[NATURE] Woodland Fairies

I think it's pretty safe to assume our Nature Pal Exchange family has received their goodies from us. I've been dying to post what we made for them but in my regular fashion, I was late with the final step of this project...mailing the actual parcel!! So off it went Express Post (ouch...$$!) and was guaranteed to land in Nova Scotia last week of December. BUT IF NOT AND YOU ARE READING THIS PLEASE DO NOT SCROLL DOWN!!

First step, was me and the kidlets went on a cold nature hunt for pretty sticks, lichens, pinecones, seashells, feathers and whatever else we could find. We were not quite sure at this point what we were going to make - we were just enjoying the scavenger hunt of what was available to us in winter.

After laying out all our finds and drying the sticks and pinecones in the oven to kill any unwanted parasites, we were ready to get crafty. This part of the task held my kids attention for all of 30 seconds, unfortunately, and it ended up being my playtime to put together these lovely little woodland fairies.

TWO DIFFERENT LICHENS DECORATE THIS LITTLE GAL

SUPER SOFT NATURAL WOOL SCARF AND SEAFOAM GREEN LICHEN HAIR. LOVE HER.

I LOVE how they turned out. The bodies are beautiful Dogwinkle Snail shells that we washed and lightly oiled so their true colour was restored, the wings are pieces of pinecone and chicken feathers from our backyard flock, the little details are bits of lichen, natural wool and seed pods (which we first microwaved to kill the seed inside).

LOVE THE COLOURS OF HER SHELL AND WHISPY SCARF

TWO DIFFERENT LICHENS AGAIN AND A PRETTY SEED POD CORSAGE

I would be more than happy to put together a little tutorial if anyone is interested - just leave a comment below or on FB. Happy woodland crafting xoxo