A little picture diary of precious moments with a dear wee one and her magical collecting basket

On the first day we met...

Oh how happy this dear wee one is to have a new collecting basket for her walks and adventures. It is a gift from a spidery lace maker who's web she protected the other day. 

Stepping lightly she glimpses a beautiful treasure, a raindrop glistening on a baby rose leaf...such magic is not easy to gather, but perhaps through the delicate hoping of her heart it might slip into her basket?

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The next morning....

No rain has fallen since yesterday....but oh my can you see, such wonder is still here, this collecting basket must be as magical as her heart.

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When the sunshine came out to play with her....

Skipping along in the sunshine today, her toes barely stop in time when they find themselves amongst tiny purple petals.

She has to tip her face right back to see when the softness is drifting down from...

High high above in the blue sky, amongst a gentle humming she can see a little treasure beginning to float its way to earth.

Oh so tenderly she fills her gathering basket with this gift and then she plays at adding decorating patterns to her sparkly skirt

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On a delicious afternoon......

Climbing climbing oh so high, she is taking care to hold on tight, while she picks the tenderest tiniest mint leaves and fills her little basket. Such special collecting she is doing today, all for the kindness of helping her friend the ice cream maker who needs these delicious leaves to make her favourite flavoured treat

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One moonlit night....

She had found a lovely place to watch the moon, and maybe she was starting to drift to sleep a little. Then through sleepy eyes she saw something sparkle, a silvery dream seemed to be floating closer perhaps a gift from the moon who was watching over her

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When she showed me her most precious foundling....

For the last couple of days she seems to have been hiding, now and again I have heard tiny running steps, but when I stopped what I was doing and tried to see, everything became suddenly very quite and still. This evening though she must have been in a hurry, because she made quite a lot of scuttle and I was able to follow the sound, right into a little red bonnet. 

And there I saw... she has made her little collecting basket into a rocking cradle...

Very very gently I asked and after quite a while she let me hold, the most delicate fairy babe I've ever seen, where she came from who can tell...

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This wee one is now on her way home to play.

These diary entries were first offered day by day on The Magic Fairy facebook page

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Happy New Year Trees.... a blessing story for Tu b'Shvat

Though this day may seem to some as cold and bleak as yesterday, those who breath in time with the trees will feel the beginning of a new year

In nightgowns of last year’s lacy leaves earth’s beings rise

between night and day

Some half dreaming remember the warmth of blossoming sun 

While some new buds are just begun and need mama to sing her awakening stories

 And so the beings of the trees emerge

And call on each other with gifts of love

Sharing the courage to skip along with new vigour

and joyfully rediscover, 

While the forest resounds with children's playful voices blessing...

'Happy New Year Trees'

Overlapping tones of gold

There is a moment, where summer and autumn overlap extending their tones of gold into an endless afternoon

And that is where she lives...and bakes in her little canopied hill.

She whisks light into froth for her lemony cake and serves petal pancakes to the wee ones there.

There, is a moment that is precious, for there is where summertime's babes play with those who will grow in autumn's care.

It is where buttercup shines sleepily while little mushroom wakens shyly,

and where a wee green grass turns gold.

This little baker nourishes those baby marvels with tender heartedness

and sweet deliciousness

and so that moment of their dwelling is sustained on and on, long into the endless playing of a golden afternoon

and maybe even ever more

The Elfin Peddler of Wishes

Did you know that in Fairyland wishes happen differently? Some people may say they happen all back to front and inside out, but actually wishes in Fairyland go forwards, for they are granted before they are wished.

In the shelter of rainbows light, there dwells an gifted Elfin wee man, who listens to what dreams may come. Some say he hears through the rainbow curls in his hair, which reach out to dance in conversation with the breezes.

This Elf is known as the Peddler of Wishes, for he has a Peddler's Cart that he fills with fulfilling wishes for those who live in Fairyland.

His little daughter Elfie helps her father with this craft. 

When the Peddler needs to paint wonder into a magical learning book, his daughter helps by telling her storied to the pages.

When a sleepy bunny comforter needs to learn to hop, little Elfie shows how, while her father claps a rhythm.

And then together they carefully fill the cart

'Ohh beautiful mermaid' whispers Elfie, 'Are you going to befriend a wee sprite who would wish to learn to swim?'

And 'Ahhh little flower, are you to sooth the soft hearted gnome and keep him from wishing that he was bolder?'

Elfie climbs high onto her birch bark swing to sway above the fulfilling wishes, and away they go stepping lightly along a primrose pathway 

'Here you are little flower, the soft hearted gnome will find you here.'

and 'Dear little bunny you will help a sleepy pixy find some bounce.' 

 'While you wee sweet pea will give peaceful sleep to the spirit of the tree.'

 The Peddler leaves new boots at the gate of a fairy dancer who would soon have been wishing for them, for her old ones were running out of steps. The tiny gnome, who has been kindly holding the boots together, sees the teeny doorway under the fairies gate and slips inside to polish the crystal cave, which had been waiting unknowingly for him.

The Peddler places a purse of plenty amongst the strawberry leaves

And he helps the butterfly find a home where the flowers are awakening, he knows that soon petals and butterfly will be fluttering and floating.

Sometimes a fulfilling wish needs a little extra protection and so the Elfin Peddler of Wishes and his little daughter Elfie, take one of their rainbow silks and add a special covering layer.

And ever so often in his work of granting the wishes of fairyland before they are wished, the Peddler simply helps others share their heart's kindness. Today with his cart he helped a dear gnome journey from glen to hollow to nook of root, where she shared sips of buttercup tea and showed other dear mamma the pattern of her baby seed warming cloak. 

How happy the Peddler is to do his magical work and how lucky Elfie feels swinging gently as the day gives way to twilight and they turn their cart towards their home in the sheltering shadow of the rainbow. There they will wait and listen for all the dreams of fairyland that may come.