Fairy House: How to Make Amazing Fairy Furniture, Miniatures, and More from Natural Materials

by Mike Schramer

Overview

Fairy House is a fascinating adventure into the making of miniscule kingdoms of the fairytale realm from found objects in nature. This unique how-to book offers a look at “nature as art” in a more sophisticated style than most instructional books. Through more than 200 clear, detailed, full-color photographs and understandable yet whimsical guidance, the reader will learn to fashion intricate, tiny cups from acorn pods and grapevine tendrils, elaborate chairs from bark and moss, dreamlike beds from delicate flowers and leaves and an amazing array of other beautiful and unique pieces that will inspire the reader to find their true artistic ability and imagination. A photo gallery of other stunning pieces will be shared to give the reader even more possibilities to create.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781939629692
Publisher:	Familius
Publication date:	07/14/2015
Pages:	192
Sales rank:	181,691
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Mike and Debbie Schramer’s nature art has been featured in many books including Chairmania, Morning Glories, and Forget Me. Their work has also been in Travel and Leisure, Country Folk Art, and Faerie magazines and the Seattle Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Baltimore Sun newspapers, among others. Their work has also exhibited at the American Visionary Art Museum, Seattle Art Museum and the Rosalie Whyel Museum of Doll Art has many of their intricate fairy pieces in their permanent collection. Their art has been collected and purchased by many well-known people including, film producer Gil Netter (Life of Pi, The Blind Side), actor Aidan Quinn, Jennifer Nicholson, daughter of actor Jack Nicholson, Mimi Danly, artist for Jim Henson, authors Mary Emmerling and Tricia Foley and Bob Timberlake, artist, author and designer.

Just a few of the hundreds of shops that have carried the Schramer’s nature art include Fillamento and Felissimo in San Francisco and New York and the Ferrin Gallery, the Utica, the Phoenix, the Panaca and the Takashimaya, Japan, galleries. Mike and Debbie’s beautiful art pieces have been in New York department stores as well as in show rooms, art auctions and major art and miniature shows in other parts of the country as well. Commissioned pieces were accepted in the catalogue Finishing Touches for several years and for the New York Toy Fair by artist and author Lauren Mills.

The Schramers currently live in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Chapter 1
• Discovering and Gathering Nature’s Treasures: the Secrets of Finding
• Preserving the Beauty of Nature
• Helpful Offerings
• The Necessities
Chapter 2
• Making basic elements
• More of the basics
• Decorating your pieces
• Photographs
Chapter 3
• Creating your first piece
• Relying on the basics
• Flowers, pods and leaves
• Photographs
Chapter 4: Projects
• Fairy Table with Accessories
• The Poet’s Writing Desk
• Princess Canopy Bed
• Woodland Cradle
• King of the Elves Bookshelf
• Enchanted Forest Armoire
• A Couch made for Angelic Conversations
• The Elfin Tea Party
• Gnome’s Woodstove and Sink
• The Forest Cottage
• Woodland Characters
• Accessories for the Forest Cottage Garden
• The Fairy Garden
• Garden Wishing Well
• Tower for the Elfin King
• The Gardener’s Wagon
• The Gardener’s Potting Shed
• Fairyland Gazebo
• The Fairyboat Bed
• Dresser for the Forest Gatherer
• The Elfin King’s Ancient Forest Piano
• Woodland Race Car
• Theater in the Woods
• Photo Glossary
Resources
Recommended Books
Recommended movies

Editorial Reviews

“The Schramer’s treehouses are striking for their attention to detail, for their child-like sense of whimsy and their originality. They are enchanting; I have never seen anything like them.”

—Agnes Gund, Past President, Museum of Modern Art, N.Y.

“Husband and wife team Debbie and Mike Schramer craft a magical world in their artistic creations with nature as their inspiration."

—National Endowment for the Arts

“Debbie and Mike Schramer’s Fantasy Treehouse is a creation of pure whimsy, where fairies reside in decorated nooks and crannies of a magical tree.”

—The Baltimore Sun

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