Since we have five Fridays this month I am going to take this one to wish each of you a Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Yule!
I hope the last 10 days of this year are filled with light, love and the making of wonderful memories!
When I return next week, I'll go back to the Bewildering Pine, my usual fourth Friday post. In January I will begin revealing a bit more about the world I am creating in greater detail but next Friday's post will focus on the why.
Why I am taking time out from an already busy creative life to write these stories and create this elaborate world, what inspired them and where do my characters come from.
So until then, I send love and light to all of you!
Oh, I wanted to share this with you all too. Each Solstice or Equinox Sofie and I chose two fairy guardians for our altar. Last night it was time to pick our Winter Fairy Guardians. We choose them from the vast and well known flower fairy selection of the artist Cicely Mary Barker, then we print them out and mount them on card stock, setting them on the altar window.
Snowdrop Fairy for Sofie
Burdock Fairy for myself!
For me, I am reminded of the mischievousness of the burdock fairy. When I was home last February, I was doing some work for my mother in the driveway and came inside later to find hundreds of the sticky burrs on my pants, socks and coat. . . and just like when I was a kid, I never saw the plant! There they were as if by true fairy magic! It was an unexpected but lovely step back into memories of the past so I had to choose him this year!
Much love and fairy magic to you all!!!
Nicolas
Merry Christmas and happy solstice to you and Sofie! What a wonderful little ritual you do together. I believe we all could use more rituals, old or new! Especially if they help us remember happy things. Today actually, i have been trying to come up with some Little daily task I could do to make it seem more Christmas like here.... no big grand task that becomes a chore, just a small thing to remember past Christmases or loved ones. Your idea has inspired me.
ReplyDeleteAndrea we have been saying the same here about rituals. From making paper ornaments to my traditional baking schedule to our fairy ritual, just to stop and take time to make those little memories and to recall all the days of our own childhoods that were so special then and can be now too. :) Hoping your Christmas was wonderful too!
DeleteHi Nicolas :) I love those fairies. On Solstice night we had snow, so I was out looking for snow fairies disguised at snowflakes. :) I hope you have a wonderful Yuletide season, a Merry Christmas and a most wonderful New Year! :)
ReplyDeleteOh Solstice SNOW! How magical!! I hope you discovered a few snow fairies among the flakes or perhaps one or two "hitched a ride" indoors on your clothes and are now a part of your world. :) May the merriest and brightest of the season be yours as well! :)
DeleteAw, that's a lovely memory, Nicolas. I hope you and Sofie also have a magical Christmastide. All the blessings and joy to you as you take time our in wonderment.
ReplyDeleteThank you Michael! I hope you and Alexandra have a most special holiday and that you find all the magic, peace and beauty of the holiday in your travels and among new family (for you) and locale. You both deserve it so very much!
DeleteMuch love to you Nicolas! I love the fairies!
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas and happy Solstice!
Sending you and Sofie, many blessings!
Big Crow Hugs!
Much Christmas love and beauty to you too Stacy! Mas!y the season bring such joy and peace to your world and the New Year be bold and bright! You are a dear soul with so much to offer to the world. Keep putting it out there in the New Year too!!! BIG Crow Hugs!
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