Fairy in a bottle

Here’s a lovely idea that came to me as I was creating a flurry of beaded fairies earlier this month. The fairies are made to my own unique design. The glass stoppered bottle is 10cm tall and contains a 3D beaded fairy holding a wand, suspended on a wire so she can move around. The bottle is decorated with millefiori glass and silver plated beads, ribbon, paper flowers and a metal tracework butterfly all fixed on firmly with the most amazing glue I’ve yet come across: “serious glue“. 

 

Each fairy in a bottle is different. I changed the colours of their crowns, the jewels in their crowns, their dress colours and patterns, shoes, wing irridescence and which hand they held their wand in! Lots of room to make changes there and really bring individuality to these handcrafted magical folk.

 

The hardest bit by far was to get each fairy into its bottle – they don’t like being caught! Having captured one I had to bend it into a ball and squeeze it through the bottleneck, before doing some intricate work with a couple of barbecue skewers to straighten her out!

 

These pretty fairies sold really well at a local craft fair and I have just a few remaining in my shop, Millefiori Moments. I will be putting the whole bottled fairy design process together into an ebook shortly and will post again when this is available.