How better to surprise a young one this summer than assembling a gift basket for them with materials to build their neighborhood faeries a splendid home.  What would such a gift basket contain?
Suggested materials:
Moss (dried packages in floral crafts aisles) or live! moss
Vines of ivy (found with silk flowers — or live too!)
Twigs, grape vine [...]

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Have you discovered this late genius, a dutch artist who takes us to another world where rustic quaint meets Hansel & Gretel ?  Search on his work and relish the feast he captured of dutch scenes that were literal canvas snapshots through his eyes, circa early 19th century.  He is renowned for his oils, water [...]

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There is a  widely believed, but harmfully false idea circulating that only little ones need to play, or are allowed to play.  We devotees of rich and full lives know the truth and once in a while take the time to address this mistaken belief.  But more often we are shamelessly chasing this birth-right!  
Linger here and [...]

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Just the word ‘storybook‘ invokes a smile deep in our hearts. It opens the door to long ago times where we imagined, pretended, played. We listened to kind others who would read a story to us; we made up stories as we played with friends and freely editted those from our yesterdays [...]

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Soon after my realization that a blank piece of paper has infinite possibilities, I realized that fabric was even more infinite (?!) in its possibilities because it drapes, folds, scrunches, etc, etc.  My love affair with fabric has lasted since my mother enrolled me in a sewing class at age 10 and it has matured wiht each [...]

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Most of us have never given much thought to faeries.   We just automatically think faeries do not exist and the myth is child’s play.   I personally have suspended such a weighty decision and focus on a much more rewarding aspect of the issue:  I have been devoting effort to designing “gifts” that a faerie would leave to provoke a burst [...]

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