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While shuffling piles 'o crap on my desk, I came across an item I'd been given for Christmas '04. There are four women in this small group, and we exchange small gifts on occasion, Christmas being one. The gift is a fairy, of cast or molded plastic, with a metal eyelet embedded in the back to suspend it from a hook, or possibly a Christmas tree. It makes no pretentions to "quality," beyond a certain delicacy of line, a careful polishing-away of bits of plastic strayed outside the mold, and an equally careful and somewhat subdued but joyful paint application.
I was in a local metaphysical shop last weekend, and saw several fairies similar to mine hanging over the counter: slightly larger, designed and released by artist Amy Brown. I don't think mine is one of her designs, but it's of similar style.
The one caveat is that, all the ones the other three women received and all the ones I saw in the store were girls, and mine is a boy.
A boy with boots, sturdy looking for all their upturned toes, pale green stockings under pale-and-dark-green striped knee-length pants that split into points at each stripe at the knee, and a yellow jacket, the hem of which also splits into segments, the edge of each gently serrated, like a flower's petals. Under the jacket he appears to wear a green hoodie. His stance is wide, his wings lowered, though not furled, his arms at his side, partly raised; his whole attitude is one of attention and readiness. His head, brown curly hair sticking up in unruly elflocks, is lifted, his lips pursed in a whistle and his painted eyes fixed on some point in the middle distance, as though he's calling to a bird. His ears are pointed, the bones of his face are fine, yet strong.
A wonderful synthesis of Peter Pan, mortal boy, and fairy, I've never seen another one like him. Aha! found him!
I'm glad the giver knew me well enough to spare me the girl-fairies!
I was in a local metaphysical shop last weekend, and saw several fairies similar to mine hanging over the counter: slightly larger, designed and released by artist Amy Brown. I don't think mine is one of her designs, but it's of similar style.
The one caveat is that, all the ones the other three women received and all the ones I saw in the store were girls, and mine is a boy.
A boy with boots, sturdy looking for all their upturned toes, pale green stockings under pale-and-dark-green striped knee-length pants that split into points at each stripe at the knee, and a yellow jacket, the hem of which also splits into segments, the edge of each gently serrated, like a flower's petals. Under the jacket he appears to wear a green hoodie. His stance is wide, his wings lowered, though not furled, his arms at his side, partly raised; his whole attitude is one of attention and readiness. His head, brown curly hair sticking up in unruly elflocks, is lifted, his lips pursed in a whistle and his painted eyes fixed on some point in the middle distance, as though he's calling to a bird. His ears are pointed, the bones of his face are fine, yet strong.
A wonderful synthesis of Peter Pan, mortal boy, and fairy, I've never seen another one like him. Aha! found him!
I'm glad the giver knew me well enough to spare me the girl-fairies!
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I just had never seen a boy fairy. And I guess I feel I'm not froufy-girly enough to actually empathize with girlie fairies. The girls are really pretty, though. I like the one draped over the bubble best, I think.
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Here he is from another angle. This is a figurine, not a hanging ornament, but it's the same character and pose.
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I like my little Jack guy, though. Even though he's destined to be alone. I have no interest in amassing a clutch of fairy figures.
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