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Faith S
Perpetually learning gardener
Alabama, USA
New camera9 May '07 3:48 am
Oh Dixie, I am so happy that you got a new camera. I hope you are madly snapping photos to post.
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Dixie
garden enthusiast
Waikato-New Zealand
Exciting news24 Jun '07 4:00 pm
Well,I was going to save the news till I had before and after photos ,but I was busting to tell someone,so here they are.I found two fairy seats just the right size for a little child.I really need a third,but will get these painted in the meantime.I was glumly wondering when I was going to be able to manage to make my own mushroom seats as I haven't finished the paths properly yet,and the area around the wishing well needs fixing,but here are some bought ones ready for painting.
Dixie
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Mark
Home gardener & plant fetishist
Berkeley, California, USA
Amazing find!24 Jun '07 4:23 pm
I've never seen anything like these before. I wonder what they are made of. Are they cast concrete? They're so good I really can't tell from the photo. They look very life-like as mushrooms. Where in the world did you find them?
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gordonf
Happy Collector
Vancouver Island, Canada
Cool Seats, Dixie!24 Jun '07 4:42 pm
Wow, those sure are cool seats! They'd look great in parts of MY garden, even with no small children to sit on them! I echo Mark's comments and questions! What colours will you paint them? I can hardly wait for the "after" pictures!
Cheers!
gordonf
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GardenGnome
Happily Toiling Away
Regina, Saskatchewan
Splendid Shrooms24 Jun '07 6:10 pm
What a great find, Dixie! I can hardly wait for you to paint them. They are beautifully sculpted.
Christopher
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faerisweet
nominate your own title
Poolville,Texas
Love them26 Jun '07 5:39 pm
they will be so cute when you paint them, lucky little children to play in your garden, Dixie. What an enchanting little world you are creating.
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Faith S
Perpetually learning gardener
Alabama, USA
Don't keep us in suspense.28 Jun '07 5:44 am
Dear Dixie, please post an answer to all the questions soon. I'll bet you are busily painting mushrooms, but we are all dying to know.
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pumpkin
compost executive
Auckland
28 Jun '07 11:21 am
What wonderful mushrooms! Are they painted yet? ... no pressure, of course ... 
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Dixie
garden enthusiast
Waikato-New Zealand
painting finished3 Jul '07 12:38 pm
At last I have finished the painting.I bought them from a big chain store.They only had two in the local branch,so I phoned Matamata branch,and they said there were two there,so I drove over-about 25mins.Matamata is where Hobbiton-Lord of the Rings- was filmed and you can go on a tour of the Hobbiton set.There was a busload of tourists leaving when I was there.I was embarrassed at how much they were being charged.Anyway I bought another fairy mushroom so then I had three.I gave them two undercoats.After some deliberation I decided not to be clever with colours or patterns, and paint them exactly as a child would want them to be.They seem to be like concrete but are lighter.My son in law thought that they seemed to be fibreglass.At the same time,I painted about a hundred or more stones that will go into the fairy garden soon.
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The tourist centre where the buses leave from
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finished mushrooms and some stones-not in place yet
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faerisweet
nominate your own title
Poolville,Texas
Adorable3 Jul '07 5:45 pm
the kids are going to love those.
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