It is a spring time ritual to go the bottom of Sheep Canyon. There is a very special spring quietly bubbling through the forest. I decided that my fairy friends would like to come with me.

My name is Jessica King…
I was doing simple beading at age 3. Beads where always around and something that I could do quietly anytime. I was so into beading growing up that for one of my birthday’s I took my friends to a bead shop and we all made a necklace. I still have but it only fits as a choker. Getting into my grandmother and mother’s jewelry drawers was a favorite pastime activity. The sparkling cocktail pieces where my favorite. I experimented with silversmithing at college and also made some unusual found object pieces and a necklace made from the fronds of a date palm and a cut up placemat.
I have been an artist since I was 4 years old. It’s in my blood, passed on through the generations of relatives that worked with their hands. My love of getting down and crafty, lead me to get my degree in fine arts. My concentration was Sculpture with a minor in Women’s Studies. I started out with steel fabrication. It was challenging and very rewarding. It allowed me the opportunity to be the master of some very powerful tools I created. But I found many draw backs to working with metal; the cost and the dangers of physical injury and long-term toxic exposure were the issues I directly faced. Another factor that was a cause for concern is that metal is a precious resource. Plus add the fact that large metal sculptures need a lot of room to house and a large pocket book to afford them. I made the transition to mixed media art as a way of expressing a truer part of myself. I use the everyday materials that are around all of us to not only speak about the world in which we live in but the inner dimensions of my soul. My artist abilities never came from just what I learned from school. They come from places of stillness and chaos, where I love to dwell.
I was about seven or eight when I got my first camera. At first I used it to document my summers spent on vacation and summer camp. But as I got older and more into fashion magazines I really got into taking pictures of my girlfriends. We posed in front of bed linen backdrops. By the time my senior year of high school came around I was on the yearbook staff. I took three semesters of photography in college. I really began to focus my lens on nature. I found unusual beauty in the weeping wounds of trees. My first wedding photographer gig was in 2001 for my brother who lives in Indiana. Since that time I’ve been behind the camera at several weddings and captured expectant mothers and precious babies.
As long as I can remember wanting to be an artist I can also remember being a nature lover. As a young child I got caught throwing Kleenex shreds on the ground in a bookstore by mother. My punishment was picking up all the trash, in the whole store! After I got home I wrote a poem and drew some pictures about taking care of Mother Nature. From that moment on I have felt the call to be a steward of the environment. It is important to me to think about how I live affect more than just my family and the place we live. My example might help shape how others treat the world. I’m not perfect, I still use paper towels, I get carry out and to go containers but I recycle everything I can. I take too long of a shower and I have a lot of grass to water, but I have low flow showerheads and faucets and I do turn the shower off when I’m not rinsing and I don’t use fertilizers or pesticides. I compost, have a vegetable garden and have wild flowers for the butterflies and bees. But now that I have a child and I see the state of the planet now more than ever I feel the pull to make a difference.
The first time I saw behind the fairy veil I was eight years old. It was in the books that my mother and aunt bought for me and in the gardens around my home. Out amongst the flowers and trees I saw them dancing and fluttering in the branches and petals. I think I must have collected every fairy book in and out of print from the 70’s on including all the folklore and artwork dating back thru medieval times. I hoarded anything and everything on the subject of fairies from Herself the Elf to Tinkerbelle Back in my day that was all there was commercially available concerning fairies. Now there has been a blossoming of fairies within the mainstream. Many more personalities, culture, characters, accoutrements, fiction and media are readily available to all ages of fairy fans.
I always wanted a child to pass fairy lore on to. So when I found out that I was pregnant I whispered to the fairies to give me a “child of the fae”. I wanted to know that my baby would be watched over by my winged guardians. I made a promise that I would teach my child about the ways of the fairies and how important it is to believe in things unseen as well as to protect the wilds in which they dwell. They answered my prayers with a beautiful baby girl. She is everything I hoped for. She has many fairy qualities about her. From her tipped elfin ears to the jeweled twinkle in her eyes, she has the glimmer of a child who sees beyond the material world. Fiona a pixie toddler but she also has been diagnosed with cerebral palsy. Whatever her limitations are or may be they will not stop her from making an impact in the lives of all that know her. She has this certain way about her that illuminates through her whole being. Her personality is always light and jolly. Her smile is enchanting and so grand that it shines through her whole being. My beautiful daughter, Fiona Grace King is the living and growing inspiration behind Miss Fi’s Kingdom and all of the wonders within it.
With in Miss Fi’s realm you will find my journey through creative discoveries and greener living. I design things that I think the fairies would like. Using common items and unique finds I will create items that will inspire a more magical lifestyle. Most important I will find ways to make things that are useful and benefit to the world we live in.

Once upon a time there was an extraordinary little baby named Fiona Grace. She lived in the sunny valley near a huge city. She was a sweet and kind soul. Fiona was loved by everyone especially her mama and daddy. In a time when all babies were expected to fit into charts, time frames, and labels, Fiona was allowed to be who ever she was and take all the time in the world. She decided to be daring, and be different than other little children in the land…
She blossomed into a smart, funky, artistic, tot, with a lot of spunk and style. Despite all her delays along the way she made-up for it with a determination to just be herself. Fiona loves to read books and to sing. She loves to be creative with her hands and use her imagination. Fiona loves to write letters to her cousin; Jack about her adventures both near and far. But more than anything Fiona Grace is a little girl who cares about the environment. She lives by The Code of the Three R’s: Recycle, Reuse, and Reduce…
Fiona has always had a special magic with in her heart. It goes beyond what we can see or explain. She has the gift that allows her to go to the fairy realm. Fiona Grace travels across the threads of spider webs on nights when the moon is full and shines through the trees like silver beams of light. Once on the other side she is transformed into Miss Fi. Miss Fi is a little fairy princess in charge of her very own kingdom. With in her kingdom she rules over land and fairy with kindness and laughter in her voice….

I kissed Curtis for the first time after a football game, November 9, 1995. I walked down the aisle to kiss him as husband and wife, November 9, 2002. Today we celebrate out 6th Wedding anniversary.

In honor of our passionate love for each other, I’m posting a special card in Jack and Fiona Press on www.MissFiKingdom.etsy.com. This card is a honest admission of some down and dirty truth! It is a call for action. This card loudly hints at fun and passion waiting to be set afire.

Go to http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=17114856 to enjoy this card and find out what the card says.

Curtis I love you. Happy Anniversary… Now lets tire out Fiona so she goes to bed early!

oxox,
Forever and a day
Jessica

I’m just putting out an F.Y.I.
I know you are going to love all my stuff at Etsy and you are going to want to become a member. When you are becoming a member of etsy (which is really easy) please you my user/store name (missfikingdom) as your referal. It helps me keep track for how many people are interested in my website and etsy rewards me for my referals.

Hello etsy!

I finally start posting items for sale on Etsy…www.etsy.com
I was dragging my feet over posting because I was trying to figure out shipping cost and how everything works at etsy. Etsy is amazingly easy. Posting is fast and instant. Shipping and paypal has been working out great. I thought it was going to be a lot harder. Paypal makes it easy to make shipping labels from my computer. Everything has been going really well.

I’ve posted at least 20 items from my current collection. I’ve sold 4 item to date from etsy. Granted the orders were from my mom and my best friend (shout out to moms and Shalyn) but this is progress! I’ve had a lot of people looking at my stuff too! My ribbon cards and my bracelets seem to be catching some attention.

So now it’s time for everyone else to go to etsy and become a memeber. A Member? That’s right there’s a sign in required for buying or selling anything on etsy.

So what exactly is Etsy? It is the #1 place to buy and sell handmade items online.

I can’t wait for you all to check the whole website out. There are a lot of amazing artist and crafters out there. I’m happy to be part of this worldwide family. Becoming a member is a lot like joining ebay. In fact I say, “etsy is a lot like ebay except everything is handmade and there is not an auction site.” They work with paypal so paying online is really easy and secure.

Please check out my site by clicking on the “Shop the Kingdom” button or you can type in www.MissFiKingdom.etsy.com.

They say blogging is one of the most important things you can do to draw people to your site. They say anyone can do it… Well we will just have to wait and see about that!
This is eco-fairy, the queen of Miss Fi’s Kingdom, signing out!