The Good Energies of the Winter Solstice are Here

Hello Bluebird Fairy Blog Readers,

I hope this posting finds you well and in good spirits.  

I am pleased to announce that I have a Fairy Booth at the SEABA Holiday Artist Market for the entire month of December. This handsome new structure nicely displays our 63 Fairies and serves as a sales booth.   It also gives me a fun place to conduct one-on-one Fairy Card Readings on Saturday afternoons.  I am enjoying these easy and unique conversations with people.

As stated in my previous blog I will be drawing a Fairy for each of my postings.  These will either be from the existing Fairy Deck or something new.

This blog's Fairy is 'Good Grandpa'.

My Mother's father loved to proclaim his love for us, his grandchildren.  His hugs were so strong we squealed that we might break yet the whole while we were soaking up his devotion.

This man, Claude Samuelson, was the biggest builder of my confidence.  Whatever project I shared with him he'd listen to, give advice and then tell me I'd make it through.  The energy with which he said that, in part, made it true. 

It is this love and confidence I tap into now as I venture into a new phase of life growing enterprises and innovative projects with others.

What does the Fairy of Good Grandpa mean to you? 

Where does he resonate in your life?

We are wishing you a wonderful holiday season.  Please stop by the SEABA Artist market next to Speeder and Earl's at 404 Pine Street in Burlington to see the Fairy Booth and the marvelous work of the artists we’re sharing the space with. 

Fairy Card Readings will be offered there on Saturday the 20th and 27th from 11-5.  Purchases of cards and decks can take place there as well.  Fairy Decks can be purchased from our on-line store.

Also, on Sunday December 21 from 12-4 a Fairy Salon and Welcoming of Winter will take place at the round house where I live on Lewis Creek in Hinesburg.  For more information about that click here to reach our events page.

Thank you so much for reading.

With great cheer,

Emily of Bluebird Fairies

Fairy for the Day

 Hello Bluebird Blog Readers,

Much time has passed since I last wrote which has allowed the next steps of the Bluebird Fairies to happen organically.  This has included the arrival of a marvelous man named Brian Merrill. We met at Burlington's 2014 Art Hop.

Another Art Hop outcome was learning how much fun you can have with the 63 fairies I had on display in my studio.  When gathered altogether they create "A Fairy Deck".  This collection seems to act as an easy oracle with each fairy holding the potential to shift one's focus or perspective and lead to new insight.

“When I honor what is right for me I find the universe provides guidance and opportunity. I was honoring what was right for me on Sunday when I found you standing so brightly in the back of that studio space. Your simple light filled drawings were so refreshing. It was like a door opened. ”

— Brian Merrill, Art Hop

Another of the outcomes for the Bluebird Fairies at Art Hop was the discovery of how much fun you can have with a “Fairy Deck”.  It contains each of the 63 fairies that were printed for Art Hop.  We have started to think of the deck as a sweet and easy oracle with each earnest fairy containing the potential to shift our perspective and give us fresh insight. 

Every day Brian and I each pick a fairy for the day.  We also pick a fairy for our growing partnership.  Our experience in doing this has shown a consistent appropriateness for the selected fairy.

Today my fairy is:

This fairy always reminds me to trust and enjoy each moment in a process that is still unfolding.

Next week I will begin a weekly routine of selecting a “Fairy of the Blog” and writing a touch about its origins and how I feel it connects with the present moment. 

“Your fairies represent a sense of joyfulness and celebration honoring the infinite possibilities that exist for all of us to embrace each moment of our lives and hold those moments as sacred. ”

— Brian Merrill, Art Hop

Also coming up: 

Fairy Card Readings and fairy card and deck sales at the SEABA Artist Market on Pine Street in December.  We’ll  also start our on-line sales of the Fairy Deck soon.

Thank you for your interest in this growing venture of mine.

I welcome your thoughts and comments.

Fondly,

Emily

Earnest Little Drawings

Hello All,

Here is some background to these earnest little drawings I do. 

When I was a puppeteer quite some time ago I broke my right arm falling of a bus when we were rehearsing a stunt for Our Domestic Resurrection Circus in Glover, Vermont.  A friend suggested I use my other arm to continue writing in my journal.  So like that idea and made a lot of cartoons about my new temporary life that summer. I felt a freedom both in my thoughts and my expectations of the outcomes.

I returned to left (or “other”) handed drawing 6 years ago.  Here is a show notice I wrote for an art show I was in at Flynndog in 2009.

My Demons, My Fairies,

Two years ago I took the suggestion at the end of Lynda Barry’s One Hundred Demons Book to draw my Demons.  The idea to give a picture to bad behaviors in me felt like a great way to get to know them and then send them on their way. This daily practice took a form.  The outside instruments were a sharpie marker and a sketch pad.  The inner ones were the awkward scribbling of my left hand and the seemingly more truthful images of my right brain.  Each piece included the Demon’s name, its image and an antidote. I also drew Fairies.  They either celebrated something that happened or served as a reminder for a way of being I’d like to adopt.

Here is a Demon from that show.  His antidote is “We fed him some pancakes and he went away humming.”

Much lies cluttered in our hearts.  It can greet you in the morning like an overflowing dish drainer.  Step by step you can find a home for each piece of your unique life and enjoy the new fresh space.

Smile as you go and visit with the….

...whenever you can.

Thank you.

All the best,

Emily

Welcome to the Bluebird Blog

Hello!

When my father died in July many years ago my family wandered around the house.  It was so hot.  I felt the heat holding us all- Mother, Brothers, Sister-in-law, niece and nephew and our funny little dog Henry.  One day we sat down and drew pictures.  My picture was a big pink guy waving from a pretty green landscape.  My mother hung the picture up on the closet door in the hall of our house.  Everyone who came in the front door was greeted by it. For years.

After that all my art projects ended up being about my father.  Long tunnels into the secrets of his life.  I was trying to get out of the clouds they had left for me.

My work has taken a big turn.  Now I start from me and work upwards.  Last year to introduce my Fairy Project to the Burlington Art Hop crowds I painted a huge fairy.  When I stepped back from it  I laughed.  It was my dad with wings.  Cheering us all ever upwards.

Thank you for this moment.

Take care and please smile often.

Emily