I’m just too excited about this not to share in a Miss Fi’s Kingdom blog. If it isn’t already fairly obvious I LOVE FAIRIES! My collection of fairy books range from classic tales, tooth fairies, novels, board books with glitter, and the treasured 1st editions. I was always pretending to be a fairy always wanting my own pair of wing, petals for dress, and glitter and fairy dust sparkling from my long curly locks as I ran through my garden. I’ve only caught a glimpse of fairies out of the corner of my eye and even then I have let my skeptic mind say yeah right… It’s just your imagination and your love of fairies making you see things, until yesterday. All three of us were in the backyard making the rounds trying to wear Fiona out for her nap. I was also getting pictures of all the new things she can do now that she’s not having daytime seizures. Fiona is almost five and she is doing things that we have never seen or only seen once years ago. I had to document her climbing up the play equipment to go down the slide, picking vegetables out of our garden (and voluntarily releasing them back into our hands), and grip the bubble wand, dip it in the juice, and wave it around! Fiona is ready to move on from the bubbles after a few minutes but I needed to use up the bubble juice and I had wanted to try and photograph the bubbles. They are so big and so colorful… actually rainbow is my favorite color. So there I was camera in my right hand bubble wand in my left snapping off pictures of every bubble I could. And look at what I caught on film! Even as I was taking the picture I knew what I was capturing in my little playback screen. The above picture hasn’t been edited at all. I have other pictures that you can cock your head and say, “well maybe that could be…” This one is the clearest of the bunch. After I uploaded the pictures I opened it in Photoshop and had a look at the details of the fairy’s face, legs, and wings. Amazing is all I can say. I played around with the dark and light and cropped the picture. This is what I came up with.

I hope this brings a smile to those of you that hold a special place in your heart for fairies and maybe makes a believer or two. Do you believe in fairies? Tell me your stories!