It does seam like the morning is the best time for me to discover fairies. This morning I think  I saw the fairy, who dropped a dress on my garden path two days ago.

I were just going to get my mail in the mailbox when my eyes caught a glimpse of something moving behind one of the trees in front of our house. I went for my digital camera, and my sketch book. When I returned, I  tip toed around the tree as quiet as I could to get a better look of the fairy.

The fairy was doing her laundry in a tiny wooden barrel. It looked like she was singing, but I couldn't hear her voice. I quickly pulled my digital camera out, but the batteries were low, so I had to be fast, and do a sketch. I sat down on a stone, and started to draw. I were so concentrated on my drawing, that I nearly had an heart attack when I saw the little fairy had come very close to me. She was sitting on the edge of my sketchbook. I could see that this fairy had a button on her throat just like the fairy I saw last week. She pushed it, I sensed the sweet smell of parfume, and I could hear her voice. She said  " I am not supposed to talk to you, but I like your drawing, so please carry one, and finished  it!" I could feel my hands shaking when I grabbed my pencil to finish the drawing; this is the closest I have ever been to a real fairy. I asked her what her name is, and told her that my name is Marianne. I am not sure if I heard right, but her name sounded something like Gry.

She sat there for a few minutes, and then she spread her wings and set of. She grabbed the barrel on her way, but dropped one of the things she had been washing. I pointed at the dress, but she had despaired.

 The hole incident only lasted a few minutes, but I felt tiered, and in need of a cup of coffee. When I had my breakfast I went back to see if she had come back for the dress, but the dress was still lying under the tree, so I took a photo of the dress to be able to show it to my daughter, who lives in Copenhagen. I have no idea how the fairies can keep their cloth together, there are no stitches or any kind of glue. As fare as I can see, it must be some kind of magic that holds it together. I left the dress but a little later the wind took it into the sky.

I have been doing some garden work to day and look what I found! It must be one of the fairies who dropped her laundry.

I just wanted to tell that I got a new shop on http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5492881 . I am selling some of my early art works because I  need room for my new art.

I also wanted to share this rainbow with you it was right out side my window yesterday. This month I have seen a rainbow at the same spot 5 times . Perhaps I am ment to paint it, or go and chase the treasure at the end of it? Or could it have something to do with the fairies I saw this week?

I have been studying botanical drawing and painting the last 6 moths at London Art College. It's not that I know very much about scientific botanic, but I had ideas in my head, about fairy art I wanted to create, but I just couldn't get it down on paper, so I decide to take the difficult way, and study botanical illustration.

Right now I am working on my last assignment. Looking back I can see how much I have improved my drawing and painting skills. I have been surprised how much there are to paint, and draw right outside my house, I don't need a vacation to a more exotic place, I just step out side into my garden with my sketchbook, and pencils, and find a nice warm corner where I can sit and draw. There is nothing like the feel of Grass Between Your Toes, and the sound of the summer breeze playing in the trees.

Lately I got my self a new habit, that I call "My every day adventure". I simply pick out a place near by my house, that I never have seen. Some times it's in my own garden. I might climb a tree to see the view from up there, or I find a street I never have seen.