Sunday, August 29, 2010

Assorted Faerie Stuff

First I wanted to give you a list of great faerie related books. These all link to Amazon, but we are also proponents of your local library. That is until you find out how great they are and have to buy them!

Felt Wee Folk This is a great instructional book about making little faery figures. It includes some great pictures of groups of faeries that I find very inspiring
Fairy Island This is probably my favorite faerie book. It is a little thin on story but the pictures are so incredible! They are incredibly detailed pictures of these houses that the author found on a faerie island.

Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book I just bought this one and am so excited! There are multiple Lady Cottington books and they are all brilliant and funny. My fiance described this book as similar to how people press flowers...but with faeries.
Fairie-ality This is a great book of fashion designs for faeries. They are made form natural materials and the book includes both design drawings and photographs of the finished products.
A Witch's Guide to Faery Folk This one is less of a picture inspiration and more of just text about faeries in general. It is a great book to lean about the different types of faeries and such, and who knows what will inspire you!

And here's a little bit of fun, a Faerie Name Generator! <3 Aline
Your fairy is called Gossamer Willowdancer
She is a caster of weird dreams.
She lives in spiderwebbed wonderlands and insect grottos.
She is only seen when the bees swarm and the crickets chirrup.
She wears tiny black spiders on her dresses. She has delicate green coloured wings like a cicada.

2 comments:

  1. BTW mom's faerie name is

    Your fairy is called Bramble Rainbowdancer
    She is a fortune bringer.
    She lives in leafy dells and bluebell glades.
    She is only seen when the bees swarm and the crickets chirrup.
    She wears bluebell-blue dresses. She has multicoloured wings like a butterfly.

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  2. Oh fun!

    Your fairy is called Gossamer Moonfilter
    She is the moon goddess's messenger.
    She lives in spiderwebbed wonderlands and insect grottos.
    She is only seen on midsummer's eve.
    She wears tiny black spiders on her dresses.
    She has beautiful blue butterfly wings.

    Hi there!
    Allow me to add this book to your list:

    How to Find Flower Fairies, by Cicely Mary Barker.

    It is a marvel of paper-engineering! I keep it open on a table, is that beautiful!

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