like always the same routine, I decided to have fun with violets today...but i don't have a green dress or a lilac one...will need something to wear with it!

Another shop !

2007-06-09T20:46:00.000+02:00

I have set up last week a mini shop on etsy and was sending my french customers who wanted fairies there, but i always tend to forget that most french don't understand a word of english and they came back to me a bit grumpy that they didn't know how to use the site.

But European crafters, we have now our little competitor called DAwanda of the big Etsy, in english, german , and french...Just like Europe it is friendly but a bit confusing. Your products can feature in the homepage but will only appear in the country section of the language you have registered them, and you may have them in all the countries you wish but you have to do the translation yourself...hum hum, not sure i can still count up to ten in german...
The people who have set up this site are quite friendly and need as much feedback as they can get, the site being just about a month old.So contrary to etsy it is free to regiter items, for now until they get successfull, and they just take a comission on the sales.

You can click on the picture to go to my "european" shop and visit dawanda to maybe set a shop of your own;)

mother and daughter

2007-06-08T17:51:00.001+02:00

My mother is a painter and she started to paint fairies on canevas with my fairy.Ironically i haven't got a clue about drawing !

Fairies for adoption

2007-05-31T14:03:00.001+02:00

Today i took time to sort out a little shop on Etsy, and this little strawberry fairy is for sale. It took me longer than i thought, but it is all done now ! I had thought about it for a while, but the problem we have here in France is the shipping cost.

I went to the post office several times to ask about pricing of shiping they never have a clear answer.The national post service offers no great service i am afraid, and the cost are very high ! The smallest parcel to send in France can't cost under 5.10 euros, and i am receiving sometimes fabrics from USA and i just pay 4$ for shipping ! As for international shipping they have no clear readable price policy...In 2008 our national post office will have to share the market with private companies, i hope it will force them to review their service !

A little mouse

2007-05-26T10:31:00.000+02:00

Inspiration comes by chance, i ususally find something lovely and try to incorporate it with the fairies, it can be a fabric, a ribbon or a little charm. I found little mouse charms and wanted to put them on fairy skirts, but had to make the relevant fairy for a mouse! So here's fairy cat !
Thank you for all your lovely comments, I will get around the website with an e-shop soon and will post about it as soon as it is sorted out. But i have to confess i am better at clay than at IT.

The petit beurre fairy

2007-05-22T23:22:00.000+02:00

When i was a little girl, the after school snack was a "petit beurre" (a biscuit) and a piece of black chocolate. Just the colours that will go with the new dots ribbons that i found there.

I am living in the countryside, and sourcing the kind of ribbons and fabrics i look for has become so easy with internet, when i think about the number of times i looked for the "good" size gros grain, in the right shade. Internet shopping has made my life so much easier, and very inspiring too !

Fairy sighting

2007-05-04T20:17:00.000+02:00

With the first roses in my garden...

And fairies will appear there too in November, managed to get through the vetting process of the "Spirit of Christmas" fair by House and Garden magazine. I have to confess i am slightly nervous about it, i am a tiny company...Just a crafter working on my own, and i am wondering if i am not going to feel lost in the middle of all the "big " ones. When i did the "christmas country living fair" in London 3 years ago, I realised we were just a handfull making christmas decoration entirely by hands, and it can be daunting to try to compete with the mass product imported stuff. When i sign the contract for stand space, i am always wondering what should i put in "postion in the company": owner? director? self employed person?
Or shall i say "doing all from paper work to cleaning"...I am not complaining though, all the decisions meetings are between myself and I !

Big thinking for small spaces...

2007-04-24T22:25:00.000+02:00

I tidied up my work space lately, i work in the attic in a very small space (which i like anyway). I don't need much room for the "fairy factory", but i have accumulated craft supplies over the years and they sometimes do need reorganizing. I try to make use of every inch in my attic.

And sometimes at exhibitions too:I have applied to the Country Living Christmas fair this year with the fairies and christmas baubles, and i will really have to think about how to arrange my space , it is the smallest stall i ever had (2 meters by 1.5!) and i am trying to think about how to optimize it...browsing the net for new ideas.Haven't quite yet found the "this is it" moment...

The macaron fairy

2007-04-17T11:04:00.000+02:00

There is a trend in decoration for "cute" food : in France we have very little "fairy cakes", slowly i see some recipes and pictures of them appear on french blogs, but we are crazy for "macarons". They are now everywhere, they used to be something that you could only find in very refined patisseries, such as the master of macaron, Ladurée (which did extremely beautifull cakes for the "Marie Antoinette" movie) . Nowadays macarons are sold in my local supermarket !

The Easter bunny fairy

2007-04-04T18:49:00.000+02:00

I got inspired by the season and i got beautifull easter ribbons i was looking to do something with.

The cherry fairies:mother and daughter

2007-04-01T21:15:00.000+02:00

This is the first "fairy hug" i do , and this one will not be for sale. For once i accepted to leave this fairies with my daughter, and i realised that she is very much entitled to it, as she doesn't even have one in her bedroom and she is four !
I have my nose on them everyday, i simply forgot we didn't have a single one in the house except my studio...

Love polka dots

2007-03-19T22:42:00.000+01:00

I went to the country living fair in London on friday and was able to find beautifull ribbons from Caroline Zoob , i am impatient to find a use for them in the fairies.I saw many beautifull stands and love all the britishness of it, very different from french crafts !

I also went to the "ideal home show" i had never been before and found it smaller than i expected it to be. But i still managed to find beautifull fabrics that are very different from what we find in the average fabric store in France...polka dots and english rose : i love this combination!

Talking to flowers

2007-03-12T20:41:00.000+01:00

A new fairy in the garden...looks cheerfull, just like me...ah! spring !

Fairy making or gardening ?

2007-03-10T14:47:00.000+01:00

Beautifull sun today, and this is one of the down side of working from home, i would rather be in the garden than locked up doing fairies ! I adore my job and i cherish the freedom it gives me, but i have been "behind " since i started this job. There is always one type of fairies missing from the stock, a new idea that i have to try and not enough hours in the day to do it!

I never get bored, i don't have the time to...wish i could go gardening but I have an exhibition coming up at the end of the week. I may stick a picture of my garden in my workshop !

The english rose fairy

2007-03-06T14:13:00.000+01:00

I received new fabrics from www.shabbyfabrics.com and couldn't help starting straight away on new flower fairies. I haven't taken out the fairies with skirts to exhibitions yet...i hope they will behave and find new families promptly.

Sweet planet

2007-03-01T13:37:00.000+01:00

A new planet in fairy galaxy : a very sweet one...

Spring yellow

2007-02-24T15:11:00.000+01:00

Fairies ready to go out, in the garden...

Corner of my home

2007-02-16T22:46:00.000+01:00

A little corner of my studio inhabited by fairies...one corner where the mess doesn't show !

I am invaded by fabric and laces, ribbons and buttons...i tidy it up a bit every day, but i mess it up abit every day too...

Liberty fairy

2007-02-13T13:34:00.000+01:00

I was abit stuck last week , not inspired at all...and then just watching at liberty fabrics and inspiration came back.So here they are my new friends with their delicate skirts !

Pixie brooches

2007-02-07T21:07:00.000+01:00

I have been running around in London all week end looking for polka dots fabrics to make new brooches...And except oilcloth, couldn't track any ! And after a look in "le quartier st Pierre" in Monmartre in Paris,( where i was told that it was too early in the season to find polka dots fabric in the shop: "it is not spring yet"), I ended up using bits and pieces i had left over...

If any of you know where i could find spring colors fabric with polka dots(in the UK or France), please help my ignorance!

Baby fairy planet

2007-01-30T18:23:00.000+01:00

A little fairy planet to welcome a new born baby...Looking for new inspiration for new born...if only i knew how to sew properly !

Strawberry mad !

2007-01-29T17:42:00.000+01:00

This are the strawberry planets where you eat only jam and charlotte!
I am working a lot around the strawberry theme!

2007-01-29T17:38:00.000+01:00

This is the strawberry fairy, she has mini strawberries hanging from her skirt and a little gold strawberry charm...

Put socks on little fairy !

2007-01-23T23:29:00.000+01:00

I was starting to get on with my spring fairies, having already some flowers coming out in the garden, forgetting that we were only in january...and not in march !

But winter is coming : although i have a very nice fire (which takes ages to start in the morning, but that is cottage life!) I get cold feet !

Bye Bye spring fairies, where are my warm socks ?

Fairies and Tea

2007-01-21T19:29:00.000+01:00

"Please don't eat me or you will break a tooth ! "

2007-01-21T13:44:00.000+01:00

This are the only fairy cakes i am able to bake, unfortunately they are for decoration purpose only, even if they appear to be full of sugar!

The charlotte fairy

2007-01-20T17:46:00.000+01:00

This is my version of the charlotte fairy; tomorrow i will introduce you to the fairy cakes, the only ones i can bake are unfortunately not edible!

Spring Fairies

2007-01-19T12:09:00.000+01:00

With all the wind and rain we have at the moment, i fancy making spring fairies with nice sweet colours...

A little word...

2007-01-14T19:22:00.000+01:00

I have been given a word, a beautifull word, one for a fairy to sleep on...

Is it spring ?

2007-01-14T11:02:00.000+01:00

- Very untypical weather we have at the moment in the north of France...And today the sun is shining as if the tulips were ready to come out !
This global warming is putting my inspiration into spring mode: no jack-the-frost-fairy this year then !

another new year resolution!

2007-01-13T18:56:00.000+01:00

Another new year resolution will be to clean the fairy factory, it is not a nest but a mess!

new year resolution

2007-01-13T13:12:00.000+01:00

To start the new year iam starting a new blog, and my fairies too!
Please bear with us because the fairies are clumsy and on top of that i am french !
Anyway, we wish you a warm welcome in our little fairyland...hope to see you again...new fairies coming soon after i have cooked them!