A few weeks back I was doing some shopping. I walked by the window of Anthropologie, and squealed. In full disclosure, since the moment I walked in their doors for the first time, I have loved their store staging. So many amazing ideas out of everyday things. (I wonder if someone has catalogued them all on the web somewhere? Wouldn’t that be exciting!)
Anyway, with fairy houses being rather popular in our house, I especially adored this concept. I chatted up one of the salespeople and discovered that they are constructed out of cardboard boxes—cut, painted and rolled into tree trunks, and then painted again. Simple x-acto cuts create spaces for windows and doors, and snipped and glued balsa wood to craft ladders and frames. Voila! A veritable fairy village.
As I was taking pictures, someone demanded to run back in the store and have her picture taken through the window. (Hint: it was not the salesperson.)
