The Princess was sad because although she had almost everything a young princess could ask for, her nails were not fabulous.

 “Oh Mama”, she said. Princesses don’t say Mum or Mummy because they’re dreadfully posh. “Oh Mama, I wish I had nails like yours.”

Indeed, the Great Queen Athina of Canggu, was rocking most wonderfully purple nails by OPI.

The Queen leapt to her feet and, raising one perfectly manicured finger to the sky, cried, “You shall have amazing nails, my love! We’ll search high and low, we’ll cross the mighty valley, climb the highest mountain –“

“Mamaaaaaa,” interrupted the Princess. “We don’t have to go far and waste all day on horseback, you know. CASA Spa is just on the Jalan Raya in Canggu. Only five minutes from here.”

 “Oh yes,” said the Queen. “Brilliant darling.”

 The two royal ladies set off by horse from their royal castle and, just as Princess Sophie Helen had said, they very quickly arrived at the Magical Fairy Cottage of CASA (58 Jalan Raya Canggu, Tibubeneng).

 “Gosh,” said the Queen. “It’s really awesome when you don’t have to go through all that traffic, isn’t it?”

“Yeah,” agreed Princess Sophie. “What a magical location for a Day Spa!”

 As soon as they arrived at the door, they were greeted and surrounded by the smiling and dancing fairy Godmothers.

 “Oh you poor darling,” chorused the Fairy Godmothers of CASA Spa. “Your nails are most unblingy!” Unblingy is a very technical, magical term that describes something that should be shiny and beautiful but is not.

 “Please be seated here, your Royal Highness while we prepare ourselves for a very powerful potion of prettiness.!”

While Princess Sophie Helen sat in the charming waiting area reading the latest news and gossip about Diego and Dora, the three fairy godmothers busied themselves with a large pot and Piggy Paints  "non toxic nail polishchemicals". ( it’s free of formaldehyde, toluene, phthalates, Bisphenol A, ethyl acetate and acetone).

After a few minutes of stirring, there was a pop, a shower of small stars and a tinkling noise like a hundred tiny bells ringing all at once.

 “Oooh,” said Princess Sophie Helen, looking at the mixture inside the pot. “Sooo purply, so bright, so smooth, so, so, so –”

“Blingy?” Asked the Fairy Godmothers.

“Yes,” said Sophie Helen sounding very satisfied. “Blingy… just like Mama’s.”

“This mighty magic potion is not just blingy and beautiful,” explained the Godmothers. “The ingredients were made by the Pretty Little Pixies in the mighty magic castle of Piggy Paints in Springdale, Arizona, USA. It has only lovely and good things inside. No poisons, or bad things that can make you sick.”

“You mean I won’t fall into a deep, enchanted sleep for 100 years?”

“Nope,” answered the Fairy Godmothers.

“No glass slippers, pumpkins, mice, etc.?”

“Na-ahhhh,” said the Fairy Godmohters.

“No mermaid’s tale?”

The Fairy Godmothers shook their heads vigorously from side to side. “Oh gosh no! Just beautiful, clean and safe nails,” they said.

“I’m ok with that,” said Sophie.

“Also,” said the Fairy Godmothers. “We think we should do your hair too… it’s stinky.”

And they all lived Happily Ever After

Does your Princess have unblingy nails or stinky hair? Call CASA SPA for an appointment or drop in any time. Their address is Jl. Raya Canggu 58, 0361-2149 911.

Sophie picked up her guitar, used the plectrum to strum away and sang the following (complete with super serious expression, wrinkled brow and a lot of yay-yaying):

It’s a holiday

It’s a beautiful day

It’s a holiday

It’s a beautiful day

I love you

That’s it.

Good, eh?

And in case you needed a few more pictures (I always do), here you go…

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Sophie loves Monday because Monday means Bali Kiddy and… well, here are all six things:

1. Bali Kiddy (school)

2. Practicing Modelling — Friday is the big show.

3. Singing and Dancing with Boogie Beebies (we’re diggin’ a hole… YEAH! We’re planting a seed… DING!)

4. Chocolate cake and chocolate biscuit left over from Dad’s birthday

5. Playing with everyone in the morning.

6. Mummy (of course)

1. Going in the car
2. Coloring
3. MummyRoaring — we don’t remember this one but apparently Athina can roar like a dinosaur.
4. Watching Dora on TV
5. Dad’s Birthday — she said no but really she means yes.
6. Eating Chocolate Cake

We’re supposed to find six things every day but my preference is to buy six chocolate things and then eat them.