Uralla fairy doors: Alex Sherrin makes fairy doors and hides them around town for fairy Carmena Urallensis

Carmena Urallensis is her name, but the tiny fairy who flits about on gossamer wings is notoriously hard to spot.

The only sign she's been in Uralla are the number of fairy doors that have suddenly appeared, as if by magic, around the town.

Fairy helper Alex Sherrin has been making the fairy doors in secret, and popping them in locations for kids and families to find during the COVID-19 lockdown.

"My wife was fiddling at home and made a few fairy houses to put in our garden for a bit of fun, so I knocked up some simple ones and businesses were really supportive of it," he said.

"We started to get a few reactions and it went from there, it's been brilliant."

The best part is that even more humans have started to lend a hand to Carmena Urallensis, with Mr Sherrin finding fairy doors even he didn't know about.

"That's been the great part about it, that's what we were hoping from the start and it's been very exciting to see other doors," he said.

"The trouble is we have to go and find them now."

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Mr Sherrin's friend Ross Burnet has started a GoFundMe page to make a map for community members to find the fairy doors.

Two days in and it has raised $220, Mr Burnet said.

"There are more than 20 doors out there and we wanted to make a map so kids and grandparents could look out for them," he said.

To donate visit GoFundMe and search for Uralla Fairies.