Fairy gardens are certainly the thing the past couple of years and my favorite Ohio town Lakeside has capitalized on the trend in a really fun way. This year when we visited in early June we were delighted to find that there was an actual map of fairy gardens. Marilyn’s Two has a huge wall of fairy garden merchandise for sale and they graciously provide free maps for visitors to take to go visit all of the ones that are up and running.
Don’t you love the Disney princesses that point the way to each garden? I know my great niece Harper loved to see her favorite princesses on the map.
So my sister, niece and great niece and I set out one evening to view all of the fairy gardens. This post will be a bit picture heavy but I think you can understand the lack of text today. 
Words are not needed to share what ended up to be a very fun night of walking Lakeside in search of all of the fairy gardens.
A very adult fairy.
The fun part was that we also found some that were in progress and some that were not even on the map. They were surprise fairy gardens.
While these pictures are in no particular order I love how each garden that we happened upon was unique and totally different than the one we had seen before.
My sister and Harper having a very deep discussion.
Harper was enthralled by each tiny item in each garden and her 4 year old eyes spied things that these 56 year old eyes missed.
But isn’t that way we should all be looking at the world? With amazement and wonder?
There are so many different themes going on in some of these gardens that it took awhile to check out each nook and cranny.
Shuffleboard is a big thing in Lakeside and this fairy garden had it covered.
A tea shop?? What? I am all in on this one.
Just when I thought I had seen the cutest one yet we found the next one on the map to be even better.
Camping and relaxing appeared to be a common theme.
Take a look at these adorable flower babies.
Do I have you convinced yet to make a trip to Lakeside to see these fairy gardens?
Come back tomorrow to get a glimpse at the architecture of the cottages that are in Lakeside and see which one is my all time favorite cottage.
Harper loved this one.
If you want to read more about my happy spot, Lakeside, you can click on these links below to be taken to other posts about Lakeside, Leave me a comment and let me know if you have a fairy garden at your home. All comments go to support our July Comments for a Cause –the Brevard Music Center.
