Hello Alexandria,
Your costumes & photography are exquisite!
I look forward to seeing more of your work,
Faerie Blessings,

The pixie picture still makes me smile and i never fail to be surprised at how life like (sculpture like in this case) digital artists can get their art to look!! i still look at it and think it's an actual sculpture not a computer generated picture even though i know different!

As for my user picture... glad you like it ;) i'm the ugly one on the right :P

Well from the looks of that castle, it sure looks to be the home of Flamenco in Spain. Glad to keep you smilin'! 8^D

Alexandria,

Costumes! My sister makes all our Ren costumes, but she dosen't want to try to make an 'art'of it. Thank you for your kind words. I do feel like something has 'touched' me this summer and....well I'm just going with it.

Blessings Mary.

Squashed mushrooms !
Sounds like fairy haute cuisine -
Squashed mushrooms served on a bed of wilted grass, garnished with a sprinkling of autumn frost. Yum !
Rosehip blows you a kiss - xx

^_^

ok the names for the banshee are:Badhbh, Macha and Mor-Rioghain. and depending on which form she is in depends on the name.

Badhbv-the young woman
Macha-the matron
Mor-Rioghain-the old hag

there is one banshee type but three different forms and names. But the banshee's forms represent the celtic goddess of war and death.

The bean-sidhe (woman of the fairy may be an ancestral spirit appointed to forewarn members of certain ancient Irish families of their time of death. According to tradition, the banshee can only cry for five major Irish families: the O'Neills, the O'Briens, the O'Connors, the O'Gradys and the Kavanaghs. Intermarriage has since extended this select list.

the banshee chiefly appears in one of three guises: a young woman, a stately matron or a raddled old hag. These represent the triple aspects of the Celtic goddess of war and death.( let me know if you would like to know the names)

She usually wears either a grey, hooded cloak or the winding sheet or grave robe of the unshriven dead. She may also appear as a washer-woman, and is seen apparently washing the blood stained clothes of those who are about to die. Hense her name as the "washing woman."

Although not always seen, her mourning call is heard, usually at night when someone is about to die.

There are records of several human banshees or prophetesses attending the great houses of Ireland and the courts of local Irish kings. In some parts of Leinster, she is referred to as the bean chaointe (keening woman) whose wail can be so piercing that it shatters glass. In Kerry, the keen is experienced as a "low, pleasant singing"; in Tyrone as "the sound of two boards being struck together"; and on Rathlin Island as "a thin, screeching sound somewhere between the wail of a woman and the moan of an owl".

The banshee may also appear in a variety of other forms, such as that of a hooded crow, stoat, hare and weasel - animals associated in Ireland with witchcraft.


Let me know if you want to know of anything else.

And CHOCOLATE too? Oooh, a THOUSAND kisses back to you!!! (All Hershey's, of course. ;^)

Hey, I only put description to words, that's how. You're the one, however, who does it so expertly with *vision!*
(I asked Mlle. Olgudapore's advice... ;^)

Hi Alexandria, I am glad you have found the EF community. I have always enjoyed your work a great deal and I remember you from the old Faerie Chronicles forum. Oh, and thanks for the link to Thomas Barbey's website....Wow...not only is his work stunning but his website is a real treat to visit.

Hi Alexandria, thank you for joining our EF community & welcome. I like Mr Depp too *big smiles* As for Batman, we're all really excited about The Dark Knight which comes out a week later over here, not fair :( Living in a house of guys all passionate about the comic book worlds, it's not surprising I got involved! I like to think that I redress the balance rather with my taste in films, as I also adore beautiful costumes & cinematography ~ the V & A Museum is one of my favourite places to visit & wander in... =)
Waves to you in So Cal, we love it there,

Well Hello Darling!
Thank you for the friendship and the comment!
Yes I have to agree that the lil faery quartz picked me! I am a lucky pixie to have such a special lil quartz! Hope youre having a good weekend!