Feeling elfish? Let´s go away with faeries!

Topleft: LADY COTTINGTON'S PRESSED FAIRY BOOK is illustrated by Brian Froud and written by Terry Jones. Bottomleft: Four Fairy Costumes for "A Midsummer Night's Dream", William John Charles Pitcher, 1896-1903 Bottom right: The Spiderwick Chronicles is a series of children's books illustrated by Tony DiTerlizzi

The first memory I have of reading of faeries was a very treasured book a relative gave me when I was five. The book had beautiful illustrations of cute little houses in pretty colours, and even cuter little pixies and faeries.

Fifteen years later when I moved to England to study, I made friends with two girls the same age as me. They utterly adored these creatures and even wrote their dissertation on the subject. I slowly started to realise how popular faes are around the world!

If you are not feeling magical and Elfish, this is my toplist of pretty things and places that might get you into the right mood!

1. A visit to Cornwall and Three Wishes Faery Fest
2. You need a faery name, if you havn´t recieved one yet, try here
3. Sort out some fairylicious attire, for example Alienskin or on Etsy
4.To become a faery, you need a skill or talent of some sort! What is yours?
5. Read up on the mystery of the Cottingley Faires

Sacred Geometry

I wanted to write a post about Sacred Geometry partly because I saw this amazing cathedral, but unfortunately I forgot where, so now I have put together a few images that all have a part of fibonacci structure to them. "Leonardo de Pisa (circa 1180-1240 AD), better known as Fibonacci, explained the uniformity of the following geometric proportions. He found that this geometry and harmony in nature is equal to a number sequence of 1–1–2–3–5–8–13–21–34–55–89--144 and so on, found by adding each number to the previous one to get the next number. He also realized that the natural branching, flowering, and spiraling forms in nature follow the same uniform harmonic laws that can be found in musical scales.

The Fibonacci ratios were often used in cathedral architecture. Dufay's motet was also based in part on the above series of proportions, which were used in the creation of the Florence cathedral and the dome.

Dark and amazing art

I don´t know where I found these artists, probably on Deviant Art. Mr. Bunners the Rabbit Master was created by Mike P Mitchell. A friend of mine got me into this kind of "surrealist dark art", and since I prefer it not to be to gothic and wierd and just a little bit cute this is just in my taste. This style of art reminds of Alexander Jansson and his piece "Dimanche" from Sweden. He´s work is amazing and I still havn´t seen him in any galleries around here. I read somewhere that this is a piece that´s from a childrens book and that he is still looking for a publisher. You can buy prints on Deviant art, and my wall is just waiting for a tripdych with his work.

Munny toys

MUNNY was created by master toy designers Paul Budnitz & Tristan Eaton. I stumbled across them searching the internet for cool and funky art. They are he soft, super smooth vinyl figures that make up MUNNYWORLD. Each one is a blank canvas, and all ready for scribbling, piercing, painting, posing, piling, dressing up, and sculpting into forms straight from your imagination.

Or you can keep them just as they are. You can find out more about these cute little things on:

Munny Toys