Fairy magic

The school Halloween party is this Friday, and though I tried convincing my daughter to be a cat for my witch,...she wants to be a fairy. So during the school hols last week, we set out on a hunt-for-a-fairy-costume mission.

We found a lovely pink fairy outfit in a children's dress shop, fairy slippers on half price (yippee!) in a toy shop and a set of fairy wings, wand and hair band complete with feelers in a girly paraphernalia shop. Happy with our merchandise, I laid it out on the bed and decided to add a bit more panache to the get-up, after all, it wouldn't do to find an identical twin at the party ;)

The dress was simple and delicately lovely so I decided not to 'touch' it (well not this year anyway). My eyes turned to the fairy wand...

Now, why should we settle for a tiny butterfly when there were gorgeous beauties to be had like this white stocking butterfly.

I glued on extra rhinestones to the back of the wings and feelers...

...and attached the butterfly to the back of the wand...

...leaving the little butterfly at the front to be framed by the elegant wings of the bigger butterfly.



With that done, my eyes fell on the hair band. Somehow, I couldn't recall seeing feelers on Tinkerbell or any of her kin, hence, the next creation.

Taking some pink satin ribbon, I began sewing on organza butterflies...

...alternating between pink and red.

Then I sewed the ribbon around some thin wire measured to fit my daughter's head.

One could actually sew the ribbon together first and slip in the wire later, but I didn't fancy pushing wire through a long, slim hole. Paper clips helped keep the rest of the ribbon in place while I sewed around the wire.

After some minutes of full concentration (needles seem to like my fingers), I smiled happily at the pretty hair wreath in my hands.

Isn't this much better than feelers? :)

I tried the hair wreath on my little fairy...

...and realised it was also perfect for a Hawaiian luau or as a Flower Girl hair wreath at weddings. The main thing though is that my little fairy is happy as happy can be...and that's always magical.