Fairy Day Is Coming!
Saturday, July 12, 2025, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Admission: $5 for all adults, with young folk 17 and under free
Get your costumes ready, or come as you are – regardless, be prepared for a good time! We’ll have activities for children of all ages:
Henna, fairy hair, and face-painting artists
Numerous vendors selling whimsical and inspired art and crafts
Live dancers and musicians
Our fantastic fairy, Brucie Abella, will be enchanting all the fair-goers, and several food providers will offer treats to beat the heat. Adults, if you wear your fairy and woodland best, you may win a prize!
Vendors will include:
Annabelle’s Closet - bedazzled tiaras, crowns, and wands; hand mirrors and compacts; tiara hats
Acorn Lief Creations - fairy-themed items including mushrooms, gnomes, moss, and jewelry
B.A.D. Composting - vermi-compost, shirts and patches
Fake-a-Face face painting - detailed and speed painting
Gold Dust Creative - macrame art and decor
Gingermountainrustics - Wooden bowls and trays with dried flowers embedded in resin, hand-beaded wind chimes, and laser-burned, live-edge wood signs
Hannah Little - prints, stickers, and more
Hayley Doyle - stickers, prints, originals, friendship bracelets, and painted wooden boxes
Riley’s Fairy Hair
Lou Lou’s Cotton Candy
Peace of Green - houseplants and succulents in intriguing pots
Slimy Stitches - hand-embroidered patches and more
Strawberry Woods Crafts - ceramics, beading, leather work, paper collage cards
Performers will include:
Erin Williams Banks and friends live music
Sole Impact Studios cloggers
Mountain Whistles interactive music
Gigi Perazolo fairy ballet
A few members of the Watauga High Pioneer Playmakers
See our Facebook event for updates. Hope to see you there!
Fairy Day volunteers needed!
We need community members to help with this beloved family-friendly celebration:
Assist with set-up and breakdown
Monitor the water station
Help with activities
Direct foot traffic
For more information or to sign up, please email danielboonegardens1963@gmail.com.
A Successful 2024 Fairy Day!
Fairy Day 2024 at the Daniel Boone Native Gardens was a big success, with over 900 folks attending. We would like to thank all our activities providers: Blue Ridge Women in Agriculture, the Watauga Arts Council, the Watauga County Library, the Children’s Playhouse, and Betty Womack. And we would be unable to put on such a fun and entertaining event without all of our wonderful volunteers, including the annual assistance from Charlie Wallin, our gardener Jordan Bailey, and photography by Bill Barbour. Many teen volunteers were provided by Mountain Alliance, as well. And a big shout-out to our wonderful dancers, yoga instructors, and musicians: Erin Williams Banks and Cayla Fralick, Noelle Austin, Gigi Perazolo, Neighborhood Yoga, Sole Impact Studios, Old Souls, The Walls, and Las Rosas y El Clavel. Of course, I’d also like to thank all our vendors for providing the crafts, fairy makeovers, plants and yummy treats: Sarah Spencer (GaeasCandy), Kali Mullins (Gold Dust Creative), Alysia Puckett (Acorn Lief Creations), Yvonne Finne (Peace of Green), Sarah Welch (High Country Crystals), Trish Daniels (Fake a Face face painting), Riley Owens (fairy hair), Marsha Walpole (flower tattoos), Lucy Dees (henna tattoos), The Cardinal food truck, Sunset Slushies, and Poppies Crafted frozen treats. Stick Boy provided wonderful cookies for us to sell, and Jerry Hutchins donated his magical fairy tiny homes for us to sell. And Fairy Day would not be a proper Fairy Day without our lovely and engaging professional fairies: Brucie Abella and Acorn Lief! Finally, I would like to thank the Daniel Boone Native Gardens board members who spent so much time and energy making sure Fairy Day was the best ever: Rebecca Hutchins and Betty Womack (Activities coordinators), Pat Rusch (Volunteer coordinator), Mollie Shanly (Marketing and Publicity coordinator), Martha Ross (Finance Coordinator), and Meredith Perry, (Music & Dance coordinator). It truly takes a village! And what a great village we have!! We hope to see you next year, on Saturday, July 12, 2025. Check back in the spring to see what’s in store for Fairy Day 2025! And keep your lives magical in the meantime!
Sharon Stafford, Chair, Fairy Day Committee and Vendor coordinator, DBNG