For those of you who have been following me for a little while, you might recognize the recipe for these cookies (minus a few new changes). What makes these special and different is rather the process for the final product. The base recipe is my recipe for Rosemary Ginger Sugar Cookies, but as an added bonus, I made these with pressed, dried florals! So altogether, there's a lot of earthy, floral flavors--making these cookies absolutely scrumptious! The florals I chose to add

Art by Brian Froud If you're seeking some sort of intro, please refer back to the first post in this series on faeries! This week I'm going to talk about a few more of my favorite Scottish faeries: Red Caps, Ghillie Dhu, and Selkies--all beautiful, terrible, wicked, and divine. Art by Alan Lee Red Caps Red Caps are hateful things that live only for blood and carnage. They look emaciated, with leathery brown skin and little to no hair. You'll find them at the ruins of castles

Art by Brian Froud One piece of lore that has always stuck with me is faeries. When I was a kid, my best friend and I would watch Jim Henson's Labyrinth almost every day after school. We were mad for it. The idea of living and playing with the fey like Toby, having a faerie love you so deeply and insanely as Jareth loved Sarah--it was all dizzying and magical. It was easy to lose yourself in the dream of it all. So picture me again--no longer a child in elementary school, but