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this is another little ornament i got for xmas, she is so pretty, i love fairies :)
here is where she lives www.foundus.com/faerie/index.html ;) hehe
Where? by Cicely M. Barker
Where are the fairies? Where can we find them?
We’ve seen the fairy-rings they leave behind them!
When they have danced all night, Where do they go?
Lark, in the sky above, Say, do you know?
Is it a secret no one is telling?
Why, in your garden Surely they’re dwelling!
No need for journeying, Seeking afar:
Where there are flowers, there fairies are!
Santa Clara 2023
tech info:
Leica M10 Monochrom + Hektor 135mm f/4.5, green filter
ISO 800 @ f/8 @ 1/500
Been extremely busy with almost no internet connection. Am continuing to learn to use Lightroom. The program amazes me.
I'm interested in your comments, realizing the shot to be quite different, and that it violates the rule of thirds.
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...followed pattern from: www.kokka.co.jp/so-ing/sewing/index.html ...click top middle of the thumbnails (nani iro 2009)...then click second thumbnail from top left (i've just sort of gotten used to the japanese patterns as i use them more...but there lots resources on line to help you out...found out about this site from: movinghands.wordpress.com/page/2/..this
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especially this tutorial: u-handbag.typepad.com/uhandblog/how_to_make_this_pursebag/
Model is Kylie www.modelmayhem.com/477178
clothing designed by Lady Moon Designs www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5524457
Location- Queen Victoria Gardens, Perth
Less than five minutes' ride out of York railway station and I was off the bike with an unexpected deflationary situation. I wandered over to the riverbank and, in amongst the dried poo, sat down on a tree stump and set to with my repair kit.
Of course, it was the rear wheel. But it's a straightforward exercise when you've done it a few times before.
Original DSC_3544
Daly City, California, 2011
"Aladdin & Cinderella Meet the Monkey King" at the 33rd Annual Great Dickens Christmas Fair & Victorian Holiday Party.
Wanda and Kevin hit the road for a weekend-long journey into the Northwoods of Minnesota for a rendezvous with the Radical Faeries.
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And is there care in Heaven? And is there love
In heavenly spirits to these Creatures bace?
Faerie Queene. Book ii. Canto viii. St. 1.
Spinel Faerie is the first in a series of Gemstone Faeries. She is about 9.25 inches tall, and is made of Japanese glass seed beads, organic cotton fiber fill & thread, and Swarovski pearls. She will have natural black spinel on her dress. All the colors used represent colors of spinel. She is ball-jointed, and has 13 points of articulation.
reworked sculpture, adding blue mohair scarf...she is 9 inches in sitting position,holding her beautiful feet in her high back chair with antique lace,; a handmade medicine bag and silver bear claw adorn her neck; beaded bracelet wrap around her wrist, and earrings on her lobes....she is named for my daughter jenni
William Blake
Bust by Sir Jacob Epstein, unveiled 1957 to mark the bicentenary of Blake's birth.
At Poets Corner, Westminster Abbey
The first poet to be buried here, in 1400, was Geoffrey Chaucer, author of 'The Canterbury Tales'. Not because he was a poet but because he was Clerk of the King's Works. Nearly 200 years later, Edmund Spenser (1553-1598) who wrote 'The Faerie Queene' for Elizabeth I, one of the longest poems in the English language, asked to be buried near Chaucer – perhaps with an eye on his own literary reputation.
And, so began a tradition of burials and memorials which continues to this day. The Deans of Westminster decide who receives a place based on merit though they consult widely. Poets' Corner proper is in the eastern aisle, the 'corner', of the south transept, though over time graves and memorials have spread across the whole transept. There are also several clergymen and actors buried in this transept and musician George Frederic Handel.
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Taken inside Westminster Abbey
Westminster Abbey (The Collegiate Church of St Peter)
In the 1040s King Edward (later St Edward the Confessor) established his royal palace by the banks of the river Thames on land known as Thorney Island. Close by was a small Benedictine monastery founded under the patronage of King Edgar and St Dunstan around 960A.D. This monastery Edward chose to re-endow and greatly enlarge, building a large stone church in honour of St Peter the Apostle. This church became known as the "west minster" to distinguish it from St Paul's Cathedral (the east minster) in the City of London. Unfortunately, when the new church was consecrated on 28th December 1065 the King was too ill to attend and died a few days later. His mortal remains were entombed in front of the High Altar.
The only traces of Edward's monastery to be seen today are in the round arches and massive supporting columns of the undercroft and the Pyx Chamber in the cloisters. The undercroft was originally part of the domestic quarters of the monks. Among the most significant ceremonies that occurred in the Abbey at this period was the coronation of William the Conqueror on Christmas day 1066, and the "translation" or moving of King Edward's body to a new tomb a few years after his canonisation in 1161.
Edward's Abbey survived for two centuries until the middle of the 13th century when King Henry III decided to rebuild it in the new Gothic style of architecture. It was a great age for cathedrals: in France it saw the construction of Amiens, Evreux and Chartres and in England Canterbury, Winchester and Salisbury, to mention a few. Under the decree of the King of England, Westminster Abbey was designed to be not only a great monastery and place of worship, but also a place for the coronation and burial of monarchs. This church was consecrated on 13th October 1269. Unfortunately the king died before the nave could be completed so the older structure stood attached to the Gothic building for many years.
Every monarch since William the Conqueror has been crowned in the Abbey, with the exception of Edward V and Edward VIII (who abdicated) who were never crowned. The ancient Coronation Chair can still be seen in the church.
It was natural that Henry III should wish to translate the body of the saintly Edward the Confessor into a more magnificent tomb behind the High Altar in his new church. This shrine survives and around it are buried a cluster of medieval kings and their consorts including Henry III, Edward I and Eleanor of Castile, Edward III and Philippa of Hainault, Richard II and Anne of Bohemia and Henry V.
There are around 3,300 burials in the church and cloisters and many more memorials. The Abbey also contains over 600 monuments, and wall tablets – the most important collection of monumental sculpture anywhere in the country. Notable among the burials is the Unknown Warrior, whose grave, close to the west door, has become a place of pilgrimage. Heads of State who are visiting the country invariably come to lay a wreath at this grave.
A remarkable new addition to the Abbey was the glorious Lady chapel built by King Henry VII, first of the Tudor monarchs, which now bears his name. This has a spectacular fan-vaulted roof and the craftsmanship of Italian sculptor Pietro Torrigiano can be seen in Henry's fine tomb. The chapel was consecrated on 19th February 1516. Since 1725 it has been associated with the Most Honourable Order of the Bath and the banners of the current Knights Grand Cross surround the walls. The Battle of Britain memorial window by Hugh Easton can be seen at the east end in the Royal Air Force chapel. A new stained glass window above this, by Alan Younger, and two flanking windows with a design in blue by Hughie O'Donoghue, give colour to this chapel.
Two centuries later a further addition was made to the Abbey when the western towers (left unfinished from medieval times) were completed in 1745, to a design by Nicholas Hawksmoor.
Little remains of the original medieval stained glass, once one of the Abbey's chief glories. Some 13th century panels can be seen in the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Galleries. The great west window and the rose window in the north transept date from the early 18th century but the remainder of the glass is from the 19th century onwards. The newest stained glass is in The Queen Elizabeth II window, designed by David Hockney.
History did not cease with the dissolution of the medieval monastery on 16th January 1540. The same year Henry VIII erected Westminster into a cathedral church with a bishop (Thomas Thirlby), a dean and twelve prebendaries (now known as Canons). The bishopric was surrendered on 29th March 1550 and the diocese was re-united with London, Westminster being made by Act of Parliament a cathedral church in the diocese of London. Mary I restored the Benedictine monastery in 1556 under Abbot John Feckenham.
But on the accession of Elizabeth I the religious houses revived by Mary were given by Parliament to the Crown and the Abbot and monks were removed in July 1559. Queen Elizabeth I, buried in the north aisle of Henry VII's chapel, refounded the Abbey by a charter dated 21 May 1560 as a Collegiate Church exempt from the jurisdiction of archbishops and bishops and with the Sovereign as its Visitor. Its Royal Peculiar status from 1534 was re-affirmed by the Queen and In place of the monastic community a collegiate body of a dean and prebendaries, minor canons and a lay staff was established and charged with the task of continuing the tradition of daily worship (for which a musical foundation of choristers, singing men and organist was provided) and with the education of forty Scholars who formed the nucleus of what is now Westminster School (one of the country's leading independent schools). In addition the Dean and Chapter were responsible for much of the civil government of Westminster, a role which was only fully relinquished in the early 20th century.
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OOAK Isilmë Firefly Faerie 11cm (vanilla yellow) & little Song Sakura
~Outfits by Fairy Fragilities (MuJa K) and Mixi Michi (Alma)
~Wig by WeeDollyWears (Marie)
Long ago there was a beautiful girl with a free spirit who loved nothing more than music and dancing and her freedom.
When the time came for her to be married, her father chose a man of high regard from another prominent family. The girl wanted nothing of it, so she ran to the hills to play her fiddle and dance away her sorrow.
The hill was a hollow one though, and the faerie prince who dwelt beneath it heard the music and came out to see the lovely girl dancing there.
He was besotted with her beauty and her skill and gave to her a flower, promising that if she would love him he would see to it that she was never confined by the will of others.
That was long ago, but even then faerie tales rarely come true.
Bridget Carroll's story began with that flower and with a grave of water.
I've been working on Holly, she's the faerie of the holly plant. I thought she would be really cute for Christmas. There is a lot of interesting lore about the holly plant, and it has healing properties too! I will be writing more about that when she is all finished. ^_^
This little beauty is located at the Temple (dedicated to Sekhmet) of Goddess Spirituality at the faerie alter. I had never been to this place before today but must have driven by it several dozen times since living in Las Vegas. I had always thought it to be on private property, but as it turns out it is open for anyone to seek peace, meditate, or simply to get away from it all. Its quite the unique jewel in a very odd location!
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