Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Elysium Fairy of the Vinyard

fairy of vinyard
The Senior center is having a fund raiser dinner raffle etc. This is one of the dolls I am donating for the raffle. The pattern is Chocoate Goddess by Mary Tressler. She has a full lace bodysuit, with a beaded thong. Her wings are pink and blue pearls, little white pearl flowers with rhinestone centers and blue sequin outer petals, pale blue seed beads as fillers. they are attached to her back with velcro. She was made for the Sweet Challenge on Uncommonfolk.com
With all of the storms due to Ike, and the internet trolls, The picture didn't get where it was suposed to. Such is life. I made her into a fairy of the vinyard. I found a name of a wine that I liked and named her.

Elysium Greek for Heaven
Elysium – Black Muscat, another under appreciated muscat variety, is known in Europe as a table grape variety, Muscat Hamburg, one of the very few black skinned muscats. If ripened to about 25 brix, it attains a rose-like aroma and litchi like flavor. This rose-like aroma led us to name the wine Elysium, Greek for heaven. Drinking this, you can almost feel you have fallen into a rose garden and been transported to heaven. Elysium is used to either accompany or replace dessert. It is wonderful with blue cheeses, with desserts containing red fruits (such as Summer Pudding, an English favorite), with vanilla, with dark chocolate, with ice cream desserts, and candlelight. One favorite is to pour the wine onto vanilla ice cream. Serve Elysium Sundae with a glass of Elysium.