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“Every time a fairy is born in a tree it becomes a dryad”
Dryads and forest nymphs are one of my favourite topics overall… and they’re often portrays as part tree with leaves and branches. This is a drawing I made myslef of one dryad… of course anything with leaves, green wigs, leave pendants and [...]

Isis is a Goddess of Ancient Egyptian mythology  and  often is  represented with this wings… thus the name of “isis wings” commonly used in bellydance. But even if you’re not a dancer, this element will make your costume astounding!! A fairy, a goddess… its movement and ethereality is amazing.
In one of my performance I shared [...]

I have quite a few garments from this lovely shop that I’ve used quite a lot in my performances. The Dark Angel is an international company that ships world wide exquisite fairytale clothing for women, men and children. It also keeps a regular “bargain or best offers” section which is reason alone to bookmark [...]

In one of our previous featured videos you saw how to make your fairy wings with stockings, here is another alternative way of making them, maybe a little bit more fragile using wire and cellophane. Cellophane and vinyl gives those transparent effect that makes the wings look more like an insect than a butterfly. [...]

We´ve all seen drawings in old books of Irish fairy tales with those fancy to dance all night away with goblins and fairies… Ghillies are typical soft  leather shoes for irish and scottish dancing in fact and have a lovely ancient traditional historical look For an accurate definition read this wikipedia article about [...]

I found this rather popular and interesting tutorial of “how to make fairy wings” that was showcased in tv program “crafters from coast to coast”. Curiously enough it’s made by a singer-songwriter  Emilie Autumn (yay for fairy artists!!,  I agree  myself there’s nothing more adorable than the feeling of wearing wings on stage!). The tutorial [...]

Morgan Hearsey is a leather mask artist sculptor based in USA. The masks are hand-dyed, painted with non toxic acrylic leather paints, crafted and all come numbered, dated and signed by the artist. They also come with care instructions, ties, ribbons, beads and other embellishments… it really shows that she puts great care to [...]