Hey everyone! I'm so excited to have my friend, Nicole from My Garden Diaries over here today to share a super fun DIY project with you all! I especially love posting this today because we are getting slammed with snow at this very moment! Anything that makes me think of spring for sure has me smiling!
Hi! My name is Nicole and I'm so excited to be here with you today! First of all, I wanted to thank Angela for inviting me to share this little garden project with all of you on her fantastic blog! It's a fun and easy one to inspire all things garden in the coming months!
You will need a tree stump, hot glue guns, drill, screws, and a collection decorative bits for your fairy and gnome house.
The fun thing about the decorative bits is that you can use anything! Seashells, stones, moss, twigs, bark, beads, dried flowers or even buttons! Just look around your home to see what you can find and make sure you invite the kiddos to create with you because this is a project they will love!
Now it's time to use your imagination and start mapping out where your door or little fairy swing will go! Begin by hot gluing your pieces on your house...it's that easy! I used a drill to screw down the large pieces of bark for my roof but everything else was attached with hot glue.
When setting up your house in the garden be sure to place a piece of tile under your stump to help keep the base of your house on a sturdy and dry surface. Though no worries about your house getting a little wet in the rain. Ours made it through many storms!
And there you have it! A simple fairy and gnome garden house!
Happy Gardening!
Thank you so much, Nicole! This project looks like so much fun! A couple of years ago my boys read The Spiderwick Chronicles and were completely enamored with sprites so we made a little house for them with natural materials in our garden, but this is so, so much cooler!
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Thank you so much, Nicole! This project looks like so much fun! A couple of years ago my boys read The Spiderwick Chronicles and were completely enamored with sprites so we made a little house for them with natural materials in our garden, but this is so, so much cooler!
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Adorable! My daughter would love to make this for our garden!
ReplyDeleteCute, I shared it on FB with my garden group! I am so ready to get out in my yard, garden, shop....it is just way nasty and cold! simplebutfabulous.blogspot.com
ReplyDeleteFABULOUSLY FUN project! Adorable - one the little ones would LOVE, all the way! Newest Follower here at Number Fifty-Three - excited to look around. Have met and chatted with Nicole through her lovely blog for a year now...hoping to meet her in real life, one day. Such a creative soul! Happy Wednesday - Tanya
ReplyDeleteVery cool, or wait... we say 'epic' now right? I love gnomes makes me think of Norway and mysterious forests... must make this in the spring!
ReplyDeleteThis is brilliant Nicole!! Thank you for hosting Nicole's post Angela! xx
ReplyDeleteVery cute Nicole. I wish I had thought to do this about 6 years ago when my daughter was into fairies and such.
ReplyDeleteI love your fairy house Nicole, it is so fun, I think I was just inspired to have my kids do one this spring! They would love it! Thanks!
ReplyDeleteSo cute, Nicole. We need some spring around here as well. Just when I was thinking it was headed our way, we get hit with the "Artic Blast." Soooo cold today! Glad I came by to check out your project.
ReplyDeleteThis is perfectly charming! I would love a little fairy & gnome house if I actually had a garden but I live in an apt. building.
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Thanks so much for having me friend!!! All the best to you this week! Nicole xoxo
ReplyDeleteThis is adorable!!
ReplyDeleteI love Nicole's little fairy gardens and all of the projects she does with her "Little Beans".
ReplyDeleteThis is so cute! I can't WAIT until its spring and I can get back in my garden!!
ReplyDeleteI love the gnome tree house...more so.. my grand daughters would love the gnome house! They both love making little things like that! I now have to find a tree stump! Thanks for sharing... Nicole sent me over!
ReplyDeleteI've linked to you on my blog..look forward to following!
ReplyDeleteNicole's fairy garden is adorable and this project is very kid friendly too!
ReplyDeleteLove your little fairy house, Nicole! I'm counting the days until the baby's old enough to make one and wondering if my eight year old is still un-jaded enough to get into it :)
ReplyDeleteHey, cool project Nicole! The shape of the stump is great too with that hollow branch piece. I love these fairy houses (although I've never made one), but maybe next time I come across an old stump I'll know exactly how to use it properly ;) Wendy x
ReplyDeleteStopping over from Nicole's blog. I love the way she involved the kids in this project. Their collaborative effort is wonderful.
ReplyDeleteWhat an adorable idea! We have lots of rotten/cut tree trunks in our forest backyard and I think I'll try this idea. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteoh Nicole.. another fab job my friend! And thank you for sending us to number fifty three... it's great to stop by new blogs :) Hazel x
ReplyDeleteThat is the cutest thing EVER! You're truly so creative, Nicole!
ReplyDeleteWhat a cute idea, one to store away for the future (or maybe i could make one just for me!) x
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