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Autumn’s Arrival in the Fairy Garden: Three Themes to Celebrate Fall and Halloween

The first official week of fall turned out to be a good time to revamp my fairy gardens to match the season, after planning out the themes in early August and choosing any accessories I needed to order by early September. I spent the first day of fall adorning Acorn Hollow, conjured up Witch’s Brew the next evening and threw a Black Cat Halloween Party the day after that. Acorn Hollow Lately I’ve been going nuts for acorns as an autumn motif! I’ve been seeing them everywhere: in fall decor, outside on the ground…

Flurry’s Garden: A Memorial Tribute in Miniature for a Very Special Cat

My first fairy garden design of the year might well turn out to be my favorite. I am obsessed with this little pink and white fairy garden celebrating my sweet angel kitty named Flurry whom I was privileged to spend my life with for 18 years. She passed away a year ago in April and I miss her so much. But I have found some cheerful ways to celebrate her life, such as with this fairy garden and a cat planter my mom gave me for my birthday last year, shown below planted last summer with pink and purple flowers…

Autumn Magic in the Miniature Garden

As I write this post on the first day of autumn, signs of fall are appearing despite the warm weather.  Leaves are swirling down on my deck, my mums are blooming, and spider webs are cropping up all over my yard.  It’s finally time for the fall décor to come out!  Last week I finished transforming my summer fairy gardens into fall themed miniature scenes.  Overall, the plants in my fairy gardens fared very well this year despite our hot, dry summer and I didn’t have a lot of dead growth to remove…