Happy Summer Days

Áine, the Irish goddess most associated with midsummer, by Amy Brown.

Hello and happy midsummer to you all! For once we’re actually getting a summer to be in the mid of here in Ireland. But enough about the weather. I’m happy cause it means the evenings will soon be getting darker again, and the mornings too. It was bright till 11 o’clock last night, and it must have been around three or four this morning when the sun came up. How’s anyone supposed to sleep! Maybe I just need blackout blinds… Anyway, in other news, I found out this morning that I don’t have to get an operation I was expecting to have in the next wee while. I might still have to eventually, but for now it’s on hold indefinitely. Woo hoo! What an all round excellent day :) Hope you’re all having one too!

Down At The Bottom Of The Garden

Fed up with the fact that none of my friends or family ever let me take their picture, yesterday I decided to employ the modelling services of this sprightly bunch. A well behaved lot they were too. I’ve tons of pictures of our little adventure in the garden so I might post some more another day. Oh, and I just want to say thanks to Laura from Gypsea Tree for introducing me to the great wee Poladroid gadget I used to edit them. So handy, so fun!

        

Music From the Mind of Fairies

Hello folks. Hope you’re all having a lovely day. I am, although I’m still coming to terms with the fact that it’s THURSDAY! How time flies when the sun is shining. I’ve noticed this whole summer carry on isn’t very conducive to blogging, at least for me anyway. I remember not too long ago I was posting daily and now look- only two in the past week! Disgraceful. No doubt it’ll be raining again soon though and, as much as some people might sniff at this, I’ll actually be glad to see it. I think I may have mentioned this once or twice, but I’m not a summer person. That said, I still feel obliged to get out for my annual dose of vitamin D.

Anyway, I’m here now and I did plan on doing one of my regular ‘look at the all the lovely things I found on Etsy’ posts. I have, however, been a bad blogger lately and haven’t had a good wee nosy round everyone’s sites in a while. I’m itching to go a wandering so one, albeit pretty darn cool, find will have to suffice for today I’m afraid. It’s an M.M.M.M (Mab's Minded Music Maker) from Nefaerieous.

What’s an M.M.M.M you say? Well, em... I think I’ll let the seller explain:

“It is a rarely known fact that the Mab Fairy, also known commonly as the madness faerie, or by it's Latin name Furiae Mediocris, both receives and is able to transmit radio waves from its brain. Having harvested this marvel of nature in our work of Faerie Preservation as we believe no part should be wasted; we have built a device best suited to put full use of natures finery.

“It has also be discovered, that the Mab's encephalons itself works as a noise storage device and can be used to access music and other sounds which the Faerie had been exposed to prior to it's preservation. This being realized, we have placed a number of encephalons in the transference chamber, to insure the most popular in musical selections."

Any clearer? Thought so. Actually in layman’s terms it’s a rebuilt 1956 radio that’s been rewired to also work as speakers for any device that uses headphones. It’s coin operated and even has a “brain jar” that lights up. Now isn’t that just the most delightful iPod docking station you’ve ever laid eyes on?