My name is Amanda, I am in my late twenties. I currently reside in the Southeastern United States with four giggly little goblins and a grumpy old troll who insists we were soulmates in a past life! I fell into this world on the 28th of January which makes me a Monday child and a zany Aquarius with Cancer Moon and Rising ^_^ .

I have been creating since I was a toddler. Charcoal/Graphite are my mediums of choice, but since discovering Paint Shop Pro in 1998 or so, I have been hooked on web graphics and design. Right now I am using Adobe Photoshop to create and I couldn’t recommend it more.

A charcoal portrait of my daughter Arielle and a graphite portrait of my boyfriend Chris.

My favorite colors are purple and pink with blue, green and yellow closely following ^_~ I love all things fantasy, floral, paranormal or just plain creepy.. My favorite holiday is Halloween.

I am pro : imagination, love, nature, compromise.
I am anti : drugs, hate, self centeredness, cruelty.
I firmly believe that if humanity learned to rely and be relied on by one another, our world would know peace.

HeartsEnchanted.com was purchased a few years ago to use as a joint project between myself and a friend. That project never came to fruition though so the domain sorta sat in my Godaddy account for a while. At the time I was still running FaeryInk.com so I didn't have any use for it. However, after FaeryInk.com being hacked multiple times, and realizing that the domain held alot of memories for me (both good and bad) I decided to make some changes. I made HeartsEnchanted my new domain and tried some new and different things with it. I have grown so much since I first started FaeryInk.com that this seems inevitable looking back now.


So now Hearts Enchanted is my little graphics haven. It has a small shop, a little members area, a nice selection of linkware and a good number of tutorials. I am trying to keep a balance of freebies but still enough profitability to give me a good excuse for the family when I've spent 10 hours at the PC pixeling things hehe. I learned everything, and I mean absolutely everything I know about designing websites and making graphics from free tutorials on the internet, so I am real happy to offer my tutorials free of charge now. I hope everyone enjoys them.

I am also real happy to be able to offer a community for Hearts Enchanted/Faery Ink fans and my fellow artists to share our creations and our lives with one another. The Magic Circle is an extension of Hearts Enchanted. We try to hold a lot of fun events and challenges as well as contests for everyone to participate in. You are welcomed to drop by and say Hello sometime =)