18/10/2020
The Snow Queen 👑 blowing in the Wind! Test print colours. So grateful and proud that I am able to print and manufacture in Ireland!🇨🇮 The Snow Queen tells the story of good triumphing over evil.
The evil queen promises to free Kai if he can spell "eternity" with the pieces of ice in her palace. His childhood friend Gerda who is pure of heart comes looking for Kai and rescuing him from the evil Snow queen. But when she found him at the queen’s castle Kai sits very quite and still, and is benumbed and cold. Then little Gerda shed burning tears; and they fell on his bosom, they penetrated to his heart, they thawed the lumps of ice, and consumed the splinters of the looking-glass; he looked at her, and she sang the hymn:"The rose in the valley is blooming so sweet, And angels descend there the children to greet."Hereupon Kai burst into tears; he wept so much that the splinter rolled out of his eye, and he recognised her, and shouted, "Gerda, sweet little Gerda! Where have you been so long? And where have I been?" He looked round him. "How cold it is here!" said he. "How empty and cold!" And he held fast by Gerda, who laughed and wept for joy. It was so beautiful, that even the blocks of ice danced about for joy!
When they were tired and laid themselves down, they formed exactly the letters which the Snow Queen had told him to find out; so now he was his own master.The roses on the leads hung blooming in at the open window; there stood the little children's chairs, and Kai and Gerda sat down on them, holding each other by the hand; they both had forgotten the cold empty splendor of the Snow Queen, as though it had been a dream.
Jennifer Rothwell