We returned from our little trip to find oodles of your precious wishes lined up, glittering and glowing. Eager to be set free…
A whisper swirled around me in the wind saying "A Wish Party…" And just like that, a wish party was planned. I decorated one of my favorite tattered spaces on our funky lil' property, where a greenhouse once lived (way before we owned it).
It was great fun, and it felt ever so lovely to be giving your wishes the proper delivery and respect they deserve.
I found myself in the gallery, oops ~ I mean apothecary shoppe, searching for the perfect recipe for setting wishes free…
I gathered my ingredients one by one. Interestingly, most of my ingredients would lead you to believe I was baking a cake of sorts…
As I was working on collecting my wish spices, I heard quite a bit of commotion in the "A Fanciful Twist" theater. Seems a couple of characters decided to join in the "wish setting free" festivities.
Mind you, they were ever so embarrassingly silly, and performed totally impromptu with no set lines. Hence the giggling and madness. But, they meant well, and put this little performance on, just for you!
Silly gooses these two below…
As they went off to join the party, I followed them – but not before talking to the Wish Keeper Himself. He assured me that, all joking aside, he completely understood the importance of these wishes being set off to come true…
He promised he would bring his Wish Keeper army.
I believed wholeheartedly that the Wish Keeper cavalry would not let us down. So, I confidently skipped off to see what was happening at the wish party.
I peeked through a tiny window and spied a glowing lovely party for your wishes, in full swing…
The ship of dreams had just floated in, and was ready to assist in setting your wishes free, into the cotton candy night clouds…
As the sun went down, a magical tea service appeared. Would you care for some magic potion??
It was close to midnight, just the perfect time for wishes to be set free, or so I heard. I took my concoction of special, magical and ever so natural ingredients, including ground up wishes, and headed to a camp fire.
I had cut up some lovely apricot tree wood earlier, and prepared a fire, which was necessary for getting the wishes high up into the night sky…
Bundles of wishes big and small, bundles of wishes growing strong, find your way into the night sky, swirling amongst the stars, turning into fragments of reality, that will weave themselves together and become true as true…
The first bit of Magical Wish potion was tossed into the flame. Would it work? Mister Lovee and I looked on, not knowing what to expect.
And then…
The ground up wishes and the purely natural ingredients (that make wishes and cakes sweet and fluffy) came to life ~ swooosh, pooooof, voilaaaaaaa!!!
Mister Lovee and I stared at each other in disbelief. Then I jumped up and down with glee. I had a whole pot full of the concoction. I had to use it all to insure that all of your wishes would make it…
The flames grew bigger and bigger as I added wishes…
You could feel the power of wishes that were sure to come true…
Oooooo, aaaaaaaaaaaaaa, beautiful sparkly wishes, really really coming true!
You could see the wishes dancing amongst the stars in the night sky. All while the strength in number of wishes grew. So much so, that Mister and I were floored.
2nd to the last batch of wishes went in, and the intensity grew even more than expected…
Then all of a sudden, PHOOOOOOOOOOOOM, wishes exploded with a force that left us dumbfounded…
And then, just as quickly as the force blew your wishes way up into the night sky, the most unbelievable thing happened.
In a case of totally unaltered photos (I promise), a green glow of a face wearing a top hat appeared in the fire. We knew right then that it was the Wish Keeper Himself, keeping his word, ensuring your wishes arrived at their destination…
I almost fainted.
I think I even saw him wave?
As he faded away, the last of the wishes danced around and sang. We could hear them if we listened ever so carefully. They chanted in a sweet fairy sound.
Then they started dancing around in shapes of hearts…
And ribbons of sparkly flames…
And then, as if it couldn't get any better, they shot up in a glowing cloud…
Higher and higher…
Then, the swirls and flames disappeared, and we knew the wishes were on their way, through valleys and mountains made of clouds and galaxies. Up through places were cherubs dance and loved once live on forever. Somewhere up there, your wishes are being turned into reality…
And that is how a tiny party for your wishes, turned into a magical evening. We wish you could have been here to see it for yourself, but hopefully my photos captured the magic of it all.
Here's to believing!!
Thank you for sharing your wishes, and for allowing yourself to take voyages in the ship of dreams. Mister Lovee and I believe in having fun and living a light hearted life. Thank you for sharing bits of your lives with us.
We send Much love! Let's make it a magical 2010. Life is filled with ups and downs, but it is good to know there is always a little nook where we can share like minded ideas, and refuel our souls. I hope you find a little bit of that here at "A Fanciful Twist."
I get so much inspiration from what you share with me through comments and e-mails, I hope I am able to properly give back to you through these kooky little posts 😉
🖤 ,V
ps: I don't condone playing with fire at all, please do not try anything you see in this post at home 🖤
OMG! The green man in the fire! :-O
I can tell this will really WORK!
And on my BIRTHDAY as well! YAY! Thank you so much for helping wishes come true, I love you!
Dear Vanessa, I wish you and your dear mr Lovee and ofcourse those cute little doggies a wonderful 2010. I hope it will be magical (how can it not be?) and filled with love!
Oh the Tori Amos comment just cracked me up! May all your and Mr Lovee’s wishes come true!
Weeeeeeeeeee!!!! Wishes come true and I know they do too!!!!! Such a lovely light display! And I too saw the Wish Keeper and it was beautiful!!! And the little play was so fun!! I am so glad I have all of you too play with and to dream with and to wish with. Whatever would I do without you! It would be a sad, sad place for sure.
Seeking, yet again, color and light!
Much love
Hugging you
SueAnn
Thank you. I’m convinced my wish will now come true. It would mean the world to me, but if it doesn’t, then I will accept that it was not meant to be, and find magic and joy in other areas of my life. Thank you for being you. I feel blessed to have ‘met’ you
Always so much magic in your posts – why we would be surprised to see the green man?
Wonderful wishes to you!
Magical, Magnificent, so perfectly you being you and spreading joy around.
What a lovely place you are to visit….I believe!
Kiss Noises Linda (p.s. I love firelight and candlelight but I promise I won’t play with fire like youre…way too powerful!)
I can’t believe you actually captured pictures of the wish keeper V!! That is absolutely amazing…now my oldest will have hope in capturing a picture of the tooth fairy next time she visits, tee hee. THANK YOU so much for sending out my house wish. We almost have ours ready to go on the market and we are seeing some nice ones to maybe move into some day sooooon. Love all your photos and that skit is just cracking me up…love! Big hugs,
Jamie 🙂
Absolutely beautiful. So wonderful of you to set those wishes on their journey of becoming.
Pure magic! Another awesome photo-laden post with your unique twist. Love it!
That is one serious fire!
What magic!
Happy New Year, to you, my dear! Thanks for all the magic you bring to all of us!
WIshing you the best New Year ever!
I believe I believe!! Our wishes have been BLOWN into the universe and cannot possibly be ignored…
Here’s to MORE magic in the coming year!!!
happy HAPPY!!
x..x
steph
Your video cracked me up! so funny… Have a blessed day!
ha! What a fun night! I wish I could have been there to see the wish magic! Great pictures! I wish you a wonderful 2010!!!
You are tooo funny, thanks for the all the smiling, Happy New Year, so love your fun blog
glad we are friends
Karey
V~
Oh a Wish Party…how much fun!! And oh my….what a cute little video!! I’m smiling from ear to ear 🙂
Just wonderful, no other comments really do your blog posts justice.
How awesome! You warm my heart of hearts.
=^..^=
It’s as touching to go and read everyone’s wishes as it is to make them. I was surely impressed and delighted by the video…Letting Wishes Go Unscripted! I am very amazed as well, by the way you chose to let them go this year and what happened as a result. Truly magical indeed. Reading this post made me have to go and reread what it was that I wished for…and I am truly satisfied…and a little concerned as I observe the fear that I feel when I think about wishing anything for the future…I’m not sure what that is exactly, if I’m worried that it won’t come true or if I’m being too “greedy” Hmmmmm…
OH!!! You two are, indeed, quite the silliest of gooses!! I loved your adorable little puppet theater!! And what a lovely way to send off all of our wishes in magical, fanciful style!! 🙂
Thanks for brightening my day, Miss V! 🙂
omg.. toooo funny.. your video! and the green glow and your potion.. You have a wonderful life there dear vanessa. love to visit your blog.
hugs
vivian
Vanessa:
Has it ever occured to you just how many people you’ve made smile? How inspirational you are?
Because of you, I started this day off with a happy tear, knowing all those wishes have been delivered. I must admit the puppet show had me rolling. Mr. Lovee as a semi-perverted sounding French Mad Hatter! Sure sounds like he wants a piece of your pie!
Have a great day and thanks for helping me to start my day off with a giggle!
Kim
Gerushia’s New World
your video made my day.
the love you two share is such an inspiration. the fact that there are men like mister lovee in the world, men who can play and be silly, gives me hope for my lonely heart!
OMG Vanessa!
I’m still laughing! What a superb performance! I bet you and Mister had so much fun while performing.
Let me tell you that I’m starting the year in a fantastic way. I made my first sale on Etsy yesterday and I’m also super excited about the upcoming doll show that I will be attending in Jan.
I think the WishMan did really take those wishes with him 🙂
Hugs…
Oh crapcrapcrapcrapcrap—-I missed the Wish Party!!!!!! I guess I’ll just send mine psychically.
The impromptu puppet show was genius! You and mister (ahem) I mean the Mad Hatter are fuuunnnnnnyyyyy! Miss Baby kept squealing and reaching for the monitor whenever Meestair Frawnch started talking. I can imagine you two having a slightly demented children’s theater that would only be broadcast on obscure cable channels. Sort of like Pee Wee Herman meets Punch and Judy.
It’s so fun to hear your voices. It makes you seem more real, instead of magical people who live in my computer. “Tori Amos….Hweee know her in Frawn-sah.” GET OUT !!!!!!!!!!
Thank you for all your good work in our behalf.
I know this may come as a shock…I saw the Grinch in the last green flame photo ;>
Se videeeo es so funeee. Se mad haterr is very sexeee. You arrr so clevarr.
thanks V
we loved loved loved your little video, it was hilarious!, i so enjoy hearing your voices, american accents are like the voices of make believe creatures to us, so interesting.
thankyou for moving our wishes into the heavens to come back into the realm of reality, i am so looking forward to mine.
I am off to the framers to get my very own VV print framed that a dear friend of mine brought from you for my xmas present.
I cried when i saw the envelope. it was all so real.
have a wonderful day
sheree xxx
My heart soared seeing the wishes go up and into air and being set free by the wish keeper. I know all our wishes are going to come true.
Thank you for doing this for all of us. You wonderfully, magical and creative woman.
I adored your skit. I was laughing along with you.
I like the idea of the Mad Hatter with a french accent.
Wow – I totally have goosebumps after reading your story! What an amazing and magic filled wish party. Thanks for sharing another year of your whimsy, glee and magical happiness. 🙂
Sheer magic ~ that’s what it is! I love your photos and descriptions of all that you post. You are blessed to be so talented and creative ~ we are blessed to have the opportunity to visit your lovely space.
Thank you so very much!! Wishing you and your loved ones the happiest New Year ever ~ full of laughter, love, good health, more magic and total abundance.
xo
Wishing you a very magical and creative year!
LOL…are you sure you didnt have any of that special concoction BEFORE or DURING your video..hahahaha…that was goofy! lol My kids giggled through out it….
Wow! What fantastical pictures of a magical celbration! I wish for you peace, love and joy for 2010 with Mr. Loveee….. Love to you both! : )) xox
Velvet Brick
what a magical and enchanting post!
The video is very very very cute!
yasmina
This is just totally amazing! The power of believing! I was so excited that I went back to make sure I had added my wish…and I DID! We need to all check in from time to time and share our wishes come true! Blessings to you, sweet friend. You are an amazing young woman with so much love to give.
Really truly magical!
Thank you for the refuel.
Greeting of the New Year, M’Lady Vanessa of Wishville,
You and your Lovee make me SO darn happy with your fabulous WISH puppet show!! YiPEE!!
I was truly in the mood for a puppet show today!! And this show makes me H A P P Y !!
Now, I am saying my own incantations over the desires of your heart and Lovee’s, that your life will be filled with love galore and every wish of your heart desires, granted.
Y D best!
Love,
Constance
But I like to play with fire, really, it’s OK, my hubby is a Fire Man. Loved your little video and the fire and decorations. May all your wishes come true as well.
Tracy M.
Oooooh I think Mr. Lovee is more Topal from Fiddler then the Mad Hatter himself. Funny FuNNy fUnnY video and ever so lovely to hear your sweet enchanting voice and leave it to a man to complement a sweet maid on her pie and not her lovely gown. Tis the nose that really entreats a man to a woman’s heart..tee hee!!!
Did you happen to roast any marshmallows as the dreams swirled up in to the sky?
xoxo cori
I’m late, I’m late!!! No granted wishes for me. That’s okay…I have everything I need. OMGoodness The Video left me in a happy melted little puddle on the floor…yes yes your delightful voice! Oh Cori, Fiddler on the Roof indeed! I love how Mr. Lovee makes you giggle like a school girl, that he is your Love, your Dove, your soulmate, your Joy. OOps, I just drooled a little. The colors in photo #1 and #2 do to my brain what string does to a cat. Gotta go play now! **blows 2010 kisses** Deb
Mizz V, what a proper sent off for our wishes & dreams…to think the Wish Keeper himself was to help…ohhhh I do soooo beelieve that all of our wishes & dreams are an amber light in the sky with the stars too & they are ready to ingite so that they will all come true…oh thank you oh thank you Wizard”tress” of the Key Holder for our Wishes…you did a splendid sent off to them all..now I know that my year will be as magical as the night air that are wishes were sent off to and I know that all my wishes will come true ~ so as long as I Beelieve!…Have a honey of a night ~ sweet dreams! Grace Peace & many blessings 2 U & Mister Loveeee, Marlene PS I laughed sooo hard when I played your video thank you sooo much you don’t know how much that made my day!..
heh heh heeelllloooo there silly gooses!!! omg, I nearly peed myself.
Loved the puppet show, you are too precioso you two!!! 😀
Killin myself laughing here all merrily to myself, and I wish to thank you for the extra silliness you provided with the video…super cute and way too much fun.
I feel like it is a birthday present to me (my birthday and all,hintsy hintsy)
Oh well, must go but I wish you all the burnin wishes your little hearts desiah~~!!!! xoxox
you guys are the best, mucho love to you and lovee. xoxo
waaah! the video! i totally LOVED this! heeeee!
loved the video, obviously your wish came true at some point to find a hatter just as mad as you! 🙂 and I say that with the sweetest intentions 😉 he’s your lobster.
great pics btw, did it melt your lens??? I’m glad you didn’t get hurt in the wish fire! but it was so cool!
Your Wish Party was fabulous and with child-like abandon, I believe!
Your blog brings light to my life. It’s the last one I read before I go to bed at night.
~elaine~
A Fanciful Fest of Wishes set free! Beautiful dears! I will watch the video later, in case there is music and it will wake the littles. Blessings on this Wednesday!
I love the magical life you have made for yourself. Mine is magical as well and all the more so since I have found your blogpost!
Thankyou for being you.
HealingWomanArt
Cheryl Dolby
Thanks so much for sending our wishes in such a lovely way…I hope everyone’s wishes come true.
May everyone’s wishes come true! Thanks for conjuring up a magical treat to make it all happen. Happy New Year to all! 🙂 Theresa
Thank you…that was sheer magic. I am sure I will be well soon!!!
My new years resolution is to try and make more time for my crafts which i totally neglected last year. You live the ideal magical and craft laden life and i’m sure i’m not the only one who loves to visit your blog to escape and be inspired. Keep up the magical work in 2010!
Ha!ha!ha!ha!
😉
That was the cutest video ever! Heeheee you and Mr. Lovee are quite a pair. 🙂
Thank you for setting the wishes free, that fire was amazing! And I do believe that was the wish man in the flame too, you just can’t make that sort of thing up!
Have a magical day…
xoxox
Z FrenCH Mad Hatter was superb, he would make a great story teller what a voice, soft and wise and humorous. I love the whole little production, your little song divine! Wonder what was in your magick concoction mixed with real dreams of yours, to have the green man appear awesome. You both must have had delirious fun & slept soundly… dreaming more magickal dreams. Thank you & Love you both xox
Oh my! I loved your video!! Sooo funny!
Mr. Lovee and you are so perfect and cute together, anyone can tell there’s so much love, and fun going on between you two, So Lovely! 🙂
Thank you and Mr. Lovee for letting our wishes free, and in such a magical way!!! Now I’m sure our wishes WILL come true, the wish keeper himself was there to make sure of that!
You’ve made my day, thank you!
🙂
Wonderful post so full of fun and magic. Amazing, thank you for the show.
you are amazing.
“it’s nice to see you young lady” – LMAO – wonderful playlet LOL
WOW! Thank you!!!!
Yay! Thanks for sending our wishes out into the new year night air.
Oooohhh i love your glittery sparkle-icious “Wish Party” words! Those are beyond and how could you miss with all that cool fire magic goin down?
You must have entered the land of a 1000 brilliant banners too-lookit that pretty keyhole up there in the sky oh my goodness did you wish for that too?
(I crept in to the apothecary during the show and got some dragonfly eggs, hope you dont mind. I needed to cure my ankle super fast so i could dance with Neil Gaiman.
YOWWWZZZAAAAA
I feel a shift in the atmosphere already! Here comes world peace! YAY !!! Party like it’s 2010
PS Today id the anniversary of the Clash’s “London Calling”.
(Cody sez why you tell her that? I sez Vanessa will know that is IMPORTANT to know)
:0 🖤 🖤 🖤 🖤
YOU TWO ARE DELIRIOUSLY DELECTABLE, YOU KNOW THIS, NON???? THAT WAS WORTH THE WAIT TO WATCH!!!! I even sat down just now and our darling big yellow lab, said, “No, no, dearie” (with her canine dance.) Don’t get too comfy infront of that screen. I need out!” And in Wisconsin, taking the dog out is no small feet for you must don the boots and have a modicum of warm apparel on. But, finally, sat down to such a cute “pretend”! I am gratefull my faery wish seeds were sent off by all of you in high fashion and I know they are already coming true! Thanks for the extra faerydust friendship to set them on their way!
Blessings for this marvelous New Year!
Light,
Amy
Oh, and by the way, Mad Hatter, you are way to pie obsessed and really should consider going to the nearest psypieatrist pronto!!! hee hee!
Thankyou for your sweet Wish Party, I enjoyed it very much and watching the video with my little girl – we were laughing and smiling…thanks for setting my wishes free 🙂
A very delightful 2010 to you all xxxx
I think I just *snorted* too much/too hard while watching your adorable WISHES video. I am feeling the love which is always good at 6:30’ish in the morning. Thank you. ‘;)
The way your beloved says *French* reminds me of the mother in the movie “Better Off Dead”.
How fun!
You call your man Mister Lovee! I call mine Mr. Lovey (for his love handles) and I know he likes it, always hearing it with a slight smile.
I have missed your blog, I do not know why I stayed away for so long, I forgot how magical your writing is.
LOVE the video, I have to go show it to my pixie in residence…
Happy New Year!
Hi Vanessa,
That video of the Wish Keeper was so adorable. I loved how much fun the two of you were having even more than the puppet show. You two are a riot!
Karen
Well, too bad I didn’t get over here in enough time to put a wish in, but I sure enjoyed your video!! I was laughing my tail off by the end 😉
I think you have totally found your kindred spirit match! Congrats!
xoxoxoxo!!
Michelle
a hushed and awed “wowwww” from me.
Oh my God, I loved the video! I had such a good laugh, thanks for that!