Baby Fairy
Messengers
Four years of tiny wonder — two baby fairies per set, nestled in flowers, dusted with glitter. A miniature series born from a real new arrival, and finished with four of the most enchanting little ornaments Hallmark ever made.
Born From a Baby — Literally
The Baby Fairy Messengers series has one of the most personal origin stories in the entire Hallmark Keepsake catalog. In 2015, Hallmark Keepsake Artist Kristina Gaughran was celebrating the arrival of her second child — and in the way of artists who cannot help turning life into art, she channeled that new-baby joy directly into her work. The result was a new miniature series: tiny baby fairies, nestled into flower blossoms like petals were their blankets, each one glitter-dusted and impossibly sweet.
The series was also a love letter to Hallmark's long-running Fairy Messengers adult series, which Gaughran had been sculpting since 2005. The first Baby Fairy Messengers set — Lotus and Poinsettia — paired the grown-up Poinsettia, the very first Fairy Messenger from 2005, with that year's adult fairy Lotus, reimagined as babies. Each one nested in her corresponding flower as if it were a cradle. The concept was immediately enchanting.
The series ran for four years, releasing a new pair each year through 2018, before completing with the Mistletoe and Holly set. Eight fairies in total. Four years of two-by-two arrivals, each set a tiny world of flower petals, glitter, and sleeping or playing baby magic.
"The biggest influences on my work are definitely the family I grew up with and the family I'm building now."
— Kristina Gaughran, Hallmark Keepsake Artist
Lotus & Poinsettia (2015) · Pansy & Tulip (2016) · Rose & Lavender (2017)
Kristina Gaughran — Creator of the Series
Kristina Gaughran grew up watching Saturday morning cartoons, and it shows — in the best way. Her Hallmark Keepsake work spans from Disney and Star Wars icons to penguins to the entire universe of fairies she has built across two connected series. She describes sculpting as living a dream, and her approach to each piece is shaped by the people she loves: sci-fi characters remind her of her husband and brother; cute creatures like fairies and penguins bring back happy memories of her sons and nieces.
Her connection to the fairy world at Hallmark runs deep. She has been sculpting the Fairy Messengers adult series — one flower fairy per year — since its launch in 2005. When her second child arrived in 2015, she created Baby Fairy Messengers as a companion series: tiny baby versions of the same fairies, nestled in their flowers as if the blooms were cradles. Each piece is finished with glitter — her signature touch, carried from the adult fairies into these miniature babies.
What Gaughran does exceptionally well is capture personality in a very small space. Each fairy has a distinct expression and pose: one is napping, one is playful, one holds a flower. At barely an inch tall, these ornaments somehow manage to feel entirely inhabited — as if you've interrupted something.
Mistletoe & Holly (2018)
The fourth and final set brings the series full circle with two of the most quintessentially Christmas flowers in the botanical world — Mistletoe and Holly. As the concluding pair of the collection, they carry a satisfying completeness: the series that began with Lotus and Poinsettia (a nod to the very first Fairy Messengers adult fairy from 2005) closes with two flowers that have been symbols of Christmas for centuries. Each is finished with glitter accents that catch the tree's light. The complete set of all eight fairies — four pairs from 2015 through 2018 — is a tiny, magical collection worth displaying all together.
Shop Mistletoe & Holly →Eight Fairies — Four Years of Arrivals
Every year from 2015 to 2018, two new baby fairies arrived together — each set a pair, each pair named for the flowers they carry and rest in. Here are all four sets in the series:
Lotus & Poinsettia — Set #1 (2015) · Mistletoe & Holly — Set #4 (2018)
These Are True Miniatures
Every ornament in Baby Fairy Messengers is a genuine miniature — approximately 1 to 1.6 inches tall. This is part of what makes them so charming, but worth knowing before your first purchase.
Each fairy is approximately 1–1.6 inches tall. They are designed for tabletop trees, ornament stands, shadow boxes, or display alongside other miniature ornaments. At this scale the glitter detail and flower sculpting are exquisite up close — these reward being held and examined, not just hung at a distance.
Many collectors display this series on a small dedicated tabletop tree, on individual mini ornament stands on a shelf, or grouped together in a shadow box. They also make genuinely special gifts — a complete set of two tiny fairies, glitter-dusted and resting in their flowers, has a quality that exceeds what their small size might suggest.
The Magic of New Beginnings
Kristina Gaughran made this series because she had a new baby and couldn't help making something beautiful about it. That impulse — the irresistible need to mark a new arrival with something made and lasting — is exactly what the ornaments themselves embody. Baby fairies nestled in flowers like newborns in their blankets. Glitter on everything, because glitter is celebration.
The connection to the adult Fairy Messengers series gives this collection an extra layer of meaning for longtime collectors. These babies are the children of fairies they already know and love — Poinsettia has been on trees since 2005, and here she is again as an infant, tiny and new. It is a series within a series, a mythology with its own internal logic, and that depth makes it feel like something genuinely created rather than merely manufactured.
For anyone who loves fairies, flowers, miniatures, or the particular magic of very small things made with extraordinary care — this series is four years of exactly what they love, completed and collectible and waiting to be found.
Decoration Tips
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01A dedicated mini tree is their natural home. At 1–1.6 inches tall, these fairies get lost on a full-sized tree. A 2-3 foot tabletop tree lets each set be properly seen, and displaying all four sets together creates a tiny enchanted garden.
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02Let them catch the light. The glitter Kristina Gaughran uses is not incidental — it is the design. Position these ornaments where tree lights or ambient light will hit them directly. The sparkle is part of what makes them feel magical rather than merely decorative.
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03Display the pairs together. Each set is designed as a pair — two personalities in conversation. Display Lotus and Poinsettia together, Pansy and Tulip together. Separating them across the tree loses the dialogue that makes each set work.
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04Perfect new-baby gift. The series was born from a baby's arrival — and a set of these gifted to a new parent is one of the most charming and personal ornaments you can give. Even better if matched to the birth season's flower.
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05Pair with the adult Fairy Messengers. If you collect the full-sized Fairy Messengers series, display the matching babies alongside their grown-up counterparts. Poinsettia adult next to baby Poinsettia — it is the kind of collector detail that makes the hobby genuinely delightful.
Display Tips
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01All eight fairies together is the goal. The full series — four sets, eight fairies — is a complete and bounded collection. Displaying them all together tells the series' full story, from the 2015 debut through the 2018 finale, from Lotus to Holly.
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02Ornament stands let each fairy be appreciated individually. At miniature scale, a tiered stand where each fairy has her own space — visible, at eye level, reachable — turns the collection into a tiny display of individual characters rather than a group of small things.
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03The 2015 Lotus & Poinsettia set has special significance. As the series debut and the set most directly connected to Gaughran's personal life — created in the year her second child arrived — the first pair is the one with the deepest story. Collectors who know the backstory point to this set first.
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04Shadow box display works beautifully. Eight tiny fairies in a velvet-backed shadow box with their names labeled below each one — hung year-round, not just at Christmas. The glitter catches the light even off the tree.
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05Keep the original boxes — they're part of the gift. At this scale, the boxes protect the delicate glitter finish and the fine flower sculpting. In-box condition matters, and the box art for this series is particularly sweet.
All 4 Sets — 2015 to 2018
Eight baby fairies, four pairs, four years. Click any set to shop.
Lotus and Poinsettia. Pansy and Tulip. Rose and Lavender. Mistletoe and Holly. Eight tiny fairies, glitter-dusted and nestled in their flowers, each one barely an inch tall and entirely perfect.
Born from a real new arrival. Made to make someone smile. That is exactly what they do.
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