My fairy garden

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I decided to go ahead and make a simple fairy garden. I already had the pail and pot to put it in, but needed to have the pot cut down to size. Hubby cut the pot and after I sanded off the rough edges I was ready to plant. I picked up a cheap, unpainted birdhouse for about a buck and used some glass gems that I already had to make a path and "pond" in the fairy garden. I decided I wanted to try my hand at growing succulents, so that's what I used in this garden. The hardest part was finding the succulents to put in my garden. Most stores around here don't have much for live plants yet, so I had to resort to one of the local garden centers. I don't normally like to go there because they are significantly more expensive than the box retailers and home centers for plants. They do have a much larger variety of plants, so if I can't find them elsewhere, that's where I go. I was able to find many different succulents to choose from in the size I wanted and struggled to decide on which plants to choose. I ended up choosing six different plants and planted them that night. I still have a couple of decorations to make, but otherwise it's done. My kids all like the fairy garden, so I plan on making another one or so with them once the less expensive stores have plants to choose from. Assuming I can find inexpensive plants I may let each of them make one. Even Captain, my curious young cat (he's almost 1), seems to like the fairy garden. He's actually left it mostly alone. It was almost a whole day before he pulled a plant out and all he did was pull it up and drop it in the pot near where it came out. There's only a few teeth marks on the plant, otherwise it's completely fine. Hopefully he decided it didn't taste good and he'll leave it alone now.