Saturday, October 29, 2011

Fairytales: The Princess and the Pea

This tale along with rapunzel and sleeping beauty has always been one of my faivorites, perhaps because it's the only one I ever really read as a child. I do wish I had the book that I first read it out of, I did so love the artwork. I fear it is lost for good now .
Once upon a time...(oh wait...not sure if this goes with Hans Christian Anderson....I think that's how the Brothers Grimm put it.) Well anyway There was this prince and he wanted to marry a princess so he searched far and wide and found many with the title of princess but they were all missing something. They weren't REAL princesses. (Obviously just because your dad is king it just didn't autimatically qualify you to be a real princess.) So one night after he had returned home to his castle and had found no princess to marry and was feeling down there was a terrible storm. Suddenly there was violent knocking at the door (or banging, banging would be more apropriate but it dosen't sound as good when your wrighting a fairytale). So upon hearing this the King (of all people) got up to answer the door (I supose his curiosity got the better of him....whoever heard of a king answering the door?). So he swung the door open and there stood a girl soaked to the bone and looking very little like a princess, though she claimed to be one. So of course being such a gentleman he let her come in. The queen however was bound to find out if she was a real princess so she went to prepare a bed for her herself. She placed a pea ( I've also heard of three peas but one is all I read of when I was a child) on the first mattress then she coverd that with twenty mattresses and twenty feather beds. ( I'm quite positive she had help doing this....) So on this bed the princess past the night.
And on the following morning when asked how she slept, the princess told them she had scarcely closed her eyes and had barely any sleep and not only that, but there was somthing hard beneath her  twenty matresses and  twenty feather beds and that she was all black and blue. So in this the prince was now convinced that she was a REAL princess and afterwards made her his wife (they don't tell you weather he asked her or not). And so the pea was placed in a cabinet of curiositys.

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This I believe is the artwork from the book I read when I was a child.....

Nielsen's Princess and the Pea 2

Or it could be this one because it does seem strangly familiar. It couldn't be both because the styles are so distinclty diferent.....

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I don't know what the "singles" has to do with anthing I only know it some kind of depiction fo the Princess and the Pea.

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Selena Gomez as the princess.

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That looks fairly comfortable....accept I wouldn't want to be the one to hear you scream when you fell of onto the floor and then hit your head or somthing else on that little bird cage.

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Oh, bother the pea I'm still tring to decide weather one could get a good nights rest on this particular set up of matresses and such. I'm thinking I would be awake all night thinking I would tumble down at any moment or fall asleep gripping it with all I had.

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Maybe it's not but....I think it looks like Princess and the Pea Wedding Photography.

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A Barbie Princess and the Pea. They don't make many pretty barbies any more but I really like this one. I wonder what year this is? ( And no that dosen't mean I still paly with Barbie dolls, I don't.)

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I take it she's about to climb up to bed but is a bit bewildered??


Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Dreaming of a Fairytale.....

A collection of gorgeous photographs, pretty paintings and long and flowing gowns. :)

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I'm asuming this is suposed to be sleeping beauty but...I don't know where the nest comes in.

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Cinderella ariving at the Ball! ( Still got both of those slippers! Ever thought of how uncomfortable a glass slipper would be? This one dosen't look like glass though. Imagine dancing in glass....better not land on 'em too hard. Ouch!

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Gorgeous!!
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Um...I think this is in Ireland somewhere.

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Obviously this isn't real...but it is pretty.

Perfectly Dreamy Fairytale-ish Photography



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I would so love to be there.....I think...but I don't know where "there" is.
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tiara Sotheby’s To Hold Jewelry Auction In Geneva


A crown...excuse me, OR a tiara.

 

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A Friesian...I WILL have me one someday!


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Taylor Swift in her "Love Story" music video (that I looove).
The song in my opinion is her best. It's so perfectly Fairytale-ish and the video is so dreamy!

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Private castle in Tennessee where Taylor Swift's "Love Story" video was filmed and where they hold a Renaissance festival every year (that would be so cool).                   
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Not exactly sure how they did ths but I love it. I wish I could make the picture bigger.

Friday, October 21, 2011

Medieval Gown

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Saw this on Pintrest.com today....I have no clue weather or not it works. but I seriously love the idea. Maybe I'll have the spare time and the money to waste on it one day. lol I wish I could wear medieval dresses.....sorry, I just think there gorgeous!

Saturday, October 8, 2011

Keep Calm and Go to Narnia; The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe

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~Concept Art~

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~Map Of Narnia~
Once upon a time long before the films me and my sister (when we were much younger) played narnia on ocasion. We drew up a map and designated spots for places like Lantern Waste, Dancing Lawn, and I think even Cair Paravel....I hope we still have the map my sister drew it up on.
Somtimes without the maps or even with them there was always some disagreement as to weather this landmark should be here or there. Such is the case when one has an imaginary house and people refuse to walk in the "door" like ordinary people and insist upon walking through the "walls".
However we never had an argument about who was to be what caracter. You see our too neighbors were boys. The parts fit us perfectly. I played Lucy. My sister was of course Susan, the oldest boy was Peter and the younger Edmund. Now our "Edmund" was not mean, niether did he tend to have an attitude but he was most like him in the sense that he was much more apt to get himself into trouble than the odler one. He was the only one that possibly disliked his caracter.


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The Pevensie Children

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The horrified looks of the Pevensie children.

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Arival at the camp.

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For those of you who don't know already, the girl who plays Queen Lucy at the end of the film is Georgie Henleys older sister Racheal Henley.

P.s. Many thanks to my new followers!! I'll try to folow ya'll back, but I do always have the hardest time finding the 'follow' button on other peoples blogs. lol