Fairy-ish

Anyone who knows me well knows that I was a fairy in a former life and long to be one again. This has manifested itself in my favorite books and poetry, and I used to write lots of very imaginative stories. In fact, that was one of the reasons I started to blog, to get back in touch with my writing self. Shannon led me to a website, Inside a Black Apple, that has really inspired me. While I am not even on the same planet with this girl in terms of creativity, fashion sense or sheer adorableness, I identify with her taste, and love everything on her two blogs. It made me want to incorporate a little bit more of myself into my blog, mixed in with Ewanisms and Fynn's milestones and the crazy news stories I love to read. With that in mind, I wanted to show you this:
I bought her when we went to the fair a few weeks ago. She's wearing green and black argyle socks, for Pete's sake. I've collected fairies for as long as I can remember, literally. It started when I read Pat of Silver Bush by L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables fame.) But I don't like the ugly dollar-store knockoff fairies, or cheesy angel/cherub looking ones. And I'm not into evil fairies at all. (Although one fairy legend has it that they are the spirits cast out of heaven.) I like mine to look like you could stick them on a tree limb or under a mushroom and it would come to life. While these aren't exactly that, they were so cute. The one below is the one I really wanted, by the same artist.

I mean, how cute is she, with her striped stockings and bat-like wings? But she cost a little more, and I was feeling guilty, and since green is my favorite color and because I think she is what I look like in an alternate fairy universe, I chose the argyle-sock clad fairy. After I got home, I noticed she was wielding what looked like a bloody knife. Hmmm.... So I looked it up, thinking there would be another explanation. But, no, after looking at the painting she is modeled after, it does indeed look like a bloody knife. So...I'm just going to pretend the knife is bloody because she's an overly dramatic teenager who has just enticed her friends into a "blood sisters for life" vow. Better? Yes, I think so.

Regardless, I really like this. (Click)

*Note* My new template's links don't look any different from the other text until you roll your mouse over them. So if I write about something that seems like it should be linked, run your mouse over it and click, like the above mentioned painting, and where I wrote "this" in that last sentence. (That means you, Mom.)

*Note 2* And in case anyone is wondering, I know I wasn't really a fairy in a former life. Just a lawyer for one.