The Origin Story

Magic and Wishful are the collaborative creation of my husband Clayton and myself. They came into existence after a particularly stressful time frame in Clayton's life.

He experienced heart palpitations one night which sent them to the emergency room. After about six stressful hours, it was determined that Clayton had unchecked high blood pressure.

It was after this news that he realized how much he had been stressed out at work and really needed to find a way to ease that stress, but how to do it in a job that won't really let up?

I was at Michaels craft store one day, waiting to check out. I happened to notice an adorable pink Beanie Baby unicorn staring at me with the cutest glittering eyes. It was then that I knew how to help with Clayton's stress problem.

Magic, the pink unicorn, was presented to Clayton with the back story that unicorns "eat up the stress and poop out the happies". By this logic, it was only natural that he should take Magic, the name on her tag, to work with him as that's where the stress was occurring.

To my surprise, Clayton actually did take Magic to work with him and set her up in his office. He would report back and make up little stories about how she helped convince him that the people who were yelling at him in the phone were just silly bears who had toothaches. Another story was that the people who were annoying were silly bears who had lost their hats, so that's why they were fussy. For some reason, visualizing the customers that caused him stress as bears seemed to help Clayton relax more and not to take things so seriously.

After about three days and perilously close to the weekend, I realized that Magic was going to be by herself for two days. Another trip to Michaels and the spotted unicorn named Wishful joined the family.

Between the pair, Magic is the more wide eyed, innocent and Wishful is more adventuresome and mischievous. They both take their jobs of helping Clayton very seriously so lots and lots of adventures and fun is had by all.

Thus, the adventures begin!

For the record.. this is done for fun. Clayton is not a professional photographer and I'm never going to ask him to retake pictures. I'm lucky to get the ones that I do! It's all amateur, it's all done in fun. :)