Nothing special

These are for a text inspired swap I'm participating in. I used Shakespeare's A Midsummer's Night Dream for my inspiration. I have always been enthralled by the fairy names he used and have visualized all kinds of fairies and imagined their fairy duties. I invented some fairies that might go with the other "attendants" in the play. As opposed to my usual-of-late long legged creatures, these are very short fairies. Short hooligan fairies even. Now that I see them uploaded, I wish I would have spent more time hunting images. I'm not really all that happy with these but there's too much effort involved to toss and start over. I promised that I would show my successes with my less-than-successes. I don't think I'm putting them on flickr. If I had more time, I would start over. I still might since these aren't due until June. But, I just don't know what the next few weeks hold so I wanted to get something done. Can you tell?




copyright by Marsha Jorgensen 4/25/09
This is a set of four 3 1/2 x 5 collages using bodies from lisasalteredart.etsy.com, faces from the public domain, boots from a catalog, and wings from a CD I bought at a sale with no name for crediting. All of these pieces were altered slightly digitally before printing, then trimmed and hand-colored and arranged on a background made of pieces from AsundraEphemera.etsy.com that has been slightly colored and stamped with stars.

So here are the names we've been debating for these little fairies . . . Noot, Wink, Twig, Rye, Spug, Tilst, Nod, Nisk, and Toll. We are still working on that part. The inspiration for the names comes from Shakespeare's Snug, Cobweb, Quince, Bottom, Mustardseed, and others.

I have one other trade piece to get done and a little mailing to do on Monday and I'm all caught up. That will be the effort to maintain until I get my Dad taken care of. I did not do laundry today. Everyone is nearing the end of clean clothes which is scary. I did do some errands and mailing and have been busy all day but not happy with the remains. I'm taking tomorrow off to go to the beach. Maybe that will help.

I hope you are having a good weekend!