Breton Fairy Peg Dolls ~ a summer trail

pegdolls5I have some significant childhood memories which persist in my mind as being great ideas for the garden. The first is searching for Gnomes in my Grandma’s garden. Every time we came to visit she had move them into new spaces. I must have been quite a small toddler but I was always delighted to find them. Years later when we go to visit our local garden centre (Bud Garden Centre), the wonderful owner Brenda, has hidden little gnomes and animals amongst the plants. Even as quite a big kid, Little B loves to seek these old friends out. We all love a treasure hunt.

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Little B has begun collecting small sculptures and creatures to hide in the garden so that our younger visitor might enjoy finding them. This thrills my heart. This weekend I thought I would take it a step further and make a few little peg doll fairies that we could hide in the foliage. There is plenty of inspiration to be found on the internet. I sat down at ‘far-too-late’ o’clock on Friday night with the paints and wooden pegs. But then after a stressful week at work this is my crazy way of processing the working week.

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I used valuable washi tape as masking tape to create colourful trousers. Whilst this is an silly waste of beautiful tape, it did give me an idea…..

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So my little fairies all donned Breton stripe jumpers. Styling the hair was great fun, and amongst the collection there is definitely a Little B boy.

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None of them are perfect – they are just meant to be fun and if one gets lost or buried then never mind. I hope some little people find them dancing amongst the branches of our garden and it forms a delightful childhood memory for them to treasure in their adulthood.

2 thoughts on “Breton Fairy Peg Dolls ~ a summer trail”

  1. Love these – my memories include walking around my grandfather’s garden in a tea cosy!!! Less said…

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