Downtime in the Fairy Room

As I settle into my new routine, which was driven by the start of my career reboot as director of marketing & community engagement and outreach — not only is that a mouthful, it creates the need for magnifying glasses to read my business card — I discovered something awesome about Fridays.

Mother Nature by my
awesome mom, Ella Schramm

Hubby typically rolls in about an hour and 45 minutes after I'm done with work for the week. That means, to start my weekend, I have a solid hour and a half of downtime before he arrives home.

During that hour, I can write, read or even take a nap. And for those preciously important activities, I have the perfect venue — my fairy room. 

The room is actually a sunroom, or for my northern relatives a three-season room, over which Hubby gave me complete decorative control. 

My inspiration comes from one of my mother's amazing cloth dolls. My mom, for those who don't know, is an amazing artist who created many beautiful cloth dolls that adorn not only our house, but those of relatives and friends who were fortunate enough to receive such dolls as gifts over the years. 

But I digress. 

My mom's Mother Nature doll was already in the sunroom. Mother Nature seemed to want to live in an enchanted forest. And in that forest, she longed for the companionship of fairies, butterflies and other mystical woodland creatures. 

Or maybe that was me channeling my needs through a doll.

Either way, I have begun my collection of fairies. They all reside in the sunroom with various enchanted forest and fairy garden accessories. Once I began collecting items for the room, I had a place for the love tree paintings that Hubby and I created at The Preppy Possum. 

And this is the warm, inspirational, relatively quiet place to which I retreat at the end of a productive week. It's where I can recap experiences, like visiting local farm where sheep are herded by beautiful Border Collies. 




Or where I can get lost in a book. Or write. 

I absolutely love my new job. And I adore walking home on a Friday afternoon and chillaxing amongst the mystical matriarchs of my sunroom.

Micki Bare, mother of three, wife, daughter & marketing director is the author of Thurston T. Turtle children's books and an aspiring novelist. 

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