Countdown to Winter Solstice

As a standard, every Black Friday i make a paper chain to start on December first and count down to the Winter Solstice. On the back of each link, i write one thing to make or do as a family...thus setting the tone for the holiday, about Family and not materialism.

This year, i decided to make this adorable little flag banner type...but i linked it all together with a cute pink ribbon. Each flag counts back to Solstice and has the day it corresponds to, and also some cute stars...all to represent the coming of the darkest and longest night...the Winter Solstice.

The backs are written in silver, and i chose from this list...

~ Write letters to the Winter Faeries (or Santa)
~ Make and/or mail out holiday cards
~ Paint wooden holiday magnets
~ Make and decorate paper snowflakes
~ Decorate the home and put up holiday tree
~ Send out Secret Faerie
 ~ Do something nice for someone else
~ Make home made holiday ornaments
~ Color holiday pictures
~ Decorate pinecones
~ Go for a walk and do a little scavenger hunt for winter animals/plants/trees (learn their names and uses)
~ Find/Make and decorate a Yule log
~ Adopt an endangered animal
~ Volunteer at the local food bank, animal shelter, soup kitchen
~ Donate food, clothing, coats to shelters
~ Go caroling for the elderly
~ Write your own 12 days of Solstice/Christmas song
~ Make a bird feeder out of a orange
~ Take a ride in the car, drink hot chocolate and look at all the holiday lights
~ Go caroling
~ Make holiday cookies
~ Family game night
~ Holiday movie night (with cuddles and talks after)
~ Holiday Story reading (more cuddles and talks)
~ Make salt dough ornaments
~ Make and play with magic fake snow (this can be done inside)
~ Make food for the reindeer (or in my house, faery friends)...be sure to not use anything with chocolate, glitter, or sugar, as these things are not safe for animals to ingest.
~ Set intentions for the upcoming year
~ Make dream pillows
~ Make stars and moons and suns to hang in windows (or draw them with window markers)

These are just some ideas we have used over the years in my family...but you can make or add your own also. :)

i will be posting pictures of the things we do this year!! i would love to see or hear about the things you do as well. :)

If it weren't for bad luck...

Chibi from "The Birthday Massacre"

sooo...tonight was "The Birthday Massacre/Emilie Autumn" concert in Boston!! i was so excited to go, as i saw The Birthday Massacre about 6 years ago and they were incredible...so i have been waiting for them to come back around here again...because...well, they are my absolute favorite band and have been for nearly 9 years now...

sooo, a few months ago, i got my tickets and my son, who is now 20 years old, was supposed to come also...so it would have been our first concert together...but he scratched the cornea of his eye and literally can't see anything right now, so he decided to stay home (which i was bummed about)...

and soooo...tonight, we left 2 1/2 hours earlier for the show because Boston is an hour away from where i live...and i figured traffic etc...well...apparently i should have left at like 3pm...because we were stuck in traffic for literally 3 hours...and then i had to pee so badly, that we had to stop at a Whole Foods so i could go potty...then back on the road, they had a detour which got us lost...so Daddy stopped for directions...at this point, the show has already started and i am praying that Emilie would go on first...but no such luck...we finally get there about 8:05pm and literally get to see the birthday massacre taking down their set...we literally missed their entire set. :( i wanted to cry. But Daddy was a super hero and at least got me a kick ass Chibi autographed pic and an awesome birthday massacre colorful tape rose...

...after that i was so upset, because lets be honest, the whole reason i was going was to see MY favorite band...so i looked up at Daddy and just asked Him to brings me home. i wanted to cry, right in the middle of the club...but i didn't. we walked back to the car in the pouring rain, and drove home...but Daddy did another wonderful thing for me...he stopped at McD's and got me a happy meal (sans burger) and they messed up and gaved me TWO build a bear toys in it. :D so i gots a cute lil gingerbread girl and a cute lil teddy...oh and chocolate chip cookies, cause Daddy knows i loves them and don't gets them very often.
so yeh...after all was said and done...

we spent:
$56 for tickets to the show
$30 in gas
$2.50 in tolls
$10 for parking
$25 for the autograph pic (which is authentic)

quite an expensive night, to not even be able to see my band. :( soo now...i guess i will be waiting again until the next time they come...le sigh

But thank you Daddy, for being so wonderful and taking me anyways, an for trying to cheer me up when all i wants to do is cry...cause i am so uber bummed...

i is a sad sad lil girl tonights. :(

On a brighter note...one positive thing did come out of tonight...i came home to finding out that my writing that i posted last night has made it to Kinky and Popular on Fetlife...soo whoo hooo for me. :)

Just because i am little...

Some things that i just have to say.

Just because i am little...

~doesn't mean that i can't carry an adult conversation. i am actually quite good at this...try it and see. ;)
~or that i don't know or understand what you are talking about. i have a vast amount of understanding and empathy.
~it doesn't mean that i can't take care of myself...i have been doing a fabulous job of it my whole life...without anyone else taking care of me.
~it doesn't mean that i am incapable or unworthy...
~and it doesn't mean that i am YOURS.
~it doesn't mean that i am mentally unstable, or that i can't handle anything...you would be surprised at how incredibly strong i am, both emotionally and physically.
~or that i can't make choices...is it hard to decide? yes...but i can do it. lol
~it doesn't mean i don't know what manners, ethics or morals are...in fact, i have a rather high set of standards that i choose to live by.
~it also doesn't mean that i don't know how to use proper grammar. i just choose to write how i talk sometimes...especially when in little mode.
~it doesn't mean that my feelings are not valid or that i should be "seen" and not "heard". in all honesty...i have very many good ideas and am really good at figuring things out. :)

but what it does mean is that...

~i am always honest and say what i mean and mean what i say.
~that i can be very sensitive and i pretty much wear my heart on my sleeve.
~that i care about everything...maybe too much sometimes, but it is only because i want to help, want to learn, and want to make others happy.
~that i see the wondrous things around me daily that most just don't see anymore...like the ants who work together, or the beautiful spider web glistening with morning dew...the smell of roses and the sound the sparrows singing...these are the things that bring me the greatest joy...and if there is a rainbow...i can be happy for days. :)
~that i am very creative...i will color, write poems, paint, work with clay, beads and other crafty things...
~and i will squeee over things i love and have silly toys and dolls and a bed full of stuffies...
~and yes, i will have a huge Hello Kitty collection, because it ties me to the good things that happened in my childhood (and there are sooo few of those)
~it means that i will love deeply and unconditionally and that i will expect the same in return.
~and i will be loyal, honest and the best girl i can be.

Because i am little. Which has been, and always will be, the biggest and best part of me.

(i am sure i will have more to add to this later, but i had to get down what was on my mind now, before i forgotted it all. lol)

Rainbow Cupcakes

 Hellooo!!!

i got to try something new today!! i made these adorable rainbow cupcakes!!! i was so happy with how they came out and it was so much easier than i thought it would be!!

i started out with just a box of white cake mix...i made it as the directions called for...and then i took out one cup and set it in a bowl...i did this four more times, until i had five bowls full...then i added red, yellow, green, blue and then blue and red (to make purple) to the cake mix. leaving me with a rainbow of colors.

Next, i put my paper wrappers in my cupcake pans and started slowly putting one teaspoon of red in the bottom of each liner...next i did the yellow...then the green...then blue...and finally the purple. (as long as the color completely covers the bottom...they do not mix...they stay layered and bake in that same layer).

Once i finished with all the colors...i baked them as directed and when they came out...voile!! i had rainbow cupcakes!!! i topped them with yummy vanilla frosting and enjoyed my rainbow goodness!! :)

Little Girl Word Search

 

Because lil girls love word searches-i had to create this one, based

on all things little girl!! :)

Hope you enjoy!!

She Of The Fae

Love Thyself

and to thine own self be true.

This is why i am here, at the beginning of starting this blog.

Because i am being true to myself. 

Honoring my needs and wants and my desire to share my

thoughts, experiences, creativity and love with others.

i am She.

Welcome to my life. i am not only a smart and loving woman, but i am also a genuine sweetheart of an adult little girl. i believe in faeries and magick. i pray to the moon and dance in the dark, i wish on dandelions and blow bubbles on the breeze. i color, i write, i watch princess movies, i count stars and have tea parties, i collect Hello Kitty and i sleep with stuffed bunnies. <giggles> and...i love to create things and make all different forms of art. i love love love all things vintage and victorian in style, and my otherworld self is an elegantly attired steampunk faerie. :)

and...

i am a coquette

i flirt between many things. It's my life.  i am on the edge between being innocent and sweet and yet, i am a woman who has walls and has to function as an adult. i love the dark and the light, i love soft and gentle and hard and fierce. i dance on the edge of many things...therefor, i flirt.

In this blog, i will share with you, my creations, things that i love, reviews of products or clothing, poems, stories, magickal things and correspondences and "other" DD/lg (Daddy/little girl) dynamic things. Here i will share myself. Who i am, what i love, and hope that you can relate to at least some, if not all of what i post.

Thank you for joining me on this journey!!