Calendars & Cards have arrived...for a Fairy 2013!

All the Fairies and me are soooo excited! Finally Celidonia's calendars and cards have arrived! ^__^ 

We are very satisfied by the quality of printing and colors, too!

In the Calendar is a Fairy - or a Fairy feeling - for each month of the year! 

And in the Cards is a pair of Fairy Mice... to celebrate every special days!

All the Celidonia's Fairy and Wild Little Creatures would wish you a Magic 2013, full of Tenderness, Fairy Dust and Real Fairytales! 

A Fairy Christmas!

Celidonia and all Celidonia's Fairies and Little Creatures would wish you an Enchanted Christmas! ^__^

All the Fairies and Little Wild Creatures desired to take part in a video, dancing with a very old musical box, to wish you a Fairy Christmas! It's my first video... so, please, be good (it's Christmas Time! ^__^) and forgive me if it's not perfect! ^__^

A Fairy Christmas to All of You!

A Fairy Meeting

Last Sunday, walking in one of the most enchanting places of Rome, I had a strange encounter... 

Would you know who is she? I has only the time to post a photo I took her, now, but I'll tell you soon her story, how we met and... the strange fairy request she made me!

A Fairy Christmas Tree!

I love decorating the Christmas Tree! Its decorations represent my family's story. Some of them are very old, at the time I was just a little child.

This morning I woke up early - I like beeing seat and seeing my Christmas Tree's story, among the lights - but I saw I'm not the only one...

I surprised Little Bells Fairy there! She called her sisters... And the Pink Peony fairy was there, too! 

Since many time she didn't go out from the glass ! 

The Little Bells Fairies woke her up, to  play, sound and dance on the tree all the night. 

They didn't realize it was already morning, so they looked at me in surprise... just like I looked them! We (humans and fairies) celebrate all together the Saint Lucy Day, the time in which the light is born again. Do you like paying on the tree whit us? 

A Fairy in Villa Ada

Last Sunday I went at Villa Ada, the second largest park of Rome. I love its secret and wild places! It's the park of my childhood... When I was a child I spent many days playing under her ancient pines.

I was walking deep in my thought when I heard a little bell music and... a strange creature appeared out of thin air, just in front of me!

"Stop here!" She said. She had a so ringing little voice! She told me she was a spokesfairy... from my Old Simple Fairy! 

She told me that they are very angry, because I dont' sculpt them from years, and don't teach anymore to my students how to sculpt them, too! 

I answered her that I'm a serious sculptor, now, that don't play anymore to sculpt the simple fairy. And I went on doing my walk...

But she appeared again under a big mushroom, just in front of my feet, barring my way!

She told me: "Art needs playing! Playing is the seriuser thing... together with simplicity. It's for this reason that fairies and babies love so much plays and don't make life difficult for oneself!" She flyed near the spindle-tree. 

"Art exists to remember to grown-up humans that in their heart lives a fairy. Children alredy know..."

After she told that, the Simple Fairy disappeared with a little-bell music...

The sun was shining and I heard again her ringing little voice... Then I understood. She was my fairy in the heart! I ask her: "Does not important perfection, intellect or realism in sculpture... but only what you feel, right?"

A blink among the spindle-tree and she was there again. "Yes. Play, don't make life difficult, live candidly... And you'll walking always on the fairy path." 

"Wake up again the fairies that sleep in humans' hearts. Make me and my fairy sisters visible! Show to the people the path: teach again them how to create a simple fairy... like me!" 

The fairy followed me to my home, with a lovely little bell music.

And you? What do you think? Are you agree with the Little Bell Fairy? 

Red Berries from my Garden

My little doll finally had a little dress and she ran outside playing with the Autumn wind! 

In the garden the old wild rose bush is full of berries, red like her little shoes! 

"Fairies certainly painted them, one by one!" Little girl think...

"I'd like to bring some of them in my house... " But she needs fairies permission first!

Fairies like kind children with red shoes, so they gladly gave her the permission to take some berries. 

But, in return for it, fairies she'll have to take care of the little robin that live in wild rose bush, for all the Winter.

Little girl answered "yes" and she's very happy!

Little robin answered "tweeeeet" and he's very happy! 

I'm happy too, because I start again feeding birds that came to visit my balcony in Rome - for the Winter - and a little robin alit on my windowsill yesterday! 

Sculpting a new little doll

I started sculpting a little girl in 1:12 scale. Here is her face in progress in a photo that I took few mornings ago.

And this is a photo of this afternoon, on my work table... It's under the artificial light of my work lamp, because it's already night in Rome, the days are getting shorter. 

Tomorrow - with the day light - I'll sew a little dress for her.

So she could go out to play in the Autumn wind!

IF - Shy

Illustration Friday week's topic is "Shy". It remembered me an illustration I made a few years ago for "Thumbelina", one of my favourites fairitales.

I believe tulip is yellow when you don't look but it become red if you look, because it's a shy tulip... like its little guest!
I used watercolours, pencils and inks for this work.

A New Beginning

Sometimes Fairies disappear to appear again in an other place. Celidonia reappeared here - in a little space for little fairies - just in the day in wich the world's doors are open.

This post is dedicated to Emily. If you know Celidonia, surely you know Emily.  

 She was my muse, my friend, my teacher... The soul that inspired and made viable any my work.

She passed away the last October 4th - in the St. Francis Day - after a long illness. 

Emily was 12 years and 7 months old and she was an old, wise, great Rabbit.

But death is only a change of life. It's a new birth. Emily knew that and she taught it to her stupid, sad human... inspiring me again.

She chose a little walnut's heart to sprout again. 

To remember me that the heart of a human who knew a Rabbit is full forever. 

To  remember me that she has two little fairy wings... to fly everywere.

To tell me that everybody has fairy wings. But often don't see them.

They are the wings that let you to be over any distance. That bring you in the things' heart. That make you realize that Life is Forever. Like Love.