Eight mice a-sewing
seven dwarves dancing
six sisters singing
five cursed friend
four braiding girls
three fairy spells
two lucky pals
and the wisdom of an old tree.
I guess I have to apologize...I did my best to create pages featuring the princesses as the sole centre of attraction, but with jasmijn that is a little bit difficult because she is usually featured with Aladdin, rarely alone. I could have either found of created a picture of jasmijn if I really wanted to, but I really liked this one and it just seemed to fit her the best. So I made an exception here and included the prince in the picture (well, I kind of included Naveen, too, but only as a frog).
Remember what I zei in the last artikel about discovering all those cool information about Heiva? This little project proved to be in general a learning experience regarding the most famous holidays and where and how they get celebrated. I knew from the get go that I wanted to include non-Christian holidays, but that proved to be extremely difficult. With Jewish Holidays my main problem was that the "big ones" were all in months in which I already decided on a different holiday, plus, a lot of them are meer long term celebrations of the kind, which made it difficult to pin down one single specific date. So in the end, I had to give up on that idea, but I really, really wanted at least an Islamic holiday, only to discover, that different leanings of Islam are using a slightly different calendar, resulting in different dates for their celebrations. On top, boven of this, some holidays are based on the lunar calendar. For example if I had picked Eid al-Fitr, the Festival of Breaking the Fast which is celebrated towards the end of Ramadan, I could have only added an approximately datum for it.
Though I admit, the holiday I wanted to include the most was Eid-al Adha (the Festival of Sacrifice) anyway, which I guess is the most well known celebration of them all and is at least somewhat celebrated around the same time in most places. Problem was that volgende jaar it will basically start in July, but end in August. And just marking the starting dag would have put me in the situation having to either pick the Sunni of Shia date. My first thought was to just pick the datum which is used in my country, but this would have been July 30, and I had my hart-, hart set on featuring Heiva in July. So I ended up with a small cheat door marking the holiday in August, but in a way which suggests that it is a celebration which starts beforehand but bleeds into the first weekend in August. I hope I don't offend anyone with this decision.
Also, there is naturally no inclination that jasmijn is even following any faith at all, but I think it is fair to say that if any princess represents this holiday, it should be her. For the icoon I tried to create something which captured the religious as well as the celebratory nature of the festival.
For the goud version I felt that a peacock feather would be the best symbol for her. As usual I created a version with Jasmine:
And one just featuring her name:
In the pantheon, she is replacing Hermes/Mercury, as goddess of travel, communication and thieves.
Speaking of thieves, for the banner I deliberately picked something which featured her first encounter with Aladdin, just to have her in an entirely different style of clothing for this one. I also felt that it fit the quote I picked for her the best.
Not sure when the volgende artikel will be up, because pre-christmas preparation are starting to take up my time plus, I still have to finish the last artikel for this years fairy tale maand (featuring Snow White) over at my blog, but it will be done door the weekend at the latest.
