Voyager Classics

Add a dash of magic to your home accents with a fairy figurine. Who can resist a fairy’s beautiful wings and playful attitude. If you want a touch of whimsy and find angel figurines too spiritual or religious, then a spirited fairy figurine might be just the thing. Fairies are reputed for getting into all sorts of mischief. You might find yourself saying what we do when something goes inexplicably wrong around the house, Must have been those darn fairies!

Your indoor planters are the ideal place to tuck and fairy or two. Pick one with a beautiful costume and you’ll brighten your foliage on the darkest winter day.

Teen agers can be the devil to buy for. If your teen ager is into fantasy art and literature, there are many stunning fairy figurines that they’ll love. You might even search for a fairy and unicorn figurine. One look at this style of figurine and your teen will start to imagine all sorts of quests for her favoite heroine.

Don’t worry if your teen is obsessed with fairy fantasy art. Well okay worry if she wants to dress like a fairy warrior to go to tenthy grade. But short of that, fairy artwork is truly beautiful. You might even be able to share her interest in art and go to a gallery or museum. It would be a great way to connect on her level!

Until recently I wasn’t at all a fan of Asian travel eBooks.  I spend most of my time in Asia, and travel books are an essential part of life when you don’t speak the language and you’re just trying to figure out what the hell is going on, but I just couldn’t get on board with eBooks. 

Unfortunately, I damaged my back while lifting a heavy bag at Chiang Mai airport in Thailand,  and since then I’ve simply been unable to carry my usual huge collection of travel books with me around the world.

On the pleading of my doctor I bought myself an iPad and downloaded the Kindle app.  I then downloaded a couple of hundred Asian travel eBooks from Amazon – much more than my usual collection of about 20 Asian travel books (rest in piece).  

I have to say that it’s a revelation.  I used to walk around with almost a broken spine because I insisted on carrying a crapload of travel books with me, but now I skip around happily with a light bag, iPad in hand with hundreds of thousands of words squeezed into the Asian travel eBooks on the hard drive.  I just love it.  

I’ve decided never to go back to regular books.  Even if I had to stop travelling around Asia and return home to the UK I’m going to stick with my iPad and Kindle.  Asian travel books are just too darned convenient.  

Halloween coffins are the perfect scary halloween decoration to make your trick-or-treaters tremble as they walk toward your front door! They are especially effective if you like to dress up as vampires in your family. These days everybody seems to be talking vampires. The teens and tweens are still into the Twilight series and their parents love the HBO series True Blood. So all the members of my family will be dressed in their version of vampire garb.

You can find coffins that fit into your outdoor Halloween decorations. I put these up the day before Halloween and put signs on them warning people that vampires are inside. For example, I might write Quiet, Vampire Sleeping or Do Not Disturb untill Halloween. Then on Halloween I open the coffins and change the signs to read Be Back Before Dawn. I love to have a sense of humor with my Halloween decorations as well. One year I took McDonald’s bags and put them near the coffin. I changed the contents to vials of pretend blood.

You’ll also find Halloween coffin prop jewelry. So you can decorate yourself as well as your yard. These make great Halloween party favors as well, if vampires are your theme.