Our
wedding in November was too close to Christmas
for comfort… In 1964 we had little money, and although the nearby farm shop had
real trees for a few shillings, decorations would need to cost pennies.
I bought
three packs of crepe paper, one white, one pink, one turquoise, and I raided
the kitchen for a roll of Bacofoil. My bits and bobs box produced a stretchy
pink hair band, some scraps of fabric, bias binding and sequins…
By
cutting ¼” slices off the still folded crepe paper, I soon had some dainty
garlands to loop between the branches, while tiny slivers of Bacofoil twined
round a knitting needle made wonderful dangling ‘icicles.’
The
hair band became a fairy’s body. Fuse wire framed wings put the finishing touch to her ‘princess’
dress, whose flounced skirts were edged with two shades of pink binding and scattered
with silver sequins..Her black wool hair had a coronet to crown it, and she
clasped a tinsel-topped wand in one hand…
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Through
the years, she had several changes of clothes and wings, and her wand disappeared
- as her magic dwindled, I expect! But in nineteen ninety two she got ‘downsized’
to suit the much smaller artificial tree in my new home. Now here she is, in
that same incarnation; still ready, willing and able to take her rightful place
this Christmas.
Written for IGWRT's Wednesday Challenge
