Candy, Queen of the Fairy's-finished!

Growing up in the Elven village, Conrad knew that something just wasn't quite right in his life. He longed to be somewhere else, to be someone else.

One day, to escape Conrad visited the realm of the faeries. He sat down in the candy forest and began to weep, melting gumdrop mushroom with his tears.

Jennifer, a human also visiting the faeries, stumbled upon the crying Conrad. "What's wrong?" she asked.

"I don't feel I belong with the elves. I don't think I am who I'm meant to be. There's a very different person inside me wanting to come out, and I don't know how to make that happen!" replied Conrad.

Jennifer looked at Conrad and smiled. "Tell me about all about it," she said, "and I'll see if I can help".

Jennifer listened to Conrad's hope and fears and dreams, then she helped, as best she could.

No one sees Conrad any more, but I suspect he's happy and living his dreams to their fullest! The End.

This is the faerie I spotted on a walk through the candy forest.

Oh, she's a lollipop faerie! Cute pigtails with green button elastics, jewelery, fun skirt, celo wings and all wrapped up in a bow. She has a large lollipop wand. She tells me that it is because she is a Queen. Queen Candy. Fairy Queen of the Candy Forest. (She also insists that I spell fairy with a Y and not an IE to emphasise the difference between her and the other faerie queens.) I'm pleased to make her acquaintance, but I feel we have met before. There is something familiar about her. Recognition in her eyes? Wait, where have I seen that tattoo on her arm before...?

Dude, Looks Like a Fairy!

If your fairy looks like an elf in drag, do you still send it to the art show? Well, the Challenge piece is due this month and I don't have time for plan B, so YES I guess you do send it. Candy has polymer clay limbs with stuffed cloth body and stands 11" tall. She was supposed to be fun and sweet and playful. Instead, she's sort of scary, but good for a laugh. Think I'll stick to cloth dolls from now on. Ya, what else is there to say? Guess there's still the possibility that I might not send her. Sorry ITK people and anyone who might have to witness her in person-I tried to make something nice!

To give her credit, she doesn't look so bad from the back view. Oh well, I guess that doesn't count. Anyhow, I have just a few more details to add. She still needs a skirt to cover that puffy crinoline. Have to do something to the shirt too, don't know what at this point. It's very black and boring the way it is though. I have a ribbon to tie around her waist and the wings have to be attached to her back too, because yes, she's a he's a fairy!

I've resigned myself to this being a cross dressing fairy, but I did try to make her look more feminine. I don't know just why she looks so masculine, maybe the chin? Boobs didn't help....