People keep asking, “What are you working on lately?” I have to say that this summer I’m doing everything but making art. I would love to be stitching away in my air-conditioned studio, but there are too many time-sensitive administrative and promotional tasks to take care of and I’ve been traveling alot. It all has to do with my book and touring art show. And it’s summer, so there’s the garden to tend, friends to entertain and on nice days we go boating. So, I’m planning on getting back to serious art-making in September.
On a recent morning, I saw two mushrooms growing side by side, along my driveway. The next day, I finally was able to take their picture, and they had grown twice their size.
I found a boy and a girl fairy from my bag of wee folk and positioned them on the stools.
One thing I’ve learned to do is take photographs early in the morning, when the light is low. The golden glow of dusk works, too.
The gentle morning light doesn’t create harsh shadows and it’s aimed from the side, not above, like the during mid-day.
This little girl fairy looks like she spilled a chocolate ice cream cone on her dress. There’s some kind of brown stain, but I didn’t wash it off because I was too much in a hurry to get her picture taken before the sun rose any higher and the mushroom grew any bigger!
SALLEY MAVOR 
Those are such sweet photos!!! Reminds me of a book I loved when I was a little girl!! 🙂
I also think I worked in dr’s offices a little too long as the title of this post confused me at first!! stools took me in a whole ‘nother direction!!! 😉
Oh, yes, I see what you mean!
Sweet fairies. Great photographs in the nice morning light.
Those darling fairies better jump down quick as fast as the mushrooms are growing, oh well you can always felt a nice ladder for them!
Magical photos in every way!
Loved seeing this latest post…so very special with the Wee Folks gathering around the toadstools. These images are another example of your amazing eye and your sensitivity to nature. Thanks for capturing these lovely moments and for sharing them with us all! Pam
No more comfortable spot in all of the enchanted wood! You make it look real!
Wonderful photos and the dolls are as lovely as ever. Thank you for the tip on photographing my dolls outside.
Salley, that’s a good tip about taking photos.The photos are charming. Your Wee Folk book sits on my table all the time. I love your art!!
The fact these little fairies blend so realistically into the real life natural world of the toadstools is why I love your work so much!
They look wonderful sitting on the mushrooms.
I am waiting for a new camera that my BIL is giving me, can’t wait to get it and start practicing.
Debbie
I have this little girl fairy and I just love her…especially her beautiful red hair. I have quite a few of your glorious fairies, but it would be nice to have that little boy, too. They are so adorable sitting on the magical mushrooms.
Oh, what fun to see these sitting on really truly mushrooms!!!!
What enchanting photos Salley, so now we know…there are real fairies living on toadstools, all we need to do is go into the woods at daybreak ;0)
I like thinking your fairy had chocolate ice cream when you weren’t looking 🙂
Oh, these are perfect! What a great setting for your charming fairies.
I love your work, and adored your exhibit in Brattleboro. I’ve made two felt people for my daughter and am planning a felt family portrait for a fall project. My six year-old son loves the felt people, too, and has decided that he and I should devote every weekend to making an entire nation of felt people, and all the homes and schools and shops and skyscrapers and so on they will need for their world. (He’s an idea man, my son.) :o) Thanks for the beauty and inspiration!
Lisa Fulmer shared a bit of your world with us on FB and I just love your work.
If you ever doubted the existence of fairies, this post would be proof positive. I wonder how you got them to sit still long enough to take their pictures.
superbes les dools …. magnifiques ……