Fairy Surprise Balls

My newest fascination is making Fairy Surprise Balls. I have always loved things like this. My favorite Fairy Gift is Claresa's Fairy Parcel Game. I love to put them together and choose which fairy items I will use inside the layers.

So, the next logical step was to even further miniaturize (made up word possibly?) the parcel with surprise balls. I researched the technique on line with a few different sites, but they all seemed to be so perfect looking and rather large (kind of defeating the purpose on something smaller than a parcel).

My daughter's birthday was coming up so I decided to send her my first prototype. I used a Fairy Bath Fizzie as the center prize and began clumsily wrapping the crepe paper around the fizzie. The crepe paper was very hard to work with and kept sliding off the prize and/or twisting from the roll. It kept crossing my mind that this would be the first and last one I would try.

After a few layers around the fizzie I tried to wrap in a few dark chocolate m&ms (daughter loves them) and they were falling out all over the place. Finally got a couple of layers around them and then I tried the jelly bellies.

I have so many annoyances that occur naturally in my life I don't know why I insist on going out and getting more, causing more....but I do and this was one screaming example of my need for more annoying things!

I digress, I was determined as I usually am to finish and get this thing in the mail in some sort of condition for my daughter to open. Luckily it was not the only present. I had earlier that week gone looking for "Colorado" things to send to her. You would think that would be easy since I live in Colorado. Well it isn't. There is a serious lack of "Colorado" things here. I did manage to "settle" on a spoon rest and some fairy soap (made in Kentucky) to add to the box. Oh, and a check..that hopefully will make up for the spoon rest.

So she called me on her birthday to say she had opened the package and had her brother sent her that little ceramic bowl? He is 12. No, I said, the artist is from Colorado and he signed the bottom (lame).

Anyway...she loved the surprise ball and it took a few jelly beans and m&m dropping onto the table and floor before she realized what was happening! Surprise! I think it worked. Now, if I can only get the ball to look smoother, smaller and not be so annoying to produce I'll be on my way!