At the very heart of grey downtown Toronto, there’s a special bright sparkling place where Spanish colours riot and fairies cavort with doorstop-solid cats.

Feeling a bit down and grey, yourself?

There’s nothing I can think of to bring on the sunshine like spending some time with Tascha…

I’m not going to waste your time in gushing on about the artwork, for once, but send you over to tascha.etsy.com to check it out. These paintings sing out for themselves, and you’ll either love them as much as I do or … just wander about Etsy until you find your own favourite art and crafts!

But I’d heartily recommend sliding by YouTube to catch Tascha’s art videos if you’ve got time to spare and a creative spark you’d like to inspire: she’ll show you in fabulous fast motion, step by step, how she creates her paintings with acrylic paint, bits of paper, canvas or wood, and a whole lot of joy!

Pink vinyl star shape on an eighteen-inch blue wand… we know what this is!

See?
It says “Fairy Swatter” right on it — and (in case that wasn’t hint enough) it comes with a packet of squished-fairy stickers.

No other novelty product we’ve seen this year (so far) is so perfectly suited to slapping any hint of whimsy or make-believe out of a sunporch-sitting day… But I bet it would swat down a pesky house-fly just as effectively. Probably.

If you’re plagued by Tinkerbell and her gang at the bottom of the garden, get your Fairy Swatter at McPhee.com.