Recently a friend asked me to help her save the memories of
the fairy rooms built at her dining room table by her granddaughter. Boxes and fabric and paper and shiny
odds and ends were glued and snipped and fashioned together to create the tiny
rooms. A kitchen with three tiny
black pans hanging on the wall, a fancy bed strewn with pillows, cozy sleeping
lofts, a red-hot crinkly paper fire in the fireplace (just like in one of the Beatrix
Potter books), tiled and popsicle stick parquet floors, an outside shower, lace
curtains, and a flat-screen TV forever tuned to the Nature Channel. The fairy rooms were displayed at one
end of my friend’s dining room, looking lovely, if not a little shabby and
slowly gathering dust as the granddaughter is now 15 years old and has put away
childish things. We decided to
create a book as a Christmas present for the granddaughter, you can view it
here by clicking the link.
(Please take or leave the Shutterfly marketing bit.)
Your friend is so lucky she found you, who never thought to "put away childish things," to put this book together.
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