Mermaids & Mythology is the new sis*star publication to FAE Magazine (Faeries and Enchantment). It will be published 4 times a year and is a ‘real’ full sized, full colour glossy magazine, and will be 100% carbon neutral and printed on FSC paper (just like it’s sis*star FAE). The logo has been designed by Tamara Newman and the debut issue will feature the stunning artwork of David Delamare, and coverage of the World Mermaid Awards. Plus mermaid fashion, and stories of mythology and more…
They also have a facebook page set up so people can hear any announcements, or they can sign up to the newsletter on the website
Myrea Pettit has contributed this image of Peter Pan and Tinkerbell to a charitable project in her own style for inclusion in a centenary edition of the J.M Barrie children’s classic, Peter And Wendy. With assistance from Great Ormond Street Hospital, the holders of the J.M Barrie copyright, Merchiston publishing, Scottish Centre for the Book, the student-led publishing arm of Edinburgh Napier University are producing this new edition of Peter And Wendy to be distributed free of charge to Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children and other children’s hospitals throughout the country.
The Chagford Filmmaking Group is a nonprofit, volunteer-led organization bringing people together in a spirit of friendship to make films of British fairytales.
We simply wish to tell the magical stories rooted in the British landscape, stories that are part of our heritage.
Resplendent this proud Roman Tribune marched through Edinburgh Scotland on his way to relieve the company of guards who have endured a long cold and very harsh winter of deep snow and lashing gales in protection of their garrison along the Antonine Wall. (click for more details here)
In 1893, George saw his bride May (later Queen Mary to his George V) as Cinderella, for her parents had in her youth fled England with debts to tradesmen of £20,000. Their son Bertie – later George VI – was kissed by the Good Fairy, Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, and was wed to her in Westminster Abbey, the first royal prince to be married there since Richard II.
The marriage delighted the country, as did that of the present Queen in 1947. Yet it was not wise in 1981 for the Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie, to declare the wedding of the present Prince of Wales to Lady Diana Spencer “the stuff of which fairy tales are made”. Thirty years on, it is equally unfair to force a pre-confected spell on the next royal couple. We should wish them well as flesh and blood, not fairy-tale figure
Maybe it is the energetic life of Fae performers and dancers, many of whom follow various forms of yoga and exercise regimes but now and again we are asked questions about back injuries or back pain.
We would certainly recommend taking a look at how to rebuildYourBack.com the official companion website for the book Rebuild Your Back, by Dean Moyer before considering any form of surgery that may be recommended by a medical practitioner, not only is it home of the only happy back pain support group on the net but in many cases expensive treatments are not necessary, just time , patience and encouragement and soon all happy fairies are flying once again.
In addition to the book Rebuild Your Back, Second Edition, there are two other books: Rebuild Your Neck… and a new book on overcoming joint pain entitled, The Pain Relief Manual.
Sugar Plum Fairy an original design by Fairy Artist Myrea Pettit has been meticulously stitched by Arlene Lewis over ten months. Her gorgeous work can be seen below a wonderful example of her needlecraft.
Says Myrea,” I am absolutely amazed and delighted to see this finished piece of work by Arlene!! So much skill and patience, that apart from myself Arlene will understand and feel every color and passion of my artistic illustration, congratulations Arlene, and thank you”.
Anyone reading this can send for the chart of this image and others by Myrea Pettit to Heaven and Earth designs in USA.
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries interest in fairies was particularly strong. They represented an alternative to the materialistic and rapidly changing world following industrialisation and great population growth. In England Charles Kingsley’s Water Babies (1863) was followed by J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan (1904), with illustrations by Arthur Rackham (1906), and numerous ‘Flower Fairy’ books with illustrations by Cicely Mary Barker (from 1923). The illustration of fairies on this fan depicts an enchanting, happy and graceful world of fantasy and conveys the spirit of the times in dreams and longings for a magical world where wishes come true.
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