A Woodland Home Inspired By Tolkien’s Middle Earth
We asked the Norwegian wood nymph to tell us about her elven home and garden and share some tips on how to make your...
Elven Bedtime Ritual
Elves don’t require sleep to maintain their shimmering beauty, but that doesn’t prevent them from bestowing the most lovely night’s rest on their most fortunate...
The Elven Tea Party
I make sure to occasionally host inspiring parties and sometimes invite friends over to eat good food, dance, play roleplaying games, and sit around the...
A Writer’s Cozy Lair
When I set up my very first office, I bought a modern glass-and-steel desk. It seemed clean and orderly. The problem was that I’m...
At Home: The Stylish Witch’s Lair
Feature Image by Oh The Raven Studio
Hard to believe, but it’s been more than twenty-five years since Alice Hoffman published Practical Magic, the story...
Whorled Wonders
Open an antiquarian book and there’s a good chance you’ll find marbleized end papers, hypnotically patterned swirls of colors created by floating pigments on...
Inside The Magical, Mystical World of Cynthia von Buhler
PHOTOGRAPHY BY STEVE PARKE
Even among visionaries, artists who can create a reality for themselves as rich and lovely and magical too as their dream...
Throwing a Magical Party for Kids
photography by VINCE CHAFIN
We’ve probably all witnessed a child playing more with the plain box their present came in than with the much coveted,...
All Saints House
Imagine living in a Gothic church turned home! When we read about a family—Anastasiia, Gunther, and their three children—in Maryland doing just that, our...
The Language of Flowers
ADVICE FROM A FLORIST by
LARISA MINERVA
FLORAL PHOTOGRAPHY by
JUSTINE GRAJSKI
Flowers speak in ways that words fail us. They arrive in spring, pushing their eager green heads...