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This is the card I created for the Advent swap in the Swap me and Image group. Day 10.
I used copic markers to draw the faerie (my own design), scrapbook paper for the background, ribbon, red stickers for the holly and a snowflake charm.
Finally got some pics of my Amethyst Faerie, I just finished her hair a couple of hours ago. She is made of Japanese glass seed beads, organic cotton, and real amethyst beads for her ball-joints. Now she just needs a dress!
Hill of Uisneach, West Meath, Ireland. August 16, 2012: County Meath and West Meath, Ireland. (c) 2012 - photography by Leaf McGowan, technogypsie.com. pics 8/16/12
The Hill of Uisneach / Cnoc Uisnigh or Ushnagh, in the heart of County Westmeath, is a 182 meter high sacred hill that was once considered to be the absolute center of Ireland. Located along the northern side of R390, and 8 kilometers east of Ballymore, next to the village of Loughanavally - it is a pivotal connection of four adjacent townlands - Ushnagh Hill, Mweelra, Rathnew, and Kellybrook; and is the meeting point of the provincial borders of Leinster, Munster, Connacht, Ulster and Midhe. (Midhe was the once separate 5th province) and by so being, has been called the omphalos or mystical navel of Ireland atop which rests the Cat stone, the Ail na Míreann or stone of divisions. (The actual geographic center of Ireland is near the western shore of Lough Ree to the west. The site was seen as the tromping grounds of the tutelary Goddess Ériu who is seen as the personification of Ireland and is where she legendarily met the invading Milesians and the poet Amergin, after much debate, agreed to give the country her name. The site was most famous for the lighting of the Beltane fires and Druidic ceremonies, of which has been reconstructed with Irelands infamous Festival of Fires Celebration. According to the Lebor Gabála Érenn (Book of the Takings of Ireland) the first fire was lit here by the Nemedian Druid Mide and ever since, a fire was lit here during the feast of Beltane which supposedly can be seen from the Hill of Tara. According to legend, when those at Tara saw the fires lit at Uisneach, they would light the fires on Tara. According to the Historia Regum Britanniae (History of the Kings of Britain), Geoffrey of Monmouth claimed that the stones of Stonehenge were brought to Britain from the Hill of Uisneach. Some say the hill is also Riba or Raiba that was identified by Ptolemy (Ptolemaeus),
finally spun the faerie kit from pumpkinhaus. the kit contained a textured batt, turquoise roving, locks, some charms, novelty snippets, green tulle, fabric, and feathers. i also used the cellophane it was wrapped in along with the ribbon.
didn't use the wooden charm because i used the wrong wheel...it wouldn't fit through the orifice. could sew it in i suppose.
Holly Faerie is a OOAK beaded art doll. She is bal-jointed and has 13 points of articulation. She is made of Japanese glass seed beads, organic cotton thread & fiber fill, ahimsa silk thread, and Swarovski pearls. She is about 9 inches tall. There is a lot of interesting lore about the holly plant, I posted a little about that on my website, if anyone wants to read it, here is the link: faeriedustdolls.wordpress.com/2015/08/17/holly-faerie/
Trying to get back into portraiture, I did a photo shoot for a friend and had some luck shooting this young lady.
Hand painted silk crepe de chine fabric for a faerie dress.
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