sugar plum fairies...

I made these little fairies for this year's ornament swap. These girls were over a year in the making! I did the bulk of the work last year for last year's swap and then Caleb got sick and I didn't have it in me to finish them. Plus, it didn't help that I wasn't really in love with the way they were turning out at that point. So in a box they went for a long vacation.

This year I decided to change some things: tutus are gone, tulle wings are gone. All for the better I think. I ended up making the wings out of datacom cabling and used cotton chenille for the arms and, really, those two tiny changes put me head over heels again for my little fairies. And bonus: the chenille arms gave me an opportunity to use up a few more of those little red glass balls I'll have in my stash until the end of the world.