Creative Crafting

A couple of weeks ago the children next door found a toad in the yard and wanted to put it in my pond.   So over they came (5 and 3) to place the toad in the water.   I had to remind them not to step on the flowers…the little girl asked me why and I could have stated the obvious about killing my flowers, but instead I told them that my garden was full of fairies and gnomes, and that if they weren’t careful they would hurt the little people.

Of course, this led to more questions about what were fairies and gnomes and how come they couldn’t see them, where did they hide and so forth. We sat on my porch eating Ed’s chocolate chip cookies and milk for about an hour and talked about fairies and gnomes. If you have inquisitive children of your own I am sure you can imagine the questions put to me. Their mother was just as enraptured by the questions and answers as she was by Ed’s cookies!

So to make a long story short…they come over regularly now to check for fairies and gnomes always very careful not to step on my plants.  I have put a few “fairies” made of polymer clay out in the garden for their enjoyment and mine!

If you are wondering where I get my ideas it is mainly from this book:

I am currently working on my first gnome…it is not too bad, can’t wait to show it off!

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