SeaHeart

To all the lovely fairies and glitter-folk we are blessed to call friends:

You know that, each year, Jenn and I host a bacchanalia of glitter and magic at our home entitled the Midsummer Faerie Celebration each Midsummer. We have put on two of these massive multiple-day festivities, and we have loved every minute of them, the friendships shared, the beautiful moments, the rituals, the fairy high-teas. It has been an exquisite and fabulous run, and we loved it dearly.

However, last year's celebration, though magnificent and magical, by its larger-than-expected scope was taxing in new ways we had not yet expected, and the response (before we've even mentioned that we might or might not be having it) to this year's possible festivities is more than overwhelming--it's downright massive! Last year's celebration was bigger than the previous year's, and this year's celebration was beginning to shape up to be even bigger yet.

Which is wonderful--but is not something we have the resources to manage this year.

These past few weeks especially, people have talked about the Midsummer Faerie Celebration--and Jenn and I knew we had to come to an absolute decision (we didn't want anyone to expect something that might not happen, and we knew that many people like to plan their travel plans far ahead of time, so wanted everyone to know far ahead of time if it was or wasn't going to happen). So, just this past weekend, Jenn and I finally had the last of our many, many talks on how to make this manageable or workable this year, and after hours of discussion weighing positives and negatives, we reached the very, very difficult decision, that I am placing here:

This year's Midsummer Faerie Celebration is canceled.

The theme of this year for Jenn and I is sustainability. The Faerie Celebration is many, many things, but at its current incarnation it is not sustainable for us to put on such a large endeavor, fund it (even with the donations garnered last year!), host it and pull it all off.

This leaves us heartbroken, but also (if I'm going to be perfectly honest), relieved. With trying to make The Fable Tribe the absolute best it can be and with the many, many publishing/writing projects coming up in the next few months, we would have drained every resource we possessed to put on the Midsummer Faerie Celebration.

And, obviously, this is very, very far from sustainable.

Jenn and I talked about this for hours upon hours upon hours over months. We tried to think of every way that we could make it sustainable this year without taxing us, and we could not, even with all of our resourcefulness, leading to the obvious conclusion of canceling it. We waited this long to announce it, because we were still trying to figure out a way to make it work. But we have to be honest and gentle with ourselves (I'm total crap about being gentle with myself :P), and not kill ourselves with the over-taxation-of-all-bodily-and-spiritual-resources this year.

This is not the end of the Midsummer Faerie Celebration. Next year, I will be self employed (meaning I WILL ACTUALLY HAVE TIME, WHAT IS THAT? :P) as is Jenn, and we will have many more resources than we have now. Hopefully, all debt will be paid off. Hopefully, all of our constant hard work will have brought us to the place we've striven for for years.

Thank you so much for understanding. <3 Here's to many faerie years to come!