I kept this blog and maintained listings of fairy tale related events, performances and exhibitions from July 2009 until January 2011, when I got the urge for a change and started blogging atGathering Scrapsinstead. I'm very grateful to all the people who read, commented and contributed to the cupboard, and I hope that if people still stumble here from time to time they find something useful to take away.
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Well, at the end of From the Beast to the Blonde (1995, Vintage), Marina Warner talks of the store of fairy tales as 'that blue chamber where stories lie waiting to be rediscovered'—but I can't help but imagine it as a big old cupboard—and she then says the store 'offers magical metamorphoses to the one who opens the door, who passes on what was found there, and to those who hear what the storyteller brings.'
The Fairy Tale Cupboard aims to be a little corner in which to gather together all the trailing odds and ends of shifting tales and their trinkets and treasure that float and dangle and sparkle across the web.
Seven
In a list of top UK Children's Literature Blogs this is number seven, which is a bit exciting, especially as seven is a recurring number in fairy tales. Click on Rackham's Ravens for the list.
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Gorgeous, Claire--as always, truly first rate. I'll link to it on livejournal.
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ReplyDeleteamazing job, Missy! xxx
ReplyDelete(I'm slow, but the link is up now--sorry for the delay!
ReplyDeleteExcellent trailer - magically done.
ReplyDeleteThanks all :-) x
ReplyDeleteLooks fab! Will do a post!
ReplyDeleteKate
how wonderful!
ReplyDeletesending my greatings from my Chest of Fairy Tales(http://www.vusova.etsy.com) to your cupboard. It was great to find your blog!
Thanks Kate. And greetings to you too Vita, your etsy shop looks lovely!
ReplyDeleteA magical trailer. I loved it. My half-Lakota, half-Irish mother entralled me with her made-up tales born of both her cultures.
ReplyDeleteI wrote my Native American/Celtic fable, THE BEAR WITH TWO SHADOWS, in her honor. One day I will get that volume published.
I will post you on my blog link.
Bravo on keeping the magic alive, Roland
Thank you Roland!
ReplyDeleteJust found you! Love fairy tales. Sounds like my kind of blog. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping by Janet.
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