Dazzling Fairy Tale Images from Margarita Kareva
We’ve been in love with Russian photographer Margarita Kareva’s dazzling fairy tale images for a while now. Each photo tells a story—of some wonderful place, far away, where dreamy ice queens and lady falconers...
The Enchanted World of Katerina Plotnikova
On The Cover of Issue #28
AUtumn 2014
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Moscow-based photographer Katerina Plotnikova is one of the most exciting artists out there today, with her breathtaking, astonishing images that imagine a world in which animals...
Alan Lee: Artist Of Middle-Earth
If I were to say to you, “A woman robed in white, standing next to a bowl, holding a silver ewer,” you would likely know exactly which scene I am referring to. It is...
Winter Faerie Beauty
Cloak your heavenly body in rich moisture and deep hydration, while infusing your entire being with vital nutrients. Ancient beauty secrets are unlocked inside these captivating potions, so get ready to settle in for...
Enchanting Your Journal + Exclusive Downloads
I’ve known the magic of journaling ever since I was a young girl.
I cherished my very first diary, a pink patent leather one with shiny silver edging and a delicate heart-shaped lock. Later, I...
J.R.R. Tolkien’s Art Nouveau Elvenlands
All images © The Tolkien Estate Limited 1937.
Tne moment, I was walking through the steel-and-concrete labyrinth of New York City. The next, I had entered the Morgan Library, taken its glass elevator to the...
How To Be A Modern Romantic
Photography by KATERINA PLOTNIKOVA Model NORMILA
Who doesn’t want to be romantic? But I don’t mean romantic with a small r. I mean capital R Romantic, like the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, who was discovered...
Druids Dance
Photography by Ange Harper
“There’s no place on earth with more of the old superstitions and magic mixed into its daily life than the Scottish Highlands.”
—Diana Gabaldon, Outlander
Figures in white emerge from the swirling mists...
Shipwrecked
Greetings all my fellow Curiosity Explorers and Magic-Makers! Allow me to introduce myself: I am the Wondersmith. I work with wonder in the same way a goldsmith works with gold to create beautiful, meaningful, and...
Bringing Legends to Life – Baltimore Knife and Sword
by Carolyn Turgeon and photography by Steve Parke
As you wind through Patapsco State Park, just north of Baltimore, passing a flagstone-encrusted quarry and crossing a defunct train track that parallels a charming stream, you come...