Project # 43 - Cecily's Secret Book of Fairies Begins

This is a continuing story - please see my last post for the first part

*Warning: vintage images of nudity in this post*

As Cecily sat beneath her favourite willow tree, she opened the book she had stolen from the library and noticed the title page, which said: "Lady Audley's Secret". How perfect! she thought. And she carefully crossed out the 'Lady' and 'Audley's', and neatly wrote in 'Cecily's' and 'Book of Fairies' under the word 'Secret'. Now the title page read: "Cecily's Secret Book of Fairies".

It's off to a good start, Cecily thought as she began to doodle and draw and write down her observations. She pulled a picture of herself out of her pocket (which she had also stolen from the library as it was tucked away in the drawer of her father's desk) and glued it onto the first page.

Just then Titania happened along with a rather sullen looking companion. "Hullo!" Cecily said, "Who is your friend?"

"This is Crabapple", Titania replied. "She is annoyed because Peasblossom splashed her wings with dew and they are feeling rather sodden."

"Oh dear." Cecily couldn't help but smile. 

Crabapple wasn't the prettiest fairy Cecily had ever seen, and the sour expression didn't help either, but somehow Cecily was charmed by Crabapple's annoyance and her lovely purple wings which were quickly drying out in the sun.

Cecily decided that Crabapple would be the first fairy she would write about in her book, and so she spent the rest of the afternoon drawing and writing about what she had seen. Crabapple was rather a tall fairy, so Cecily tucked her likeness inside the book and made her image into a pop up, which could be made to stand up on its own at any time. She created a tab that said: "pull here to see a fairy".

And there was the image of Crabapple, complete with sodden wings.

After adding a bit of this and that, Cecily's first 2 pages of her fairy book were complete. She smiled - they looked lovely. She vowed she would go to the garden again the next day, and see what she could see.

To be continued....