Debut author Michelle Harrison 29 has been named winner of the £5000 pound Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize. She wrote the first few chapters of her book, about Tayna a teenage girl who can see fairies, while at university. Waterstones Book shops said the “brilliantly imaginative” novel was set to be one of the biggest debuts of 2009. More here

The Thirteen Treasures

Jason Wu the dress designer whose inaugural dress Michelle Obama chose to wear gets ready to launch his 2009 collection.
With his real-life fairy tale behind him, Wu has turned to his fall inspiration. It’s fairy tales. “It’s actually so funny because I’m like, ‘Wait a minute.’ It sounds like I planned it all. I couldn’t have because if I had only started my collection now, I would have been in so much trouble.”
Fairies seem appropriate too for Malia and Sasha Obama the White House children, we shall look forward to seeing their fashion contribution to the Fairies World.

The latest ‘Fantasia’ Edition of the superb Life Style Fashion BG Magazine (039) includes three pages of the works of renowned Fairy Artist Myrea Pettit herself a tireless campaigner for environmental issues and protection of the endangered species often depicted in her art.

Once you on the BG Magazine site you are able to view all 234 pages of this exceptional magazine by clicking on the corners of the pages shown and enlarging them as required.

View the magazine in full clicking here or on the picture below – Myreas work is on pages 50/51/52

BG Magazine 'Fantasia' Edition (039)

Fairiesworld would highly recommend sending © Jacquie Lawson Cards, the Christmas selection is a delight this below is one of them

Happy Christmas

Terry English with Myrea Pettit

Terry English acknowledged as the finest armourer in the world, by film actors and filmmakers with over forty years experience in the film industry making armour for so many has a new interest as a fairy artist.

Terry English presents his fairies

Seen here presenting his young friend Hattie with a portrait of herself. At the National Space Centre sci -fi exhibition he was joined by Fairy and Fantasy Artist Myrea Pettit for whom he has made one of his amazing armoured breast plates for a new project.

Myrea Pettit on stage with Terry English and the Predator

He invited Myrea to join him on stage with the Predator to show this new female fashion accessory for Women who will be Knights.

Fairiesworld is proud to have collaborated and supports the new work of Buenaventura Negron Rivera de Braunstein. It is with great pleasure we welcome her new and exciting contribution into the World of Fairies.
MAY I PLEASE TAKE THIS TIME AND OPPORTUNITY TO WELCOME YOU TO MY PRODUCTION START OF:
“WOMEN WERE ALSO KNIGHTS”

Buenaventura and Konrad Directing

Here will enjoy the “Tales of the Tarshari Knights” and those wonderful “Cutarlwyetel Fairies and Elves from the Nobiobi Woods!”

Much Light and Energy
Buenaventura Negron Rivera de Braunstein

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”

We always thought that Absinthe the banned green drink made famous by artists at the Moulin Rouge in Paris,which is now finding favor again worldwide was the tipple to see the Green Fairy. It seems however a new millennium fairy liquid is causing a stir of greater proportions ‘Slivovica’ a Wallachian plum brandy,
A court in the Czech city of Olomouc in a mountainous region in the south-east corner of Moravia is to deliver its verdict in one of the oddest legal disputes in the country’s history.

The court must decide whether Mr Polivka is the true “king” of the fairy-tale realm.

Lets hope the verdict is not blurred by the glasses we’ve just downed in a local pub in the mountainous region in the south-east corner of Moravia. Read the full story here

“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.

Click here to visit the Save The Children Campaign

Having travelled from the successful Faerieworlds Festival in Oregon , via Chicago to Zurich to Barcelona and to the bus terminal within half a mile of their home our very dear friends and musicians and FAE cover girl, Priscilla Hernandez, and her partner Hector, were the victims of a daylight robbery in which all of their equipment and money was stolen.

It is at times like this when we need to come together and help those in need, in any small way we can.

So, on both sides of the faery pond, we are pulling together to help get Priscilla and Hector back onto their faery feet again, so they can buy new equipment to create even more of their beautiful music.

There are various ways to donate:

* Direct donation to Priscilla via Paypal
* Buy the debut copy of FAE (all proceeds from first 100 copies sold go directly to Priscilla)
* Donate via the Faerieworlds website appeal.

Here follows an extract from Priscilla’s post on my faeryspace

“…Just as soon as we stepped from the airbus airport two big guys attacked us robbed all our studio equipment and personal belongings, they poured a substance over us and they wanted the black case in which we carried all important things, so we’ve been stolen all the cash we made in faerieworlds, our laptop, our mobile studio and soundcard, our photocamera, our hardrive with our data, our videocamera, all our memories, our flat and car keys, our passports, and almost everything of value I had with me, thanks god they didn’t took my carry on so my original paintings are safe. I’m pretty sure we were spotted and they did know which case they wanted…” Priscilla Hernandez