My story
It all began with a collection of 14 fairy houses that debuted at an art festival and sold out in four hours.
As of 2025, Over 100 original houses have been built by Samantha and shipped to discerning collectors around the world, All with their own certificates of authenticity and their own story.
Constructed completely by hand using natural materials gathered by the artist throughout the whole of New England, these enchanting sculptures are also on display at art galleries and art museums in New England.
First came
The Fairy House
Which opened the gate to jewelry
earrings, necklaces and my ren-faire-famous ear cuff
After three years in business, I finally
succumbed to the magic
and I never looked back
My full portfolio now includes an array of handmade artworks that I make by myself in my studio in southern New England. Little Small & Co. has three retail partners: The Florence Griswold Musuem, Riggio’s Garden Canter & Enchanted Blooms and each year, you can see my imagination on full display at, “The Wee Faerie Village” at The Florence Griswold Museum.
Along the quiet beaches of New England and wandering through the forests, Samantha Barlow-Beamer grew up closely with nature on her doorstep. It was during a trip to Monhegan Island off the coast of Maine when her creative inspiration for building fairy houses and designing jewelry really took off. Monhegan Island has one rule which five-year-old Samantha never forgot and still follows today: You must only make fairy houses with natural materials which have already fallen to the ground.
for the next 30 years or so she did just that; at the bases of trees across the US and Costa Rica where she lived for a summer, Samantha built little fairy houses in the hopes to keep her childhood magic very much a part of her life. The one place she had trouble building fairy houses was in New York City where she lived and worked for ten years as a sales director for a UK based corporate consulting firm and later at a different consulting firm where she developed and launched a software integrated with AI. Trees are hard to come by in New York City so she packed up her sticks and beads and moved back to the shoreline where she found her husband.
Now with their three cats and their toddler, the family travels through New England gathering natural materials for her fairy houses and visiting antique stores searching for beads to repurpose for jewelry. Samantha's art is designed to remind collectors of the beauty of nature and inspire them to continue to do what they can to preserve our incredible planet and respect our natural ecosystems.