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A Story that was Secret

Last November I wrote a novel during for something called national Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). I wrote about a girl named Missy Lonar who fell into the land of fairies by accident and fought with them for their freedom. Now, some years later she is traveling back to find the land she loves. That is what I will write about this November. Here is a part of Missy's story, it was once secret, unknown to man kind.

The second half of

Chapter 4

Missy fluttered her new wings gingerly before following Bellsi with the pots of seeds. Bellsi turned around to wait for Missy to catch up with her.

"We shouldn't have been out for the whole day, just think what my husband will say! I will have to tell him our daughter was kidnapped by.... By...." Bellsi's face contorted with a mixture of anger and sorrow. Her voice was tight as she spoke.

"Oh that Dibamy! She won't get away with running my land and kidnapping Antonetta."

Missy stayed silent not knowing what to say. She was not very familiar with this Dibamy lady, but what she had heard so far made her seem utterly selfish and dark. Missy watched Bellsi as she thought. Bellsi didn't know what to do, she was always there for her children but now, when Antonetta needs her most, she can't do a thing.

Suddenly the sunshine faded, breaking Missy's thoughts. She stopped flying and looked upon the greatest sight she had ever seen. Standing taller than the rest of the forest, a tree the size of mount Everest blocked the view of the whole sky. Missy felt limp at the sight and fell to the ground softly. Bellsi chuckled when she looked at Missy's face.

"Welcome to my home."

Missy didn't even hear Bellsi. All she could do was gape at the tree, if it could be called that. If there had been clouds she wouldn't be able to see the top. When she looked closer she saw that it was filled with houses and buildings. The massive trunk was filled with windows and parts of buildings stuck out in different places. The branches were alive with fairies flying around their home. a large part of the village was suspended from a large branch by ropes.

Then it hit her. She was looking at something no other human had ever seen. She was experiencing something completely new to man kind. She smiled and let a laugh of excitement come out of her. Bellsi took her hand and they flew up into the branches together, to join the other fairies in their home. A place hidden to the world of humans, only the most imaginative will ever find it.

Fair Hair, Hairy Fairy

All Fairies have delicate hair, it is always a fancy thing to discus. Man fairies of course don't ever do much with their hair, but the lady fairies spend hours every day doing up each others hair. DorOthian ladies even host hair balls ( I know that sounds funny) where the whole ball is spent talking about hair styles and fads.
Now like I said, fairy hair is a delicate matter. I don't want to over do it. Half of a lady fairy's mind is always thinking about her hair and the other half is always thinking about her dress. With a small portion reserved for thinking about everything else in the world.
If a fairies hair is so important, then it must be very beautiful. Well these are some favorite styles of DorOthians:

Style 1: perm curls

Hair is wound around hot rocks and let sit. When cool, hair is unwound and curly

Worn with half bonnet

Style 2: Half bun with waves

Half the hair is piled on top of the head and held with flower stems while the other half is loosely curled with hot rocks and let drape over shoulders

Style 3: Crownlet cap

Crownlet cap is placed on head and hair is carefully wound around it, then a lace bonnet is placed over that.

New styles to enter the world of fairies

Here are some new styles for Darrites, Pedonians and DorOthians:

Darrite man with a roman style tunic and half cape.

Pedonian girl wearing a lily died pink over a blue skirt.

A young apprentice to the king's court of DorOthea.

A lady of Darr wearing a plain day dress.

A wool plant farmer's smock and breeches from Pedonia.

A rich ballerina from Pedonia.

Oh, boy do I have a lot to say this time

My goodness, a lot can happen in a short time. I have been working on a "Scrapbook" of sorts called Fairy Fashion, (of course) and I am almost done with it. I have put all my Fairy drawings together with my fairy ideas and made them into a book.

Almost all my drawings were not colored, and I wanted them to be, so I copied all my drawings and colored the copies multiple times to find the perfect color scheme for each one.
Then I scanned in all the good coloring jobs and adjusted each one's size on the computer and printed them out again. I cropped them and that was the basic finish for the drawing part of Fairy Fashion.

Then came the "made up knowledge" part of the scrapbook. I have to admit that creating a whole style of clothing and a bunch of strange lands for fairies had some challenges, but it took about four years to come up with it. I made it in the style of a nature journal and even have sample scraps of fabric from fairy clothes in it.

I am going to enter it into our county fair through 4-H in the imagination category so maybe this project is going to really be worth all the effort. Maybe soon I will post some pictures of it to my blog.

Fairy Tunics

As I said, the Darr fairies live in the desert in one huge city. When they leave the city they all must were hooded cloaks and thick tunics or else they would be covered in sand. But the fairies of Darr now wear tunics indoors too, with fancy designs on them. Why do they wear tunics while inside their homes? because the style of tunics for Darrs has evolved into a fashionable item of clothing not just protection from blowing sand.

Darrs wear long tunics to cover their feet, which are looked upon as the dirtiest part of the body. The indoor tunic for lady Darrs reaches just below the knee but a long skirted dress is always worn underneath. The designs that are embroidered on the hems of such tunics vary. If it is a tunic that is going to be worn while visiting friends, it will be more fancy than a home tunic but not as fancy as the tunics worn to balls and parties.

Here is an average tunic and gown for a grown fairy lady of Darr. The dress underneath is very similar to the young lady's dress of Darr that I have already posted.

Pedonian Fairies

Now you might be thinking, " What kind of name is Pedonian for a fairy?" So I'll tell you. Pedonians live in a neighboring country to DorOthea called Pedonia. The reason it is called that is because The Pedonians use their feet more that their wings. The DorOthians think this to be ridiculous so they call them Foot Fairies, which is a rather derogatory name for them.

Pedonians are more sensible than the DorOthians though. They think things through before charging ahead. The Pedonians are also more protective about their home than the DorOthians are. They have a good sized and well trained army, but never really go out to war much. The DorOthians keep to themselves and for the most part leave the Pedonians alone.

Also the Pedonians style of clothing is very different from the DorOthians and Darrs. The lady Pedonians wear short skirts and dresses as we do these days because they can't walk in skirts that are twice their height. This also is frowned upon by the DorOthians, Who think it is disgraceful to show how short your legs are.

There are many favorite styles in Pedonia. Children have the most diversity of styles out of all the age groups in Pedonia. Some dresses for girls have points coming off the shoulders and over the sleeves, and boys wear short breeches and stockings like their fathers. Some of the favorite things to wear though are covers for your wings when you are not using them. Covers will often match your outfit in color and style and are different wing shapes too. Here is an example for a young girl's dress and wing covers.

Darr Fairies

There are other lands than just DorOthea that Fairies live in. The desert that borders DorOthea is called the Darr desert. There is a main city, a capital you might say, of Darr that is called Darr too. Most of the Darr fairies live in the city of Darr and fill market places with merchandise. The city of Darr's styles in Building design and architecture can be compared to the style of the middle east.

Not only is the architecture in the Arab style but also most of their clothing style too. When the fairy men of Darr go out to the desert, they wear turbans made of sand cloth. and all the fairy women wear long tunics when going out to the desert. But besides the Arab style for Darr clothing there also is a hint of what we see as the middle ages. lots of the young lady fairies wear dresses comparable to the 1200s in England. This is a good example.

DorOthian Fairies

My favorite fairy is the DorOthian fairy. DorOthian fairies live in DorOthea, a large forest filled with fairy homes and Palaces. Only Kings, Queens, Dukes and Duchesses live in Palaces, all other DorOthian fairies live in tree villages or in their own private tree.

DorOthians have a very distinct style of dress compared to other fairy groups. DorOthians tend to have long flowing dresses and skirts that extend far past their ankles. This style of skirt is very hard to walk in, but that is okay because DorOthian fairies hardly ever walk. They always fly. The fancy dresses are usually the ones that are this long, everyday dresses are only a little past the ankle. like this dress.

This is a good example of a common young fairy girl. She is not wearing the clothes she would wear around the house but more of a fancy party dress. Her dress was sewn by her mother out of spider silk and spun cotton.

DorOthian fairies have moth-like wings that are an off white color, and are about as wide across the shoulders as the fairy is tall. Some fairies have butterfly wings and that is looked upon as very beautiful, but rare.

Stars Above

Fairies are like stars. They shine with love and Dance with joy. Their styles of dress are the same as their feelings. Sometimes they are quiet and soft, and sometimes they are bursting with happiness and energy.

I hope to catch some glimpses of them while working on my blog so that I can show you their wonderful styles. I already have lots of their dresses drawn out on paper, but it would be so much nicer to see one in person. Their styles in dress are fantastic! Skirts made out of Daisy petals sewn together with silk, and gowns made of lilies. Tiny designs embroidered on hems of dresses and bonnets made of satin.

I have tried to draw these Fairies but I can not do as good as the real thing.