Fairies

I have been collecting dolls since I was just a little girl. I had a grandma that first got me into it and she provided me with my first old fashioned doll. The poor thing's head had been shaved but otherwise she was in pretty good shape. It was evident that she had been cherished at one time. As I grew, my collection did too, and I began collecting porcelain dolls and barbies. My mom used to make clothes for my babies. I had a favorite doll that I would cart everywhere with us. Her body was soft and fuzzy, she had red hair that I could comb and style for hours, and she had great big blue eyes. I would put a diaper on her and dress her up according to where we were going. If it was evening time I would put jammies on her, if we were going out to dinner or breakfast, then she got to wear a dress. However, when cabbage patch dolls came out, my mother waited in line for hours to get me one of the first ones while I was at school. I came home and that doll was in its box laying on my bed. My poor redheaded girl was forgotten for a very long time. Then when EVERYONE had a cabbage patch doll, I returned to my girl because she was unique.
Well that love of dolls has just grown bigger and wider. As I became a teenager my fascination shifted a little to mystical things. I love fairies, dragons and such. Which is what fueled this rant today. I am so excited, I just discovered that Barbie is making fairy dolls. I ordered my first one online today, she is the dandelion fairy and (of course) she is a redhead. I have an office at home that will someday be a nursery for our daughter and in that room I have started displaying all my fairy stuff I have been collecting. Which unfortunately is not as much as I would like to have. I am hoping to rearrange it and make some shelves and such to display things better. I would also like to add some more dragons, wizards and elves to my collection. Nothing sinister looking. In fact there was the most adorable collection of baby dragons I used to stare at all the time when I would go to the mall that I would love to be able to have.
I often wonder what my pastors would say if they ever came into my house and saw these various things. They are very much of the belief that if you have certain things in your house, watch certain shows/movies or read certain types of stories you are just giving the devil an open invitation to your life. I don't necessarily agree on that. I have never believed that fairies were something evil anyway. In fact a relative of mine used to tell me that true redheads were baby fairies that got lost and were sent to the mortal world instead and thats why there aren't very many true redheads. It also explains why they are so very different from the rest of the world.
I just love the mystery surrounding fairies. They are so soft like, and feminine, yet tough. I think they are a good representation of little girls fantasies, and big girls.
So here's to happy collecting!!! Hopefully lots more fairies and all things mystical for me!

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Nic said…
You know, I just love your writing style. You should write other things like stories or at least sell the one's you have written. ;)
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