Showing posts with label Festival of the Season. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Festival of the Season. Show all posts

Thursday, December 6, 2012

Festival of the Season 2012

Ta-da!
Festival of the Season was a stellar success!
The e'en went so fast it was a blur!
Our numbers were beyond excellent and I couldn't be any happier with the way it all turned out!
Here are some pics of the magical night!

The Magic of the Season

The Sugar Plum Fairy

The Spirit of Christmas & Sondra of BELLS & MOTLEY lead the Yule dance!

Dance of the Vintage Lace!

Making Music!

'Tis the Season! Sondra & John Bromka of BELLS & MOTLEY

Let the Yule Fires burn!

Making music with Fox!

Fox & Santa and Darla with what we hope is her Baby Bump!

Fox, Farmer & Darla

These are some good marshmallows!

The Magic that is Santa....



I love my magical Yule Goat.....
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And to all, a Good Night.......


  • So the shortest day came, and the year died,
    And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world
    Came people singing, dancing,
    To drive the dark away.
    They lighted candles in the winter trees;
    They hung their homes with evergreen;
    They burned beseeching fires all night long
    To keep the year alive,
    And when the new year’s sunshine blazed awake
    They shouted, reveling.
    Through all the frosty ages you can hear them
    Echoing behind us — Listen!!
    All the long echoes sing the same delight,
    This shortest day,
    As promise wakens in the sleeping land:
    They carol, fest, give thanks,
    And dearly love their friends,
    And hope for peace.
    And so do we, here, now,
    This year and every year.
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Sunday, December 2, 2012

Live by the Garb....Die by the Garb....

collar (front)

HUZZAH!  HURRAH!
The 2013 FESTIVAL of the SEASONS garb is complete!

Here's my best attempt at display for the moment.
I promise pics after the event.

I cannot WAIT to put this on and twirl...twirl....twirl.........

I do so love garb!
And even more so...vintage lace!

I wonder what it is in my make-up that makes me feel so much more comfortable in garb than in
any other thing I might wear..........
Something to ponder.......

But in the meantime.....ONE more day to go before Festival time!

xoxoxo
Mimi, who is a garbite!


collar (back)


Saturday, November 24, 2012

The Sugar Plum Goat Can Fly.....!

For those of you keeping up on the upcoming
FESTIVAL of the SEASON
that I am coordinating 
and of course
THE SUGAR PLUM GOAT
the wings are done!
Yay!

Now, on to the dress!




Wednesday, November 21, 2012

The Sugar Plum Fairy Will Be Here Soon

Darla's Sugar Plum Fairy crown


Well, it's almost that time of year!
Time for the Yule Tree Lighting!
One of my favorite events that I coordinate for work.
(Oh, who am I kidding?  They are ALL my favorite!  I LOVE event coordinating!)
;)

Seems funny that just a year ago I was scrambling to finish the
and prepare for Darla's Grand Presentation at the Yule event!

Time flies.

And I've made so many, many wonderful goatie friends then and since!

This year, the event will be called
FESTIVAL of the SEASON
and will will focus on as many seasonal celebrations as possible!

One aspect that I'm really looking forward to is the outdoor barnyard animal display.
I am setting up a barn-like tent, complete with empty manger and all our baby animals.
There,  (our version of) the story THE NIGHT THE ANIMALS TALKED will be told by
a goat herder who was allowed to experience the telling of the coming Miracle.

In addition, we will have a Pioneer Family Christmas, a Hanukkah display with stories, gelt and beeswax candles, a make and take Yule log craft for the nipperkins, Darla's Romanian Dancing Capra tradition, historical music, Christmas jazz, a wandering puppeteer storyteller and of course....Santa!

We have invited the community to set up displays of their seasonal celebrations and welcome one and all, each display joining with the next to create a unified Spirit.
It is, after all, the season of Peace on Earth...Good will toward men.

I am no more offended by the way a person celebrates this magical season than I would be over the declaration of his favorite color or choice of socks that day.
I do not believe there is only one right way.
I do not believe that silencing our good wishes to one another is a worthy thing.
I believe, with all my heart, that acceptance of one another is the key to Peace.

Oh, and the Sugar Plum Fairy?
Well, Darla will be appearing in her capra blanket for storytelling......but she DID need something NEW now, didn't she?  ;)

So, off I go to work on those wings and that sugar plum dress!

'Tis the Season!
xox
with love,
Mimi

New Baby Hunter will be appearing in THE NIGHT THE ANIMALS TALKED