With perfect timing of ghosts ghoulies and dark imagination I have just received the most wonderful Halloween book gift, from the author Jasmine Becket-Griffith a long time artist friend whom I have greatly admired from the start of her breathtaking career in Gothic Art. Not a book for the lighthearted but for anyone who appreciates Art in all its forms, this book is a triumph for Contemporary Artists that exposes every facet, with every continent and artistic medium represented it is an unique vision of the Gothic asthetic of dark disturbing appeal and a sure fire winner for artists that deserve mainstream recognition.
“Thank you Jasmine, keep dancing in the Dark! Congratulations”
Paris Hilton dresses up as a fairy, in the new promo for her fifth fragrance Fairy Dust.
The perfume contains a blend of pink peony, orange blossom, gardenia and vanilla creme fragrances. Fairy Dust, the fifth addition to the her fragrance empire, comes out in the middle of October.
Move over, Cinderella, Snow White and Ariel: The Disney Fairies are on their way.
Preparing for the Oct. 28 release of a straight-to-DVD animated children’s movie about Tinker Bell, Walt Disney World is about to open a walk-through attraction in the Magic Kingdom based on, and featuring, that pixie and four other Disney Fairies characters.
The Disney Fairies are a new set of characters, developed for books, movies, Internet games and merchandise, that expand the role of the always-popular Tinker Bell. Four DVD movies are in the works. The theme park’s Pixie Hollow attraction opens Oct. 24 in Mickey’s Toontown Fair.
“This is a franchise that is soon to be like our princesses franchise,” declared Francois Leroux, a vice president of character programs with Walt Disney World Entertainment, who introduced the characters to the media on Wednesday in downtown Orlando.
Pixie Hollow features Iridessa (from left), Rosetta, Tinker Bell, Silvermist and Fawn. The Magic Kingdom’s newest attraction. The Disney Fairies are a new set of characters, developed for books, movies, Internet games and merchandise. (WALT DISNEY WORLD)
“Every child is a Fairy deserving an enchanted childhood, my picture shocks even me, yet this is reality and is happening now in the 21st century. Please take a moment to take in such horror and allow your conscience to stop this happening. A regular donation to Save the Children will help to ease the pain and suffering of children, the fairies of our world.”
Myrea Pettit
The UN are meeting on 25 September 2008 to discuss the goals they set to tackle poverty. We want them to ‘get on track’ with their goal to cut child deaths by two-thirds by 2015. Progress on this goal has been slow – 10 million children still die every year, mostly from preventable causes. That’s appalling.
We want you to join tens of thousands of people around the world who are demanding that the UN uses this meeting to ‘get on track’ to stop millions of child deaths. At the current rate the goal won’t be met until 2045. That’s an unacceptable 30 years late!
Add your voice by sending a message to the UK’s Ambassador to the UN, urging him to make sure the September meeting results in concrete actions to cut child deaths, not more missed opportunities.
Recently returned from the Ireland Show in USA to his studio in Dorset and the Gallery of Secrets, owned by Peter Stone Jewellery, the producer of magnificent sterling silver and gold faerie Jewellery and Courtney Davis, world famous Celtic artist Courtney Davis and author of over 50 books on the subject published over the last thirty years, is considered the greatest living authority on Celtic Art in modern times. He speaks enthusiastically about the ever increasing demand for his work, surprised at the prices some of his originals previously held in private collections are fetching now at auction, it is evident that the upsurge of interest by over 38 million Americans with Irish ancestry searching for their Celtic roots and the folklore that surrounds their origins of their families is pushing the demand for Courtney’s work as highly desirable and into important collections throughout the USA. ” I have so much to do and just not enough time ” is how Courtney summed it up , clearly a man whose original work is in greater demand than ever. I asked him about the new licensing and manufacturing deals that I had heard about with a major fashion house and airline but it seems for the moment he was not ready to divulge too much information. It seems we are going to see a lot more of Courtney’s work in the Celtic boom ahead.
BBC Radio Northampton Radio producer Julia Morgan a lover of fairies herself and with her own fairy grotto in her garden was looking for others with a similar passion was delighted to find help from David Riche with Fairies World so close by.
David who has championed the cause of fairy and fantasy art and emerging artists worldwide in his books, on the web, in the Fairiesworld Gallery, and nationwide TV was delighted to expound and enthuse listeners of the afternoon program interviewed by Kevin Fernihough.
We are so glad that spring is at last chasing away the winter bugs and
that Aimee is recovered from all the bugs that took up residence last
month. She is making good progress with the immunosuppressant which
we hope will be stopped in a week or two. that will make such a
difference as we have travelled almost 2000 miles between Dundee and
Glasgowover the last few weeks as the doctors have kept a close eye
on all the bugs, the graft versus host disease and her blood counts.
Our greatest piece of news though is the arrival of Princess Emma - a
gorgeous little Yorkshire terrier pup who we have all become so very
much attached too. things have been going well and Emma has settled
in well - but - the poor mite suffered an accident a week ago when
Emma took a bad fall and broke both her front legs. ! She has had her
operation and is now at home where she is the focus of a 24/7 delivery
of TLC led my Aimee who has hardly left her side. Aimee is really the
only one who will let Emma feed her. The vet thinks that if all goes
well in the next few days Emma will be able to have her bandages off .
So we hope you like the photo of Aimee and Emma which was taken before
her accident when we visited the Scottish Yorkshire Terrier club - we
four are now five
Dear Fairy Friends,
as we approach Christmas I wanted to share with you a wonderful new fairy painting of Aimee by Josephine Wall after we met her and her lovely husband Bob at the Fairy Ball in Penzance. It so captures the essence of fairy that lies within Aimee. Jo has painted Aimee with glorious rainbow coloured wings and there is a face painted on each of the feather wings which surround her. The title we have settled on for the picture is Fairy Lights because for Aimee and I each fairy friend and supporter who has joined Aimee on this life journey have brought their own special healing light to lift and strengthen Aimee’s fairy spirit on this most mortal journey. Jo’s insight and her gift of creating such profound umages for us all to see is so very special to us all and we are so honoured to be able to share it with our dear fairy friends.
We are so grateful for the love and support which Aimee has received over the last twelve months - it has given her such a boost and meant the world to us all. She is recovering from the graft versus host episode and the virus seems to have been cleared by the ant-vital medicines.
We look forward to a bug free Christmas and new year at home and wish you all the brightest, happiest, and most magical of fairy Christmases
fairy blessings
Rosie and Aimee xx
Over the hot summer weeks and months that Aimee spent in Yorkhill children’s hospital undergoing further treatment, dreams of going to the October Faery Ball in Penzance kept her spirits up and her energies much focused on this important date in her schedule. Thank you to the very many kind hearted folks who sent cards and gifts to Aimee while she resided in our specially created Fairy Hill Sanctuary  a special place filled with beautiful fairy images and gifts and where melodic fairy music created a very special healing place for Aimee to get through her treatment.
Thank you also to our dear friends a NABs who created a magical fairy themed countdown calendar for a hundred days before the big day  with each new day adding every more sparkle and ever more fairies to fill Aimee’s room.
Whilst at the time each day itself felt like a hundred, soon the most magical of all days arrived  the day to come home, to convalesce and to finally plan the detail of this most magical journey that would take Aimee  and us - to a this new world of enchantment which had beckoned us all for so long. Aimee was not disappointed.
Our sincere and grateful thanks to Aimee’s supporters who helped to make this wonderful trip possible  from the amazing football supporters of the Dee supporters club of the Dundee Football club who helped to fund our travel expenses, to our dear friends Be and Drew Montague of the fairy wholesale company I Do Believe and the owners of the Mount Haven Hotel Penzance who together made us such welcome guests during our stay in Penzance.
Magic was most definitely afoot on the night of the Faery Ball when uncertain of our final destination we simply joined the band of fairy folk making their way along the streets of Penzance to the big event. Even more thrills and surprises awaited inside the hall as we met for the first time  countless ordinary folk revealing their most magical selves and long established faery folk who had sent such love and support to Aimee throughout the last three years. Even in disguise we knew who they were  David and Myrea at Fairiesworld who for Aimee set the magical world of faery in motion; Linda Ravenscroft who had so delighted Aimee with many little fairy surprises; Brian and Wendy Froud, who for Aimee are truly the Fairy King and Queen of her fairy world where Wendy’s Healing Fairy had become such a blessed gift for Aimee over the years, and meeting new and delightful friends Josephine Wall and her husband Bob, as well as Alicen and Neil Geddes Ward of the Orkney Fairies Museum. Wings of all shapes, colours and sizes fluttered across the hall proving just how much this fairy world was ready to embrace us ordinary mortals  a momentous evening for us all.
Over the following weekend we were humbled that support continued and extended to include the Fairy Box raffle hosted by Be and Drew which gathered £500 for our funds with wonderful donations from Brian and Wendy Froud, Josephine Wall, Be and Drew, Linda Ravenscroft, Alicen and Neil Geddes Ward and the stunningly gorgeous fairy jewellry of Ethera. The event also helped to set in place important seeds ready to bring the magic of Fairy Box south of the Border.
Home now and the Faery Ball is a much cherished memory that will carry us all forward in the months ahead as Aimee’s progress is monitored by her Doctors in Dundee and in Glasgow.
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