A "ONCE UPON A TIME " Story MIX about a shelf....

I ask you to remember that I am OLDEN.......VERY olden and
so one might tolerate  the 2nd ChildHood I seem to go thru
every now and then.
Hence, the pure silliness of this post today.
I was accused once of "never growing up"......
I hope I NEVER DO.

 ONCE UPON A TIME....

in the far off magical land of SWEET NOTHINGS,

there lived  KING SWEET and QUEEN bj

  in an olden but loved castle.

One day, not too terribly long ago, the Queen was having an afternoon snack

when the PONY EXPRESS arrived, with the most delightful catalog 

from the mystic land of MacKenzie♣ Childs.

She was SO intent on eating her curds and whey peanut butter crackers

and fresh pineapple slices

that she ALMOST missed what was to be in her dreams at night.

(and no.......it wasn't JOHNNY DEPP )

 Alas, it was the most amazingly beautiful shelf in all of BLOGLAND.

It haunted the Queen, day and night....

night and day....

and everything in between.

 ♣ ♣ ♣

 FINALLY....

swearing she would never, EVER ask him to build another single solitary thing,

(and little did he know she had all ten toes crossed
and he wondered why she kept falling to her knees)

she asked KING SWEET if he would make all her dreams come true

and build that shelf for her.

 

 Before she could get the pea out from under her mattress, the KING had gathered tools and lumber
and was hard at work.


 And since the QUEEN was born with a  "hindrance".....a severe 'handicap', you might say,
something that no medicine in all the land would cure....
this strange "condition"  has two names....
TALENTLESS
and
CRAFTYLESS,
she mentioned that, not only would he have to BUILD the
most amazingly beautiful shelf in all of BLOGLAND, he
would also be responsible for the hand painting of it all.
OOO, The Queen knew she MIGHT be able to tape off and make the black and white stripes...
but NO WAY could she even BEGIN to paint the COLOR DRAGGING that MacKenzie♣ Childs is famous for. (and, I am pretty sure MC doesn't "tape off".....free hand, I think)
But KING SWEET could do it.....could and DID !
Why....he could build the Hickory Dickery Dock Clock, if ever he wanted to.

 Never BATTING an eye and without the use of his Bat Cape,

he built that shelf to look JUST LIKE 

the one in the catalog from the land of MacKenzie♣Childs......
the one that sells for $1000.00 American Dollars. *whew

And not only did he build that shelf in less than

 40 days and 40 nights,

he assembled all the paints, brushes and

courage from the Wizard of Oz

and he had that shelf painted in no time at all.

THEN, THE KING AND I began to play

                       THE WAITING GAME.

They had to wait until the beautiful, solid brass KNOBS and solid brass BALLS
arrived, again by PONY EXPRESS.

 THEN....

the SHELF JEWELRY began to pour in.

The golden knobs for the front....
but, alas, Buzz Lightyear, the Pony Express rider, said
he had no golden balls for the top of the shelf.

The KING said, "Oh, hang it all...I shall place the mirrored
shelf on the wall of the Castle anyway."

So, kindly ENTER......

The Queen  was in her counting house, counting out the money  was jumping all around with joy.
The shelf looked
JUST LIKE  the shelf from
THE LAND OF MACKENZIE♣CHILDS.

Can you see her look of happiness in the
"MIRROR MIRROR ON THE WALL" ?
(by the way, if you haven't seen MIRROR MIRROR with
Julia Roberts, it's a darling movie)

AND THEN....we heard, once again, the sound of HOOFS on the front lawn, just this side of

the moat.....

"YOUR HINEYNESS HIGHNESS, the BALLS have come...the BALLS have come."

(i'm not goin' THERE)

The bright and shiny BRASS BALLS added the final touch on the magical shelf.

The master crafters at MACKENZIE♣CHILDS  added adorable
RED Metal birds to THEIR shelf...

... the Queen sent many runners, SEVEN DWARFS, to be exact, out into the land to find the
RED METAL BIRDS....
"bring them back on a tray".
but....much to their dismay,
none were to be found.

The beautiful and very YOUNG 
Queen, being the kind soul that she was, said...
"Never fear.....I just happened across some little
CERAMIC RED BIRDS from
THE LAND OF ETSY.
These little ones will suffice and I will WISH UPON A STAR for the
REAL THING ."

 Placed in the entry to the Castle, along with the cute- as- can -be -bench,

also fashioned by THE CARPENTER KING, 

the Queen was very happy.
She had noticed that the only RED used on the M♣C shelf
was on the narrow bottom of the shelf.

The tiny Aladden lamp night light lamp
seems very tiny......perhaps TOO tiny
for the space.
hmmmmm.....what would look good here?
We do love a small light in the entry to
our castle...
and those are REAL flowers and
they must be planted in the
Castle Gardens.....
I must search for beautiful FAUXS
for this spot.

THIS sweet message was written on the back of the shelf....just in time for the anniversary date,

and I am pretty sure that there in NOTHING like this coming

from the Land of MacKenzie♣Childs.

"My heartfelt thanks for this beautiful reminder, your Majesty."

And, so, with the most beautiful shelf in all of Blogland
hanging in place,
The KING and Queen lived happily ever after.

I hope YA'LL  have Happily Ever Afters, too.
xoxo bj

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