52Q Journal Challenge

I decided to try something new this year.

I have never kept a journal and never have learned how to do mixed media or altered art or scrapbooking for that matter... but, after coming across the blog Life=Art I decided to join in her 52Q mini art journal challenge.

Each week she presents a question and we're to create a mini card and answer.
I thought this would be a fun way for me to ease into keeping a journal and to create something simple each week. I encourage you to join in the fun too!

Last weeks question was "Do you believe in fairies?" it got me thinking about one of my most favorite stories ever, The Story of the Soap Boat, out of the book "Stories From A Magic World" published in 1933.

It is the sweetest story of Dickey Byrd who is a wonderful pretender and is visited at night by the tiniest fairy who wants to go for a ride in a boat. Dickey Byrd's real boat is broken but he has a soap boat which really isn't a boat at all, just a cake of soap with a paper sail that he plays with when he takes a bath. (Oh, and the soap boat is pink by the way - gotta love that!) The two of them have a magical adventure on the soap boat. It really is a lovely story. My girls love it too. The illustration of the soap boat was done by Gustaf Tenggren. I could look and this picture and daydream for hours...

and yes, I do believe in fairies. ;o)