Michelle Tierney
The Fairy Queen

Keeper of Crystal Castle, Pegasus Starfleet Alliance Member Number 1, and Ruler of All Fairyland - The Fairy Queen is a very busy fairy these days! Her favourite things to do in Fairyland are hosting gala balls at Crystal Castle and shopping for pearl encrusted shoes at King Neptune's Shoe Emporium. The Fairy Queen's favourite saying is, "Believe in Fairies, because they believe in you".

Michelle left her position as a project officer for the Department of Child Safety to concentrate on the growing success of Fairy Queen Productions. She has recently completed a Bachelor of Social Science/Bachelor of Arts at the University of Queensland and is (insanely) looking at post-grad study. Michelle enjoys reading the wicked philosophy and wisdom of Lucy from the "Peanuts" comic strip and sadly misses 'doing' parties due to her ever-growing administration role. She does, however, revel in taking to the stage during our live performance concerts.

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Mechelle "Shelly" Walker
Crystal

Crystal lives in Pegasus Palace, overlooking the Radiance River. It is her royal duty to look after the pegasusii for the Fairy Queen. She teaches them to formation fly and how to catch comets, and also shows them how to become invisible when a human is around. Her favourite thing to eat is buttercup tea served with strawberries and mooncream.

Shelly is also a student of the University of Queensland, studying a Bachelor of Social Work. She is the proud mother of 13-year-old Ehmily who was the inspiration behind Fairy Queen Productions, and is also mum to 5-year-old twins Tom & Lily. (The Fairy Queen's god-children by the way!) Mechelle enjoys sushi, riding donkeys and camels, and has been known to take pleasure in (very) bad 80's music.

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Jamie Oakley
Blossom

During the week, Blossom's job is to make sure all the flowers wake up nice and early and bloom when the sun shines, so that the boys and girls can smell them when they make their way to school. Blossom has lots of pets - a fairy kitten called Willow, a puppy dog called Snowy, a dragon called Bernie, a bunny rabbit called Furball and a turtle called Slow Poke. Blossom has recently returned from a one-year posting as Fairy Ambassador to the British Council of Fairies, located in London, and we are very glad to have her back.

Jamie left the Department of Emergency Services to return to the Department of Justice and currently holds a Justice of the Peace qualification. She has also studying for a Bachelor of Business (Marketing) degree at Griffith University. Jamie has been involved in community and youth organisations for many years and has a (not-so) secret passion to one day discover a real-live care bear. Jamie is the third of the three (yes, us, the mad creators).

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Rebecca Wessels
Cupcake

Guess what Cupcake does in Fairyland? Yes! She bakes our cupcakes for us, and oh, what delicious cupcakes she bakes! While all the fairies are sleeping, cupcake is busily baking in the Fairy Queens' kitchen.  Fairy cupcakes are her favourite thing to bake (and eat).  First she mixes flour, butter, and sugar, and then carefully breaks in some eggs.  For the special ingredients that make the cupcakes magical and delicious, Cupcake adds a few drops of Fairy sprinkles, some sparkles from a unicorn's horn, a teaspoon of dust from a shooting star and finishes with a tiny sprinkling of rainbow dew.

Rebecca has a Bachelor of Education and works as an Early Childhood Officer.  Rebecca loves Fairy parties and enjoys playing lots of fun and exciting games like cat and mouse, musical spots, parachute games, and much, much more. We were fortunate enough to have Bec join us in April 2009, and like all of our fairies, she is never allowed to leave Fairyland!

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Emily Bennett
Summer

Summer's main job in Fairyland is to make sure that the sun is all fit and ready for the summer months. She takes over from Fairy Princess Spring every year and helps the sun shine both bright and long, so we can all enjoy our fabulous summer days. You can see how close Summer has been to the sun when you look at her hair. Touches of sunlight bounce off it, and we are certain that it gets blonder every year!

Emily joined FQP in October 2009, just as she (very excitedly) completed her Senior studies. She is currently working full-time for a child care centre while studying for her certificate three in children services to become a qualified assistant. Emily is a little on the cheeky side of things, and shows boundless energy and enthusiasm at all of her Fairy parties.

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April Jenkinson
Fairy Floss

Naturally, Fairy Floss's favourite food is Fairy Floss! She is the chief Fairy Floss maker of Fairyland and we all marvel at the wonderful flavours Floss creates. You really should try her Marshmallowed Dewdrop flavour - it's quite delicious! You'll often find Fairy Floss down at the Fairy Forest amongst the wild flowers and big, old and wise trees, where there are many little animals to meet and play with.

April works for the Queensland Police Department during the week, and when the weekend comes she is all smiles and the proud mum of little Fairy baby Seth. After many years of involvement with youth organisations, her wealth of experience in entertaining children has been seen at our parties since July 2007. April is one of our more organised fairies and is often seen around FQHQ, helping the fairy factory prepare for another fabulous event.

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Shea Welsh
Petal

Petal lives at Mushroom Meadow in Fairyland. Her father is a gnome and her mother is a flora fairy, so naturally Petal has a pair of green thumbs. Petal's official role in Fairyland is to watch over the Fairy Queen's official flower garden. She distributes flowers to Crystal Castle weekly, and also to unexpecting humans to brighten their day or help celebrate special events!

Shea studied early childhood in high school, obtained a Cert III working with children and began with FQP in July 2007. A current First Aid Certificate holder, Shea is at University studying to be a midwife so she can help to deliver all of those fairy babies. She is all about being silly with the kids and the parents - the more laughing done the better! And of course, she has excellent dance moves. (Just ask Shea).

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Rachel Peacock
Apple

Apple's royal duty is to ensure that all Fairies eat healthy, fresh food every day. She lives with her baby sister Princess Strawberry and her mum Fairy Watermelon in the big apple house over on Orchard Lane. Apple enjoys making fruit salad and always makes sure there is apple included: either pink lady, gala, or granny smiths!

Rachel is currently studying a Bachelor of Occupational Therapy at the University of Queensland. She also currently works at the after-school care in her old primary school as she just couldn't let go of the place and does the occasional stint in her cousins' florist shop! Always smiling, always giggling, often seen eating McDonalds, Rachel has been a much loved addition to our Fairy family since June 2009.

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Jessika Keegan
Clover

Clover spends much of her time in Fairyland, off in the meadows searching for her very rare four-leafed clover friends. She tells us they take many years (and much encouragement) to develop, and they have very special magical powers for granting important wishes. Clover loves to sit in the meadows making bracelets and necklaces and she wears her fabulous creations to Fairy parties. She is also very creative with hairstyles, and will often help out down at F-Hairy Mary's hairdressing salon.

Jess joined us in May 2010. She is a tomboy at heart and loves to ride her bike on sunny days or play 'guitar hero' when it's raining. She has a passion for animals and has partially completed a course in animal welfare. Jess has a fabuously bright and optimistic view of life and we are happy to have her smiling face around Fairy Queen Headquarters (FQHQ).

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Carla McGlynn
Stardust

Stardust is our musical fairy and plays some rockin' electric guitar at our live show performances. Her role in Fairyland is as the senior musical director of the Fairy Symphony Orchestra. Stardust makes sure all flora and fauna know their roles and helps them to keep their instruments in tune and is the resident piano teacher at Crystal Castle. She also helps the Moon Princess each night, by making sure every star is beautifully polished and ready to go on show before hanging them out in the night sky.
 
Carla has a Bachelor of Education and is an inspiring high school music teacher. She is a talented performer, playing guitar, piano and percussion, and also has an amazing singing voice. On top of all of that, she is a fabulous artist who paints and draws as well. She has a dog named Stanley, who talks to her, and a love for all things bright and colourful. You have to watch out for her on Mario Carts though, she can get pretty intense to say the least! We have been lucky enough to have Stardust play with us since February 2007! (she's almost ancient, like Shea!)

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Sarah Kelly
Gumnut

Gumnut is our fair-dinkum, ridgey-didge, true-blue Aussie fairy. It is her role to take care of all the Australian flora and fauna in Fairyland. She takes her role very seriously, and can be seen up bright and early, taking all of the kangaroos for their morning aerobics session. She has recently been arranging zumba lessons for the possums, glass-blowing sessions for the echidnas, and knitting classes for the koalas as she wants to teach them how to knit colourful socks.

Sarah brought her madness, loudness, and gigantic smile to FQP in May 2010. She is currently a manager at McDonalds, and convinced us (without too much effort) to join in with the McHappy Day fund raising activities. Sarah is full of energy and seems to be completely unflappable in any circumstance. We are pretty certain Sarah would like to be a crazy sock designer in her retirement years (which are so far away, she will be able to come up with some magnificent designs between now and then).

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Elora Wilson
Ice-Shimmer (aka Shimmer)

Shimmer spends her days frolicking around Silverbelle Meadows sprinkling the flowers and plants with dewdrops filled with shimmering ice dust to guide the Pegasus Star Fleet Alliance back home. In her spare time, she can often be heard singing through the mountains and the trees, serenading all living creatures with her song. Shimmer can often be found shopping for sparkling gemstones and dazzling rings at the Diamond Castle Boutique in Fairyland.

Elora is very much a girly-girl, loves the finer things in life, and joined us in August 2010. She has been in a number of musical theatre productions in high school, and loves to entertain children of all ages with her performances. Elora is currently studying a Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of International Hotel and Tourism Management at the University of Queensland. She is theatrical, a dreamer and is always told she is ‘off with the fairies’ most days of the week! Children will love Elora's sense of the imaginary, and her ability to become lost in the fantasy of it all. (Ask her to sing for you, she's amazing!)

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Talia Nelson
Poppy

Poppy is one of three fairy sisters whose mother is a tree fairy (she’s very tall) and her father is a garden pixie. She lives in a little red cottage, by the ladybird paddock, right at the end of Ruby Way. Her job in Fairyland is to make and improve potions and remedies in her magical kitchen – at the moment, she is working on making the “Embiggening Potion” taste better and making fairy dust even more sparkly. Poppy's favourite thing to do while she isn't working on her potions is catching ladybirds and counting their spots.

Talia joined our crew in April 2010. She has a Bachelor of Applied Science (Chemistry) and used to work in a laboratory, so she has real life experience with potions and the pretty (or not so pretty) colours they can create.  She has spent years surrounded by children due to her involvement in youth organizations and tutoring, as well having two younger sisters who were (and still are) fairy-mad. Talia has a large collection of colourful rubber ducks and would like a house with more bathrooms, just so she can display them all.

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Carita Nelson
Ribbons

Ribbons runs Mulberry Farm down at the end of Orchard Lane. She trains all the Fairy Silkworms so that they can make the thread for her ribbons. Her favourite is the pink silkworm, because it can make pink ribbons! Ribbons has always been fabulous at crafts and she can often be found under the huge apple tree on her farm, having a picnic, reading a book or making her beautiful ribbons for sale at the Fairy markets on Treasure Trove Drive (1st Saturday of every month, I thought I should get a plug in here while I could!).

Carita is currently studying Tourism and has definitely caught the travel bug. She loves to dabble in the European languages and is currently freshening up her French and also learning Hungarian. Carita loves arts and crafts, and sews soft toys that are a little bit on the quirky side of things! Carita joined us in April 2010 and is one of our 'gentler' fairies.

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Jem Harris
Sprinkles

Sprinkles is mad about, well, sprinkles! You can tell where she has been in Fairyland because she covers everything in sprinkles, especially all of our Fairy bread. Her mum is a dust Fairy and her dad, Papa Sprinkles, is a water Fairy, but she decided she wanted a more colourful life and chose to use her sprinkle skills for fun instead.

Jem holds a Bachelor of Primary Education/Bachelor of Arts (Childrens Literature) and is also mum to little Fairy Stella, so she is well equipped to host children's parties. She is well organised and is big on planning things out, we think that's the teacher in her! Jem joined FQP in November 2010 and loves to tell us all "Bloom where you are planted" (wise words I think!)

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Alisha Welly
Blueberry

Blueberry lives in Lollipop Lane, down behind Mushroom Meadows, kind of across the road from Sprinkles actually! Her job in Fairyland is to to ripen and give the sweet flavour to all the blueberries. Blueberry has three elf brothers (Blackberry, Mulberry and Raspberry) and a little fairy sister named Strawberry. She loves to visit her siblings and play with them all underneath the family boysenberry tree.

Alisha joined FQP at the beginning of April 2011. She is currently studying a Bachelor of Health Sciences (Naturopathy) and cares very much about the environment. She is the oldest of 5 siblings and so she brings many skills of being with children and playing games. Alisha has a bright outlook on life, doesn't take herself too seriously, loves to talk until the sun comes up, and hopes to get a dog soon!

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Katie Havas
Sunset

Sunset's mother is a day-time fairy, and her father is a night-time fairy, so it is only natural that her favourite time of day is sunset! Her job in Fairyland is to make sure that the sun goes down every evening, so that the moon can come up! As the sun sets every evening, it's Sunset who makes all the beautiful colours (often her favourites: red and pink!) and cloud patterns in the sky.
 
Katie has recently completed her honours degree in Psychological Science at UQ and is currently studying her Masters while doing research for the University at St Lucia. She has worked in customer service and administration for many years, and is also a certified group fitness instructor and personal trainer. Katie brought her fabulous talents and smiling face to FQP in November 2007 and is now stuck with us forever!

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