in the United-Kingdom

• Arundel Castle
• 50 Berkeley Square
• Bruce Castle
• Castle Lodge
• Hampton Court Palace
• Raynham Hall
• Samlesbury Hall
• Temple Newsam
• Ballygally Castle Hotel
• Dryburgh Abbey Hotel
• Edinburgh Castle
• Greyfriars Kirkyard
• Caerphilly Castle
• The Llindir Inn
• The Skirrid Mountain Inn
• Llancaiach Fawr
• Plas Teg
• Berry Pomeroy Castle

• Andromeda
• Cassiopeia
• Cepheus
• Orion
• Callisto
• Arcas
• Castor & Pollux
• The Pleiades
  • Maia, Electra, Taygete, Alcyone,
  • Celaeno, Sterope, Merope
• Ganymede
• Orpheus
• Perseus
• Chiron
• Asclepius

• centaur
• spinx
• manticore
• faun
• satyr
• siren
• mermaid
• griffin
• lamia
• basilisk
• chimera
• wyvern
• pegasus
• hippogriff
• hippocampus
• harpy
• jackalope

• Edward Bear
• Hundred Acre Wood
  • Under the name of Sanders
• Christopher Robin's heart (and pencil case)
• Honey
• Sunstaining Books (to comfort Bears in Great Tightness)
• Silly Old Bear
• Bother!
• Piglet (_Piglit_)
• Tracking Woozles (with Piglet)
• song-and-dance
• Very Little Brain
• Expotitions and the North Pole and discovering it
  • PooH FouND IT
• Brain of Pooh (Captain, C. Robin, 1st Mate, P. Bear)

• Spectacled
• Syrian
• Grizzly
• Kodiak
• Brown
• American Black
• Cinnamon
• Kermode
• Polar
• Asian Black
• Sloth
• Sun
• Himalayan Blue

• The Penderwick sisters: Rosalind, Skye, Jane & Batty
• The Owens sisters: Sally & Gillian
• The March sisters: Jo, Amy, Beth & Meg
• The Beaudelaire sisters: Violet & Sunny
• The Blackwood sisters: Merricat & Constance
• The Mortmain sisters: Cassandra & Rose
• The Miller sisters: Charlotte & Rosie
• The Grimm sisters: Sabrina & Daphne

read:

• Wildwood Dancing , J. Marillier
• White as Snow , T. Lee
• Tam Lin , P. Dean
• Radiant Darkness . E. whitman
• The Penelopiad , M. Atwwod
• The Mists of Avalon , M. Z. Bradley
• Mirror Mirror , G. Maguire
• Ice , S. B. Durst
• Hush: An Irish's Princess Tale , D. J. Napoli
• The Green Man (stories) , ed. T. windling & E. Datlow
• The Goose Girl , S. Hale
• Fitcher's Brides , G. Frost
• The Firebrand , M. Z. Bradley
• The Fairy-Tales Detectives , M. Buckley
• Deerskin , R. McKinley
• A Curse Dark as Gold , E. C. Dunce
• Briar Rose , J. Yolen
• The Book of Lost Things , J. Connolly
• The Bloody Chamber (stories) , A. Carter
• Winter Rose , P. McKillip

• ✔ Back to the Future
• Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
• Can't Buy Me Love
• ✔ Dead Poets Society
• ✔ Dirty Dancing
• ✔ Fame
• ✔ Ferris Bueller's Day Off
• ✔ Footlosse
• Girls Just Want To Have fun
• ✔ Heathers
• ✔ Karate Kid
• Little Darlings
• ✔ Pretty in Pink
• Say Anything
• ✔ Sixteen Candles
• Some Kind of Wonderful
• ✔ St. Elmo's Fire
• ✔ The Breakfast Club
• Weird Science

• labyrinths
• books
• magical worlds
• museums
• libraries
• new cities
• woods
• deserts
• space & time
• memories
• dreams

• mom-cooked food
• bookstores
• nature
• quietness
• friends & family
• wine & cheese
• star-filled skies
• winter-scented wind
• snow
• Christmas lights & music
• a lit fireplace
• walking through small villages
• long walks in the woods
• discoveries
• country roads
• lakes & anchored boats
• small adventures
• imaginary games
• treasure hunts
• antique shopping
• school & learning

• sinking feet
• gaping hole in chest
• faraway oceans
• brighter memories
• over active imagination
• daydreaming
• shortness of breath
• sleepless nights
• quiet tears
• multiple sighs
• imaginary travels
• twisting insides
• restlessness
• wanderlust
• letter writing
• story weaving
• waiting waiting waiting

• feathers
• keys
• secret gardens
• herb gardens
• books
• stories
• the stars & the universe
• galaxies
• fairy tales
• folklore & mythology
• moss
• trees
• nature
• being barefoot
• fairies
• bears
• bunnies
• wind in my hair
• Christmas
• snow
• the smell of evergreens

• Winnie-the-Pooh
• The Secret Garden
• Ocean Sea
• Anne of Green Gables
• The Penderwicks
• We Have Always Lived in the Castle
• The Orphan's Tale
• The Wood Wife
• His Dark Materials
• Someplace to be Flying
• Waifs and Strays
• Alice in Wonderland
• A Little Princess
• The Fionavar Tapestry
• The Lost Garden

• clouds
• whispers
• ghosts
• bunny ears
• hugs
• lullabies
• moss between toes
• secrets
• diary pages
• love words
• garden dreams
• smooth pebbles
• fairy wings
• knowing smiles
• sea in a seashell
• bear stories
• mouse tales
• turkish delights
• snow
• joyful memories
• lips

• Mary Lennox
• Sara Crewe
• Lyra Belacqua
• Hermione Granger
• Coraline
• Princess Anidori-Kiladra
• Anne Shirley
• Cassandra Mortmain
• Lucy & Susan Pevensie
• Nancy Kington & Minerva Sharpe
• Violet Beaudelaire
• Emily Starr
• Katniss Everdeen
• Gretel
• Wendy Darling
• Barbara Thorson
• Sabrina & Daphne Grimm
• September

Novels/Series

• Fantasy/paranormal/fairy tale retellings
  • The Secret Circle series, L. J. Smith
  • The Silent Strength of Stones , by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
  • Ice , by Sarah Beth Durst
  • Wildwood Dancing , by Juliet Marillier
  • East , by Edith Pattou
  • His Dark Materials series, by Philip Pullman
  • The Books of Bayern series, by Shannon Hale
  • The False Princess , by Eilis O'Neal
  • Hex Hall series, by Rachel Hawkins
  • The Modern Faerie Tales series, by Holly Black
  • Wicked Lovely series, by Melissa Marr
  • A Curse Dark as Gold , by Elizabeth C. Bunce
  • Killer Unicorns series, by Diana Peterfreund
• Dystopian/scifi
  • The Hunger Games series, by Suzanne Collins
  • Across the Universe , by Beth Revis
  • Incarceron , by Catherine Fisher

• rain
• festival of colors
• cool wind
• fairs
• apple picking
• pumpkins & Jack-o'-lanterns
• crackling leaves under boots
• haybales
• Samhain
• salt circles
• ghosts
• hollow trees
• stacking up wood
• apple jam
• orchards and old wooden ladders
• warmer clothes
• last boat rides
• candy collecting
• witches
• scary stories
• glorious sunshine

• Avalon
• Camelot
• Atlantis
• Chicomoztoc
• Tír na nÓg
• Troy
• Mount Olympus
• Yggdrasil
• Asgard
• Glastonbury Tor

• Long John Silver
• Hayreddin Barbarossa
• "Calico Jack" John Rackham
• Anne Dieu-Le-Veut
• Charlotte de Berry
• William "Captain" Kidd
• Blackbeard (Edward Teach)
• Anne Bonny
• Bartholomew Roberts (Black Bart)
• Captain Jack Sparrow
• Captain Flint
• Jacquotte Delahaye
• Ching Shih
• Davy Jones
• Captain Hector Barbossa
• Nancy Kington & Minerva Sharpe
• Captain Nemo
• One-eyed Willy
• Mary Read
• The Dread Pirate Roberts
• Captain Hook

• Circe
• Medea
• Morgan le Fay
• Cerridwen
• Hecate
• Freyja
• Baba Yaga
• Cassandra
• the Witch in the Woods
• Frau Holda
• Marzanna
• Black Annis
• the Zorya
• Trivia

• manatee
• humpback whale
• grey whale
• blue whale
• beluga
• narwhal
• sperm whale
• bowhead whale
• killer whale

• Vienna Teng
• Vashti Bunyan
• Abra Moore
• Alison Sudold (A Fine Frenzy)
• Tori Amos
• Lykke Li
• Becky Stark (Lavender Diamond)
• Natasha Kahn (Bat for Lashes)
• Joanna Newsom
• Émilie Simon
• Maria Taylor & Orenda Fink (Azure Ray)
• Camille
• Cara Dillon
• Sarah Slean
• Natalie Merchant
• Rosie Thomas
• Klara & Joanna Söderberg (First Aid Kit)

• Annie
• Mary Lennox
• Frodo Baggins
• Lyra Belacqua
• Claus, Sunny & Violet Beaudelaire
• Anne Shirley
• David Copperfield
• Jane Eyre
• Pippi Longstocking
• Mowgli
• Harry Potter
• Peter Pan
• Oliver Twist
• Madeline
• Charlotte Miller
• Sylvia Green
• Maria Merryweather
• Emily Byrd Starr
• Pauline, Petrova & Posy Fossil

• ✔ embroidery
• crochet
• sewing
• how to beat loneliness
• how to write stories
• animals latin names and genus
• constellation names and how to recognize them
• baking
• art
• storytelling
• gardening
• how to keep plants alive
• how to keep a diary
• confidence

• had red braids and a limit-less imagination
• could make things grow where everything seemed dead
• had a kind heart and knew the power of stories
• was smart, quick and talented
• loved too much, but learned to do it well
• was a pirate
• killed a witch
• was a witch
• rode a polar bear
• flew to another world, but chose to come back
• was a Queen
• crossed a labyrinth
• played music to the whales
• held a whole world together by the strength of her dreams and her own name
• helped sick people with no worries about ...

• librarian
• artist
• writer
• list maker
• singer
• dream weaver
• map maker
• diary keeper
• art historian
• astrophysicist
• witch
• illustrator
• gardener
• sailor
• giant-speaker
• animal-girl
• explorer

• in a secret safe
• in a precious box
• under a pillow
• under the bed
• at the bottom of a closet
• inside a hollow tree
• in a locket
• buried in the ground
• in an attic
• in a sealed envelope
• at the bottom of the sea
• in abandonned houses
• between the pages of a story
• in plain sight
• inside a hollowed book
• in old coat pockets
• in Fairyland
• in a memory
• between two hearts

• A Fine Frenzy
• Alela Diane
• Kate Walsh
• Joanna Newsom
• Loreena McKennitt
• Au Revoir Simone
• Bat for Lashes
• Mumford & Sons
• Natalie Merchant
• Cara Dillon
• The Decemberists
• Fleet Foxes
• Rosie Thomas
• Bon Iver
• Sarah Slean
• Seabear
• St. Vincent
• Tori Amos
• Lavender Diamond
• Laura Marling
• Vienna Teng

• Leviathan
• Moby Dick
• The Templeton Monster
• Nessie (scottish Gealic _Niseag_)
• the Kraken
• Memphré
• Charybdis
• the Watcher in the Water
• the Hogwarts' Squid
• the Host
• Ogopogo
• Cetus

• Sherlock Holmes
• Miss Marple
• Hercule Poirot
• Jessica Fletcher
• Rosemary Boxer & Laura Thyme
• Emerson Cod

• The Secret Garden
• A Little Princess
• The Princess Bride
• Labyrinth
• Fairytale: A True Story
• La grenouille et la baleine
• Miss Potter
• Cracks
• The Neverending Story
• Penelope
• Willow
• Calendar Girls
• Princess Mononoke
• Ratatouille
• Clue
• Little Women
• the Lord of the Rings trilogy
• the Chronicles of Narnia
• Star Wars (ep. IV, V, VI)
• While You Were Sleeping
• The Muppet's Christmas Carol

Artists zine / magazines

• Night Home by Becca Stadtlander, $6.00 USD ♥
• Little Things series ♥
  • Vol. 6, by Becca Stadtlander, 6.95 USD
  • Vol 1, by Lizzie Stewart, 6.95 USD
  • or both for $12.00 USD
• polaroid month zine, by vickeh, $6.47 CAD
• Magical Mini Myths, by jackiepeppermint, $10.37 CAD
• It's in our nature, by jamiemilk, $8.09 CAD
• in an art gallery, by Lizzy Stewart, $4.04 CAD ♥
• Imaginary Lovers, by Deerface, $5.18 CAD

Prints

• Fauna duo by amaliachimera, $10.37 CAD
• antique botanical prints, $7.26 each ♥
• Swim by Lizzy Stewart, $9.71 CAD ♥
• woolly bear, by lulia pott, $25.92 CAD ♥
• bear rock by julia pott, $9.71 CAD
• Kes, by julia pott, $17.80 CAD
• Honeybee and Moth set, by Sarah Blank $29.03 CAD ♥

• A Series of Unfortunate Event , by Lemony Snicket
  • ✔ Book the 10th -- The Slippery Slope
  • ✔ Book the 11th -- The Grim Grotto
  • ✔ Book the 12th -- The Penultimate Peril
  • ✔ Book the 13th -- The End
• The Moomin series, by Tove Jannsson
  • The Moomins & the Great Flood
  • ✔ Comet in Moominland
  • Finn Family Moomintroll
  • Moominpappa's Memoirs
  • Moominsummer Madness
  • Moominland Midwinter
  • Tales From Moominvalley
  • Moominpappa at Sea
  • Moominvalley in November
• The Grimm Sisters series, by Michael Buckley
  • ✔ #4 Once Upon a Crime
  • #5 Magic & Other Misdemeanors

• Neverland
• Fantastica
• The Hundred Acre Wood
• Narnia
• Avalon
• Lyra's Oxford
• Wonderland

• Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm
• Charles Perrault
• Hans Christian Anderson
• Iona & Peter Opie
• Alexander Afanasyev
• Jack Zipes
• Andrew Lang
• Ruth Manning-Sanders
• Madame d'Aulnoy
• Antoine Galland
• Henriette-Julie de Murat
• Maria Tatar
• Terri Windling

• selkies
• werewolves
• kitsune
• changelings
• lamias
• skin-walkers
• swan maidens
• the Frog Prince
• the White Bear
• The Beast

• dreams
• star-filled skies
• the moon
• space
• ghosts
• werewolves
• secret missions
• constellations & planets
• faery revels
• campfires & fireworks
• skinny dipping
• witchcraft
• solitude
• bats & owls
• sleep
• will-o'-the-wisps
• candle-lit rooms
• darkness
• goosebumps of fear
• vampires
• whispers

• smelling the ocean before seeing it
• sand too hot so you have to run
• the smell of fish
• the seagulls' cry
• reading under a parasol
• cold Atlantic waters
• morning walks
• talking with old fishermen
• sunrises
• silly seashells necklaces
• sandcastles
• sunburns
• coconut sunscreen
• shabby cottages
• sea wind
• microwaved pasta (bad idea)
• home made french fries
• sand everywhere
• eyelashes sticky with salt
• giant piers
• candy selling booths

• Charles de Lint
• Alessandro Baricco
• Neil Gaiman
• A. A. Milne
• J. M. Barrie
• Philip Pullman
• Guy Gavriel Kay
• Lewis Caroll
• Terri Windling
• Frances Hodgson Burnett
• Catherynne M. Valente
• Lauren Groff
• Sarah Addison Allen
• Shirley Jackson
• Lucy Maud Montgomery
• Louisa May Alcott
• Alice Hoffman

• Donkeyskin
• Hansel and Gretel
• The Little Mermaid
• Snow White
• Baba Yaga
• Bluebeard
• The Goose Girl
• The Little Match Girl
• Thumbelina
• The Snow Queen
• East O' the Sun, West O' the Moon
• Brother and Sister

(revised May 2011)

• be a good librarian (not sure, maybe)
• make art and be good at it
• sell art without being embarrassed
• write little poems
• write longer stories
• publish a book
• have confidence in my words
• stop thinking that what I create is not worth anything
• have a nice little house
• have a garden
• have many pets
• make more zines
• have regular dinners with friends
• get better at taking pictures
• be as nice as I can be
• be Brave
• learn to quell the constant longings of my heart
• learn to be patient

★★★★★

• The Book Thief , Markus Zusak
• The Hunger Games series, Suzanne Collins
• I Kill Giants , Joe Kelly
• The Ordinary Princess , M. M. Kaye
• I, Coriander , Sally Gardner
• The Penderwicks , Jeanne Birdsall (2 books)
• We Have Always Lived in the Castle , Shirley Jackson
• Ice , Sarah Beth Durst
• The Forgotten Garden , Kate Morton
• In The Cities of Coin and Spice , Catherynne M. Valente
• Princess Academy , Shannon Hale
• East , Edith Pattou

★★★★

• Ballet Shoes , Noel Streatfeild
• The Wolves of Willougbhy Chase , Joan Aiken
• Hex Hall , Rachel Hawkins
• Wasteland , Francesca Lia Block
• Grayson , Lynne Cox
• The Book of Lost Things , John Connelly

• cold air, cold wind
• the crunching sound of boots on snow
• lit fireplaces
• Christmas
• wooly mittens & leather boots
• storms
• skating
• snow angels
• frozen lakes
• evergreens heavy with snow
• snowflakes on eyelashes
• tights & socks
• hot soup
• snowmen & snow fights
• quietness
• White Queens
• reindeer
• lots of tea
• oversized wool cardigans
• frosty breath (like a train)
• snow-caped mountains

• quietness
• dear movies
• drifting music
• humming & loud singing
• pencils and watercolors
• treasured books
• picnics
• warm blankets
• tea
• daydreaming
• sillyness & giggling
• nonsense poetry
• comfy beds
• games (all kinds)
• candies
• little snacks
• bunny kisses
• cloud watching
• frosted breath on windows
• puddle jumping
• crafts

• inside a small chest locked with a golden key
• nestled inside an ear
• on a small note at the bottom of a pocket
• on the wind
• between teeth
• inside a heart
• between diary pages
• buried in the dirt
• at the corner of a mouth
• in the dark corners of the night
• between two breaths
• on fingertips
• in a locket
• in a look, a touch, a lie
• inside a bottle floating on the ocean
• flying on a kite
• in a love letter
• in a smile
• inside a story told by candlelight

• Mermaids
• Ondines
• Kelpies
• Selkies
• Melusines
• Naiads
• Nereids
• Oceanids
• Nixies
• Sirens
• Morgens
• Rusalkas

• The Morning Crocodile
• The Old Mermaid (living in the wood cabin by the lake)
• The Deer Girl
• The Rabbit Sisters
• The Lady of Secrets and Flight
• Her son
• The Bear Cub Twins
• The Garden Girl (and her garden)
• The Librarian
• The Teacher with an owl mask
• Her Wife (with a crow mask)
• The three princes (and their dog)
• The Flower Architect
• The Sleep Doctor
• The fairies
• The Elephant Guardian
• The Water Spirit
• The Giant under the Mountain
• The Boy in the cottage by the Cliff
• The Artist