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 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.

This Halloween this eco fairy has raised some old T—shirts form the grave and turned them into Trick or Treat bags for your little ghouls and goblins. I trekked through the aisle of forgotten clothes and rescued tees from Halloweens past. These T—shirts once cloaked a ghost or vampire on their Hallow’s eve journey to wander the streets and bang on the doors of scared townsfolk. Now they have been turn into sacks for Tricks and Treats. Skulls, pumpkins, black cats and rock star bone men are ready to hoard your loot this Halloween. Come creep over to my Etsy store and snatch up a Halloween Tee-Bag before they disappear before your eyes in the fog and mist of Internet sales.

And while you are entranced by my Tee- Bags why not check out more of my Witchy Crafts. I’ve dug up some Halloween Paint Swatch Cards and Beaded Bracelets. Want to send someone a little note or write a spell and wish them well? These sets of 3 cards will give you the right amount of Halloween flare without a trip down the card aisle. My cards are one of a kind creations made on 100% recycled card stock and decorated with decorative paper scraps and flowers punched from paint swatches found in haunted home stores. Wishing you could get away with wearing a full blown Halloween Costume to work? Well show the office that even working girls can get into the spirit without a costume. My beaded bracelets hold enough Halloween magic to cast a spell of beauty. Just enough black and orange to say Happy Halloween without the fake vampire teeth, bad wigs, or devil horns.

Miss Fi’s Kingdom has Tricks and Treats for all!

Using reusable bags for shopping is one of the best ways to help the environment. Harmful chemicals and energy are used to produce both paper and plastic bags. 
Recycling and reusing plastic and paper bags does a lot to help keep them out of the landfills and the environment but it doesn’t end the demand for these antiquated forms of transporting goods. Energy, water, and fuel are used to collect, recycle and transport the bags. Reusing plastic bags is a great idea, but realistically you would have to use them eleven times before you would absorb the environmental impact. Reusable bags like these recycled tee shirt bags are the most responsible ways to shop and carry items. Bags made from old tees aren’t a new idea, but it’s a great idea that should be embraced by us all. My personal twist is finding the unusual ones, like old Monty Python and Mad TV tee shirts. I’ve been scouring thrift stores and yard sales for unusual tees. I’ve even enlisted the help of friends and family, asking them to save their favorite pop culture shirts. I’m also exploring the sizes of the bags: Large shirts for groceries and laundry, medium shirts for shopping and school, children’s sized tees make great lunch sacks and gift bags. I’m also collecting old Halloween shirts to make trick-or-treat bags. I hope that you will find a Tee Bag that makes a statement about your personality and your commitment to the environment. And whether or not you buy one of my creations I hope that you will consider using reusable fabric bags and maybe even make some of your own. My Tee Bags and other eco-Fairy products are at my Etsy shop MissFiKingdom. I will be posting the Tee Bags throughout the week.

If you want some more information about the production and use of paper and plastic bags visit http://www.reusablebags.com/facts.php?id=4

While Miss Fi and I frolicked by the sacred spring I set the White Winged Gourd Fairy out to fly and wake up the forest from its long winter nap.



Do you want this gourd fairy to fly into your life? Then you have to catch her at www.MissFiKingdom.etsy.com

Last year I wrote some romantic and silly (and might I suggest a little Tantric?) prose for Valentine’s Day. This year I’ve been busy turning them into cards, shadow boxes, photo holders and tins. And even though I’m posting these items on Etsy in hopes that they sell for Valentine’s Day I hope that you will find these tokens of affection appropriate for many other occasions, like weddings, anniversaries, or for just because.

My heart was my guide, creating images that would turn the poems into more than just words on a page. Put these unique gifts in your Etsy shopping cart and let love fill your heart. Let Love Rule!

I’m always looking for new and interesting ways to create fairies and send and eco-friendly message (I am after all an eco-fairy!). What better way to physically represent fairies, then with natural elements? These tiny gourds are just the right size to create the plump little bodies of woodland pixies. Their pear shaped bodies, echo ancient images of goddesses throughout time. I molded polymer clay, into the shape of a wise grandmother’s face. The fairy’s skin glimmers as if they where caught dancing in the light of the moon and stars. Their details of wire and gilding are simple, but it is the message in their wings that should have you pondering about the magic of these fairies.

The wings of these fairies don’t come from nature, but from our world of consumption. They’re trash. Plastic tissue paper that I saved, rather than sending it to the landfill. It sends a quiet message about the three R’s on conservation (reduce, recycle, reuse). Think about it; the natural part of these fairies will someday return to dust but the plastic of their wings will flutter about this planet forever. I’m hoping that these gourd fairies make us think about our consumption of plastics. We have to be vigilant about recycling and coming up with cost effective alternatives to non-biodegradable plastics.

Want one these quiet reminders of the balance between nature and man’s trash? Go to my Etsy store, Miss Fi’s Kingdom

Curtis brought home some; tea bags, stir sticks, and instant coffee after a business meeting. Of course I tucked the tea away but the “coffee stuff” sat on my kitchen counter for weeks because we aren’t big coffee drinkers and we when we do make coffee we use spoons to stir not disposable utensils. Right? Not using disposables is one of the ways to positively impact the environment and reduce your waste. I didn’t want to send them to the landfill, but they were going to end up in my cabinets collecting dust. I knew I wasn’t going to use them in the kitchen, so…

I put my recycling cap on and started think about how I could transform these silly wooden sticks into something more use full, more entertaining, and hopefully send a message about looking at the items we use and toss in a new way. I thought about all the items we use to make coffee and tea; stir sticks, tea bags, coffee filters, individual packets of sugar and creamer. Many of them we just use once and toss. I pulled out a coffee filter and stir sticks and started to let my imagination go. Coffee Fairy! I got my wire out and started to bend and twist the core anatomy of the fairy. I looped hip, neck, and shoulder joints to attach the limbs and head of the fairy. I made a spine, ribcage, and even a spiral heart to fill the space under the dress. Adding cotton balls gave Stacey a little more substance to her body. The sir sticks could make simple stick figure arms and legs. I cut the stir sticks in half and wired them to the fairy’s frame.

A filter would make the most beautiful, fluffy, and chic dress for an eco fairy. The hardest part was coming up with a head and wings for Stacey. I eventually found the right size and shape for her head and figured out the simple lines of the copper wings. Now Stacey the Coffee Fairy is ready to hang on your tree or by your desk. Just be careful not to leave a cup of Joe out, she might just drink it down to the last drop!

I named this one-of-a-kind fairy after my close friend and graphic designer, Stacey Pastor. She has been the reason I have a website and wonderful graphics for Miss Fi’s Kingdom. She has works hard for me. She took my pencil drawings of Miss Fi and my vision of her Kingdom and turned them into pixels and points on her Mac. Stacey LOVES coffee! So when we work she has to have to have a cup of coffee or a latté or two. She is one of the reasons I bought a coffee machine. So I thought naming this fairy ornament, Stacey, would be the perfect tribute to her and all her work for me.

Stacey the Coffee Fairy drank all her coffee and she wants some more! Go to www.MissFiKingdom.etsy.com to purchase this very special ornament. There is more to come from Stacey the Coffee Fairy but this is the 1st of her kind.

Gourds are a type of fruit. They are in the pumpkin family and grow as a flower and then fruit from growing vines. They don’t like to grow on the ground like pumpkins. Gourds like strong support like a trees, trellis, or fence. The plant produces oxygen and remove carbon dioxide. When the gourds are harvested and the plant has died, the decaying plant matter is great for nourishing the soil. Gourds are grown around the world for practical and decorative uses. Gourds are used for all sorts of items such as drinking vessels, food storage, decorative baskets and musical instruments. Gourds have played an important role in human progress.

These particular gourds are very small, grown for more decorative uses rather than carrying life-sustaining food and water. However, they still share a history, beauty and function. These ornaments may be decorated very differently but they all speak to the fact that there was a natural, beneficial, living plant cycle that took its course to create it. Covered in paper, painted, gilded, and wired these gourd ornaments are definitely a great way to “go green” for the holiday season. Give it as a gift or hang it with care. Enjoy!

I kissed Curtis for the first time after a football game, November 9, 1995. I walked down the aisle to kiss him as husband and wife, November 9, 2002. Today we celebrate out 6th Wedding anniversary.

In honor of our passionate love for each other, I’m posting a special card in Jack and Fiona Press on www.MissFiKingdom.etsy.com. This card is a honest admission of some down and dirty truth! It is a call for action. This card loudly hints at fun and passion waiting to be set afire.

Go to http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=17114856 to enjoy this card and find out what the card says.

Curtis I love you. Happy Anniversary… Now lets tire out Fiona so she goes to bed early!

oxox,
Forever and a day
Jessica