Use in good health and Fairy Magic

Comfrey (Symphytum Officinale) means “to heal.” The entire plant can be used internally and externally. As an external remedy it heals bruising and cuts. The plant’s Allantoin, stimulates the growth of connective tissue and cartilage, thus great for broken bones, torn cartilage, swelling, and burns. Olive and Grape Seed Oil have great moisturizing properties. Beeswax has anti-inflammatory and anti-bacterial properties and Lavender Essential Oil calms.

Use daily for severe dryness or as a healing ointment for the above mentioned uses. DO NOT USE on fresh 2nd and 3rd degree burns or opened wounds. DO NOT USE if you have bee pollen allergies.

This product is for external use only. Discontinue if a rash or irritation occurs. Keep out of direct sunlight and store in a cool dry place. If the product begins to have a foul odor, discontinue use and throw out remaining product.

Comfrey has always grown in my childhood garden. My mother used it on our bruises and when we would twist or tweak our bones. When I was a teenager I started getting into herbal remedies and gardening. Comfrey salve was the first ointment I made. I really enjoy the process of growing the comfrey and lavender and gathering all the ingredients to make a salve. Comfrey is very hardy and marks the coming of spring with fresh prickly green shoots. The flowers are scalloped bells in purple and pink. The plant “unfortunately” has the texture of Stinging Nettle. Even though I wear gloves and wash thoroughly I can still feel the “prickliness” of the comfrey I harvested. Lavender is also a garden must have. There is nothing like going into your garden and running your fingers through fresh lavender stocks. Lavender is one of my all time favorite scents. I will take the fresh woodsy smell of lavender over any designer perfume.

I make very small batches a couple times a year. It’s a fun and aromatic day in the kitchen. I’m amused every time I make a batch of how long it actually takes. It is worth every second because of all the amazing stories of healing. And it seriously takes days to clean all the beeswax and comfrey salve off all the pans, spoon, measuring cups, and cabinets.

My family and circle of friends love using Miss Fi’s Healing Comfrey Salve. My family uses it every day and it is the corner stone of our first aide cabinet. My grandmother used it to heal the dry paper-thin skin of her hands. My mom always has a small “just-in-case” jar in her purse. We have used it on all of Fiona’s rashes, cuts, bruises and evening her hair. Sunburns, shaving disasters and, scraps don’t stick around long when you use Miss Fi’s Healing Comfrey Salve.

Miss Fi’s Healing Comfrey Salve is available in 4oz jars for $10 on my Etsy Store

I’m just too excited about this not to share in a Miss Fi’s Kingdom blog. If it isn’t already fairly obvious I LOVE FAIRIES! My collection of fairy books range from classic tales, tooth fairies, novels, board books with glitter, and the treasured 1st editions. I was always pretending to be a fairy always wanting my own pair of wing, petals for dress, and glitter and fairy dust sparkling from my long curly locks as I ran through my garden. I’ve only caught a glimpse of fairies out of the corner of my eye and even then I have let my skeptic mind say yeah right… It’s just your imagination and your love of fairies making you see things, until yesterday. All three of us were in the backyard making the rounds trying to wear Fiona out for her nap. I was also getting pictures of all the new things she can do now that she’s not having daytime seizures. Fiona is almost five and she is doing things that we have never seen or only seen once years ago. I had to document her climbing up the play equipment to go down the slide, picking vegetables out of our garden (and voluntarily releasing them back into our hands), and grip the bubble wand, dip it in the juice, and wave it around! Fiona is ready to move on from the bubbles after a few minutes but I needed to use up the bubble juice and I had wanted to try and photograph the bubbles. They are so big and so colorful… actually rainbow is my favorite color. So there I was camera in my right hand bubble wand in my left snapping off pictures of every bubble I could. And look at what I caught on film! Even as I was taking the picture I knew what I was capturing in my little playback screen. The above picture hasn’t been edited at all. I have other pictures that you can cock your head and say, “well maybe that could be…” This one is the clearest of the bunch. After I uploaded the pictures I opened it in Photoshop and had a look at the details of the fairy’s face, legs, and wings. Amazing is all I can say. I played around with the dark and light and cropped the picture. This is what I came up with.

I hope this brings a smile to those of you that hold a special place in your heart for fairies and maybe makes a believer or two. Do you believe in fairies? Tell me your stories!

Hi there everyone.

It’s been a busy start to summer. Miss Fi started kindergarten. Of course she loves it. I’m sure she would like more time to play but what fairy wouldn’t? As for me? You would think that with her being at school for an extra hour or so would give me more time to CREATE, but in my Kingdom that doesn’t always happen. However I did get involved in a really cool giveaway. A fellow blogger came across my pocket tin, “You are a vision of a a thousand gorgeous moments”. She is having a “pocket week” the first week of August.

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My pocket tin and also my pocket altar, “Kiss me in the shadows of my desire” will be part of the giveaways. In return I’m getting my first taste of marketing by working with other blogers and artist. So if you have a pocket project take a picture of it and enter her contest. Please be sure to check out her blog and pass this blog on to your friends and family.

My family has a long line of artists in every medium. I have furniture made by my great-grandfather and grandfathers. My brother is artistic and the similarities between my mother’s painting style in college and mine are almost freaky. When I found out Curtis and I were starting a family I couldn’t wait to be able to share my artistic genes. Fiona has definitely acquired a love for painting. Her 1st time painting was for her Daddy’s Office in January 2007. We started out with tempera. I knew how important her experience with paint would be and I wanted to save it on the proper material; canvas. I quickly discovered that although she loved to paint she never wanted to do it for more than 10 minutes at a time. Which worked out great for mixing colors and not letting them turn muddy brown and it gave us a chance to watch the painting transform over several days. Fiona really enjoyed herself and it was a wonderful way for her and I to spend quality time. It also proved to be an important therapy tool for all of Fiona’s delays. At first all I saw was a my child enjoying the craziness of finger painting. I started to see how painting was building her fine and gross motor skills. Fiona had to work on hand eye coordination to look at what she was doing. The texture of the wet and drying paint gave Fiona proprioceptive information about where her hands were in space. She could squeeze, stroke, and scratch at the paint and see the cause and effect of her motions.

The largest painting she has ever done is 36×48 it took two weeks (July 8, 2007 to July 22, 2007). Everyone who comes over quickly learns the story of how talented an artist Fiona is. You can see the spirit of fun and creativity come through in her art. Her art work is beautiful because of the color and composition and the fact that it was painted by someone so young. But it is more than that; because when she is painting all of her struggles with her disabilities melt away from the canvas.

Our mother and daughter painting time is so special that my mother, Marvelle Thompson even photographed her painting for her book, “Blessed Are These Hands an exploration and celebration of women’s values “ co-authored by Susan Kulman. This is the excerpt from Fiona’s picture, “Letting Fiona immerse her hands into paint is a sacred act. It is sacred because it connects her to me (her mother), her grandmother and her other ancestors who expressed themselves creatively with their hands. I want her to paint with my expensive acrylics and use real canvas because I want her to know that her soul, her voice, her creativity is worthy of a gallery wall.”

Fiona’s “Red and Blue” painting is now avaible for purchase at Miss FI’s Kingdom

TITLE: Red and Blue
DESCRIPTION 24x24in acrylic on canvas, finger painted by Fiona Grace King from November 20, 2007 to Dec 8, 2007

Note Jessica King was responsible for priming the canvas and setting up the acrylic colors on the canvas so Fiona could use her hands (and feet) to paint. This means putting the paint on the canvas and using Fiona’s hands to spread out the paint in the desired area so to allow for greater surface area of paint and the mixing of colors. Jessica turned the canvas as needed to make it easier for Fiona to react as the colors moved around. Fiona is completely responsible for texture and emotion of paint on canvas. Each section of painting lasted no more than ten minutes and no more than two colors at a time. This allowed for the color blending and control of pattern.

Fiona was 2 when she painted Red and Blue.

I know how to use my hands to create works of LOVE. Let me capture your breathless moments and hearts true desires. Set your Cupid’s arrow on Miss Fi’s Kingdom to find a unique Valentine’s Day gift. I can also full fill special requests just shoot me an email at info@missfikingdom.com or convo me on etsy.