Iolite Ina glows purple in the low winter sun. She is wearing her favourite lilac skirt with tassles, in honour of her day to open an advent calendar door!

Door number twenty is silver with a picture of a unicorn head, complete with golden mane and shining silver horn.

She opens it quickly. There is nothing inside! Then she looks closer.

A long thick golden hair is hiding in plain sight. She touches it and electricity shoots up her arm. Gently, she picks it up. This must be a unicorn hair! A magic thread of someone’s golden mane. A special someone, donating personal poetry to the calendar, their own piece of molten magic.

Ina takes the golden hair down to where the other fairies wait. They all touch it in awe. Immediately the female fairies feel their own locks growing! Stray golden hairs appear among their usual colour. They shriek with delight.

Then they all feel something soft on their neck – it is a braid of unicorn hairs, forming a necklace! They jump up and down with excitement.

Ina lays the golden hair reverently on the grass. It starts to multiply with speed. A magic rug is forming before them! In ten minutes a tiny rug is there, just waiting to be played upon.

The fairies begin to dance on the rug, as golden stars rise from it. This is such fun! After a while they all lie down exhausted, and fall in to the sweetest slumber, full of golden unicorn blessings. When they awake hours later, the sun is setting in beautiful reds and golds. They gasp. Life is too beautiful. This is Gemstone Glade style Christmas, magic at its most festive.