Fairy Day!
I'm inviting my 5 year old niece to a special Fairy Day in the second week of July. She's going to bring all her fairy ideas and, if it rains, her raincoat, rainhat, umbrella and gumboots. We're exploring the fairy garden in the front yard come hail or shine! (Back at the Bilpin Rare Plant Collectors' Fair, I bought an array of small-petalled flowers and small-leaved pot plants especially for the event.)
She believes so passionately in fairies and apparently I have to make a little net to catch bad fairies in because her friend Natasha has one and it works. I'm already picturing some awesome black netted thing with twinkly bits on it and many, many powers!
I'm going to set up a rustic little villa that the fairies have abandoned before she gets here on the day. I'll make everything out of thick sticks or dainty twigs. I have bought a tiny vial of fairy dust (peppermint green in colour) which will be plenty as I don't like the idea of adding artificial crap to the garden (but this is important). I don't know yet what the dust can be for, or even if the fairies have left it or if we are to sprinkle it for some reason but it's that ultra-fine glitter you occasionally find, and it actually says Fairy Dust on the tiny corked bottle. I also bought a rugged piece of amethyst to install in the soil, and I'm going to lay other semi-precious gemstones in fairyland disarray.
I'm writing the invitation card right now, although I've already cleared the date with my sister. There's a little poem on the back of the card that reads:
A fine and subtle spirit dwells
In every little flower,
Each one its own sweet feeling breathes
With more or less of power.
- Anne Bronte (1820 - 1849)
An extract from The Bluebell, no less, so of course it rocks. (Pun fun.) How sad. I didn't realise Anne Bronte died at 29.
OK, I need to walk up to the post office and the bank. If you have any ideas at all regarding what we could do on our fairy day, I'd be most obliged. I never got into fairies as a kid and never had that type of imagination fostered in me by my very pragmatic mother, so I could definitely use some help! So far I've thought of:
* Baking fairy cupcakes
* Creating fairy paintings
* Reading fairy stories
* Acting like fairies probably act
* Going on a fairy-spotting walk with Kenji, who can be dressed as a male fairy (what is the male equivalent to a fairy? A hobgoblin? An elf? Are there male fairies?)
* Writing a little fairy newspaper
* Writing a letter to leave for the fairies asking for proof
Actually, I just thought of most of those now. No way will we do them all, but I'd like to do some fun things she can go back and tell Natasha about! Any ideas...?
Dear Sophie,
I think we have had some secret fairy activity in our garden. Could you please join me at my place on 11th July and help me investigate? I could really use your help as I heard you know a lot about fairies. Please bring any fairy things you have with you. I also think it would help if you came in a fairy costume. Thanks!
Love,
Aunty Ponky xxx
Yeah, yeah, it's Aunty Ponky. And what of it?! :P "Aunty Ponky - NOT a donkey!" is what nephew James used to call me when he was little. For the others I simplified it and just called myself "Aunty Ponky Donkey". Sometimes I still get "Ponkydonx". Hey - no laughing! I still need fairy advice!
She believes so passionately in fairies and apparently I have to make a little net to catch bad fairies in because her friend Natasha has one and it works. I'm already picturing some awesome black netted thing with twinkly bits on it and many, many powers!
I'm going to set up a rustic little villa that the fairies have abandoned before she gets here on the day. I'll make everything out of thick sticks or dainty twigs. I have bought a tiny vial of fairy dust (peppermint green in colour) which will be plenty as I don't like the idea of adding artificial crap to the garden (but this is important). I don't know yet what the dust can be for, or even if the fairies have left it or if we are to sprinkle it for some reason but it's that ultra-fine glitter you occasionally find, and it actually says Fairy Dust on the tiny corked bottle. I also bought a rugged piece of amethyst to install in the soil, and I'm going to lay other semi-precious gemstones in fairyland disarray.
I'm writing the invitation card right now, although I've already cleared the date with my sister. There's a little poem on the back of the card that reads:
A fine and subtle spirit dwells
In every little flower,
Each one its own sweet feeling breathes
With more or less of power.
- Anne Bronte (1820 - 1849)
An extract from The Bluebell, no less, so of course it rocks. (Pun fun.) How sad. I didn't realise Anne Bronte died at 29.
OK, I need to walk up to the post office and the bank. If you have any ideas at all regarding what we could do on our fairy day, I'd be most obliged. I never got into fairies as a kid and never had that type of imagination fostered in me by my very pragmatic mother, so I could definitely use some help! So far I've thought of:
* Baking fairy cupcakes
* Creating fairy paintings
* Reading fairy stories
* Acting like fairies probably act
* Going on a fairy-spotting walk with Kenji, who can be dressed as a male fairy (what is the male equivalent to a fairy? A hobgoblin? An elf? Are there male fairies?)
* Writing a little fairy newspaper
* Writing a letter to leave for the fairies asking for proof
Actually, I just thought of most of those now. No way will we do them all, but I'd like to do some fun things she can go back and tell Natasha about! Any ideas...?
Dear Sophie,
I think we have had some secret fairy activity in our garden. Could you please join me at my place on 11th July and help me investigate? I could really use your help as I heard you know a lot about fairies. Please bring any fairy things you have with you. I also think it would help if you came in a fairy costume. Thanks!
Love,
Aunty Ponky xxx
Yeah, yeah, it's Aunty Ponky. And what of it?! :P "Aunty Ponky - NOT a donkey!" is what nephew James used to call me when he was little. For the others I simplified it and just called myself "Aunty Ponky Donkey". Sometimes I still get "Ponkydonx". Hey - no laughing! I still need fairy advice!