New Character -- Princess Moana

If you saw Pixar's Finding Dory in theaters, you might have seen a little hint at something new and super exciting, set to be released in just a few short days. It's the 56th Disney animated feature, and it's got us here at Fire Pixie really excited! 

"Three thousand years ago, the greatest sailors in the world voyaged across the vast South Pacific, and discovered the many islands of Oceania. But then, for millennia, their voyages stopped - and no one today knows why. Enter Moana, a spirited teenager and born navigator (and Disney's first Polynesian Princess) who sets out on a daring mission to prove herself a master wayfinder, and sails the Pacific Ocean to complete her ancestors' unfinished quest. Join her and Maui, the legendary Hawaiian demigod, as together they traverse the open ocean on an action packed voyage, encountering enormous fiery creatures and impossible odds in search of a fabled island."

The CG-animated film is being directed by Ron Clementsand and John Musker (who were both the directors of Aladdin, The Little Mermaid, and The Princess and the Frog), and Auli'i Cravalho and Dwayne Johnson provide the lead voices. It also features music written by the Tony award winning Lin Manuel Miranda, creator of Broadway's Hamilton.

We can't wait to see what Disney has in store for us this time! 

If you'd like to invite Moana to your upcoming party to teach your guest all about Hawaiian culture, dazzle them with her big bag of Island magic tricks, or even teach them a little hula dancing, you can book her here.  

Inspiring the Kids

I was at a friend's house the other night for Rock Band Night, and it happened to be their younger son's 5th birthday.  So, of course, I brought some balloons to make him a giant birthday hat, and a little bit of magic just to make him feel special.  I think I managed to delight him.  :)

His older brother, who's almost 8, was even more fascinated by the magic than the birthday boy was.  After I did a couple tricks, he ran into his bedroom and grabbed the magic kit he'd gotten for Christmas, and did a few tricks for me.  I was super impressed.. the kid is a born performer.

He's a talker too.. so much so that there's a rule at their house that when it's bedtime, he can choose the very last thing he wants to say that day, and say it, and after that - no more talking.  :)  As his mom was putting him to bed, he whispered to her that the last thing he wanted to say that day was something he wanted to say to me.

I went into his room where he was sitting in his pajamas, looking not remotely sleepy, and he grinned his irrepressible grin at me and said, "So.  You can do magic.  You make jackets.   You do that thing with the ropes.  You can make balloons.  What ELSE do you do???"

"Well, I eat fire," I told him. 

He nodded, and looked at me expectantly.

"I just basically do whatever I am excited about, I guess," I told him.  "Whatever seems like the most fun, that's what I do."

He grinned at me again, and I added, "You can do that too, you know."  He nodded and smiled, and I wished him good night and tiptoed out of the room, feeling sort of warm and glowy.

I guess I must be doing something right.