This is Lunarose, the midsummer fairy doll I finished today. She flies around gardens in the moonlight, sipping dewdrops and looking for the perfect rose!

[I'm sorry to only have a scanned image....I have some really cute ones on her in flight, but we've had some technology changes with the computer/printer system since the last time I uploaded digital photos...I can get it into a viewer, but not a file for saving and using on my blog....oh, well! (I'll post those whenever I do get it "worked out")] She is sparkly and shimmery and is very proud of the tatooed rose vining its way around her left ankle. (May be visible in a "flying" photo!)

Lunarose is going to a new home this evening....at our

DQS* Summer Solstice party to welcome the fairies back for the summer....she is going home with Lizzzzy as this doll was made for her in our doll swap!

* DQS is a small group of friends, all of whom used to hang out at my quilt shop....one of our sons called us the "dead quilter's society" (after the movie with Robyn Williams, "Dead Poets Society") Lizzzzy had jokingly commented that perhaps we are also the Drama Queen Sisters....take your pick!

This is the beginning of a doll I made for our art doll swap....so today the photo is the symbol for new beginnings.....
I am offering to make a few handmade art dolls for those who love them.

I have posted links on my doll blog. (upper left of the sidebar)

I am also about to do an Etsy shop and who knows what else...I have sold on-line when I ran a quilt shop so I have a good feeling about doing this....



Of course the time may come when I feel this way about it....when it does, I'll stop!

A clipping from "Woman's World" magazine for May 1, 2007.

The Celtic tree calendar name for this period of time (almost a month) is the Willow.

Because our theme for the art doll swap was "Celtic Goddess" this month....I made another synchronistic connection when I chose Danu, the river goddess. Willows love water and grow beside streams and rivers....what a lovely, graceful tree!

Sychronicity again....the artist for whom this goddess doll was made has the perfect last name...."Robin"!!!!!

"I must gather knots of flowers and buds and garlands gay..."

(art doll by Charity's Dolls...not by Lila!)

The May Queen
Alfred Tennyson
YOU must wake and call me early, call me early, mother dear;To-morrow ’ill be the happiest time of all the glad New-year;Of all the glad New-year, mother, the maddest merriest day,For I’m to be Queen o’ the May, mother, I’m to be Queen o’ the May.
There’s many a black, black eye, they say, but none so bright as mine;There’s Margaret and Mary, there’s Kate and Caroline;But none so fair as little Alice in all the land they say,So I’m to be Queen o’ the May, mother, I’m to be Queen o’ the May.
I sleep so sound all night, mother, that I shall never wake,If you do not call me loud when the day begins to break;But I must gather knots of flowers, and buds and garlands gay,For I’m to be Queen o’ the May, mother, I’m to be Queen o’ the May.