Adelante!!!

Hello Friends of Bluebird Fairies,

I hope this finds you enjoying this time that celebrates gratitude. I’m thankful for you and how these fairies bring us together.

Here’s a fairy for today:

'The Fairy of Adelante!' is a fairy with outstretched arms, big smile, bright red heart that has two speech bubbles on either side holding the words 'Live with a sense of forward.'

This fairy makes me smile! Isn’t it easy to feel things are slipping backwards? This fairy shifts it all into a different, more positive place.

Life moves in cycles and many of the fairies can find relatives in the Bluebird Fairy Deck. Today as I look at the ‘Fairy of Adelante!’, I’m thinking of “The Fairy of Smiling and Being Okay” who has a speech bubble with one word, ‘Forward.’

That’s where Bluebird Fairies is moving these days as our decks are featured in the Seven Days’ Holiday Guide (see below) along with many great Vermont gifts.

We’ll be at the Holiday Fair at the Lake Champlain Waldorf School in Shelburne, Dec 2-3. Find us there on Friday, 6-9, and on Saturday,10-2. We’d love to see you there and have you pick your ‘Fairy of the Day!’

New! Our Fairy Decks can be found at Thirty-odd, the marvelous gift shop on Pine Street.

So, you see, we’re excited about moving forward into this season. This is, however, just a fraction of the beauty of Bluebird. I’ll be in touch closer to the Solstice with more magic from the energies around us.

Be well as you move gently forward.

Love,

Emily and the Bluebird Fairies

a snap shop from the Seven Days Gift Guide pictures two fairy decks. An excerpt of text 'Get the rituals going with a deck of Bluebird Fairy Cards. Every day, spread out the cards and choose a card. Anderson's cards pair well with morning coffee. $40

Picture from the Seven Days Gift Guide (photo by Stephanie Salmon)


Fairy Support from Afar

Hello New and Ongoing Friends of Bluebird Fairies

I hope you are all doing well.

Last weekend I had an exciting Fairy Card Reading. It was in East Orange, Vermont at the Hutchinson Cemetery where my Great, Great, Great, Great Grandparents are buried.

This cemetery is up a rocky road named Rock Place and a lot of the graves stones have been moved to a more accessible cemetery. My imagination easily allows me to feel that these relatives of mine have been waiting for their granddaughter to return to Vermont to find them.

This is the fairy that appeared when I asked Mehitable to pick one from my fairy deck:

The 'Fairy of Chirping Happy Birds' is a jolly fellow with two speech bubbles by his sides that say "Lighten Up" and "Enjoy Being You".

What a great message!!

These fairies were first drawn to cheer me on with my living. It’s been one of my greatest life experiences to feel how wonderful it is to share my drawings with others.

Does this fairy resonate with you today? Can you relax all the concerns fluttering around you and enjoy being you in this one and only now?

Let’s do it!

Love,

Emily and the Bluebird Fairies

Surrounded by trees with colorful leaves, a woman wearing a black cowboy hat and colorful jacket sits between two old gravestones holding a card with a fearing named "Fairy of Smiling and Being Okay".

The Fantastic Flamingo Fairy

Hello Friends of Bluebird Fairies,

It’s Labor Day here in the United States and, once again, it finds me at work preparing for sharing the Bluebird Fairies studio with all who stop by during Burlington’s South End Art Hop which begins this Friday September 9th and goes through Sunday.

I’m SO excited! When I last wrote, you met the Weaving Fairy. Well, a few days ago, the first warp I’ve woven in over 8 years was cut from my loom and the fabric I created was revealed. The first thing that leapt out was a project I’ve been envisioning ever since my floaty toy popped at the lake. Here’s a fairy inspired by the creation:

A pink flamingo with white wings floats in blue waves. A hat with green and gold is on its head. A red background eases on either side into yellow. Speech bubbles hold the flamingo's words "I will support emotional ease with slow movements and ease."

Now, that’s a pretty amazing fairy, isn’t it? Just wait till you get to end of this post and see what inspired it!! And…if you’re really excited, I bet you’ll find your way to Bluebird Fairies during Art Hop or after to meet the creation.

So, do find me! I love chatting about new and old fairies and all the other drawings that come out of my non-dominant hand drawing technique.

The Art Hop folks suggested we have some offerings at our studios.

Here’s what I’m offering:

Saturday between 11-1 I’ll be doing multiple performances of my 5-minute Crankie Show, “Accomplishing Big Things”.

On Sunday between 11:30-1:30 I’ll be conducting The Inner Goose Certification Workshop. If you haven’t experienced it before, it’s a short interactive event that uses facts, actions and lessons about geese to emphasize good community practices.

Throughout Art Hop we’ll be having a sale on Magic Fairy Decks. These decks are just $25 and, well, they’re magic!

Looking forward to seeing you!!!

Love

Emily, the Bluebird Fairies, and this fantastic, yet to be named, woven flamingo.

a pink flamingo created with plastic and woven fabric is affixed to a blue wall.





Weaving our Lives

Hello Friends of Bluebird Fairies,

I hope this finds you well.

In the Bluebird Fairies studio, I have begun to weave on the loom my grandmother gave me many years ago. Weaving is what first brought me to the South End Arts District of Burlington. The fairies joined me here. It’s nice that all the projects can coexist here.

Weaving is, especially during these very light filled summer days, an apt metaphor for living a full and enriching life. Here’s a fairy to cheer us on with that:

A smiling fairy with outstretched arms. A red heart is prominent on her chest behind which is the gold bodice of her dress which has a green and brown checked skirt. She proclaims in two speech bubble, "It's all coming together."

Summer is a time of many projects. I hope you have been enjoying yours! I look forward to sharing some of ours at Art Hop which is just around the corner, September 9-11.

Until you hear from us again, please, take a some quiet moments to sit in gratitude for all that is and connect in with the great energy around us.

We are sending you much love,

Emily and the Bluebird Fairies

My Heart Just Keeps On Singing

Hello Friends of Bluebird Fairies,

I hope this blog post finds you well!

In the Northern Hemisphere it’s summer. Today, Brian and I pulled a fairy from our deck to guide us through the summer months and it’s…

Words "Fairy of Oh my heart just keeps on singing" encircled with an ink line are above a red suited fairy with white wings hovering with two speech bubbles on either side saying "oh" and "yeah."

For so many reasons, I feel it’s perfect. I hope you do too.

For more support on strengthening your inner song please check out Lena Stevens’ July forecast which has the themes of Trust and Inner Strength at the Power Path School of Shamanism. You can find it here.

Onward and upward, everyone.

We’re sending you good energy.

Love,

Emily and the Bluebird Fairies