I had wanted to make little butterfly fairy costumes for the Avery twins so they could go out and about with the Grandma Phairby. So, last month I started on the wings, forming them out of wire, and then gluing on white cotton with Gemtack glue. I didn't feel like painting all the fine details of monarch butterfly wings, so I researched other 'orange butterflies' so the kids would still be the same colour as their Grandma. I settled on the Tawny Emperor Butterfly. Then I started painting the wings.... It took forever since both sides of the wings needed to be painted, whic ..read more

It was World Puppetry Day, and the royal children were playing with their knight puppets with their young dragon friends. Most of the little dragons were afraid of the big scary knight puppets.... ...except for Scorch, who took matters into his own hands ..read more

We hadn't had a decent snowfall all winter. Every time there was a 'storm' in the forecast, it would start in the evening after dark, and it would look gorgeous outside when we went to bed. But in the night it would turn to rain, and in the morning it would be a totally washed out mess. So, on March 22nd another storm was forecast, and it was supposed to start in the morning for a change, and it did. Big soft flakes started falling at dawn, and actually stayed on the ground. We were expecting several centimetres before it was over, and it looked like the perfect snowfall for some doll photos ..read more

Matias was happy to be home. He had missed his family, and they him.  ..read more

Returning home after another gruelling winter campaign....  Matias meets Saphira also on her way home ..read more

In late March we had the only major snowfall of the entire winter. I had wanted to take photos of Matias in the snow, so we headed out to the Ruins Garden in the storm, before the snow would get too deep and out of scale. It's always a challenge taking photos when it's actually snowing, since the falling snow can cause streaks across the subject's face, but I was lucky and most of my photos were perfect. In fact they turned out to be some of my favourite photos of him ..read more

Every day I see such beautiful AI photos online featuring dragons, that they've inspired me to take more photos with my own dragons. No story, just a few photos to inspire the viewer's imagination ..read more

We didn't get much snow this past winter, so when a late spring storm a few weeks ago dumped several inches of wet snow, the kids eagerly went out to build a snowman ..read more

First, some photos taken down at the beach while taking the eclipse photos. I'm getting too old and stiff to be getting down on the ground - unless absolutely necessary - so we brought along our projector stand to pose the dolls on. Then I sprinkled some of the fine beach gravel to hide the stand in the photos... Then there was a series of several Special Days photos taken in small set-ups at one end of the dining room table.  Like the sleeping babies in their bed, for World Sleep Day... I was in the process of taking several completely different scenes, so there was qui ..read more

A few days later, after another significant spring snowfall last month, Winston took the kids outside to make a snowman ..read more