I’ve dreamt of a place similar to this… When someone would say, “just go to the quiet place, in your mind” ~ this is similar to where I’d be. My granddaughter & I love butterflies & fairies, so they were always there. The plants in my yard are Florida plants meant to attract butterflies. Almost everything in this piece is recycled; much of it from my yard [or someone else's] that would have been thrown – such as the fairy that was bleached out & broken. The wood is all saved pieces from my trees that were unique. The base, rocks, hills are all paper mache’ made from the rolls of paper sent us. You’ll see in my backup photos how I taught my grandchildren to make paper mache rocks & to utilize otherwise discarded items; such as the packing popcorn in the base and to form some of the rocks & hills out of mache’. The water feature towards the back is not very visible in this photo, but is made with broken pieces of colored glass left over from a mosaic project. It displays a fish tail after the fish has just jumped into the water, making the splash over the banks of the shoreline [the fish's tail broke off a plaster pond fish I had]. The flowers are all from my yard; that I dried, over the last month. Even several of the butterflies are made from those dried flowers. ENJOY!






Great use of colors along with the paper mache! It is truly inspirational. You can see all the work that went into this project.
Great use of colors along with the paper mache! It is truly inspirational! You can see all the work that went into this project.
Wow. What a beautiful project for children to participate and help create. Not only is it a beautiful piece, but the fact that it is from recycled and natural products makes it even more interesting. Absolutely beautiful, C. A. Ferrara!