Chickens, Hens and festival virgins

Hey Possoms!

Jace here.

I went to my first ante natal class the other day. We sat on chairs the wrong way round, ate jelly babies, listened attentively and were all very well behaved. Lots of information about birth process. Scary.

I had a go of the doll baby and simulated giving it a bath ....don't let go of the baby, whatever you do don't let go of the baby. I held on tight and mock washed like a proud new father. Just 2 weeks to go before B-day...no point in trying to imagine how it's all gonna be......I've tried...hundreds of times over the past few months. Just gotta chill out, keep the phone on and wait for The Call. Then it's a 2 hour drive to Rachael and the hozza. It's gonna be an interesting journey!

Aaaanyway, I digress. The Fairylove stall is up, stocked, and is fully fairied up and pushing out loads of love and magic at Wychwood Festival as I tippy-tap. The Dream Team on this gig is Hamish, Rosa Bloom, Esther and Mika. Esther and Mika popping their Fairylove cherry and by all accounts having a ball so far.

Meanwhile back at HQ Shelley and i are hosting a hen weekend for 10 fairy hens. They are currently having massages and will later get dressed up and go out on a fairy raid to Hereford town to scare the farmers on their weekly shop.

Pictured here are the fairy hens with the real hens.....birds of a feather!



Everything has suddenly speeded up around here, but feels great. Just to get the first festie done and the kit all dusted off again is such a relief. can't believe we've still got two more gigs before Glasto. I am sad to be missing Glasto but welcoming my first born son into the world will more than compensate.

Our facebook friends grow and grow and the fairy message is getting stronger. Odly enough I feel quite calm about everything at the moment. I know there's alot of hecticness about to come my way but maybe, just maybe I am managing my stress a bit better these days.

Breathing, breathing, breathing.

Jace x

all-da-fun-a-da-fair!!

Well, now, I have been at Fairy HQ for a week now and it has all been jolly super magical really.

My friend Mika Fairy arrived at Glitter Mansions last Thursday to meet all the fairy lovers and give a helping hand! She was rather overcome with excitement, even finding the bathroom a magical cave of fairy delightfulness!

We have all been getting ready for the first festy next weekend, sorting out boxes of exciting things. I had a lovely time covering sunglasses in glitter, ready for sale at a festival soon!!

Mika explored dizzying heights of magic whilst packing fairy poo and all in all it has been jolly good fun in the fairy office.

Outside of work hours we've also been having a superduper trooper of a time!!

On Saturday night we all attended the Hurly Burly 1st Birthday Garden Party. The Hurly Burly Cafe are good friends of the FairyLovelies and are a rocking festy stall! Look out for them at Glastonbury and other fields near you very soon!! They provided us with a marvellous array of delish veggo food and a caberet of delights. Shelli-I Fair-I and Jesse-Lou even made an appearance on stage at our biggest gig yet, which was very very excitemacating and a lil' scary too!!

Well, I'm off home to Brighton tomorrow! Hope all a youse fairies have a ramalamadingdong of a summer and enjoy all the festies!! Woop Woop!! See y'all real soon!! Over and Out. xxx

Oh my goddah!!!

How has this happened?? We have our first festival next weekend and also at the same time a group of 12 fairy hens coming to fairy towers!!Oh my goddah!! Thank gods and godesses for fairy helpers and rosa fairies!!! Who are right now as we speak in the stockroom splitting stock and getting all the stock into plastic boxes to pack the lord (our big truck) with!!

Jess fairy has maybe gotten more than she bargained for when she agreed to come and help us for the week!!! First job was tagging fairy knickers and then separating them into 2 piles and then a bit of respite in abit of fairy poo packing!!! Then deep into the depths of fairy t-shirt land!!! Whoever knew that being a fairy helper could go to such heights of excitement???? She did have a lovely long walk with rosa and i last night and then a big relaxing bath last night so all is well!!

Wings are being finished off,things arriving,stock being ordered!! Amonst it all my new chickens don't seem to be getting along very well and it's affecting thier laying power,which up until now has been fantastic!!! If anyone has any handy chook tips i would love to hear them!! Cats are happy,have changed tinks name to wishes and it suits her much more!!!

I am feeling ok,a little dazed and confused and wishing life would just slow on down abit but hoping we can get thru all this with little stress and with fairy stylee!!!! Have some folk arriving for b+b and photoshoot tomorrow and have lots of lovely things planned for the weekend!! Come on sun!!!! xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Deadlines, deadlines, deadlines...

We've been working on a posh new leaflet for fairylove over the past couple of weeks. Rachael has done an amazing job of designing it, and we've been back and fro about a million times with lots of little tweaks and changes, and finally we're there! It's going to be sexy full colour, and will even be printed on recycled card with vegetable-based inks - pat on the back for us! We just thought if we're going to be producing that much paper, we should at least make it as environmentally friendly as possible. And I reckon it's gonna look so good that no one will throw it away anyway, they'll just stick it on their fridge/bathroom door/bedroom wall! Here's a sneak preview...if you want to see the whole thing, come and grab one from the Fairylove stall at the festivals!

Dead ducks, live kittens, and girlie shopping.

Hey fluff bundles!

Well....theres good news and bad news.......the ducks, once thought to be gay...are not gay............

The ducks were doing the wild thing the other week and hey presto..ducklings. Beautiful little bundles of yellow and black fluff..so innocent, so cute, so vulnerable, so dead. Thats the bad news.

We're not quite sure which predator was to blame, but it certainly wasn't me...I just wanna get that clear right from the start. Anyway the've all gone, so we are ducklingless again.

However we are still kitten rich, but if they keep pissing in the house , not quite sure how long that'll last either. Personally I'm getting a bit bored of them already.

Still, I'll have a very small person to cuddle soon. I just hope he's as cute as a kitten.....maybe less hairy.

The house was over run with fairies again last Saturday as Sarah and a load of buddies turned up, dressed up and went shopping for fairy goodies. Squeals of delight from around the grounds.

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Festie preparations seem to be moving forwards although I've had a coupla days of not quite being able to finish jobs that i have started. Ever have those days? Bloody frustrating, and stuff lying around on the floor everywhere. I blame my star sign and given nature. Aries; good at starting, not so good on detail and follow through.

It'll all get done for sure, nothing like a bit of eleventh hour panic to get the job finished!

We invite you all to comment on any aspect of this blog...we'd love to hear from you.....or are we just tippy-tapping hopelessly into the ether??????

Jace x

Glittery eyelashes

I've got glittery eyelashes today, from doing so much wing-decorating...I can see little sparkles every time I blink! I've been trying to get all of the wing orders underway so that I can get as many finished as possible before I'm lost to Festival World in just two weeks time....aaarrgghhh! From then on I'll be spending 5 nights a week in a field till September! Crazy.

I have regained my sense of smell at last, after my nasty cold (I walked into my flat this afternoon and thought 'hmm, I think I need to empty the compost bucket...ah ha, I can smell again!!"). Really looking forward to seeing Jess, Mika, Mel, and Sticky next week when they come up to visit Fairylove HQ...I'm planning on having a bit of a housewarming party to christen my flat.

We went on a great bike ride on Sunday evening, to Lewis and Mella's local pub. Morris went on the back of Lewis's bike, and was demanding dandelions all the way there and back, so that he could blow the seeds! Shelley mastered local pub. Morristhe technique of picking dandelions from the hedgerow as she cycled! On returning to Lewis's, we admired the newly-rigged lighting in the marquee that he has built for the Hurly Burly Cafe - whose 1st birthday we will be celebrating next weekend! Watch this space for photos...

Nude sunbathing and BBQ's xx

Feeling very happy today!God this weather is completely delightful!!! We have been doing photoshoots all morning for new flyers and business cards!! So nice to be out in the sunshine!!! It's impossible to be in anything but a good mood in this weather!!! Blowing you some big glittery fairy kisses xxxxxxxxx

We had a lovely barbie on the weekend,and i got a nice bit of all over sun baking in on the sunday!! So nice to get a bit of colour on my skin...

The kitties are settling in beautifully and are loving having the run of the manor!! Rosa and i still in wing making world,rosa still snuffling and recovering from her after holiday flu...

Getting quite excited about outfits for festies as our organising hots up!! Can't wait to be dressed up at glasto in the sunshine!! Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm xxxxx

Fairy kitty cats bring oohhhs and ahhhs all round!!!

Puk and tinks kitty cats have settled straight into fairy towers!! We are loving them and they seem to be loving it here!!! They are so cute and cuddly and sweet!!! I love them!!! They make me feel all warm and gooey inside and it's amazing how my heart opens up when i look at them!!!

Friday...Whoop whoop!!! Bring it on! First BBQ this summer being had tomorrow night,really looking forward to it and to catching up with all my local mates!! Hopefully the sun will beam into the dovecote which tends to be a real sun trap!!!

We have 12 fairies coming for fairy tea and cakes and group dress-up and photoshoot tomorrow and then some serious shopping in the fairylove showroom!!!

It's been a lovely day here at the workshop with wings absolutely everywhere as molly,rosa and i all competed for space at the wing workbench!! Glitter absolutely everywhere!!

I go swimming at the local leominster pool every week and this morning pulled a muscle in my neck....What's going on,when a fairy can't even exercise without injury!! Definately in need of a fairy massage!!

Have an amazing weekend everyone!!! Sunshine and sparkly happy wishes all round!! xx

Summer is here and I am smiling!!!

Hello beautiful people!!! What an amazing couple of days!! I just think that english summer (when it finally happens) is just awesome and there is no-where else this fairy would rather be!!! I feel like I am walking around in a dream and the grounds here at fairylove Hq just completely come alive with beauty and overflowing life!!! How sweet it is to be loved by you!!! Mmmmm

So, there is lots of wing making going on at present,wing orders are flowing in and we are trying hard to stock up for you festie fairies!! Jason has been out and about in the garden doing festie prep and rosa is plugging away with all sorts even tho she feels under the weather!!! That's fairy dedication for you!!

I have been doing lots of gardening in the sunshine and my veg garden is looking good!! can't wait to be picking and eating!! Fresh eggs from my lovely chickens every day and tonight I pick up 2 gorgeous kittens!! Very excited!

Rachel and Jason came over on the weekend and i whisked Rachel off next door to the rape field to capture her blossoming radiance as the birth of the baby draws ever nearer!! It's all very exciting,there will soon be a baby fairy in the ranks and jason is soon to be a daddy fairy...

Enjoy the sunshine,lap it up!!! There is magic in the air and wishes flying around,so get wishing fairies!!

Post-holiday update...

Hello fairies,

I'm adjusting to life back in the office after my fantastic road trip adventure with Mella and Morris. We packed so much into 6 days...including feeding the chickens at my mum and dad's house! I've got a bit of a post-holiday cold, so my sinuses are aching...but the sunshine is helping. I've been catching up with all my emails and cracking on with some wing orders too...the wing board is looking fuller than ever at the moment!

I'm settling in well to my new little flat...and LOVE being able to commute (walk!) to work in my slippers with a cup of tea! I've been planting sweet peas and everything...though my skills as a green-fingered fairy don't have a brilliant track-record. But fingers crossed for flowers in abundance. Right, better get my glittery fingers back to the winging... xxx

New part time fairy and more big wings!!!

Having a great day in the fairy workshop today...We have a new part time fairy on board...Molly fairy!!Who now comes in every friday and is as we speak learning the fine art of wing glittering!!!

She seems to be enjoying it!!She has an amazing voice and we have been singing and winging the day away...She is also doing a wonderful job on the wing front!!

I am working on another huge pair of 8 panel wings...Have finished the canvases but think i will leave the glittering for next week!! Spent a good deal of yesterday in the sunshine in the vegie garden planting beetroot and lettuce and listening to the chooks (aussie for chickens) happily clucking away!!! It's all happy fairy farms round here!

I am off up to bristol this weekend,a friend is performing with her troupe of can can dancers,they are called the red hot frilly kickers and then there is the mens troupe,man can....Really looking forward to checking it all out and having some fun in the city of bristol!!! Have a fantastic long weekend everyone!! xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx