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.