Firefly Diamonds
Illuminated copper engraving, 1705, by Maria Sibylla Merian. Wikimedia Commons.
The traveling bug lover, in the earliest days of insect study, brought back from foreign...
We Are All Fans of Juniper Fox
You’ve probably heard of Juniper Fox. With her nearly 3 million Instagram fans and personal line of products that include T-shirts, pins, and stickers,...
An Excerpt from Star Daughter
STAR DAUGHTER IS COMING OUT FROM HARPERTEEN IN AUGUST
Sheetal got up and moved to the window. She stared at the great dark sky that...
Writing The Night Sky: An Interview with Shveta Thakrar
llustration by K.A.K. Lecky
Enchanted Living: Can you tell us a bit about the story of Star Daughter?
Shveta Thakrar: I sure can! Here’s my...
An Enchanted Q&A wit Karen Croney of Hair Intelligence
Karen is a magical beauty expert who spent years working as a model, a stylist and a brow expert in Beverly Hills before embarking...
A Q&A With The Unicorn Handbook Author (and Enchanted Living editor)...
Rona Berg: Why did you decide to tackle unicorns next, after fairies and mermaids?
Carolyn Turgeon: My editor and I contemplated other creatures (who...
An Intoxicating Interview with Cat Marx of Deep Midnight Perfumes
We've told you before about glamorous perfumer Cat Marx of Deep Midnight Perfumes, which is now celebrating its ten-year anniversary of conjuring all manner...
A Silent Wood
O silent wood, I enter thee
With a heart so full of misery
For all the voices from the trees
And the ferns that cling about my...
In Search of the Sisterhood
The word Pre-Raphaelite almost always conjures up a certain kind of woman. She has a cascade of copper hair, a face filled with mournful...
Madder and Woad: Color and the Victorians
“Down with the pretty ladies of the old school! Down with the old masters! Away with the pretty ladies!”
Ken Russell’s Dante’s Inferno (1967), a...