Pine Hollow...

I'm joining Fishtail Cottage for her Garden Party #5 once again this week. Click HERE to view all the other fantastic garden posts (this is one weekly meme, I really enjoy!) For any new readers coming from the party...let me introduce you to the Pine Lady! She is a smiling pine whose wide branches shelter Pine Hollow, the fairy village that has settled in my garden.

I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday weekend! I entertained family all 3 days and lots of little nieces were here so I helped the fairies finish setting up Pine Hollow for the summer season just in time to be visited by enchanted young ones. It seems like each year, Pine Hollow increases in size.

I hope you enjoy looking through these photos to see the little touches the fairies have added! There are stepping stones, gazing balls and bird baths in new little garden areas, lots of new little plants and a cool new roof on the rose cottage. New this year is a swimming pool/hot tub combo which you will see up close at the end of this post. Come enjoy a walk through Pine Hollow with me....

The roof on the Rose Cottage didn't hold up well to all the rain and sprinkler running last year so this winter a new roof was added. See all those shiny blue leaves? Can you guess what they are made of?

While looking for a fun (but cheap) way to shingle the house, I discovered that the inside of coors beer cans are a pretty aqua blue, the aluminum is also very thin and easy to cut with dollar store scissors so leaf shingles were born. Thanks to Jeff's air stapler this was a quick and fun afternoon project.

Here is the new fairy sized pool/hot tub combo :) As soon as I saw this wooden chip/dip bowl at Goodwill, I knew immediately it was a pool :) Surrounded by small tropical trees and relaxing places to sit it has been a hit with the fairies but what I didn't expect was the robin that bathes in it daily. It is hard to keep it filled and clean with all the robin's splashing.

Remember...always leave room in your garden for fairies to dance...as well as work, swim, play piano, ride horses and trikes, nap, birdwatch and bring smiles to young and old alike!