1st May – La Fête du Muguet and Beltaine

1st May is ‘La Fête du Muguet’ the tradition in France is to give the ones you love a little bouquet of Lily-of-the-valley, for good luck and to celebrate the arrival of spring, it is also the time to celebrate Beltaine the Pagan festival to celebrate the rebirth of life. Grow and pick some wildflowers here

Fantastic I Mallorca National Festival of Fantasy and Science Fiction-de Baleares was closed yesterday with a gala to be held at the Theatre Xesc Forteza. The event, presented by Sandra Llabrés and Toni Traveria, began with the joint performance by Priscilla Hernandez, winner of the Independent Music Award for Best New Age Album, and Karinae Tribal Troupe.
Subsequently, the awards were handed Mallorca Fantastic in different categories. The prize for the best science fiction story was to Caecus, Alejandro Morellón; fantasy for Revenge of the anthology The tree of wonders, Alejandro Blasi, and the illustration for Daphne, Gabriela followed. There was also a special mention for best illustration which went to foreign artist for the Sugar plum fairy by Myrea Pettit.
As for the film awards, the prize for best screenplay went to Nico Costa for the short Concrete fear; for the best original idea for Happy birthday, David Munoz, the best director Santi Garcia by the end of the route; best short The animation monstrejo, Pep Lluís Lladó, and the best short film for theatrical Fear, Marcos Kühne.
The organization also wanted to provide some honorary awards actor Simon Andreu, the filmmakers Vicente Aranda and Toni Bestard, the composer Joan Valent, Alcover Foundation and the Municipal Band of Palma. The Tribute Award went to Dimonis, Diables in Bestiari Baleàric

SAMANTHA COQUILLA

Rumours of a Government ban on fairies continues to circulate in UK. A spokesman for the fairy community insisted that this will have no effect on all the planned Spring Fairy Festivals and that the Midsummer Three Wishes Festival will take place June 20th-23rd on Bodmin Moor as planned as will the Famous Fairy Ball at the Acorn Theatre in Penzance Cornwall Friday 24th October 2008.

MU Magazine Japan’s largest circulation Super Mystery Magazine April edition just published with a three page article about Myrea and her ability to capture the wonderful little people she sees to draw and paint them, her love of nature, flowers fairies and butterflies and her call for environmental awareness through her art. Visitors from Japan are welcome to Fairiesworld and the wonderful work of artists worldwide.

A Hug for my Prince

2008©Myrea Pettit

The latest delightful painting in the series of environmental and conservational fairies from fairy artist Myrea Pettit. The ever open arms of ‘Charity’ hug one of the worlds most colorful characters, the blue poison dart frog which is a relic species living in a few isolated patches of relic rainforest habitat and getting its name from the toxic secretions used by the indigenous tribes used to coat their blowpipe darts hunting for food. According to the Global Amphibian Assessment, around 28% of 234 known species of poison dart frogs are now threatened with extinction.

Fairy Charity extends to all living creatures creating awareness for the protection of the flora and fauna so these endangered creatures and many others may continue to florish and share our world.

Poison Dart Frogs – True Jewels of the Rainforest
Poison dart frogs are probably some of the most amazing and brightly coloured rainforest animals. This colorful frog was not even discovered until 1968!

A lost girl trapped and confused by the veil of her own world of fantasy.

You’ll understand it better if you read the lyrics

This song is based on a shorter one I wrote when I was 12 years old. At that
age I found out I was not a girl anymore, I had to grow up and leave
the safety of my inner world and start to be aware of the mundane
reality. I felt like a captive bird, the bars of an invisible enormous
cage around me, but still trapped. My castles fell, my kingdom vanished
and I started to be afraid of forgetting all the magic things I had
imagined. All around me was new and hostile, boiling with people that
couldn't really hear me, and all I longed was to be back again in my
shell. At the end of the song I portray the pacifying happiness of
abandoning myself into my own world of fantasy out beyond the furthest
end, far away…

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Ann Mari Sjogren the Worlds oldest living Fairy Artist celebrated her 90th Birthday in Sweden on 1st January 2008 with a surprise visit from English fairy artist Myrea Pettit of Fairiesworld. Both artists were overcome with the emotion of the surprise party planned at the suggestion of Per Arne Skansen who was responsible to rediscover the talents of Ann Mari in 2001 and a lifetime of drawing and pictures that had lain unpublished for years. Since that time Ann Mari has had her work published in numerous books and magazines and newspapers and made TV appearances and radio interviews. It seems it is never too late for a real fairy to make her mark on a world eager to see her work first published worldwide in 1947 in A Day in Fairyland. Long live Ann Mari and Happy Birthday Blessings.

BBC attitudes to the Fairies World may be changing. Radio 1 is finally showing acceptance to the Pogues Fairytale of New York their hit back in the singles chart for the fifth time. see Fairytale of a fairytale

Situated in the heart of the exotic North of Pakistan. The Fairy Meadows are green and lush pastures surrounded by an alpine pine forest at the base of Nanga Parbat,the ninth highest in the world at 8,126 m.

German climbers on their way to the Base Camping in the 1930’s gave it the name and Fairy Meadows been a source of enchantment for travelers from all over the world. A large number of species of birds and wildlife frequent this virgin fairieforest which offers spectacular views full of faery enchantment.