Tuesday, April 28, 2009

~Party Princess~

Well, I have decided to do a Princess Theme Party for my little girls birthday! Let me know what you think and if anyone knows any good websites to visit for inspiration please let me know! I would really appreciate it.













I don't plan to do these type of cupcakes but I do want a 3-tier to hold the cupcakes like the Princess ones above.



Don't you just love these candles? They are so great!!




I really love the glass decoration for extra light at night, but I'm not too sure since there will be kids hanging around, so maybe I can put it up high or just not light them. I don't know yet. I might not even do it.

I love the idea above of the canned goods that they recycled and wrapped with decorative paper. I believe I am going to do with but with some pretty pink princess paper to hold the forks and so forth.



I've decided I want to serve a few foods to match the color theme. I love those pink and white strawberries and all the pink candies in the glass bowls & containers. Also, in the last photo I like the idea of serving pink Lemonade and those chocolate-pink colored pretezels are so cute! So, overall I am hoping it's going to be a fun and pretty party that she will enjoy!






Monday, April 27, 2009

The Fairy Castle

This is our beautiful, little Fairy Castle made from natural materials. It is such an amazing house. I will be adding more detailed video footage of the house soon, but this will give you an idea of the incredible intricacy and beauty of this forest creation!!

Debbie


Friday, April 24, 2009

More beautiful photos of our Fairy House!


























































































































Here are more wonderful photographs taken by our dear friend and photographer Christy McCullough. Everytime I look at these pictures, I cannot believe how breathtakingly beautiful they are. I don't know how she captures the tiny shafts of light and little dappled areas around the Fairy House......these are just truely wondrous photographs, that really do show how beautiful this creation is!

When I look at these pictures, I remember the afternoon my husband Mike and I and our son Michael spent with Christy at the most enchanted, beautiful and peaceful park I have ever been to. I still think of that park and how magical it was. It was amazing to watch Christy photograph our treehouses and little furniture. She was so focused and intent on capturing just the right feeling of the pieces. The park was very natural, not a manicured, perfect looking park, but much of it was left natural, like what you would see if you were really just walking in the woods. Many of the trees were huge. There was a feeling of age or history about the forest there. (It was the Irvine Park, if I remember correctly). So many beautiful leaves had fallen on the forest floor. They were deep and thick and something in my soul just longed to gather up everyone of them and take them home with me. Leaves like those just have such a language, such spirit......you can just feel them talking to you. It was such a quiet, warm and beautiful day. I could have stayed there forever. The trees were old and as you can see in some of the pictures of Mike and I standing by both treehouses, there is an old tree with a "fairy home" in the base of the tree. What a magical, wonderful place. It truely was the most perfect place to photograph our houses and little furniture.

I have always wanted to have our Fairy Houses photographed in just such a place, where one could feel as if they stumbled upon a magical kingdom......houses that were made by tiny hands, perhaps little elves or gnomes or tiny fairies who were making a dwelling to stay in during the coming winter. Here, in this lovely park, that felt as if it were from a lost and enchanted land, our treehouses and little characters and their tiny furnishings could live outside the bustling world of the humans and finally feel that they have escaped to their wondrous home.

Beauty is so healing. Beauty that is pure and as moving as nature. What a true art creation nature is......nothing we can do will ever match it. But to be inspired by nature is a gift that can make us better people......it can awaken in us that child that is sleeping, that is trying to remember who they are and where the path is to the world of nature that is calling our names!!

~Chez FiFi~











I know many of you have heard of Chez Fifi. Don't you just love her style as much as I do? It's so gorgeous!!! These rooms look so warm and cozy. She also looks like such a fun and happy lady. So, Fifi if you are reading this I want you to know how much I love your work and you inspire me greatly!! Hope everybody has a great Weekend~

Wonderful new pictures!!!

We recently met the most wonderful photographer in California at a show we did there. Christy McCullough, whose photograhs of children are truely breathtaking, was so kind to take photographs of our treehouses and little fairy furniture. Our booths were right next to each other and we became instant friends.....kindred spirits, definitely!
She is such a sweet, beautiful and fun person. The show didn't go so well, but I knew it was worth driving all that way so that we could meet her. Be sure to visit her beautiful website to see the lovely photographs she takes of children.....every single one, sweet, inspiring and amazing!!!

I will be adding more of her incredible pictures soon. I can't believe how she captured the light, the shadows and the feeling of our houses and little furniture. The most beautiful pictures of our artwork that anyone has ever taken!!! Here's a link to her wonderful website. If you visit her blog, you can see the beautiful post she did on Mike and I. Thank you Christy!! www.christymccullough.com

Have a happy day!
Debbie























Monday, April 20, 2009

~Great Outdoors~


I tell you the weekends come and go too fast! Hope everyone had a good one- I am wishing for some more days off even though I only work part-time- it figures! So, here are some pretty outdoor photos to help keep a good mood!!












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