Madame Irene Juniper is a round and elegant lady. She has a white face, and dark brown quills that fade to a pale color at the tips. She favors berets and sun hats and long flowing scarves which she dyes herself. She often paints the tips of her quills with her watercolors, making them match her hat ribbons and scarves. She makes jewelry out of things she finds when she goes out to forage, and sometimes jingles when she walks. She is tidy but not natty, and always has a misty and mysterious smile on her face for all her neighbors and students. Her voice has a strange lilt to it that is impossible to place and has always been there.

Madame Juniper has always been a graceful and artistic hedgehog. Even when she was a wee hoglet her mum always told her that her finger-painting was elegant and sophisticated, which is just what she wanted to hear. Her father was a post carrier, and she often got to go to work with him, sitting behind the counter, saying hello and giving flowers to all the interesting people that came to post letters to all sorts of places in Brambleton and beyond!

She always had fun not only gifting her brothers and sisters all of her grand creations, but showing them how to make them if they ever asked. It was absolutely clear that she should be an art teacher from the very beginning, and she has ever-so-happily dabbled in that field ever since. She's sold her art, been a private tutor, taught the kits and fledgelings at school, and sometimes she even runs community art classes right out of her burrow.

She's also known to throw elegant tea parties and dinner parties, and everyone's always invited. The only thing more fun than a guest, in her estimation, is a surprise guest, and when a party is on the horizon she invites her neighbors, students, and strangers she meets for the whole week beforehand. Somehow, she always has enough chairs and cushions for everyone, and she's terribly good at pairing people up for delightful conversations about things they have in common.