Most of you have probably heard that Sarah and the crew have moved from their beloved midwest down to Atlanta, Georgia!  It has been a huge move, and a very daunting task to clear out the studio and get everything moved down here in one piece.  Our new studio and home includes several acres, a retail space, studio space, barn for the horses, and a brand new (to us) old farmhouse to call our own.  Stay with us as we post pictures of the kitchen gardens, the flowers, and all thats new and fun at Fortryllelse!  We feel like we are embarking on a whole new adventure and one that will give us the opportunity to spend more time working, and creating a world of fantasy!

So look for the new products forthcoming!, t-shirts, pewter ornaments, fabric blocks, gift bags, stationary, box sets of greeting cards, calenders, totes, new designs for jewelry boxes and journals, many new ceramic items such as hand mirrors and clocks, candleholders, sconces, marble wall hangings and cutting boards and kitchen canisters, all with a bit ‘o whimsy from the Fortryllelse Crew!

 Shine Brightly,

Sarah Pauline 

Ingredients:

1 recipe of any white or yellow cake you love.  A pound cake from the store works nicely, if you are in a time crunch, go for a boxed mix.  I will never tell!  Bake, cool and cut into 1″ cubes.

Bottled cherries or cherry pie filling, 1 large or 2 small cans OR fresh sweetened strawberries*

2 packages of cream cheese, cream with 1/4 cup of sugar and 1 teaspoon of vanilla, thin by folding in 1/4 of the whipped cream mixture

1 pint of heavy cream, sweetened and whipped with 2 teaspoons of vanilla

Amaretto Liqour

White chocolate shavings or other garnish

Assembly:

I like to use a footed bowl for its grand appearance, however, if you dont have one, don’t let that stop you.  A glass bowl of any type will work well, and allows you to show off all those gorgeous layers of ruby fruit and cloud-like creaminess!

Layer 1/2 cake cubes, sprinkle lightly with amaretto

spoon in layer cream cheese mixture about 2 inches thick

A layer of glistening berries make sure they reach the sides of the bowl and can be seen through the glass

repeat until the bowl is full

spread the top with a blanket of whipped cream and garnish with berries, shaved white chocolate or whatever you choose.

Chill until service. 

* if you use bottle cherries, you may need to drain them slightly.  Not marachino cherries

Trifles are best served with a generous spoon. 

Use your imagination with this dessert, use ginger cake with pumpkin fluff around harvest time.  Use lemon curd and lemon cake with blueberries or mandarin oranges to make a tart sherbety dessert.  Consider a frozen trifle with layers of chocolate cake, amaretto ice cream and cherries (dont forget the fudge sauce please!) for a sinful birthday treat.

Trifles are a great way to use fruits of the season, and you can use any combination of cake, fruit and creams that you love. 

If you are having a fairy tea, then you should place one jordan almond within the layers of your trifle.  (inform your guests so they do not choke!)  The  guest that receives the almond in her portion is granted a wish by the fairies!  Garnish for a fairy tea should be edible glitter from your local craft store.  What a dazzling spectacle that would be!

On a personal note, we have been very busy at the studio getting ready to launch many new items.  Stay tuned for our January update for more!

Also don’t forget to sign up for our updates list to get the latest news on our special Winter Solstice original art sale.  More to come. 

More products up and coming for the crafts area are special acetate or  fairy wings straight from the backs of Fortryllelse Fae.  We are thrilled to be contributing to the creative lives of our friends who can now make any little girl, kitty, frog or … guinea pig a real Fortryllelse Fairy.  Perfect for doll-makers.  See our ebay listings as they come up. 

 The first 4 resin figurines have been released by LTT international.   They will be available shortly, as soon as we get them in we will post them for sale to you!  In the meantime look for them at local giftshops and online.  I am thrilled with them, they really did a beautiful job with them.  When we start offering them for sale we will be including a matching signed greeting card which makes it a perfect gift!

Brightest Blessings!

Sarah

   Well, Im back from showing at the FaerieCon.  I had a fantastic time, and got to finally meet all my fairy friends in person after all these years of chatting via the internet.  It was the first year of this show and I am thrilled to have been a part of it.  I sold very well, and I want to thank everyone for coming out and seeing us, it was great fun to sign your 500 Fairy Motifs books, and your Drawing and Painting Fairies books.  I also got to meet a woman who has immortalized my art into tattoos!  How flattering that is!  (I want a picture for my site!)  Let me tell you, Elfstone is getting dangerously close to the end of the print run.  I am sad to say, if you want her in your home you probably better act fast.  I only have 30 left and that is all that remains in the world!  Photos to come!

Sarah Pauline and Lisa Steinke photo by Dorothy Wallace

Hangin with Brian Froud!  Photo by Dorothy Wallace

Welcome friends to the Fortryllelse Studios Gardening page.  Here we will be posting photographs and notes about working in our gardens, enjoying our gardens and decorating our gardens!  In honor of the all hallows eve season, lets talk about black plants!  I recently discovered the joys of Gothic Gardening and have begun to collect many many varieties of ‘black plants’.  Of course they are mostly not true black but are very dark in color and add a rich feel to the garden.  My hope is to create a completely black garden to decorate in a deliciously morose way with gargoyles and other strange things…  So far I have black Calla Lilies which I have painted into immortality with my Black Calla fairy, Very dark Cannas, Black Tulips, Black Roses and a few plants that I bought for their rich dark mahogany leaves…and the naughty gardener that I am, I have forgotten their names!  Photos soon to come!   Happy Ghoulish Gardening!  ~ Sarah