It's Suuuuumertime...make some faux flower tea lights

Here's a fun & easy summer project. Now that the weather is warm, it is time to eat supper out on the terrace, deck or picnic table. Faux flower tea lights are easy and fun to make! Group a bunch of them together on your dinner table and they will safely cast a warm glow ...and if you make enough of them, you can actually see your dinner!

I found very cool faux tea lights at the craft store. I know you can't really see the light in this picture, but don't worry, it's in there! They are little white round thingies with a plastic flame on top & are powered by little replaceable batteries. They flicker a bit like real candlelight and if you place one inside a faux flower, it makes a wonderful bit of light to eat dinner by.

Take the fluffiest faux flower you can find and pull it off the stem. (No, this doesn't hurt!) The one above is a white peony. Next, separate the petal layers, keeping them in order. Each petal circle will have a small hole in the center which you have to enlarge by making an "X" with an exacto knife.

Starting with the largest petal circle facing up , insert the plastic flame into the hole (from the bottom) , pushing petal down to the base of the flame. Add each layer until the flower is complete. You don't even need to glue them in place. You can , however, hot glue some leaves underneath the flower if you like. I almost forgot to tell you to add a glittered bumblebee to the flower. Just wind its wire stem around a thin cylinder such as a thin paintbrush, to make a coil and leave a straight section at the end farthest from the bee. Put a dab of hot glue inside the flower and stick the straight end of the wire into it and hold it for to seconds until the glue sets. Now your bee is hovering over the blossom and the coiled wire gives it a special "boing"!

The tealight has a little switch on the base which turns it on and off. Each will light up for about 7 hours or so. Be sure to pick up an extra batch of batteries.

I can't seem to keep myself from making little boxes with flowers and bees on top. This is a small oval box with three flowers clustered on top & a glittered bumblebee, of course! I filled it with dried lavender so it not only pleases my eye, but my nose, too!

All hail, the queeeeeeen!

The Glitter Fairy has been dreaming up new glittery surprises...and voila! Crowns! The one above is for the "Queen Bee", perfect for a birthday party or special occasion for that DIVA in your life---that could be YOU!!!
I couldn't resist putting a glittery silvered bumblebee right smack in the middle! It's trimmed with vintage tinsel, rhinestones and a gazillion yards of lavender silk ribbon (actually...7 yards each side X 2 types of ribbons= an over-the-top 14 yards! Can't have too much silk ribbon - or glitter- I always say!)


The back is covered in beautiful pink swirly paper, with a banner for you to write something special and a spot for the Diva du Jour's name.

This pink crown above is my dragonfly crown. A beautiful silk flower is being visited by a glittered champagne pink dragonfly. Rhinestones, tinsel & ribbons complete the front, and the back has a place for your name. I handwrote "Made by the Glitter Fairy" in the banner.

Crowns can make a dreary day sparkle, a child giggle and a 40th birthday party rock! And what FUN to make.

I will be doing a "Diva du Jour Crowns" workshop soon so stay tuned...I will also be selling these soon at the studio and at my etsy store.

I may have trouble parting with them, however!!!!!

You can't help but feel SPECIAL with one of these babies on your head!

You're really not gonna believe this....

Just for the heck of it, I watched the promo for tomorrow's Martha show, just to see if I was really going to be on. There I was, in all my glittered glory...YAY!!!...but then, I clicked on the Friday promo preview and there was Joan Rivers (hey, wasn't she on the other show I was on???)...and...guess what??? This is really wierd! Yup, little ol' me will be on Friday's show, too! ( Must be a really slow news week...)

I am just blown away...two days in a row on national TV...
The Glitter Gods are really, really, really smiling down on me.
Can't really absorb it. But what fun! Glitter Rules!
See ya tomorrow at 10am.
See ya Friday at 10am.

We love reruns!

Holy hamburger, I'm on Martha again!!!!!

Imagine my surprise this morning as I was eating my breakfast while watching The Martha Stewart Show, when suddenly I saw myself in a promo for Thursday's show!!!!! I nearly choked on my toast! It's rare that I actually watch TV in the morning, but tuning in just as my face flashed across the screen was just too wild!!! So if you missed it last time on April 4th, here's your chance to chuckle as the glitter flies with Martha. We made glittered bunny centerpieces and cabbage baskets. Here's the link to the promo... Just click at the top on the Thursday June 7th show to watch the preview.

I am so blessed to be given this wonderful exposure. Martha has been so good to me. She's "A Good Thing" in my book!

Glitter 101 Workshop

What fun we had last Saturday in Seymour! Seven terriffic ladies joined me for an afternoon of glitter, flowers, bumblebees and glittered cupcakes!

I shared everything I know about my favorite material, glitter, and together we made flower & bumblebee trinket boxes, glittered monogram letters and cards & tags. What a great bunch of glitter girlz...

















These gals (below) even came all the way up from Texas. (They win the award for travelling the greatest distance!)

The afternoon flew by as we picked flowers for our trinket boxes.








We painted, glued and glittered!

These glitter chix and their mom ( below ) were soooooo cute!

A good time was had by all, especially ME, and I can't wait to do it again. More workshops are coming so stay tuned!
A special thank you goes to Bronwyn Evans, who graciously hosted this workshop in her gallery, Zoe & Floyd. She won't soon forget this day, and try as we might to clean up each and every flake of glitter, there will always be a trace of me...The Glitter Fairy leaves a trail!

Spring Gift Tags sprinkled with You-Know-What...

Made up a new batch of gift tags yesterday in Spring greens, pinks and blues, perfect for that little present for someone.



I'll be taking these to a great little shop in Wilton, CT, Stewart Flowers & Gifts, where they sell my cards and other seasonal products. They have wonderful flowers as well as gifts for the gardner, soaps, candles, urns and lots of other nifty home accents. Stop by and tell them "The Glitter Fairy" sent you!

Gloriously glittery & green...

Aren't they scrumptious? I love doing monogram letters and stringing them up on silk ribbons.

They're fun and great for the bulletin board, as a gift or wine bottle tie-on... or just to hang somewhere in your world. ( On a mirror, in a window, on your Christmas tree... ) These are for a client of one of the stores that carry my stuff. I know a little girl who is gonna have a big smile on her face soon!




By the way, now we're down to 6 days til Jennifer's Jen-o-licious SisBoom show! Click here for her website where you can see all her yummy designs. Do try to stop by. It is waaaaay too much fun! Not only will you get to see the one-and-only Jennifer, you'll see George, her incredible ( and gorgeous ) dog!

Oh yeah, there's great stuff there to buy, too! Maybe I'll see you there!

C-ya

Memorial Day 2007

It was a picture perfect day here in our little town and this is what we saw on our way to the pancake breakfast & parade. Pink blossoms were bursting everywhere. Folks came out from under their rocks, said hello to each other and we all celebrated our town, our country and those who have served it.

I think it is my most favorite day of the year. Great weather, fellowship and...pancakes!

Doesn't get any better than that! Hope yours was great, too.

13 days and counting......

SisBoom's Annual Spring Show

Yes, it's only a hop, skip and jump away from Jennifer's fabulous Annual Spring Show ! And I hope you can all hop, skip and perhaps even drive on over to see this amazing event.

I've had the wonderful pleasure of knowing Jennifer for many years, and I can tell you first-hand that she is an amazing person. Not only is she the most talented & creative person I know, but she is also the kindest & nicest person I know. A true friend...AND, her show is THE BEST and most fun of all!!! You'll find the coolest mix of stuff, from fabrics of course (her new ModGirls is gorgeous) to pillows, dresses & all manner of clothes done up in her signature fabrics, as well as whimsical paper creations beyond your wildest dreams. I can't even explain all the wonders you will see. It is indeed a treat for the senses and always great fun!

Hop, skip or crawl over to:

SisBoom's Annual Spring Show

40 East Meadow Road

Wilton, CT 06897

June 7th, 8th & 9th from 9 - 7.

203-761-0442

I hope I'll see you there...

Hey, lookey what I made!

In my never ending quest to find new ways to use glitter, I came up with another project. ..fun, easy and a great way to dress up your chandelier or small dressing table lamp.


I just found a little bitty lampshade, suitable for a chandelier, glittered it in Chrysalis green (www.artglitter.com) , then glued faux fern fronds around it. Of, course, I added three glittered bumblebees for fun. I dry brushed the leaves with a bit of glue and dusted with a little more glitter. (Can't have TOO much glitter!) I think these would look swell at a garden party or any time you want to add a touch of whimsey.

Please let me know what kind of glittery projects you are up to.

Wishing you all a wonderful ( and sparkling ) holiday weekend!

Busy as a bee...

The Glitter Fairy never seems to stop.

Yesterday, I was making up some projects for my upcoming Glitter 101 Workshop at Zoe & Floyd Gallery this Saturday. We will be making glittered trinket boxes out of papier-mache boxes, faux bumblebees, silk ribbons & faux flowers. What a beautiful way to celebrate Spring!

Lately, I've been putting bumblebees into everything I make...except pasta sauce! I love to see them hover over a flower. I usually wire them onto 18" floral wire and sell them for floral displays or potted plants. Of course, they are always dusted with you-know-what!

Pink fairy dust in a jar!

My new friend, Linda, of restyled home, was daydreaming the other day about having an apothocary jar full of beautiful pink glitter. So in her honor, I filled a sweet jar with one of my favorites, Miss Muffet (www.artglitter.com) and took a picture to share with Linda and all of you. Glitter is a wonderful thing...it makes me smile, and this jar makes me laugh out loud with joy! Hopefully it will bring a smile to your face, too. Next I'm going to help Linda get her own jar of glorious pink glitter.

Today I have been working on some new products and this fern basket was born from a faux bird's nest, a cluster of faux fern foliage, twigs, a faux bumblebee, Angelina fiber and of course, the most important thing, glitter.
I popped a few faux eggs in for good measure. Do you think the local birds will come by and try to hatch them??? (Not if that ferocious little bumblebee has anything to do with it!)

The Glitter Fairy Takes a Field Trip to "Glitter Heaven"...

Yesterday I flew the coop and made a pilgrimage to "the source"...no, not Poland Spring, silly...a glitter factory. Yes, I , through an amazing coincidence, met a person ( on a plane ) whose father actually invented modern-day glitter , and a trip to my kind of heaven was planned. Back in the 1930's, when German glass glitter was no longer available because of WWII, a wonderful gentleman invented a way to make glitter here in the good old US. This family-owned company manufactures top-of-the-line glitter that is sold all over the world, as well as sequins and all manner of shiney stuff. The best part is that it is located smack in the middle of a gorgeous farm so I got to see cows with their newborn calves and fat French Geese waddling about. What a wonderful place! It just doesn't get any better than this for a Glitter Fairy! I had sooooooooo much fun and am thrilled to say I finally met someone who loves glitter MORE than I do! Is that even possible???

Time for the Storks...

Now that it is really Spring around here, new babies won't be far behind...and I found a wonderful new stamp to welcome the little ones to the world.
( It's almost worth having another baby just to get one of these beauties )...Only kidding, but the Anna Griffin stamp I used to make this is absolutely delicious...it stamps beautifully and makes a charming card. I stamped this on a white Crane's Gift Enclosure Card with matching envelope in Sky Blue (ColorBox Pigment ink), and added the word "Congratulations". ( Oh, how I love those Anna Griffin stamps!)

FYI - I am working on my own line of rubber stamps. Just need more hours in each day! I KNOW you all know that feeling.

It's turning into a gorgeous Sunday in this neck of the woods. Hope you can get outside to enjoy this Spring weather.

Wishing you a sunny day...

Oh, the things you can do with a faux cabbage!

How I love faux cabbages...their colors are so vibrant, the leaves so soft and they are a really nifty craft element. The baskets I made for Easter were a big hit (Martha ordered 6 green ones for her own Easter table!) and were fun to make. Yes, your fingertips do get a bit scorched but it's worth it because the little baskets are so sweet.

Now I've gone a little cabbage crazy and made one into a lamp shade. Waddaya think? Cute, no? I just used a small lampshade and hot glued the cabbage leaves onto it, starting at the bottom and overlapped them. I trimmed the top ones and wrapped them around the top of the shade and glued them in place. I dry brushed a bit of glue on the leaves, dusted with you know what and voila, a lampshade even Peter Rabbit would love!

Dabbling with artichokes...

Started messing around with one of my faux artichokes today, and instead of making an ornament for the Christmas tree or window, as I usually do, I made it into this sweet little basket with a twig handle. My cabbage baskets were such fun to make so I thought I'd try with an artichoke. It would make a great place card holder at a Spring dinner party or it could hold some candies or chocolates. ( My brain is in a "chocolate" mode today! )
After disassembling an artichoke (ouch!) , I painted the inside of a small papier-mache box green, then glued the artichoke leaves around the box in concentric rings. The handle is just honeysuckle vines cut into 12" lengths and twirled around a bit and hot glued in place. Couldn't be easier. Of course, I dusted it with a bit of fairy dust for that little extra something! Let me know what you all think...