Hello my fellow flower fairies! I've been busy in my enchanted garden, growing so many magical, sparkling new flowers (with extra rainbow shimmer!) to keep us happy and bright as the days grow shorter because sometimes you just have to make your own sunshine!
Speaking of making your own sunshine, getting dressed up and wearing all of the brightest colors (and the sparkliest flowers!) helps me so much if I’m feeling a little down…it truly makes my day better! And it somehow makes me find brighter and happier things out in the world too, or maybe I just notice those things more when I’m also wearing a colorful outfit. Either way, when I need a little break from growing magical new blooms, it’s so much fun getting dressed up like a sparkly flower fairy and getting out and about…I highly recommend it whenever you need an extra burst of happiness!
At first, I was so sad when summer ended and autumn arrived, but there is always color and joy (and lots of flowers!) to be found, you just need to venture out and look for it…every time I’ve gone on a flower walk (a walk to find beautiful flowers!) or visited one of my favorite gardens, there have been endless blooms and even new flowers bursting into brilliant color. I’ve been trying to capture all that beautiful color before winter arrives…let me show you all the magical flowers I’ve discovered, I hope they brighten up your day and inspire you to go find all the glorious color too! It’s there if you look for it…
Winter isn’t here yet and this is really the time to soak up all the sunshine and bright blossoms and just celebrate and dance and have fun (like the bees and butterflies are doing among all the gorgeous autumn flowers!). Even the trees are celebrating, getting all dressed up too in gowns of gold and crimson red jewels as the flowers share their last firework bursts of colorful blooms…autumn really is one of the best time for bright colors!
One of my favorite moments was visiting the New York Botanical Gardens early one morning and walking through a glorious garden full of sunflowers, blooming and blossoming and endlessly full of sunshine underneath the blue sky….it felt like being in a fairy wonderland! I think some of the brightest, biggest flowers bloom this time of year so we have something joyful and bright to carry us through the winter…
And then! I kept walking and discovered the most beautiful dahlias…truly some of the brightest, most colorful, wonderful flowers bloom in the autumn when you least expect to see brand new flowers. But there they were, so big and bright and giving me joy for the months ahead…a wonderful reminder that sometimes happiness pops up when you least expect it! And when you need it the most…
And I was so happy to see how my bright flower jewelry matched these blooms! I like to think that it soaked up some extra sparkle, sunshine and flower fairy magic while blossoming with the dahlias…
Dahlias have also been in full bloom at one of my favorite neighborhood gardens, the Jefferson Market Garden, where they’re simply bursting with color and joy even as the days grow cooler. Just look at how beautiful they are!
I’ve also come across some of the most magical flowers in the most unexpected places! One of my favorite moments was finding these beautiful chrysanthemums outside of an office building, it was like a miniature fairyland of rainbow hills! I put on the biggest flower necklace when I got dressed that morning, not for any special reason but just because I felt like being extra sparkly and needed some more color that day because I was feeling a little tired, and I ended up finding the biggest flowers, just like magic…when you wear flowers, you find more flowers ~ I swear!
I came back home to my own enchanted garden and started sketching shimmering new flower jewelry, full of all that color, sunshine and joy to keep us sparkling and bright even during the upcoming cold months! I hope these lovely flower fairies inspire you to shine your own rainbow colors no matter the weather or season or what is going on in the world around you…your true colors are magic and will brighten up your day and everyone around you too!
And then I started growing these magical new rainbow blooms, every petal glistening and sparkling with lots of glitter and rhinestones of course! And then I added even more color and shimmer and rainbow cascades of rhinestones to help remedy this colder season…chilly days just mean you need extra sparkle and joy! If you look closely, you can see that there are so many rainbow rhinestone details…
These flowers have been blooming and blooming, even through lots of stormy days, and these new blooms are making me so happy as I create them, I hope they make you happy too ~ grey days simply mean that rainbows are ahead! After each new flower blossoms with beautiful petals of shimmering glitter, it’s time to add even more rhinestones for lots of color and joy…
And soon these magical flowers will be blossoming upon beautiful chains of silver, gold, crystals, gemstones and pearls so you may pick and wear each one…and a very magical flower crown might be blooming soon too! In the meantime, I hope these flowers keep you happy, sparkling and bright even as the days grow colder, and remind you to always share your own magical colors because you’re the most vibrant flower!