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Discover the enchanting world of The Pickety Witch and her whimsical creations. Immerse yourself in sweet, witchy designs featuring baby goats on broomsticks, bewitching witch boots adorned with mushrooms and flora, and charming witch hats embellished with sunflowers, peonies, pumpkins, apples, and leaves. Delight in a myriad of delightful creatures such as jack-o’-lantern teapots, autumnal headdress-wearing ravens, garden hat-clad kitties, starlit fawns, owls, and rabbits. But that's not all - add a touch of witchiness to your ensemble with cute enamel pins and explore an array of T-shirts, plushies, poppets, and other goodies conjured by the talented lady witch herself, Rachel, from her lair in North Carolina. Embrace the "spooky cute" designs that blend adorable baby goats and kittens with the mystique of occultism and folklore. Join us in an interview with Rachel, where she shares her journey as an artist, practicing witch, and animal lover, and how her love for goats, nature, and the occult inspired The Pickety Witch. Unveil the magic that being a witch holds for her, celebrating the old ways, nature, and individual empowerment through her delightful creations.

Feature Image: Celestial Pablum (1958), by Remedios Varo If you plan to travel to Mexico City, you will likely be cautioned, both by the internet and well-intentioned people, about the many perils of that metropolis. They...

Want to try your hand at making one of Baker’s brooms? Here’s how to get started. Master broomsquire Charlotte Baker of Nightshade Handmade says, “I primarily use broomcorn, which is the seed tassel of a...

Charles Vess’s story introduces us to the character of the Tomten, or Tomte. In Scandinavian folklore, the Tomte was a gnome-like character with a white beard and red cap—liter-ally a jolly old elf. The...

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...

Jenna Caprice started the White Witch Parlour seven years ago, after leaving city life behind and moving into the mountains of Southern California with her husband to “be with nature as much as possible.”...

Artist, Jamie Spinello, finds enchantment in nature, gardens, and lunar cycles. Explore her jewelry, sculpture, ceramics, and paintings inspired by plants and insects. Stay connected to her world of enchantment in Austin, Texas.

It’s an answer, a rallying cry even, to a planet in peril. A relatively new literary and artistic movement born out of speculative fiction, solarpunk is sci-fi on ecstasy, more utopian rather than dystopian,...

PHOTOGRAPHY BY ELIZABETH ELDER What better way to end an homage to faerie queens than with a magical, glittering queen riding on a unicorn? In fact, when said queen (model Courtney Allegra) and her enchanted...

PHOTOGRAPHER HAKARYO WITH AMARIS PHOTOGRAPHY MODEL ZING RUBY Japan: culture of both Miyazaki's mythic forests and trend-setting Tokyo. It’s a land of creative expression, and one very visible outlet for this expression is fashion. Over the last...