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I have a friend, both talented and odd in the best ways: the Handy Hippie.  Among other wooden structures, he builds fairy doors.

I love the idea, however, the sweetie-kins flavor of many of these doors -- a minor fad in some college towns -- is too much. I prefer my sweet things in pie, especially rhubarb or blackberry, or in the evening garden (moonflowers, Miracle of Peru, flowering tobacco). Mr. Handy Hippie toys with selling fairy doors online on through eBay.  As a favor to me, he made these two doors. UPDATE: eBay site with fairy doors and a gnome outhouse that must be seen to be believed.
Fairies:  Beware!   Even fairies must manage hazardous materials. On a lark, I asked for the radiation symbol on this door. A silly neighbor interpreted the door as an outhouse for fairies, with the subtext that the output is so powerful as to require the radioactive warning sign. Hmm. I just intended a sort of sciency symbol. Hey, fairies do science, too.  Think about  John Crowley's underappreciated classic, Little, Big or The Fairies' Parliament.

Hobbit Pi?: Here is the second door, sized to fit a black oak stump. Hobbit-tey and homey, isn't it. The symbol?  pi = 3.14159. I cannot get the Greek symbol to work in this text editor. (Click into the thumbnails to see large images and details).  The round door knob is simply cunning.  (Been waiting to write that word!)

Both doors are hinged, hinged I say! So many fairy doors available online are not hinged, but simply stuck to a surface or propped up.  Mr. Handy Hippie hinges them; you  conjur your own fairy interiors.  Interested?  Drop him a line at sales@thehandyhippie.com.  Tell him Minxterbloom sent you.  PS -- he will do charming doors for you! He has a little darling wee one so he has lots of practice with pink, swirley, ruffled, rainbow, pinafore-ey, fluffi-muffi, furbelow'ed fripperies.