FAIRY GARDEN TUTORIAL

I made my niece a sweet fairy garden for her birthday. I'm so excited for her to see it!Almost any container you have on hand will work. I got this bowl at Goodwill - it is 11 inches wide and 3 inches high.
Choose your plants. I used a moss that I could divide and three miniature house plants.
Put rocks in the bottom of your container for drainage and top with soil.
Plant your foliage any way you wish and then it is time to embellish.
I made two stone paths amongst the plants and added three miniature terracotta pots under the tallest plant.

I also purchased this darling miniature metal bike. Don't you think a fairy would have so much fun riding it around, especially because it has a wire basket to hold found objects?
And what garden would be complete without a garden frog? I'm sure frogs and fairies are the best of friends.
PS - I think a gnome garden would be adorable too. Seriously, look at these handsome blokes.

SOME PEOPLE CALL IT FLUBBER,

others call it gak - whatever you call it, it's super fun and super easy to make...Pour 1 cup Elmer's glue to a large glass or ceramic bowl - no plastic bowls or it will stick!
Add 1/2 cup water and mix with a fork until it is smooth.
Add 4 drops of food coloring and mix with fork until well combined.

Put 1/2 cup warm water and 1/2 tsp of borax in small bowl.

Let it sit until dissolved then pour into the large bowl.

You will see a chemical reaction and things start looking funky and sticking together. Slime is forming!

Mix with your fork and as it thickens use your hands.

It's a cheap, easy, fun science experiment for the whole family to do together.

It bounces, breaks if you pull fast, stretches if you pull slow, feels flubbery - it's great fun!

{TUTORIAL} CHOCOLATE MARSHMALLOW EGGS

Wash and dry an egg. Fill three 11x13 pans with flour, approx 1 - 1 1/2 inches deep. Push egg into flour to create a mold.

In a large bowl combine 2 envelopes gelatin and 1/4 cup water and let stand. Boil 1 cup water and add to gelatin. Mix well and add 2 cups sugar, a pinch of salt, 1/2 tsp vanilla and if you wish, food coloring.

Beat with mixer until thick and soft peaks form. If you use a mixer like mine, it will take you about 15 minutes, which seems like an eternity - one of these days I'll have one of these.
Martha, can you hear me? I need a fairy godmother to hook me up with kitchen tool awesomeness!!

Spoon mixture into flour molds and let the marshmallow set.

When set, turn eggs in flour to coat all sides. Remove and brush off excess flour.

Melt chocolate in a double boiler. Dip eggs and cover all sides. Place on wax paper to cool and set.

I was out of wax paper so I used tin foil. See Martha, I told you I need you!

It's as easy as that.
Enjoy your wonderfully delicious, imperfect, one of a kind, soft marshmallow eggs that will make your tastebuds dance.

Thanks again Mona for teaching me how to make these!!