Building Amelia's Fairy Garden Part 1

I know I said I would be building a salon or boudoir for Dejavu but I'm taking a detour first to build a fairy garden for Amelia.  At the after-Christmas sale at a local nursery I found a terrarium that had been marked down from $70 to $14 and I knew it was time to build Amelia her garden.  Here is the terrarium after I got it home and cleaned up:

It's a good scale for Amelia.  Next I made a trip to Joann's and a trip to Michael's to get supplies:

The large package in the center is sheet moss.  It's moss that has been dried, preserved, and then "color enhanced".  I cut the sheet moss to the size needed to fit in the terrarium:

I had to leave a border in the front exposed so the doors would still shut.  Next I made the tree which will be the focal point of the garden.  I made the tree using a lighted branch set from Michael's:

It's very hard to see in the pic above but the package in the center is the package to the lighted branch/tree thingy ($9.99 at Michaels, bring a 40% off coupon) and the tree is poking out the bottom and not really in the picture.  The tree is made of floral-tape-wrapped wires so it's easy to bend to the shape you want.  Choose a fake floral spray from the floral department at Miachel's or Joann's and mesh the two together to form a lighted tree.  I used green floral wire to secure the floral spray to the branches of the lighted tree form.  I used the following floral spray to create my tree:

Once I made my tree, I bent the lower half of the brach into an L shape and I cut a slit down the moss mat so I could slide the tree a little ways into the terrarium with the lower part of the "L" under the mat.  I secured the lower part of the "L"with hot glue to the base of the terrarium and then secured the moss mat down over it with hot glue.

I then took some wall pieces made by Department 56 for their Dicken's Christmas village:

and a bag of moss:

and I hot glued moss over the snow detail on the wall pieces because this is a spring fairy garden and not a winter scene:

I then hot glued the wall pieces in place:

next I wanted to build a flowed bed.  I did this by cutting floral oasis to the shape I wanted:

I hot glued a preliminary round of moss to the top of the oasis bed.  I then chose a floral spray that had tiny flowers on it and cut the flowers off and inserted them in to the oasis:

on the left in the pic above you can see the spray as it looked in Joann's and then on the right you can see the bed made up of the cut flowers.  I then put the bed in the corner where I wanted it and secured it with hot glue:

Next, to finish off the bed, I hot glued small stones around the base of the oasis bed and then added more moss to cover any remaining exposed oasis and to soften the lines of the stones:

Here's are some shots of the fairy garden so far, but this is just stage one:

here's a view from the back:

I still need to make the garden gate, the tea area, more floral beds, and add in the chandelier so stay tuned for part 2!