Glass Garden Whimsy Totem with Birds!

 I recently read an article in a magazine about gathered glass garden whimsies.  When I looked them up on Pinterest I found them listed as garden totems.  Of course, I thought they were charming and decided to 'shop' my booths at Treasures Antiques for some likely elements.

 Then, when I got home, having chosen some pretty robin's egg blue glass ware, and a couple of bird theme items, I thought that tucking my real live robin's nest with eggs into the structure would be perfect.

Fortunately, I have the perfect 'dome', really it was my English Trifle dish, but since it always took too much trifle to fill it, and I had since moved to a smaller dish ...  I also needed to gather a few other things from home to comlete the stack.

I then spent the evening using E6000 to glue my whimsical totem together in sub sections, shown above.

Then the next day, I grabbed the Americana (sometimes called cubist) punch bowl to serve as the base.  Then last of all, I carried the sections out one at a time, and glued them together in place. The sculpture is four feet tall.

This orphaned butter dish lid, which I have had for sale at the mall for about 6 years, has finally found a happy home...

and this sweet little bird salt shaker gets to be the crowning glory of the menage!

I even get a peek at my garden whimsy-totem while sitting in my garden house!!  So fun!

Vintage Chic at Sweet Briar Hollow

 When I was at lunch at my friend Laurie's a couple of weeks ago, she was showing me her house, and I fell in love with a particularly sweet little dresser.  She said that she had bought it at Vintage Chic in Draper ... She said "You know the cute store in the several small old houses."  Nope, never heard of it.

 But I was going to find out ... after googling I came up with Vintage Chic at Sweet Briar Hollow ... when I got there it was in one larger house (above) and three smallish ones ... all in a row ...

 The store was exactly to my taste, and I spent a lovely hour browsing its contents, and found another adorable dresser.   How charming is this pink striped cutie?

 Of course the all white Christmas tree caught my attention too!

 Everything was charming and so well done ...

 ... and in talking to one of the owners, I found out that the other owner's home town is Payson ... that's where I live!!  I was surprised that the store has been there something like 6  years, well if so, its the best kept secret in Draper!!

It all but charmed my socks off, luckily I was wearing sandals and was in do real danger.  If you are local, be sure to make the trek. 

A Fairy Garden Terrarium, kind of.

 Today I would like to introduce you to my former tea cup fairy.  While visiting my sis in Maryland a million years ago,  I found the most charming broken tea cup at a garage sale ...  I loved it.  Sis took the tea cup in hand and told me she would fix it for me.  

A while after my eastern travels were complete, I got a package in the mail.  True to her word she had repaired the cup and saucer, but to my surprise and delight she had created this delightful fairy to dwell in it.  That was 24 years ago...

Today Mistress Fairy Princess of the Fair People,  got new digs!

 Long time followers may recall the day I created this wonderful miniature garden,  if not, you can see what it looked like before everything died, here.

The bonsai tree I'd brought back from the LA flower market while on a junking trip there, is now as dead as a proverbial door nail ...

I knew it was time to clean up the mess, but I also knew that killing a new batch of plants would be, well, just wrong.

There fore...

The bonsai tree got a paint job, and all the dead mosses and grass got replaced with preserved versions.

 You may note that I also repainted the table and chair set ... when they were dark green they matched the patio tiles, but they also disappeared into the green scenery.

 The Dr. Suessish tree was made from faux moss covered styrofoam forms I found at the dollar store ..  Add small branches from my yard and voila, cool, if unrealistic trees are born.

 So now the beautiful little demitasse tea cup stands along ... as my tea cup fairy has moved on ...

I think she will be much happier here, don't you?  Hey sis, she look lonely though, just sayin' .