Tutorial

What you need:

• 1 extra-large teacup (The one shown is Grace's Teaware - $6.99 at Home Goods) or purchase similar here

• Baby Sweet Pea Fairy inspired by Cicely Mary Barker's drawings or a fairy 1:2 scale.

• Vintage Chair Jewelry Box (Gift Dept. Hobby Lobby $12.99)

• Miniature table (Michael's)

• Black Bear (Hobby Lobby $3.47)

• Porcelain tray by Make Market (Michael’s $3.84)

  Soda Bottle by Mayberry Street (Hobby Lobby $2.79)

• Donuts by Mayberry Street (Hobby Lobby $1.99)

• Dinnerware by Make Market (Michael’s $3.22)

• 2- inch Maidenhair Fern (Adiantum)($3.99)

• 2- inch Polka Dot Plant (Hypoestes phyllostachya Splash Rose)leaves of green and pink, high light indoors ($3.99)

• 1 part 6 pack Pinktopia (Bacopa Sutera cordata) ($1.00 for1 pack of the 6)

• 1 part 6 pack Groundcover Caucasian Stonecrop (Sedum Spurium John Creech) ($1.67 for1 pack of the 6))

• a hand full of small stones or gravel

• floral clay purchase here

Tools:

• scissors

Steps: 5

Flower Cost: $5.34

Rated: Medium difficulty - careful work

This is a tiny world in a teacup. It is whimsical…Baby and the Bear. Join them for their tea party with pink lemonade and donuts with sprinkles on them, in a forest of pink flowers and rose shaped ground cover. You will need to keep the baby and garden in filtered light out of direct sunlight and water the garden carefully. Check if the soil is dry and water 1- 2 tablespoons every day or every other day. After watering, let the water sink down for a few minutes, then hold the tea party in place and carefully tip to the side to let the excess run out. But make sure that you have secured Baby to her chair, and the porcelain tray and cup and lemonade to the table with floral clay, because fairies and china break easily. After you do secure everything with floral clay, you will want to do the planting.

Since this cup has no drainage, you will want place some gravel or small stones in the bottom of the cup, then a very small amount of potting soil. Since you are planting a garden with four plants in a tiny cup, after you take the plants out of their plastic cups you will need to use your fingers to make most of the dirt fall out of the roots. You will greatly reduce the amount of dirt in the roots.

After you plant all the plants, water them with about 2 tablespoons of water. Then you will place your tea party friends and their table onto the groundcover. There are quite a few groundcovers that work very well for fairy gardens. This one looks like hundreds of tiny roses. You may need to give Mr. Bear a ‘make do’ chair to raise him up to the right height to drink his lemonade at the table properly. I used an inch high x 1” diameter plastic cylinder that was a stand for a tiny gazing ball. The inside of a role of medical tape may do just as well.

The Baby Sweet Pea Fairy inspired by Cicely Mary Barker's drawings, and all the fairies made by the Flower Fairies company are sadly now out of production. For a list of possible sources for them please see: How to Make a Teacup Fairy Garden

Are you ready? If you have yout supplies, let’s begin.