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Heidi Ann Heiner from SurlaLunes 12 Dancing Princesses

and numerous step-by-step projects and recipes

an interview with Holly Black

along with this lovely gingerbread house card

and the dragonfly is on both sides of the bottle

Fairy Terrarium Neckace jewelry Heidi Ann Heiner from SurlaLunesThe "Wardian Case" is the perfect blend of Victorian era science and whimsy. It was invented in the early 19th century when Dr. Nathaniel Ward, a British physician with a passion for natural history, noticed that some ferns that failed to grow in his London garden were sprouting quite happily in some sealed jars of soil samples collected from the countryside. Theorizing that perhaps London's notoriously polluted air might be killing the delicate ferns