New heart pond

Now my popular koi pond is also available in a heart shape!

Ho ho ho!

Santa Claus, Snowman gnome, and his igloo, and cottages with icicles and snow.

Happy Thanksgiving

Now you can redecorate your Fairy Garden for each holiday and season! Introducing Pilgrim gnomes for Thanksgiving.After Halloween, remove your Halloween gnomes, and decorate with fall leaves and tiny gourds. Mr. and Mrs. Pilgrim Gnome can host a dinner for all their woodland friends that visit your garden. Availabe in 2 color combinations.

Also new... sports fans! Gnomes love sports and like to dress like their favorite athletes. Football, basketball, baseball... any sport! Give me the name of an athlete and I will create his gnome fan. Colors, numbers, and special touches like head and arm bands, tattoos, akin color,,,

Birth Announcement

 Mr. and Mrs. Gnome are thrilled to announce the arrival of the new addition to their family... Baby Gnome!
He or she is only 1 3/4" tall, and looks just like his or her parents.

Winter cabins

 I have winterized my cottages! The snow is puffy fabric paint, and I made the icicles with hot glue. (I didn't come up with that idea on my own; I found it on u-tube). For the heart window cottage I made the glue icicles on parchment paper, as suggested online. It worked, but it was difficult to get the glue off, and they came out opaque. So I went to Michael's and and bought a hot glue work mat, that you use to protect your table. I glued the icicles on that; they peeled right off, and were clear, as you see on the round keep! What I did was glue a line about 9" long, then glued icicles pulling down from it. When it cooled, I trimmed it a bit with tiny scissors. I really like how it came out. I made the blue snowflakes you see below with polymer clay and press-out cookie cutters that I actually purchased originally to use with rolled fondant for cakes. After I baked them, I painted them with Mod Podge and sprinkled them with glitter that I custom mixed to match the light blue!

Happy Halloween and Merry Christmas!

New Halloween and Christmas gnomes!

Red Hat Lady Gnome

I've just joined the Red Hat Society, and was inspired to create my first girl gnome! She is all decked out in glitter and bling in red and purple.

Desert Prospector Fairy Garden

My newest theme fairy garden...

The old prospector has discovered gold! He works his mine in the desert, all alone, struggling to survive. But look inside his mine and you'll see, he's struck it rich!

Winter Wonderland

Introducing new themed Fairy Gardens! First new Garden is Winter Wonderland!

How to build your own Winter Wonderland:

1. Fill planter (I used a stainless steel mixing bowl with hole drilled in bottom and spray painted white) with potting soil and gravel.

 2. Use a paper to trace the edge of your planter at gravel height and draw your ice shelf shape. Trace it onto a 1/2" thick sheet of styrofoam and cut out with a razor blade. Cut a 1 1/4" diameter hole for the seal.

 3. Buy my seal friends.(and gnome and igloo)

 4. Put the seal head under the styrofoam. Lay it on the gravel.

 5. Plant your plants. I used plastic for this demo.

 6. Cover with white aquarium gravel for "snow".

 7. Decorate with gnome and igloo and other seal.

 8. I'm showing only the basic set up here, but you can use your imagination to fill it up with decorations for the Arctic, or Christmas!

Available at my etsy.com shop Wee Brigadoon

These are all items available at my shop on etsy.com. Please visit to see prices, and how you can custom order. No two items are ever alike!

Welcome!

I am a retired teacher (22 years at a small rural school). I have always enjoyed crafts, fantasy, and using my imagination. Then I discovered Fairy Gardens, and I was home! Now I can indulge all my interests in one place. Who would have thought that all those classes I took on cake decorating would adapt so well to polymer clay? My husband, Bob, and I also love to geocache, which involves hiking, treasure hunting, and exploring in the woods and along the shore, where we collect pine cones, shells, stones, sand, moss, bark, and driftwood. Now I have a use for all those natural items, because, obviously, that's what gnomes and fairies build their homes out of.

Visit my shop, Wee Brigadoon, at etsy.com to see my handmade items for Fairy Gardens... custom cottages, gnomes, koi ponds, mushrooms, tree stumps, hollow logs, and fantasy signposts. I make it all to order, customized the way you want.

Watch my blogs for Fairy Garden ideas, and Tutorials!