Barb Bentler Ullman lives with her family -- husband Jim, two daughters, a blind grandma, a vicious house cat, and an overweight dog -- in a house that her husband built in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains of Washington State. "My daughter Sara once came up with the idea for an American woodland fairy. She was glue-gunning acorns together and calling them 'nut-babies.' They resided in pretty places in our woods, living quiet, natural lives. One thing led to another."