Beautiful Fairy Photos

[Kemal Allan]

Ipersonally think that people today are obsessed with the ephemeral beauty of youth, a beauty that is associated with physical attraction of the opposite sex and reproduction. I think we need to learn to see beauty in a different way.

Thank you so so much, Eliza! I subscribe to the online version of the Faerie Magazine, and when I saw these photos I was so mesmerized I had to share! My granny is 80 and I soooo wish she could see how beautiful she is in my eyes. ???

I looked at many family albums in my childhood, too, asking my mom about all the people in the photos. I had the opportunity to read beautiful fairy tales with even more beautiful illustrations. I also delighted in fantasy movies.

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All the pictures in this post are copyrighted to Anna Fantazj. Their reproduction, even in part, is forbidden without the explicit approval of the rightful owners.

This stunning Real Photo Postcard shows a lady dressed up in a Fairy Costume complete with huge Butterfly wings and a long floral garland. Such a fancy costume she has one. The card is European and dates back to 1908.

This is The Modern Household Fairy! It is an antique advertisement for Sapolio soap. She is simply beautiful with her gorgeous wings and the little star on her head. This is long been one of my most favorite images in my collection. So pretty!

This is an Exquisite Vintage Colorful Fairy Picture with Rainbow Wings! In this image, a beautiful fairy dressed in a green gown covered with blue flowers looks into a hand mirror. Her exquisite wings are a flurry of amazing rainbow colors. She wears a crown on her bright red hair and colorful jewelry. Two beautiful birds fly around her. It would make a lovely invitation to a dress up party.

Next we have a lovely Fairy Image from a Sewing Machine advertising card. She is wearing a golden Gown, with matching Crown. She has thin Dragonfly type wings and she is holding, what looks to be reins, that are attached to the Butterfly below here. He appears to be pulling her through the air. Charming!

This is a beautiful blue fairy picture. She has her wings open, and she is wearing a hat with a jewel in front and a long feather coming out of it. She is holding a wand, and is wearing a long blue outfit with draped sleeves, while pulling open her canopy where she sleeps. It looks like quite a magical place to sleep!

This is a really fun antique trade card. This one features a tiny Fairy riding on a Colorful Butterfly! She has quite a mischievous grin on her face as if she is up to something! I love the bold colors on this graphic.

This is a darling old Advertisement for ladies Powder that was made in Paris showing cute little Fairies inspecting the powder! A delicate Floral Frame surrounding French Typography runs along the bottom. There are two versions: the original and the second one that has the text removed, so that you could use this as a label and write what you like inside of the Frame.

As it happens, I ended up doing this walking tour twice. The first time, on a late sunny afternoon, which turned out not to be a good idea, as it yielded way too much contrast between golden light and strong shadows for some of the houses to really show up in the images. So I waited for a foggy morning and went around again. I followed the map in both cases, but I also allowed myself to get detoured whenever I saw other pretty buildings my camera itched to photograph. The tour you will see is a blend of both, and includes the detours. I did not photograph all the buildings on the list. Even if historical, if they were not pretty, or were very difficult to photograph because of obstructions in front, I just skipped them. But the skipped ones are very few.

I have divided the images into two posts because there are so many, and I did not want to dilute the pleasure of the experience. So take your time and enjoy part one. Then you can move onto part 2, the link to which you will find at the bottom of this article.

The very Tudor cottage in the image below is located just behind Obers on the way up to Hansel & Gretel. By the way, all these are private properties, so I walked up as close as possible, but still photographed what I could from the street.

Continuing down Junipero from The Forge on the way to my next historic building, I saw this other, very pretty building. Even when they are not specifically whimsical and fairy-tale like, buildings in Carmel still retain a lot of charm. This particular one houses one of the offices of Alain Pinel Realtors.

Getting back on track, we arrive at historic building nr. 21: the Fire Station, located on 6th Street between Mission and San Carlos. The Fire Station was built in 1937 using Carmel stone, and remains an active fire station today. Carmel stone, by the way, has seen a resurgence in popularity, and has been used in many renovations and new buildings around Carmel in recent years. You will notice it by and by.

Below: a pretty, hispanic-style building on the corner between Lincoln and 6th. On the next block going back towards Ocean, there is historic building nr. 2, which is the Harrison Memorial Library. Somehow, I got turned around and distracted by something else, and did not photograph that one.

In an attempt to get myself back on tour track, I headed towards Ocean in search of historic building nr. 22, the Carmel Drug Store, which had been built in 1907, so certainly one of the oldest buildings in town. However, that was one of the buildings that was very difficult to photograph, even with a wide angle, because of trees, bushes and other paraphernalia in front of it. So I photographed this pretty one in the image above which was just a few steps away.

The other building I could not photograph for similar reasons was nr. 23, aka Carmel Forecast (whatever that is), which was built in 1939 as the Bank of Carmel and currently features a bas-relief by well-known artist Paul Whitman. If I should get a chance to photograph this in the fall, I will insert the image here.

A little further up the street is historic building nr. 25, the Carmel Art Association Gallery. As you can see I photographed this building on that sunny afternoon, and I had to work quite a bit in photoshop to bring balance to light and shadow so you could see the building. Now you know why I re-walked the tour on a foggy morning.

I did not go inside the gallery. I actually have not been in any of the many and wonderful art galleries in Carmel, yet. I was out and about taking photos of historic buildings, and I could not afford the extended de-tour time I would need and want in an art gallery. I look forward to exploring all art galleries when I return in the fall. I will share about them with you, of course.

The historic one was just a little further down and across, and would have been the official historic tour starting point. Nr. 1 on the tour is First Murphy House, now the seat of the Carmel Heritage Society. It was built in 1902 by Michael J. Murphy when he was only seventeen-years old, and it was the first of more than three-hundred houses and many commercial buildings he would build in Carmel-by-the-Sea. You can see it in the images below.

Right next to the Murphy House, on the corner of Lincoln and 6th, is one of the most beautiful bronze sculptures I have ever seen: The Valentine, by artist George Wayne Lundeen. I had seen photos of it, and wondered where it was located. Carmel is not that big, so I knew I would find it eventually, but it was still an exciting surprise when I saw it. There is a copy of this same sculpture in Decatur, Ga, in front of the old court house.

Back on Ocean Avenue, I was looking for the famous Pine Inn. Ass I approached my attention was caught by this pretty courtyard in the image above. It turned out it is part of Pine Inn, and is the entry for a Il Fornaio restaurant, which is attached to the inn.

City Hall is located on Monte Verde, and is definitely a historic building, nr. 5 on the list. It was originally a church, All Saints Church. The story is that in 1912, Carmel developer Frank Devendorf donated the lot to the Episcopalians, who had been holding services at the Forest Theater. The Forest Theatre (historic building nr. 18) is an outdoor theatre, and one I was unable to photograph, so I will get to it in the fall.

Not far from that is this pretty cottage you see below, a private residence. Oh how I wish they would hide those ugly trash bins somewhere! And not just the owners of this cottage, but people in general, as I find trash bins are visible more often than I care to see them, and spoil the view and many a photograph.

Here we conclude part one of this historic tour and detour of the beautiful cottages and buildings of Carmel. I hope you have enjoyed it, and I am wondering two things: one, which is your favorite cottage or building showcased here; and two, would you live in one of those fairy-tale cottages that Comstock built?

I was asked by Balloon Time to create a party for $100 for a party challenge and this fairy party is what I came up with. If my party gets enough votes, Operation Shower the charity I chose will receive $5000. Their mission is to provide joyful baby showers for military families to ease the stresses of deployment. I appreciate the sacrifices made on our behalf by the nations military and their families (especially expectant wives!).

Inflate your balloons with air and keep them small sizes. I inflated the balloons at several different sizes. There is no helium used for this arch. A few days before the party, I inflated the balloons and kept them in large lawn-sized trash bags. Do not keep the balloons in the garage or hot environment. They will deflate more readily then a normal room environment and not look the best. Heat and balloons do not mix.

I tied the balloons together at the knots in sets of 3 with string and then tied them to the arch as a set. Tie them tight so the balloons will sit well together. Remember to inflate the balloons much smaller then you would normally inflate them.

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