Is there a place to store my items until I merge them (Like in Fairytale Island where I put the characters..

There sadly isn’t a barn on the main board. There is the hat that works as storage & you can fill Your board with food, turn auto collect off, & unload the hat one thing at a time if you need to, but you can’t really put anything in (besides purchases & rewards).

Also, you can collect “floaters” on the main map for cake tree pieces (the butterfly’s. Some have baskets with a piece inside), collect resources from the finished houses once a day, & complete the event maps for more fairy tale character pieces. Also don’t forget to claim the 2 free bags of cake tree pieces either daily or every 4 hours, watch for the book floater, & always claim those tree pieces.

When you run out of things to merge there, all you can do is try to get more cake tree pieces. The more cake you collect, the more character chests you can claim, the more character pieces you can merge. Hope this helps!