The Princess Tales

To my esteemed readers,

As many of you know, for the past year, I have been working on re-tellings of several classic fairy tales. I had originally planned on doing only five: Cinderella, Rapunzel, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, and The Princess and the Pea.

About half-way through The Princess and the Pea, however, I realized that I didn't want to quit doing The Princess Tales. So I decided to do three more and split the eight I had into two volumes: Once Upon a Time, and Not So Happily Ever After. Then I got even more ideas and decided to to a third volume, entitled Damsels of Distress. (It was originally going to be Damsels in Distress, but I prefer the new title.)

But I still wasn't finished. However, I wasn't sure which fairy tales to do. I didn't want to pick obscure ones, but I thought I had pretty much covered the more well-known ones. So, I picked up a few fairy tale collections and started paging through. The ones I thought were the best choices I put up as a poll on my blog, and several of you voted for the ones you wanted to see re-written.

So, I am pleased to announce that there will be a fourth volume of Princess Tales, containing the following fairy tales.

The Little Mermaid

Thumbelina

Snow White and Rose Red

The Wild Swans

The new volume will be entitled Knights in Shining Armor.

I am not entirely sure if this will be the last Princess Tales volume. If I find more new fairy tales or come up with new ideas of my own, then there might be. If you have any suggestions for new Princess Tales, feel free to comment and leave ideas. Thank you for all of you who voted on the poll.

In Fervent Hope of Personal Sanity,

R.e. Mayes

Christmas Break

I'm currently on Christmas break. I haven't done a whole lot, but I have done some.

I started out my break going to a surprise birthday party for a friend of mine. We stayed up until almost 4 in the morning watching Beauty and the Beast.

A few days later, I went to my friend's early birthday party. Just for kicks, we did goth-girl makeovers and made grilled cheese sandwiches at 2 in the morning. We also went sledding. My second time down the hill I ran into a fence and hurt my backside. Ouch.

On Christmas Eve, we finally had a living room to put our tree up in, so we put it up and went to the Christmas Eve service at church, despite rain. (Yes, we did have rain on Christmas Eve. Which was lame.)

We also had rain on Christmas as well, although that turned into snow in time for us to watch White Christmas later that night. (Which is good, because watching White Christmas when it's not snowing is even lamer than rain on Christmas Eve.)

My grandparents came the day after Christmas, and my mom and my grandma and I went shopping yesterday. Needless to say, we did a considerable bit of economic stimulation. :)

On Thursday night, I'll be going to the annual youth group all-nighter, which will include laser tagging, Wii tournaments, and possibly sledding.
I'll try to put pictures on when I can figure out how to.