Snow White Moon Bun and the Seven Dwarves

Welcome to a month of Fairy Tales! This month, Moon's Creations will be creating one unique design throughout the month of May. Enjoy this fun series!

Snow White is a widely known German fairy tale thanks to Walt Disney's 1937 film. It's a story which involves an evil Witch of a step-mother, a magic mirror, seven helpful dwarves, a poisoned apple, a glass coffin, and a beautiful girl, named Snow White. Read more about this tale here.

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Allerleirauh Moon Bun

Welcome to a month of Fairy Tales! This month, Moon's Creations will be creating one unique design throughout the month of May. Enjoy this fun series!

Allerleirauh, German for "All-Kinds-of-Fur" or "Thousand Furs," is a fairy tale about a princess who flees her father, who wants to marry her, with 3 celestial dresses and a mantle made of animal furs. Hiding her beauty under the mantle, she finds employment in the kitchen of a prince. She attends 3 consecutive balls held by the prince, wearing her 3 beautiful dresses. The prince discovers her disguise when she doesn't have the time to remove her golden dress and he marries her. Read more about this tale here.

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Grasshopper and Cricket

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Grasshopper and Cricket are from the French fairy tale, The Golden Branch by Madame d'Aulnoy. It's a fantastical tale of enchantments, transformations, pride, reconciliation, and of course love.  Read more about this tale here.

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Urashima Taro Moon Bun

Welcome to a month of Fairy Tales! This month, Moon's Creations will be creating one unique design throughout the month of May. Enjoy this fun series!

Urashima Taro is a well-known Japanese fairy tale about a fisherman who rescues a turtle. A large sea turtle takes him to the palace of the Dragon God as his reward. He stays there for a few days days with the Dragon God's daughter, before he wishes to return to his village. She give him a box, which will protect him from harm but forbids him from opening. Upon his return to his village, finds himself 300 years in the future. He opens the box and immediately ages 300 years.
Read more about this tale here.

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Sweet Porridge Pot

Welcome to a month of Fairy Tales! This month, Moon's Creations will be creating one unique design throughout the month of May. Enjoy this fun series!

Sweet Porridge Pot is from the Grimm fairy tale, Sweet Porridge. In the tale, A poor girl is given a magic, little pot, which when she said, "Cook, little pot, cook," it would cook sweet porridge, and when she said, "Stop, little pot," it ceased to cook. When the girl had gone out, her mother said, "Cook, little pot, cook," but did not know the words to make it stop. So the pot went on cooking until the whole town was full of porridge. At last the girl came home and stopped the pot, and whosoever wished to return to the town had to eat their way back.

Read more about this tale here.

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The Little Mermaid Moon Bun

Welcome to a month of Fairy Tales! This month, Moon's Creations will be creating one unique design throughout the month of May. Enjoy this fun series!

The Little Mermaid is a well-known fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. It is the story of a young mermaid who tragically falls in love with a human prince. Read more about this tale here.

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Shitakiri Suzume or The Tongue-Cut Sparrow

Welcome to a month of Fairy Tales! This month, Moon's Creations will be creating one unique design throughout the month of May. Enjoy this fun series!

Shitakiri Suzume, or The Tongue-Cut Sparrow, is a Japanese fairy tale about the rewards of kindness and moderation. In the story, an elderly man rescues a sparrow. His cruel wife cuts the sparrow's tongue with a pair of scissors for eating her food and the sparrow flies away. When the elderly man goes in search for his friend, the sparrow offers him the choice of one large basket or one small basket to take home with him.  The elderly man chooses the smaller basket, as he thinks it will be easier to carry, and upon arriving home discovers it's full of treasure.  His greedy wife goes in search of the sparrow and chooses the large basket, which was filled with monsters.  Read more about this tale here.

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Beauty and The Beast Moon Buns

Welcome to a month of Fairy Tales! This month, Moon's Creations will be creating one unique design throughout the month of May. Enjoy this fun series!

Beauty and The Beast is a well-known and often re-told fairy tale. The underlying plot is about a beautiful woman sent to live with an ugly beast. Through her tears of love, she returns The Beast into his handsome, princely appearance. Read more about this tale here.

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I was re-reading Pride and Prejudice while making these dolls and I must admit I see a bit of Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet in these two dolls. I can just imagine Jane Austin being inspired by Beauty and The Beast with her novel. It makes me laugh!

The Swan-Winged Prince Moon Bun

Welcome to a month of Fairy Tales! This month, Moon's Creations will be creating one unique design throughout the month of May. Enjoy this fun series!

 The Swan-Winged Prince is from the fairy tale, The Six Swans. In it, six princes are turned into swans by a wicked step-mother. To free them, their younger sister, must make six shirts out of starwort and not speak or laugh for six years. A king discovers her and they marry. The young Princess is accused of witchcraft, but cannot defend herself. When brought to the stake she throws the shirts over her brothers and they regain their human form, except the youngest, whose shirt was not finished and was left with a swan's wing. Read more here.

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The Ferryman Moon Bun

Welcome to a month of Fairy Tales! This month, Moon's Creations will be creating one unique design throughout the month of May. Enjoy this fun series!

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Also a big Happy Mother's Day to all the Mums out there!
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The Ferryman is from the German fairy tale, The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs. This story is about a boy who is blessed by fate. The story is definitely worth a read and much longer than I can easily sum up here, but once you've read it, you'll understand my desire to make the Ferryman (or at least I hope you will.) Read more about this tale here.

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