...kind of.

With final project due dates and the end of the term fast approaching (two weeks, count 'em, two!), I find I have very little energy left these days. Don't get me wrong, I love all the projects I'm doing and I'm actually really excited about them, but I need a break. I'm a little pooped over here.

I honestly wouldn't be surprised if I earned the nickname " Faery girl" by the end of this semester, what with all the faery inspired pieces I'm undertaking. Some of them may be a little ambitious, but I think I can pull them off. For my illustration media class, I've finally been given an excuse to treat myself to doll making materials and it pushed me to finally watch the entire Wendy Froud DVD. I am so, so very happy I spent the money on that. Every other second I was inspired by it and I can't wait to get the clay and get crackin'. I shared it with my teacher, actually and next thing I know, I'm bringing it in to be shown during class, and my school officially purchased a copy for our library because so many students in my class (my teacher included) loved it and found it very helpful. I'm slowly bringing my campus to the side of the Faeries...MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

My piece is going to be my faery character, Tangle, in a faery market, which was inspired by my favorite story as a child, " A Fairy Went A-Marketing". I have all of the items being sold prepared and ready to hang on the final piece and the base is almost complete, but I do still have a fair amount of work to do, seeing as I haven't made the faery yet *cough*

As for other classes, I'm also very excited about my typography final, which involves book binding. I make these little pipe cleaner faeries and I decided to pose them in different situations to illustrate the theme I have chosen, which is " an explanation and an exploration of why I am shy." I've always wanted to explain to people why I never look them in the eyes when I pass them or why I barely say a word in a crowd and now I have the chance to do just that. I have the digital sketches of the poses done and the text written out, but now I have to play around with what the book is actually going to look like and how everything will be put together. There are so many options, I don't know which to choose! :)

In other news, I'm cleaning my house like a mad woman since my parents and dog (yay Rowan!!) are going to be coming here tomorrow for Thanksgiving and leaving on Saturday. Mom might stay longer with the dog, but she hasn't really made up her mind on that yet. And let me see, what else, what else...Oh! I'm selling my faery dollies at The Denver Waldorf's Festival of Light celebration on December 6th. I'm very, very happy about this, but at the same time I am a little worried about time. I can pull it off on time if I just pace myself and don't let the computer suck my life away like it's been doing.

Uh..what else in the land of Tangle? I now have two blogs, possibly three, one for myself, one is shared with my twin, and the possible one would be with another friend. The joint blogs are fun because the two of us post such different things and have fun with our aliases. Ifins you're interested these are the blogs:

http://tangle13.wordpress.com/ <-this one is all mine

http://pickledcaliope.wordpress.com/<- this one I share with my twin. She's Gertie, I'm Willie...we were eating a ton of candy when we made up these names.

Other than that...how has everyone else been? I've been meaning to e-mail people to say hello and let them know that I haven't forgotten about them, but it's reached a point in the semester where if I don't write it down, it doesn't happen.

Your Friendly neighborhood goblin trainer,

Tangle

As of 2 o'clock this morning, I returned from my wonderful night at the Witches Ball. Granted, I would have had a bit more fun had I had a friend with me, but as it stands I had a blast. The costumes of the other participants were a treat to look at. Some dressed in more "serious" costumes, while others took a more comical route, for example the one boy who dressed as an extrememly convincing Beetlejuice. There were three floors of fun to explore and I spent most of my time sitting listening to the music. I should have been dancing, but unlike Faerie Worlds...the space didn't take into account those with wings and I wasn't willing to de-wing myself to meet with the space limitations ;)

The basement had an assortment of little boothes, which I poked around a bit and ended up buying two daggers, one for me (King Arthur inspired) and one for my friend as a birthday present. The most exciting thing for me though was when I went into the room where all of the tarot card readings were being done. I sat down across from this one older woman who had this really kindly look to her and had to laugh at myself a couple of times because of how accurate her reading was. She combine tarot, animal cards, and astrology, so everything she said hit home with me. A lot of it was learning to trust my intuition, not let others control me, and letting go of painful relationships, but there was one part that made me nearly fall out of my chair. She asked me if I had any questions to ask of her and I said I did, but I wasn't sure it was something tarot could answer. She told me to ask it anyway and so, I asked her about King Arthur. See, pretty much since the time I made the change from girl to young woman, every time I've had a dream where I've been married, it's been to him. He never wears a crown or has Excalibur, or anything else that would distinguish him to others as King Arthur, but I know who he is.

I asked my question and she told me to pick three cards. The three I picked were "past", "karma", and "abundance". I was then told that the cards were telling her that in a past life, I was very happily married to either King Arthur or someone extremely close to him. I nearly fell out of my chair when she told me that and now that I think about it...it makes pretty good sense. Why else would I be so obsessed with Arthurian Legend, or be angry with Sir Thomas Malory when he wrote something about Arthur's character that I didn't agree with? After hearing that, I am extremely curious about my past lives and I'm going to try to seek out help to find out more. I want to know who I was.

Ta-da! This is me.

The ball is drawing nearer and nearer to me, with only a week left to finish my costume! I need to get one part of it dry cleaned (neeeeh), but all the other pieces are almost together. I have a few finishing touches here and there, but I think I'll be done with time to spare.

I decided to take a walk and explore the park that is pretty much in my front yard and found a beautiful place for me to practice drawing and to photograph my faeries. Yay!

I love making my faeries so much and then naming them all. This one is called Lela. I've been adding more and more sisters to her family in these past few weeks that they're running out of places to sit!

This weekend I am floating on a very high cloud because I finally pushed myself to buy a ticket to a Witches Ball in my area. For a while, I didn't want to go because I was afraid I would miss handing out candy to trick-or-treaters and because I would be going by myself and not know anyone, but yesterday I decided to go for it. From what I've experienced at Faerie Worlds and other pagan events I've gone to, people are extremely friendly, so I'm bound to meet at least one new friend at the ball.

The best part for me, however, is the fact that it's a costume ball! That means I get to go dressed as the true faery I am...which means that Tangle has to work on her costume to make it perfect for the 25th.

These past few months I've felt so alive and joyful because I've been going to festivals where I feel like I can really be me and not get repremanded for it. I've realized that I need to keep attending these festivals to be truly happy in life. Faerie Worlds, Faerie Con, Witches Ball, and any other event I can find. 

*SQUEE* I'm so excited!!

Will anyone on EF be going to the Denver Witches Ball? If anyone is, I'll keep my eyes open for you :)

...or not so hidden, as the case may be. While I was taking hundreds of reference photos on my train trip through the mountains with my Mom yesterday, I found what I think is a faery tree.

I might hate driving in snow and I may not enjoy city life because I'm such a hobbit like that, but I do love Colorado for it's natural beauty.

And this lake made me wish I had a little cottage on its edge.