Purple has been difficult.
It isn't just a colour; it's a threshold. It holds both the blue and the pink, the cold and the warm, and looking at it means admitting that two opposing truths can live in the same space. I avoided it for months. It was my first time working with it properly, and I was genuinely afraid of getting the tones wrong.
I think I chose right. You'll tell me if I didn't.
It started with a house
Long before there was a colourway there was a drawing of a house, and I redrew it about six times because the windows were wrong.
The fairy house is the piece I'm proudest of in this kit, because it isn't decor. It's an invitation. A child who is handed a printed house front will do something with it that you did not plan, and that is the entire argument for printable play. You are not buying a finished object. You are buying the start of an afternoon.
I always start with the buntings
Every kit begins there for me. A bunting sets the palette and tells me whether the whole thing is going to work. String it across a shelf or anchor it between two walls and you have changed a room in about four minutes, which is roughly the attention span available to most of us.
What's inside
Eighteen pages, hand drawn, print at home:
- Flags (2 pages)
- Hanging decor (2 pages)
- Prints (6 pages)
- Printable play — fairy house (2 pages)
- Printable play — fairy garage (2 pages)
- Wands (4 pages)
Around $90 of value at single-page pricing. It is $8.99.
A note on open-ended play
Open-ended play can be a happy accident, or it can be nudged along with a theme beautiful enough that a child wants to enter it. Maybe that isn't strictly open-ended anymore. But it does invite connection, and connection is what I am actually selling.
Get the kit
- Printable Fairies Bundle | 2026 Purple — 18 printable pages, instant download. $8.99 AUD.
- Reverie Box | Fairies Edition — nine A5 designs printed on 300gsm card plus a personalised print with your child's name. $28.00 AUD, AU only, free shipping.
Note from Marie: If you have been putting off a colour, a project or a whole shop because you are scared of getting it wrong — this is your sign. Purple didn't kill me.