Fairy House Gardner’s Cottage

As I create more fairy houses, I have decided to continue my focus on using recycled & found materials. The structure for this house was built from cardboard, a glass honey jar, a pill bottle and a liquor bottle. I’m not much of a drinker but I love the colors, shapes and designs of liquor bottles. In this house, I used a Handy & Schiller bottle. It has a beautiful metal label & metal band on the bottle that I chose to leave visible to accent the stone chimney. I glued a pill bottle on top of the liquor bottle to extend the chimney above the roof line with the pill bottle lid giving a nice flare to the top of the chimney. The pinecones & rocks I collected on my walks around my neighborhood. If you check the cracks at the edges of roads and sidewalks, there are a lot of loose pebbles that are just going to be washed down the sewer drain next time it rains. The paper clay, adhesives and paint were purchased but all of the flowers, moss and wood for the flower boxes were left over f