I started making 1/144 scale fairy houses several years ago, but this is the very first one that I’ve made for a friend, so it’s a special one.
The underlying structure is a 1/144 scale gazebo kit from Northeastern Scale Models that, if built normally, would look something like the one pictured here.
But as a fairy house, it looks like this:
Most of the furniture is crafted from bits of scrap wood, though the bed posts are made from tooled toothpicks. And the “papasan-ish” chair is made from the smallest acorn cap I could find. The bed linens and table cover are made from dyed flower petals (snagged from a mix of dyed bits designed as inclusions in homemade paper). Here’s a look at the furniture before all the decorations go on (includes a dime for size comparison):
Another close-up of the bed and bedside table with flower petal lamp.
The landscaping is made from natural bits of dried plants, miniature landscaping materials (as used with dollhouses and toy trains), metal, no hole beads, and minerals (this piece has natural quartz crystals and slivers of kyanite (the blue glassy looking pieces)).
And that’s my fairy house for a very special friend (who really truly believes in fairies!).
4 Responses to “1/144 Fairy House, II”
I have twin 6 year old daughters who were recently introduced to fairy houses. The magic is precious and they are sooooooo happy. They check their houses each morning. I think sometime soon, they will find some furniture left by me…I mean the fairies! Just awesome.
Oh, excellent — fairies love furniture!
Your site is wonderfully inspirational … I love the 1:144 size but think I’d better start with something a bit larger … where I can tack my hand to a roof. Its so much easier to explain why a roof is hanging from my palm than it is to explain why an entire house is growing from my fingertips.
Enjoy your site and aesthetics .. thank you
rofl… your plan sounds so much more painful than gluing fingers together.