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Wednesday, September 11, 2019

Circus Town

A friend of mine recently introduced me to feves, and I'm not sure how I feel about that; once I saw them, I had to purchase some. If you are unfamiliar with feves, they are small trinkets hidden in a king cake or similar dessert. You know, like the plastic babies you can buy at the party store. BUT, the feves my friend introduced to me are no plastic babies: they are porcelain feves from France. There are all sorts of feves to be found on etsy: animals, kitchen accessories,  and cartoon characters, just to name a few. I found a set that is circus themed and it was all over. They are mine.

Of course I need a way to display them, so I looked to Alpha Stamps and found the cutest little houses, perfect to make a circus town! They also had the perfect paper needed to decorate the houses: "The Greatest Show" 6 x 6 pad. It's gorgeous! I had fun mixing and matching the papers on each of the houses. For scale, the tallest house in the center is 3 1/4" tall, minus the flag.

Some closeups. Look at those little porcelain beauties!

I fussy cut some of the elements from the papers: the ball in the clown house, the pennants, and all the circus posters.

And, the backs. Circus Town is the perfect place for all my new feves to live. For a list of Alpha Stamps supplies used, click here.

3 comments:

  1. I really love ur circus town . Thank you so much for sharing .....net

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  2. D*mmit, Kristin. I HAD to order the feves, I HAD to order from your list and I HAVE to order your sheet, now. Sigh. The burden that you and Alpha Stamps have become. (Snort) Can't thank you enough! I'm a circus freak and, like you, I want to build mine a place to stay. Would've never known about any of it without the two of you. Beautiful job! TY!

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    1. Ha, thanks, fellow circus freak! You can cuss my friend who introduced me to the feves. You'll be glad later, though, because they're awesome.

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