I sell a wide range of Fairies and Fairy related items. I sell Fairies because I love them. They're whimsical, magical, colourful and bring smiles to everyone's faces!
Recently my husband and I attended the Spring Trade Fair at the Birmingham NEC, a famous yearly show held for retailers. It's an opportunity to meet and greet with the vendors who supply my online shop.
The NEC is HUGE and there were hundreds upon hundreds of vendors to visit and place orders with. Decisions, decisions. We knew which Fairies we wanted to stock and were amazed at some of the new lines we discovered. We held the fairies, carefully inspecting their structure, their colours, their consistencies and their quality. At first glimpse, many Fairies looked very nice but the quality and workmanship weren't what we wanted in our shop. Sure we could have bought some butt ugly fairies and flogged them really cheap, but at the end of the day, the customer would not have been totally satisfied to find the pretty fairy in the photo was basically a piece of quickly molded, painted and cheap materials that would never last for long.
After many hours and many visits to the different vendors we settled on the Nene Thomas Faeries, Country Artists Butterfly Fairies and The Fairy Way Fairies, Christine Haworth Faerie Poppets, Nemesis Now Faeries, Leonardo Fairies, Shudehill Fairies and loads of other Fairy accessories like Journals, tiles, mouse mats, gift wrap and so much more.
What do we look for when we purchase our Fairies?
QUALITY
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