Located in north Devon, the 4 acre Gnome Reserve comprises woodland, stream, pond, meadow and garden, and is home to 1000+ gnomes and pixies, and about 250 labelled species of wild flowers, herbs, grasses and ferns. Visitors can see pottery pixies made on site or explore the collection of early garden gnomes in the museum. The reserve is open daily between March and October.
Troll beer. Because not every faery likes drinking berry juice and flower nectar! Created in a historic Belgian brewery, Curvee des Trolls is “a naturally cloudy blond beer as it is unfiltered. The use of dried orange peel gives it a slightly sweet, fruity ale taste, with a delicate bitter flavour and an enchanting fullness”.
For those of you that like their faerywear soft, floaty and ethereal look no further than Pixie Wagner. Their collection is created in softly coloured velvets, lace and leather designed for layering and recombining to achieve your perfect faery look. The leather bodices are embroidered with delicate leaf and scroll designs, and are extremely beautiful. Everything is designed to be flattering for ladies in all shapes and sizes too!
FREAK. That’s what her classmates call seventeen-year-old Donna Underwood. When she was seven, a horrific fey attack killed her father and drove her mother mad. Donna’s own nearly fatal injuries from the assault were fixed by magic—the iron tattoos branding her hands and arms. The child of alchemists, Donna feels cursed by the magical heritage that destroyed her parents and any chance she had for a normal life. The only thing that keeps her sane and grounded is her relationship with her best friend, Navin Sharma.
When the darkest outcasts of Faerie—the vicious wood elves—abduct Navin, Donna finally has to accept her role in the centuries old war between the humans and the fey. Assisted by Xan, a gorgeous half-fey dropout with secrets of his own, Donna races to save her friend—even if it means betraying everything her parents and the alchemist community fought to the death to protect
YA novelist Kaz Mahoney’s world of faery intertwines with alchemy and centuries old secrets in The Iron Witch
Amy Brown has just published her new art book Visions of Faery. Featuring 65 full colour paintings selected by Amy herself from her recent years work, Visions of Faery is available as a limited run paperback. It comes signed if you buy direct from Amy’s website.