A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day....04-20-06....Fairy Tales

DollyCali | April 20, 2006 | dollycali;

[DollyCali]

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[dixie sass]

Pretty violet!

[dixie sass]

Why Thank you Mama_Bear! I hope your day was magical.

[MEG33]

Oh, Dolly..Just wonderful!

[MEG33]

Beautiful, Mama Bear!

[GodBlessUSA]

Hi Dita!
I always miss you. How are you? :)

This is lovely.

[GodBlessUSA]

This is beautiful Dolly. :)

[DollyCali]

Wow, what a lovely lyrical & whimsical post! That is how I would have like to do the section on Fairy rings. You & billie do a lovely job of darker backgrounds & the lighter being a "spirit filled" if that doesn't sound too sacrilegious? light & ethereal part of the graphic

[DollyCali]

didn't get back last night but thanks for your morning comments/check in.

I believe my real interest now in fantasy / sci fi type movies is due to the interest I had in a child. I recall my dad read to me every night (until I was old enough to read myself). I also listened to the old fashioned records.

I was like the other children in 50's who grew up watching the "new contraption" TV & Walt Disney. Of the various "lands" each week that was featured, my fav was always fantasy land.

I recall going with dad or dad taking me & friends to the Walt Disney feature films.. and was with dad & was really afraid but transfixed & drawn to Forbidden Planet.

So thank you for indulging my love for & interest in Fairies here at the Finest. We each present things that are dear to us in one way or another.

[DollyCali]

I have a few things I have no interest in also..

If there is a thread on Liver or Asparagus..

I AM SO OUT OF THERE!

Hope you had a good day.

Now, the psychologist in me is curious. Did the tooth fairy "stiff you" growing up? Were you afraid of the gremlin aspect of "fairies", which I never even knew about until I was older? Did you not have much exposure to these things as a child .Do you just more or less like REALITY, history etc?

As much graphic work, which many of us love, is make believe & creative, It is just a curiosity.

If it is a personal, sensitive subject sorry for the questions/intrusions & of course you don't have to answer, but as you posted a prominent post here, I am guessing many have the curiosity

[DollyCali]

I wanted to mention three "fairy" types/FAMOUR FAIRIES I omitted for space reasons..

Sugar Plum Fairy (from nutcracker).... this one is near/dear to me as when I was growing up until about 20 I was a dancer & in the forerunner of the Cleveland Ballet. My first major solo was the sugar Plum Fairy! I Love the music & try each Christmas holiday to see the ballet.

Puck - in midsummer's night dream.. (I also danced in it)

Movies with fairies.. etc.. LOTR, and many others.

I KISSed the subject more or less & of course more women seem to be interested in this subject.. maybe it isn't "manly?"

[snugs]

I must admit I was never much into fantasy things but always liked the pretty fairy pictures as a child and although I knew that did not exist stories of fairies at the bottom of the garden.

I loved the tooth fairy concept even though I knew it was mum or nan who would put the money under my pillow and remove the tooth.

And also Christmas would not be the same without the fairy on the tree and the various fairies in the pantomimes.

[snugs]

You say that many men are not into fairies which I would say in general is true but Phil loves the flower fairies and also many other drawings of that type I would assume that is his love art probably more than the actual subject.

[Billie]

It's the weekend. T.G.I.F. at the Finest

[DollyCali]

Do you think there is a greater interest in the British Isles as that is where so many stories originate?

I know many men who like them but most do not (or at least do NOT PUBLICLY admit)

BTW.. freeper Barker's husband committed suicide yesterday..any who wish to offer her support can visit this thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1618661/posts?

[Billie]

thank you for your contributions.. did you all think I could pass NOT making them into a collage???? ha!

Dolly, that is gorgeous! What a pretty thread it's been.

[Supernatural]

It was really Walt Disney who made me aware of fantasy things like Tinker Bell, Peter Pan and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The intro to his show used to show all the characters. Tinker Bell sticks in my mind the most from that intro.

By the time I was four or five I suspected the tooth fairy and Santa weren't real. I used to try to stay awake at night to catch my father putting money under my pillow when I would lose a tooth, but I never did catch him.

I remember looking through a Sears catalog to pick out Christmas gifts for myself and my mother and father telling me that they had to pay for the items. That blew the Santa theory out of the water for me. I remember asking them that if Santa brought the gifts then why did they have to pay for them. They knew and I knew the jig was up right then and there.

[DollyCali]

I dont recall when I "understood" the truth of the fantasy of santa, tooth fairy etc.

With my own son we had FUN with these character but told Jeff that they were make believe like Oscar & Big Bird. He never felt cheated & was into gifts from Santa etc.

[Billie]

I KISSed the subject more or less & of course more women seem to be interested in this subject.. maybe it isn't "manly?"

LOL! I HAVE to do this:

[DollyCali]

:-)

[snugs]

Not knowing how much interest there is in the States and elsewhere I cannot really comment but all girls in Britain seem to like fairies and dress up as fairies or princesses or pretend to be one or the other.