BEST OF 2008 FROUDIANS

It was a tough decision this year when reviewing all of our entries for the Froudian Artists, Froudian Tattoos and Froudian poems that were submitted in 2008. To see whom we thought were the best of the best, please click here.

We have just received confirmation that Wendy's new 2 disc DVD, CREATING A CHARACTER FIGURE, will be released this month from Gnomon Workshop. In this highly anticipated sequel to her first DVD, the internationally praised CREATING A FAERIE FIGURE, Wendy Froud explains and demonstrates how to create a character figure of your own design and reveals her process in step-by-step detail. This DVD is meant to follow Wendy's first DVD and focuses on character sculpting and costuming without the same emphasis given to body fabricating. Please place your pre-order NOW and get your DVD from our first shipment! DVD's will ship on or before January 12th 2009.

SALE PRICE - $45.00

12-2008

Sculptor and puppeteer Toby Froud will be giving a Puppet Making Workshop at the Hilton Hotel in Eugene on Saturday, January 31st. His workshop at FaerieCon sold out and drew raves reviews, like the one below:

"So glad to hear about the workshops! Definitely put me down for Toby's puppetry workshop! I had so much fun at his rod puppet workshop this fall at FaerieCon and have put all of that knowledge to use over and over again!"- Candice Westberg

This is a rare opportunity to get valuable experience on puppet building and personal guidance within a small group. It the perfect way to spend the afternoon before the Bad Faeries Ball! Here's the course info:

Breathing Life into Puppets with Toby Froud
Saturday 01/31/09 9:00AM - 12:30 PM- Just Added!
Saturday 01/31/09 12:30PM - 4:00 PM- FULL

Using Toby's basic Muppet-type puppet, participants will create a unique puppet head of their own adding elements such as eyes, brows, nose and hair to create expression. Toby will then provide instruction in finding your puppet's voice and ways to animate the puppet to breathe life into its character. This workshop is appropriate for all ages. All materials are included.

Maximum participants: 20

Workshop cost: $50.00

CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP!

12-2008

Wendy's lovely dolls and an interview with her are included in a new book, "Art Figuratif et Poupees Contemporaines de Collection" by Aude Berger. Here is a link to the publisher's website: www.lespresseslitteraires.com

12-2008

Not sure what to give? Get one of our new World of Froud Gift Certificates: you choose the amount and we will send it to the person you request and they can have fun shopping for their own perfect faerie gift. We have made Holiday shopping fast and easy for any lover of faerie: Give books and prints by Brian & Wendy or shop for music, posters and other gifts in the our Goblin Market Store. We know we are all being careful with our spending so you can choose the amount of the Gift that's right for you. Transform the lives of those you love this Season with faerie magic: give the gift of World of Froud!

A SPECIAL GIFT FOR YOU - WORLD OF FROUD HOLIDAY SALE CONTINUES!
Still thinking about that special gift for your favorite lover of faerie - or yourself? We want to make your decision a little easier so we are offering you an additional $5.00 off any order of $25.00 or more.. and that includes all Sale items! Just use this Special Discount CODE when you order:
WOFGIFT08. Just one use per customer: offer ends January 5th, 2009.

To view the items on sale and/or to order a gift certificate, please visit the Goblin Market.

12-2008

FAERIEWORLDS PRESENTS THE "GOOD FAERIES & BAD FAERIES"
MASQUARADE BALLS: JANUARY 30TH & 31ST 2009

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Is a year too long to wait to see your friends, favorite bands, vendors, performers and artists from Faerieworlds? Are you looking for something fantastic and fun for the family to do after the passing of the Holidays? In the spirit of the season, we are happy to announce the First Annual Faerieworlds Winter Celebration:

The Good Faeries and Bad Faeries Masquerade Balls
on Friday and Saturday nights, January 30th & 31st, 2009.
at the Historic McDonald Theater in Eugene for TWO spectacular nights featuring the magic, revelry and the music of Faerieworlds

Featuring live performances by:
Woodland - Kan'nal (their last performance until 2012!)- Trillian Green - Tricky Pixie and special guest Toby Froud and "Ignatz"

Shrug off your sweaters and fleece and dress up in all your faerie finery and dance to Faerieworlds favorite bands. Spin under the luminous enchantment of the World of Froud Lightshow, shop at the best of Faerieworlds vendors, enter the costume contest, win door prizes, and get free gifts just for joining us. These Masquerade Balls have been the highlight of our East Coast show, FaerieCon, for two years and have a passionate following. Each night has a different theme and energy, so much so that we now have a saying: "What happens at the Bad Faeries Ball, stays at the Bad Faeries Ball." - Fair warning! Are you a Good Faery or a Bad Faery? - Choose your side and choose your night, or better yet, join us for both nights for and SAVE with this Special Offer:

TICKETS CONTINUE TO SELL FAST! SPECIAL OFFER!
The Winter Celebration is clearly the place to be in January: tickets to the Masquerade Balls continue to sell every day. Are you a Good Faerie or a Bad Faerie, or both? Start creating your costume today so you are ready to strut your magical stuff next month. Get your discounted, Two Night Winter Celebration Pass now! Our original Weekend Pass offer has sold out, so the next 100 people who buy the Pass will get a FREE copy of TIME OF THE FAERIES by J. Corsentino, the artist whose images graced our Faerieworlds poster this year. So order now and pick your free book up at the theater... BUY THE WINTER CELEBRATION PASS NOW ONLINE!

More information on the Good Faeries & Bad Faeries
Masquerade balls and to purchase tickets please visit faerieballs.com.

12-2008

NEWS FROM FAERIEWORLDS!

HEADLINE BAND TO BE ANNOUNCED! At Faerieworlds, it's our goal to continually introduce exciting and groundbreaking bands to our community. On Christmas Day, we will announce an internationally acclaimed band that will make their US premiere performance at Faerieworlds. We love getting band requests from you and we listen to every one. Here's a hint: for five years this has been the MOST REQUESTED BAND by our Faerieworlds fans!

GUESS THE FAERIEWORLDS HEADLINING BAND! Think you know who it is? The first six people to guess the bands name will receive a free Faerieworlds T-Shirt! Send in your guess to:contest@faerieworlds.com (one guess per email address)

SPECIAL DISCOUNTED ROOM RATES AT THE HILTON! We have just confirmed a very special $99 a night room rate at the Hilton in downtown Eugene, just a few short blocks from the McDonald Theater. We are happy to see so many guests are joining us from out of town and the Hilton is the ideal location for you. We are creating a special hotel discount site and call in code for you to order your rooms now and we will announce it next week on the site - don't call the hotel yet or you won't get our special rate.

12-2008

DUIRWAIGH GALLERY EXHIBITION
October 27 - November 30th 2008

Duirwaigh Gallery will be displaying some of Wendy Froud's sculptures (seen below) and an original Brian Froud piece October 27 - November 30th 2008 during their "A Walk Through Wonderland" exhibition.

For more information please visit www.duirwaighgallery.com

10-2008

WORLD OF FROUD RECOMMENDS:
HOLLY BLACK'S NEW GRAPHIC NOVEL, "THE GOOD NEIGHBORS"

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The Good Neighbors is written by bestselling author Holly Black and illustrated by Ted Naifeh.

The human realm and the faerie realm have always been good neighbors. But all that is about to change... Rue Silver's life isn't at all as it appears to be. Her mother has disappeared - and her father is being blamed for her murder. Is he guilty? Or is there another truth behind it all? Rue digs deeper into her family's past and makes a startling discovery: her mother is a faerie, and she's vanished back into the faerie realm because of a broken promise. In order to save her, Rue must defeat a dark faerie that threatens our very mortal world. For more on the Good Neighbors visit www.scholastic.com/goodneighbors.

In bookstores now!

In bookstores now!

10-2008

A SPECIAL MESSAGE FROM FAERIEWORLDS AND FAERIECON
GUEST AUTHOR DIANA ZIMMERMAN

So many of you have emailed me about getting prints of the incredible artwork from my book, Kandide and the Secret of the Mists, by Australian faerie artist, Maxine Gadd.

Great news, now you can - and you don't even have to pay for it!

We have selected the four most popular characters, Kandide, Princess Tara, Lady Aron, and Cyndara (from Book Two) and reproduced them as beautiful, limited edition, 11x14 full-color prints. Each print regularly sells for $20.00, or the complete set for $60.00.

You can get all four prints for FREE (we even pay postage) as part of our special, limited time, in-store Barnes and Noble promotion.

* Purchase one copy of Kandide and the Secret of the Mists ($9.99 plus tax) from any Barnes & Noble store in your area before October 1st, and we will send you two of the prints, Kandide and Tara for FREE.

Collect All Four Prints

* Purchase two copies of Kandide and the Secret of the Mists, one for you and one for a friend, (they make great stocking stuffers and birthday gifts) and you will receive the entire set of four beautiful prints - a $60.00 value - for FREE. My publisher will even pay the shipping.

And There's More!

* You will receive these special bonus gifts: A signed bookplate and bookmark for each book, plus a free pair of tickets to FaerieCon at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia, PA. October 10-12, 2008 - a $50 value. FaerieCon is the largest gathering of faerie artists and authors in the world featuring Lord Of The Rings artist, Alan Lee and FAERIES artist Brian Froud, and me - Diana Zimmerman. Bring your book and have it signed in person.

Here's How to Get Your Free Prints and Bonus Gifts:

Just e-mail a copy of your Barnes and Noble receipt to: kandide@kandide.com
Or send a copy to:
Kandide B&N Promotion
c/o CMS communications, Intl
5777 W. Century Blvd. #200
Los Angeles, CA 90045

Kandide has touched the hearts of thousands around the globe. It skyrocketed to #4 on the Amazon.com Best Seller list and the first edition printing is almost sold out. Your support made it happen! The New Year will bring more adventures of Kandide. Book 2 will be out in April and Book 3 in the fall.

Here's your chance to share the magic of Kandide during the Holidays. These magical prints and Kandide make wonderful gifts.

With heartfelt thanks,

Diana

Please Note: This limited time offer is only available for in-store purchases of "Kandide and the Secret of the Mists" from Barnes and Noble, and not for online purchases or from any other retailer.

09-2008

NEW WORLD OF FROUD APPAREL AND DECORATIVE TILES PREMIERING AT FAERIEWORLDS!

Brian Froud and Imaginosis are proud to announce an exceptional new line of apparel from Crystal Tara. These striking, richly colorful t-shirts, baby doll dresses and tanks are hand screened over the full body of the garment with Froud art. Images featured are "Kissed By The Pixies," "Topsy Turvy," "Queen Bridghid the Bright" and "Mask of Truth."

World of Froud and Crystal Tara will premiere this new line at Faerieworlds on August 1st - 3rd with on-line sales beginning after the festival. For a sneak preview, visit: www.crystaltara.com/catalog_9_New_Items_07.htm

Our new line of decorative ceramic tiles from "Ceramic Sensations" at Add an Accent will also premiere at Faerieworlds. These dynamic 8"x10" full color tiles feature cork backing and two recessed hangers that fold flat for countertop use. Designs include: "Unicorn Tapestry," "Emergence," "Hestia," "Tinkerbelle," "Green Woman," "Lady of the Leprechauns," "Morgana," "Queen of the Bad Faeries," "The Owl Queen," "Briar Rose," "Unicorn Woman," "The Faerie Egg," "Wood Spirit" and "The Blue Knight." Stay tuned on availability!

07-2008

FROUD'S PARIS DOLL ART EXHIBITION IS A GREAT SUCCESS!

Brian and Wendy Froud's first exhibition of their art in Paris at Galerie Daniel Magden drew a record number of artists and lovers of faerie to meet the Frouds and view their original art for the first time. Several original works were purchased by very happy collectors, assuring that the Frouds will return to Paris for another exhibition in the future.

Wendy's national doll making workshop tour was a great success. All the workshops sold out and all attendees were thrilled to work so closely with Wendy and Toby in creating their own faerie dolls. Wendy really enjoyed the experience and will surely be returning to the US again next year for here Spring workshops. We are in the midst of planning some very special workshops and presentations with Brian, Wendy and Toby for this summer and fall so please watch this site for upcoming announcements.

When Wendy was in Los Angeles in May for her workshops there, she also filmed her next doll making DVD for the Gnomon Workshop which will feature how to make fantasy figures. The DVD will be released this fall; please watch the site for the release date.

NOTE: We are currently out of stock on Wendy's first DVD. We will announce when we are back in stock.

NEW WENDY FROUD INTERVIEW!

Wendy Froud took some time to give an interview to The Gnomon Workshop, the company who is currently producing a followup to Wendy's Creating a Faery Figure DVD. Read more about her dollmaking techniques, her upcoming DVD this fall and other projectss in this great interview!

Read the interview here.

05-2008

FROUD FAERY WEAR NOW AVAILABLE!

The wonderful line of faerie apparel that premiered at FaerieCon this past October is now available for you to order!

"When Candace Savage approached me about collaborating on a line of Froud Faery clothing, I wanted to try something that I felt hadn't been done before, or at least not in the way I wanted to approach it. Candace has been making beautiful, romantic clothing for women with her company Gypsy Moon, for years. Candace believes in the romance of clothes. I believe that faeries are basically romantic whether in their familiar, woodland surroundings or in their more surprising urban guises. Candace and I decided that we wanted to create a line of clothing that would allow women to "feel like a faery" for as long as they wished to. We also wanted to design clothes that could be worn not just for Faerie Festivals but for any special gathering and in some cases just to wear down to the local shops or a day out in town. Our Urban Faery clothes are darker and made of silk jersey and heavier woven silk while the Woodland Faery clothes are silk chiffon: light, floaty and fairly sheer ( with under shifts for modesty!). They all are "one size fits most." For more information, visit gypsymoon.com."
~ Wendy Froud

02-2008

FAERIE RADIO: THE SOUNDTRACK TO THE MAGICAL LIFE!

We are proud to announce our new music site, FAERIE RADIO!

Music is such an essential part of the magical, transformational experience of Faerieworlds and FaerieCon; it's really the heart and soul of our events. More than any other activity, music summons and delights the faeries with its compelling rhythms, engaging melodies and deep emotions. Now you can bring the faerie spirit of our events into your life every day with Faerie Radio, the perfect companion at work or at play. Enjoy your journey through the musical landscape of Faerie Radio: the Soundtrack to the Magical Life!

For more information and to visit Faerie Radio, please visit faerieradio.com.

01-2008