SeaHeart

Because there's too much sadness and worry, I'm switching gears. Thank you so much for your prayers and good energies for Solstice...If you could please keep her in your thoughts and prayers, I'd greatly appreciate it...I'm going to try and focus on happy, hopeful things today to help raise her energy--and ours. :) <3 (Jenn didn't get picked for jury duty--so that's one happy thing~)

And, obviously, the Fairie Festival is almost ONE WEEK AWAY!!!

(To those new on my friends list, the Fairie Festival at Spoutwood Farm is the highlight of our year~ It was the first trip that Jenn and I went on when we became a couple, and it was where I proposed to my sweetheart~ The place holds so much magick and mirth and true, deep joy that we look forward to it more than any other time of the year...)

We put a lot of thought and planning into our costumes each year...thank the gods we have so many different costuming pieces, because we're going to try and construct most of our costuming this year from what we already have. I'll have to make a few wings and head pieces and hair falls, but other than that, it's fairy-closet-raiding-time!

Friday
Jenn: Pioneer Fairy
Sarah: Cowgirl Fairy

Jenn came up with this pair, actually...for Yule, I gave her bloomers and a (yet another to add to her collection) bonnet, and she has a vintage prairie dress...so all that needs to be added to this is LOTS OF SPARKLES (please don't ask me where prairie women got their sparkles, I probably don't want to know XD), and wings. All I need to make her wings is a quilt fabric and some time. For myself, I have a cowgirl skirt and hat (which should surprise no one) and a plaid shirt. All I need for myself are wings, which I'm going to make out of bandana fabric...which is the only thing (and time) I need to create them. Also, sparkles. I've been trying to find an old pair of cowboy boots at a thrift store with no luck...I usually go barefoot anyway (I'm immune to poison ivy!).

Saturday
Jenn: Pink Unicorn
Sarah: Purple Bellydancing Unicorn
Everyone (is invited to be in our): Glory of Unicorns

I had the outrageous idea to do a Glamourbomb right in the middle of the festival...lots of fabulous, wonderful people who I know and love are coming this year, and everyone is invited to be a unicorn on Saturday! Let me know if you can't find a horn or don't know how to make one, and I can help you~ A "Glory" is a herd of Unicorns...wouldn't it be fabulous if there were multiple unicorns roaming the festival? ;D Rachel and Kat and Corey are definitely (hopefully? *bats eyelashes*) going to be unicorns...it'll be fabulous together~ I have a beautiful purple flying skirt which I'll layer over black gauchos and purple and black striped high socks, my usual bellydance choli over a purple tank top, lots of purple hair falls and our sturdy purple wings...all I have to do is make the hairfalls and horn and flower encrusted headband. Jenn will be pink, wearing a floofy medieval style skirt and dusty-rose top, with beautiful cellophane wings and her awesome pink wig (with the antennae bent over to form ears). All I need to make for her is the flower and horn encrusted headband. I also need to make Rachel's headband for the excursion~ :D

Sunday
Jenn: Jellyfish Fairy
Sarah: Untamed Woodland Fairy

For years, I've wanted to do a very wild, raw, back-to-nature type fairy, and since that's what I'm invoking this year, I thought it'd be very powerful to aspect that in a costume at the festival. I'm going to need to make an outer skirt (there will be several layers of skirts), but I have the wings--I'll also need to make hair falls in the appropriate color. Now, Jenn's costume is the one I'm probably the most excited about over the weekend. She'll be wearing my Tribal Mermaid fringe belt, I'll make the appropriate color of hair falls (it's a very hair-fall-y kind of year), and then the WINGS. I can not adequately describe our plans for them. You'll just have to wait and see. ;)

So! I realize now, after the emails and private messages that I should have left comments open on my last Fairie Festival post...lots of people had questions, and so many people are coming!! What are your costume plans? Do you have anymore questions? Let's have happy times and discuss~ I can't wait to see you guys!!! ;-; It's going to be the most blissful and wonderful festival yet--and everyone is perfect, so that's saying so much~

Nine days!!!!