Inspiration Avenue Challenge



This weeks challenge over at Inspiration Avenue is Breast Cancer Awareness by creating art by using the colours pink and white.

I fell in love with this Hellebore last time we visited the garden centre,Tony said he would buy it for me so it jumped in the trolley toot sweet !

It's called Penny's Pink and is a big, strong plant about 12" tall at the moment and covered with these gorgeous pink flowers. As it is still in a pot I was able to get some really nice shots of it against the bright white of the snow. I had to tip the pot back to peek inside the flowers as they naturally hang down. It's worth it when you see the lovely centre.

Perfect for a pink and white theme - I used a free texture from

 Pixel Dust Photo Art and some other effects in PicMonkey

 

Here are a couple of pics without any effects.

I'm lucky to have this beautiful plant ^_^

 



Snowflake Postcards

Yesterday we woke to snow again. No surprise as it was forecast, but it looks so much more pretty on a day u don't have to get up and go to work!

 

This is my Fairyland Pukifee Ante - Perlipat. I can't believe that I've had her for over a year. She is previously loved (2nd hand) and arrived with a jumpy neck that would only look up and one foot thicker than the other. I cured the neck with a little hot glue on the joint but the feet are a bit trickier. It's quite surprising how a tiny difference in the feet make her quite unsteady. She is forever toppling over.

Still she scrubbs up well and I adore her ( I waited a loooong time for an Ante).

Her gorgeous little dress is by Mini Jijo on Etsy, I made her hat,wings and shoes.

I really prefer my little dolls without any hair because it shows off the cute shape of their heads !

 

This lovely poem 'A postcard from a Fairy' by Marion St John Webb can be found in the little book 'Weather Fairies' illustrated by Margaret Tarrant.

 

 Snowflakes, sprinkling, falling,

Can you hear the fairies calling,

The fairies in the woods, among the trees ?

They watch you tumbling,dropping.

And call you without stopping,

To ask, "Have you a message for us, please?"

 

 

Snowflakes twirling, swirling,

You are the fairy postcards, whirling

From the fairies in the clouds to those below.

Soft you float, each light and airy,

Down to a waiting fairy,

Who grasps and reads her postcard made of snow.

 



 

 

Love is

Teasle with her new friend Nissa.

 



 

Wishing u all a Happy Valentines Day

=^_^=

 

xxx

 

Marjorie Dawson Fairy Art News

If you love vintage fairy art like I do u will be pleased to hear that previously unseen art by  British artist Marjorie Dawson can now be viewed on Flickr.

My friend Kelly was lucky enough to have been bequeathed several of her original fairy art pictures, many of which have never been seen until now.

Fairytales, pixies, delicate flowers in whimsical woodlands, elves and fairies in a delight of rainbow shades dance across the page when Marjorie put her pencil and brush to paper.

You are in for a treat if u take a peek at Flickr.



Enjoy

^_^

Joyful Golden Glory

WORDS

After having to say goodbye to our gorgeous Peachy in September I have found it almost impossible to put into words what it meant to us. So I'm not going to try.

Suffice to say that this post is for her.

 

 

 

 

 

Peach, our precious red eared emissary from the fairies.

Always in our hearts.

 



Monthly Photo Challenge

The theme for the August photo challenge is - 'PLACES'  - as in forest, garden, somewhere in your home where you relax.
 I've been so busy doin other things this week that I'm glad that I took these pics in advance. Moonflower is having a quiet moment, sitting in the shady side of her garden.
Dress and blouse by Doll Hearts
Ballet feet and shoes by PeaPod Doll

 

 

Fairy places, fairy things,
Fairy woods where the wild bee wings,
Tiny trees for tiny dames--
These must all be fairy names!

Tiny woods below whose boughs
Shady fairies weave a house;
Tiny tree-tops, rose or thyme,
Where the braver fairies climb!

Robert Louis Stevenson


August - Holiday Memories

August really is a holiday month.

During August when I was young, we always spent a fortnight in Scotland so my birthday was usually celebrated on holiday. This meant making a visit to the local bakery to order a birthday cake which would be collected on the day for taking on a picnic.

 We had all the stuff - large flasks, melamine cups and plates, a calor gas stove to boil water on and a proper Teapot with a wooly cosy, a salt cellar with a twist of paper in the top, salad, homemade jam, bread and a large cardboard box to put it all in. Best of all on that day, a cake with pink icing and candles !

The car was permanently packed with kagools, flipflops and wellies, straw hats, fishing nets, sun cream and some horrendous smelling stuff to put behind our ears which was supposed to stop us getting bit by midges.

Sometimes we would stop by the sea, a river or a nice picnic area with tables and benches. Failing that, a field would do  - Dad always new the best places.

Returning by dusk come rain or shine, cloud or clear sky we always had a good day

^_^

 

 

 Holiday time means lots of fun

For you and me and everyone.

Swim in the sea, play on the sand

To do these things is really grand.

Or else perhaps we take our tea

To picnic in the fields where we

Can play our games 'midst poppies bright

Until we go home at night.

 

Illustration by Flora White

Verse by Anne Hope

 

 

Here is another little dress for the paper doll

 



 

Enjoy the simple things - have fun for the rest of the hols !

 



Day for Daisies Challenge #51

Day for Daisies Challenge #51

"Yellow + Polka Dots"

 

While browsing Day for Daisies shop I was really taken by this image - Lemon Hat. She is very unique and cute. I coloured her with Promarkers, cut out the image and edged it with Scattered Straw Distress Ink.

I've used Prima Botanical papers (free on Simply Cards & papercraft mag) layered on a large Cosmo Cricket tag with some lovely East of India dotty tape and a scrap of lace.

 I enjoyed using a colour I wouldn't normally choose and I love the way it turned out.

 

 

"Give a girl a lemon," said the wise man "and she will add some sugar and make you the sweetest of lemonade and should you bathe in the zest of the most playful of fruits then be prepared to emerge from the water unavoidably and deliciously edible."

N SPA

 

Thanks for looking ^_^

 



 



Wish List Wed

Today I'm putting a wish in for this little chair from next and can totally imagine myself enjoying a cuppa a la Victoria Grayson of Revenge fame Littlegretel style : )

In reality Peach and Teasle would want this chair for themselves, I could try to exclude them from the room but they would get their revenge by leaving a pesky kitty deposit on it some way or another.

 

Next has loads of lovely home interior stuff at the moment - these cushions are definately on my weekend shopping list !

Have yourselves a good week

^_^



Summer Pastimes

The summer is passing very quickly and this morning I'm sure I heard the whisper of autumn.

As well as the usual mundane stuff there's been lots to do recently.

Been glued to the Olympics -

Had one of these -

Been doin' a little bit of this -

Some decorating -

And currently waiting for a new one of these -

Whatever u are doing I'm hoping that your summer is bright and filled with happy times ^_^