Today I was working on one of the stories for the fairy library in my book and I had an interesting thought. The scriptures teach us that what is recorded on earth is also recorded in heaven which means that there are books in heaven with blank pages ready to be filled with our deeds. Therefore, my fairy library is kind of like the library in Heaven.

I am having so much fun with this project. I am writing it so that the fairytale is on the left page and the real story in on the right side. I am also going to paint the illustrations myself. Thanks for the fun; I would have never thought of it!

J: Very nice! You should work that into a story. :) (Oh, and just for the record, the boy isn’t actually me. Or at least he doesn’t have to be — I was imagining him to be a blond kid, myself.) Anyone else up for the challenge? :)

First he will lay an asphalt path the color of gold through a beautiful garden while taking pictures with a magic paint brush that paints fairy photos of flowers and bees and bugs. When he gets to a very fine large rock that resides at the end of the golden path, he will use his magic fairy paint brush, and with a couple magical sweeps of the brush, a fairy library will appear where the rock once stood. At this point he will paint a door that they enter and then paint book shelves and boxes of books that he will help the fairies unpack and put on the shelves that he painted.

When all the work is done, he will have the littlest fairy choose a book for him to read to them. When he opens the book it is full of blank pages like all of the other books on the shelves. He again takes the magic fairy paint brush and with one sweep of the brush, the boy’s daydreams and adventures from the previous day appear on the pages as a fairytale.

He starts to read the story to the fairies who are listening intently wondering if they will be mentioned in the tale. (Here is where you can embellish – think of the movie “The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm)

The story will end with the dawning of the sun. The boy will awake from a deep peaceful sleep, his head resting on a pillow which is the book with the magic picture in it that he had been reading the evening before. He is snuggled in a soft blanket of morning mist cuddling a real live talking baby teddy bear in his arms with natures creatures gathered around him waiting for him to awake and tell them of his dreams… stories of golden paths and magical fairy paint brushes that paint fairy photos and libraries and books full of wonderful things.

The fairies will be clustered in the leaves of the tree with their fingers pressed to their lips and twinkles in their eyes waiting to hear of their knight’s adventures, knowing that there will more fairy tales tonight when again the boy uses his magic fairy paint brush to paint another book telling about the adventures of his day.