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For the Love of Flower Fairies

by beth on March 25, 2010

in home & garden

Cicely Mary Barker cre­ated some beau­ti­ful flower fairies art­work that inspires one to won­der if fairies might be among us. They are still avail­able today & the flower fairies live on. We’ve been look­ing at the beau­ti­ful Flower Fairies web­site.

My daugh­ter has a love of all things fairies right now. Her older broth­ers also won­der if they are around us, but they are start­ing to ques­tion more.  As what hap­pens with increased age our abil­ity to explore the world of pos­si­bil­ity begins to become one of logic ver­sus mys­tery.   But my daugh­ter is still in the land of fairies.

Mamacita has been espe­cially pleased to find she can learn more about the fairies, get activ­i­ties pages, play games and a host of other free fairy items.  All at the Flower Fairies web­site.  For those who have a love flower fairies but aren’t into activ­i­ties pages any­more there are screen­savers & com­puter wall­pa­per avail­able.  Also, there is a beau­ti­ful free down­load right now of a fairy glos­sary on the U.S. ver­sion of the site.

Do you have a child who loves fairies?  How about you, do you have a fairy love?

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Arcimboldo’s Winter

by beth on January 8, 2010

in in life

acrimboldo winter

I’ve men­tioned my love of Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s art before & wanted to share his vision of Win­ter. By wanted I mean Mr. J & Mr. G begged me to post another pic­ture of the “Super cool paint­ings with food & ani­mals & stuff” & how could I pos­si­bly deny the bud­ding artists in them? I can deny many things, eat­ing only cook­ies for the rest of their lives or never tak­ing a shower/bath, but lov­ing art is not one of them.

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Nativity Triptych

by beth on November 28, 2009

in home & garden

nativity triptch

I saw this Nativ­ity Trip­tych and thought it was so beau­ti­ful. I can just pic­ture it cen­tered on a man­tel or maybe a hutch. I love the wood and the warm col­ors that are used. I can get lost in this style of art, there is a sim­plic­ity expressed through its ornate beauty. It’s this beau­ti­ful con­tra­dic­tion that I am drawn into, I can’t explain it. Except that I wish more art was like this. Because I can get lost in the art museum tak­ing in the older art that this trip­tych calls to my mind.

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Angels In My Shadows

by beth November 21, 2009

Night becomes Day Soft rustling of sound Scat­ter­ing of light All around me Shad­ows dance Prayers rise up A child’s laugh­ter Lilts up the stairs Gig­gling At the end of my bed Morn­ing has come Shad­ows and light Dance all around me Tweet This Post

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Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s Autumn

by beth October 19, 2009

I really love Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s paint­ings. He made paint­ing por­traits using fruits, veg­eta­bles, ani­mals, and other “unusual” mate­ri­als (like books) dur­ing the1500s. His work reminds me of the fan­tasy that exists in the sea­sons & in every­day life. Fan­tasy I often for­get to let myself see or feel. The above paint­ing is his ren­der­ing of Autumn. […]

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