I adore this book! Anna-Marie Fahmy has created a VERY user-friendly book with everything spelled out of her creations! She has thought of the most charming fairy garden accessories and not only that but a step-by-step guide on how to make them Andrew Fahmy has done a beautiful job of photographing the step-by-step down to a photo of all the supplies you will need for a creation.

This is a treasure of a gem for those creatives and will unleash many fun projects for perhaps families as a great project together or those who want to make as gifts to bring joy to others in the gift of an enchanting fairy garden.

Every item in this book I would like to make. That's rare but that is how fantastic this book is. Also, Anna-Marie has made us all feel like these creations aren't difficult projects to take on they are joyous fun projects with a reward at the end of the work.

I would like to thank NetGalley and the publisher Fox Chapel Publishing for the opportunity to read and review How to Make Backyard Fairy Garden Accessories

4.4 ⭐️

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This book is the perfect overview for getting started with crafting your own DIY fairy garden. Something that is on my “to do” list for this spring, as I have the place already carved out for it.

🪚 This book starts with a list of recommended tools and materials to work with from the yard (yay!) and to purchase (like glues, moss sheets, lighting, pop cycle sticks).

🖌️ Then it covers a few techniques like wire wrapping, using moss, and making items weather resistant (that’s a biggie!).

🖼️ Followed with a gallery of 26 adorable ideas to spark inspiration for you own garden.

🚪 Finally, it goes into tutorials for making a few different types of doors, houses, furniture and accessories. All the basic essentials your fairies… ahem, I mean fairy garden will need.

🆒 There are a few ideas that are inspiring for utilizing limited or indoor space, like creating a little mobile fairy island on wood slab, or creating a gnome picture frame.

❌ What this book is not, is a resource to landscaping your fairy garden. That part is left up to your imagination (and the 🧚🏼‍♀️!). I also wasn’t a huge fan of the selection of houses shown in this book, but everyone has to start somewhere and will have different styles, so I respect that.

📌 I plan to try some of these this year, as I start on my fairy garden. I’ll post to my “I made it” shelf on GoodReads if you want to follow @sassylittlehippie for updates.

Thanks to NetGalley, Fox Chapel Publishing, and Tanya Anna-Marie & Andrew Fahmy Cobb for providing me with a complimentary ARC to review!

This book has some fantastic ideas for creating fairy displays. My mom has been very into this for a hobby and she got so many ideas from this. Great inspiration!!

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The authors encourage the creator to “Find inspiration in this book and other sources, but don’t limit yourself just by the photos you see. Follow our directions, but go off course to make each item your own. Go wild and explore.”

The authors cover materials, tools, and techniques. Projects range from doors to furniture to houses, ladders, and a wishing well. They give suggestions for weather-proofing the projects. The projects are cute, but not simple, involving staining, cutting and gluing. The secret staircase house has 20 steps, whereas the fairy lamp only has 9. It would have been very helpful to have the projects listed in order of difficulty.

as someone who was obsessed with anything fairies as a child this book was adorable, really healing the inner child with this one

This is a really well put together book. The images are very clear and the instructions are easy to understand and approachable. I liked the section of photo inspiration, it made me want to try the projects myself. The supplies are common enough that they'll be easy enough for most folks to get their hands on.

This was a good one to read in bleak and grey January. It gives you hope that we'll see green and growing things again.

This was a cute book with step by step directions for building fairy garden accessories. Some of my favorites are the mailbox, bookcase, and wishing well. I enjoyed looking at the photos of the finished projects to get ideas for my gardens.

Thank you to Netgalley and the authors for this ARC!
This was not what I expected, but I did enjoy perusing the gallery of designs. I was hoping this was more instructional and in depth than it was. Most of designs were from the same materials and only a few were from nature. Most, if not all, required you to purchase pre made materials. If you're a crafter and have supplies on hand, this could be the book for you!

I love making miniatures so this was definitely right up my alley. I will for sure be making some of these fairy accessories for my garden!

This is a fun step by step craft book detailing how you can make a variety of cute fairy accessories for your yard/garden with easily available materials and tools. Fully illustrated. I thank Netgalley and Fox Chapel Publishing for the opportunity to read and review this book.

What a great book! Lots of tips and tricks with many full colour photos to help spark your imagination and then steps to help you make those items. I love fairy gardens and have a few in my own backyard so I will definitely use this book to help me expand on the little worlds I have in the flowers.
Thanks so much!

Well if I ever need a book to help me build a fairy garden house this is the one I’m going to use. First off, I love the pics! The directions are super easy to follow and the ideas will just pour out of you as you read through this book. My kids are obsessed with fairy houses so this book would 💯 be a great addition to my coffee table! I hope it’s available in hard back and a nice size! I love it and can’t wait to get my hands on a copy..

This book is perfect for people who love fairies and/or gardening! The authors provide detailed information about materials needed, both to be purchased as well as foraged from your yard. There are pictures of numerous fairy doors, sitting areas, playgrounds, fairy houses, and much more! The authors didn't just show pictures for inspiration, they also gave step-by-step instructions for creating your own fairy paradise, with additional pictures for each step. Spend a snowy day reading this book, and anticipating the coming of Spring to build your own Fairy Garden!

It’s a cute book with beautiful and step by step illustrations. I could use some ideas for this book in the future.

Thanks to netgalley along with the publisher and author for this arc

I received this book as an ARC from NetGalley, in return for a fair review.
Upon my retirement, I finally had time to indulge in my love of woodworking. I really enjoy building fancy birdhouses for friends and family. Somewhere along the path of researching different styles of bird houses, I became aware of a segment of society who were building cute, charming, and interesting "Fairy Houses". Intrigued, I started researching them. So far, I have built a few, regrettably not the greatest, of them.
That's where this book comes in. It's full of easy, interesting items to build into your own structures. Very easy to understand, simple to build with their instructions, and beautifully photographed. If you have any interest in the hobby, this would be a great place to start.
Hopefully, I will soon be constructing the Taj Mahal of fairy houses!

This is the perfect book for anyone wanting to get into fairy gardening. This book has a ton of ideas from doors to full houses for fairy friends. This book could start many fun filled days for anyone looking to get closer to nature.

My thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for letting me read and review an advanced copy of this book.

I have always liked fairy gardens, so this was a must-read for me. The authors have put together a nice how-to book on creating some nice projects for outside or inside displays. The step-by-step instructions are very thorough and the pictures are very helpful.

This is a wonderful book for anyone who wants to create their own fairy house or display.

I want to thank Netgalley and the author's for gifting me the ebook.
I have always loved fairy gardens. I think the are so cut.
This detailed book is amazing. It has very detailed instructions on how to create all these amazing little things for your garden.
The pictures are amazing and the instructions seem very easy to read.

Over the past few years I’ve started to see little sections in gift shops devoted to accessories for fairy gardens. Although the idea always has intrigued me (and I have some excellent habitat possibilities), I never got into the idea of purchasing fairy house furnishings as you would for a doll house. It just strikes me that fairies would consider those offerings insincere.

So yay! Anna-Marie and Andrew Fahmy have put together a darling little book full of projects made with simple items like twigs and rocks and a few basics from the craft store. The projects range from furnishings to doors to garden paths and even whole houses, and each project includes a step-by-step easy to follow picture tutorial. They’ve also included several pages of inspiring fairy house projects by others.

I really love this book and look forward to starting to collect materials over the winter so I can begin my fairy adventure come spring. Many thanks to Fox Chapel publishing and NetGalley for allowing me to read and review this advance reader’s copy.

Making Fairy Garden Accessories: 22 Enchanting Projects for Your Backyard
Craft Fairy Houses, a Gnome Garden, a Swing, a Wishing Well, and More, Plus Learn How to Add Lighting

Anna-Marie Fahmy, Andrew Fahmy
The photographs complement the text of this book. The introduction has a photograph of an enchanting door with rounded steps leading up to it. The next photograph is a rustic rocking chair with a candlestand and candles and a light post with a woodland style look.
Materials used in making fairy homes and furniture can be both stores bought and found in nature. There are all sorts of things you can find outside that make unique fairy garden accessories. Twigs, acorns, rocks, pinecones all work well in making furniture and accessories, but you can also find things in stores such as craft sticks, unfinished wood slices, balsa sheets and craft wood. Don’t forget the reindeer moss, forest moss and moss mat. You will need glue, glue guns, mod podge, and acrylic spray. Battery operated tea lights come in handy. Dollhouse miniatures can be used. Metal hinges, floral wire, sawtooth hinge and metal stud and post. Be sure to look for miniature flowers, mushrooms, hemp string, gnome and fairy figurines, and wood stain. You will need some crafting tools such as shears, micro tip shears, Xacto knife, needle nose pliers, a small screwdriver, paint brushes, permanent markers, and pen or pencil.
This book show how to paint craft sticks and how to bend them. It also demonstrates how to carve a hole in an unfinished wood slice, how to wrap wire and how to make items water and weather resistant. Covering lights with moss gives them a realistic look. Ladders can be made from twigs, wire and moss.
This book is inspiring. The doors are amazing. While most of these are miniature, I can see where larger doors, approximately 2’ tall could adorn a tree. I remember seeing this done in a local yard. Their fairy garden was beautiful and enchanting. The trees in the yard were decorated with signs and doors.
This book is amazing, and I will be working on a fairy garden this winter so it will be ready for spring.
Thank you to Netgalley for a copy of this book for review.