Notecards!

Windows!

My daughters are fairy-crazy! This year the eldest rec'd "Fairie-ality, the Fashion Collection" from The House of Ellwand (Candlewick Press) for her birthday. Its a large and very beautiful fairy fashion book where the clothes are made of 'natural' woodland fibers: pressed flowers, grasses, seeds/pods, feathers, cast-off snake skin, leaves ... so guess what we are doing with pressed flowers this year :) This spring we were part of a homeschoolers garden tour (our theme being fairies, of course) where the presented craft project was creating notecards and bookmarks with pressed flowers.
Last year we collected an assortment of autumn leaves and flowers to press. Using craft paper that had clouds as a background, the girls created an 'autumn wind swirl' that we then framed for their room(inspired by the story "When the Root Children Wake Up" story retold by Audrey Wood, paintings by Ned Bittinger).
As they get older (they are now 5 and 8 y.o) we may move away from favourite story inspirations. The older dd has been eyeing some of those beautiful lamp shades and journals that are adorned with skeleton leaves. She's thinking she would like to do something like that so we are thinking about trinket boxes and footstools as potential pressed flower surfaces ...

Greeting Cards and wall hangings with caligraphy added.