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Wilhelmine

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Hello, friends!

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Hello, my friends!
I wasnt active for a very long time. My computer crashed several times and I lost every photo I had. I wanted to at least finish the 365/2017 project, but I just didnt have enough will and time. My life has been going through changes and I was busy a lot, so I just stopped taking photography. Now, after months of not taking any picture, I just begun to long for taking some again. I hope that Im gonna be active again soon. I dont think that I will post as many pictures as I did in the past, and I dont think that my pictures will have any "quality", because I feel like I lost my inspiration, but I just cant live without taking pictures, its a part of me, so...

Im uploading some photos of Halloween 2018 now, because I uploaded them to facebook, so they are the only pictures that I didnt lose...

I hope to upload some new pictures soon :-)
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Some News :)

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Hello my DA Friends! :wave:

Im very happy, because I can finally tell you that I have bought a new camera!!!! Whoah! :excited: I waited for so long to get a new camera (I didnt have money :cries:) but now the time has come and I collected enough money to buy a new camera :aww:
I bought an Olympus SP-820UZ for my upcoming birthday :heart: (oh well, and three purple agate candle holders :XD: )I love Olympus cameras, every camera I had was an Olympus - I dont know why, but it just fits me :aww: I wanted to buy a SP-620UZ type, just because of the pixels, but when I found out that there is a type that has a "miniature" filter that I always wanted to try and a 40x ZOOM!! (dear god!!! 40x zoom! YAY!!! :excited: - yes, I love to snoop from a distance :giggle: ) I knew it - I want it :D So I was collecting money for months (I collected everything from 1 czech crown - 1CZK, thats about 0,05USD :D to bigger paper money). And now - yay, my new baby is home!!!!!! :heart: And the photos are perfect - I dont even need to correct the colour or shadows!! It takes the photo and it looks like in the reality!!!!!! :faint:

But... even when Im happy, because I have a new camera and I can finally take good macro photos (I was suffering, because the camera that I borrowed from my cousin didnt have a macro function), Im still a little bit sad - because of my best friends. Well... I dont know if I can still call them "my best friends" :cries: ...Haniska, Kate and Martin - I dont know why, but they do not talk to me. As I moved to another town I had more options to meet with my friends, because Kate is living here in this town, Haniska lives 2km from here and Martin has his girlfriend and she is living there and I like her so much, so I thought "Hey, we can see each other more!", but... :( I have a lot of work, but even when Im at work for 6 days in a week and Im working from 10-18 o´clock I have enough time to meet them. Kate visited me more than a year ago, she came for a card reading and I thought that we will see each other more, because here at my work we can sit and talk for hours. Well - nothing :cries: When I try to write her on facebook, she is not answering. I sent her a picture for her namesday with a wish, but she didnt even say "Thank you", so I dont know if I should try to write her again. I think she has a lot of new friends with similar hobbies, like anime and manga, so I think she is happy the way she is, so Im not angry. Martin... we did see each other for a few times, but when he visited us (me and my man) for last, he wanted us to buy something for him (because I know some people that do deal "something" that I dont like at all), that I wanted not to buy for him, never ever! and I think he is mad at me because of that. I never thought that a thing like this will put a barrier between him and me and I am very sad because of that :cries: We were friends for 15 years!!!! :cries: And Haniska... yes, she has a lot of work and I know that and we have seen each other for 2 times, but the last time I saw her was a long time ago and when I try to contact her, she is not answering. My mom came across her, when she wanted to visit me, and Haniska said she will write me and that she wants to see me, but... nothing happened. Im writing her time by time, but... nothing. But I believe that the friendship between me and Haniska is not dead - I still consider her as my best friend and somewhere inside of me I believe that we will se us soon :heart: But I dont know what happened - I have many enemies, especially one girl. I thought that she is a great friend of mine, but whe she tried to destroy my relationship with my man, when she lied to my mother and my man and when she told many lies about me and my man to nearly every one (even people from my family) in my hometown, where I lived happily for 21 years!, so we had to move away to have peace and not to be afraid of going out for a walk, I understood she is not a friend of mine. :hmm: I think she makes many things out of spite. Many people came to my pagan store, ordered a lot of expensive things that I needed to buy and then they never came back to pay for them. I found out that she knows EVERY ONE of these people, so I think that everything was plotted against me. :turbostab: Im afraid that she told lies about me to Kate, Martin and Haniska, because she knows them very well. :cries: I dont know what to do :shrug: Im increasingly sad. :cry: I have my man and my mother, but... sometimes I want to talk to a friend. Just sit and talk... :tears: Maybe I dont need people like that in my life, people that are not even able to say "Thank you", but I miss them all so much. If you are reading this - please, I want you all to know, you - Kate, Haniska and Martin - if I have done something that did hurt you, Im very very very sorry and I mean it serious. If Klara said something bad about me to you, please, tell me that. Im sure I can explain and clarify that. If not, if you believe her or if you have another reason for not to talk to me and you dont want to talk to me at all for the rest of my life, please, let me know and I will never bother you again. But please, tell me that - I just want to know whats the matter. :please:

Back to better news - me and my man, we are together for 4 years! :love: We celebrated our anniversary on 30.4. :aww: He is great, he cares about me, especially now, because Im sick again :sick: (I even needed to stop working for a week :blownose: - it makes me crazy, because I love my work). I want to thank the Goddess for giving him to me. :heart: He is cleaning the house and yesterday he made a delicious pizza for me with everything I love - salami, ketchup, pepper, onion and a lot of cheese :aww: I love him so much :glomp:

I started to do new jewellery, especially bracelets. I love doing bracelets from gem stones and now I started a collection - Pagan Sabats themed bracelets! :aww: Dont worry, I will upload a picture of them on DA as soon as possible! :w00t!:
Im started to collect herbs because I want my own herb collection, not just the ones I did buy. So I have now herbs everywhere :D At my home, at work... everywhere :D Herbs and working with herbs make me feel calm and happy :shamrock:
And my book - the one Im writing, Vampyra, seems to be done soon!!! I just need to write 3 or 4 things (well, yeah, they are longer, but... :D ) and it will be done!! I hope that I will have it done this year, so I can release it the next year :aww:

So... I think I should stop complaning about friends that do not talk to me and be happy for everything I have. My mom is with me at my work everyday and we have a lot of fun. I know one girl - its Monica, the girl you can see on my pictures from Beltane 2014. Shes only 11 years old, but it feels like if she is my little sister. I love her totally and we are doing many witchy things together :wizardhat: I maybe met some new people, that want to stay in my life, two women, that I met by accident and they seem to be fine. Both of them are older than me, both of them have children, but they are nice and kind and we understand each other. One of them, Martina, has the same disease as me, the chronic fatigue syndrome, so we can talk about that for hours and we can exchange knowledges about that and some advices. The second of them, Sona, is a great women, that has a lot of things behind her, her life is not happy, but she is very strong. And finally, when Im with these two girls - I laugh when I talk with them. It feels great to have friends, but Im still afraid to trust someone. After all the things that the girl from my hometown did to me, my man and my family, after revealing a lot of things about people, who pretended to be my friends and after all we experienced together they stabbed my back... Im very afraid to trust someone, who is quite new in my life. But my man said that I should try that, that I should go with Martina and Sona out for a coffee or so. So I think I will try it. There is nothing that I could lose. Maybe just the fractions of my trust to other people... :lonely:

So, my DA Friends, I want to say goodbye for now. :wave: Wait for a bunch of new photos from me, because now, as I have a new camera, I will take photo of everything :XD:
Bye bye :bye:
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My dear DA Friends!!!
Thank you all for your support! With your help, I have won the photo-contest with my pagan altar!!! www.pohanskafederace.cz/hlasov… So thank you very very very much :hug: :happycry:
Aaaaand... I want to thank Bionomi :iconbionomi: for her art, Magic Raven bionomi.deviantart.com/art/Mag… and Wilhelmine bionomi.deviantart.com/art/Wil… , she made for me and for my pagan store!! THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MY DEAR!!! Im so happy today! :aww: Thank you again!!!!! :glomp:
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Hello!

My dear DA friends :) Can you please help me to win an event? Im in an event with my photo of my Pagan Altar - dedicated to Samhain! Please, my DA friends, if you can, help me to win :aww: Click on my name (Im Mina La Voisin) and help me to win!


Thank you very very very much for your time and help - it is much appreciated!

Have a nice day :hug:

~ Wilhelmine
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Yes, I decided to open my own shop with magical proprieties, fairy stuff, pagan things and card reading - finally! :excited: Let me tell you the great story of the way to the day, when my store was open for the first time... Sit and listen, little DA children, my friends in art and my big talented DA family :love: ... I will tell you the story...

Well. The very first time I thought about opening a pagan store in the future... I think I was 12 years old. I was a newborn pagan child, only before 3 years (I was 9) I found a deeper meaning of life and I still think, that the deeper meaning of the big gift of our lives is that we became it from our parents, but why? Nature decided so :aww: I think people should love and cherish nature, take care of Mother Earth and be thankful for the beautiful gift of being alive. And I found out, that the pagan way is the only way for me. And from this time I´m still the same at mind, at soul, at heart :meow: There is still something from a child in me. I believe in fairies, unicorns, elves, pixies, vampires, werewolfs, ghosts... I cant remember now everything I believe in. I love the music from Loreena Mckennitt. If I could listen just to only one singer into the end of my life, it would be Loreena. Listen to a song from her, it´s named "Stolen Child". It´s a poem from William Butler Yeats and Loreena brought it to live with her stunning voice. There is a part:

"...Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand..."


Actually, the song is about a child being stolen by a fairy. But! The first 3 parts of this poem is the most beautiful thing I have read about Fairies in my life, and yes, if a Fairy will ever come to me and she will say something from this poem, I will take my man, my mother and my dogs and I would throw my whole life away, even if this should cost me my f:censored:d existence.

I like "children art"... but not "the pink princess and blue car" stuff, I like fantasy stuff, sweet fairy stuff, flowers and trees painted in vibrant colours, tiny worlds in tiny bottles, bookeh and glitter, especially when these things are combined with witchy/pagan/magic/gothic stuff... here on DA are so many talented artist, I love the art of so many people here in DA, but if you want to know, what I call "my beloved children art", you should look at the precious pieces of beauty transformated into art from - let me name them, I hope they will forgive me for writing their DA names here :blushes: -
Acorncupcake acorncupcake.deviantart.com/¨
AbigailLarson abigaillarson.deviantart.com/
ArwensGrace arwensgrace.deviantart.com/
bridge-troll bridge-troll.deviantart.com/
Darkcloudsabout darkcloudsabout.deviantart.com… - I love this art so much! :love:
ElvenstarArt elvenstarart.deviantart.com/
JoannaBromley joannabromley.deviantart.com/
kundrys-inner-world kundrys-inner-world.deviantart… - Beautiful works! :love:
Kuoma kuoma.deviantart.com/ - Fairy art with a little piece of heart in every picture, one of the most beautiful fairy art I have seen in my whole life. Really. :love:
La-Chapeliere-Folle la-chapeliere-folle.deviantart… - Secrets of the soul transformed into art. Every picture is a masterpiece.
MeredithDillman meredithdillman.deviantart.com…
NeverSeenHerSmile neverseenhersmile.deviantart.c… - Dark and cute. I fell in love with this art.
Otherra otherra.deviantart.com/
sideshowmonkey sideshowmonkey.deviantart.com/ - Horror and other cute art :giggles: Perfect work! :love:
wyldraven wyldraven.deviantart.com/ The master of darkness and his breathtaking work. :eyepopping:

I didnt name every artist I would like to, it would be a long, long, looong journal :D But let me to continue... 

So, I was 12 when I first thought about a pagan store and this dream was still hidden just in my mind, because I didnt know how to bring it to life and what to do to make it come true. And then... My man, my beloved boyfriend, the one and only in my life, said one day - when we were preparing ourselves to move somewhere else (dont ask why... my hometown, the village, where I lived for 21 years... well, the people are not so good as they say... we found out, that most of the people we did know for the whole life are... liars. They are cheating on each others, they did lie to their own families, they are just like "money, money, money!!!", some friends... I thought I knew them, but now I see, that I was blind and I could not see through their fake faces... some friends started to talk behind my back, but... well, in my life, there were always people, who were talking behind my back, so its nothing new for me, but... one of my friends (I know her about 6 years), started to slander and she was telling lies to my man and we were near to say farewell and leaving our love behind in the past - luckily, my man is a clever person, so we did talk about everything that happened between us and we decided to leave our hometown, because of everything that happened here, because of all the people, that were - for some reason, that I never found out - against us and our love, because of all the lies and cheating and so on... We decided to move to another town, the one where I went to my high school. I knew that we will need a job, so I had a talk with my man, I told him, how I regret to leave my hometown, how Im sad about all of the things that people have done to us, and he said: "My love, I know that you want to have a pagan store. Let us find some place, where we can try it." :soothe: My man... Im so happy that I found someone so... perfect as him... :lezdate: So we started searching for some house or flat and as we were searching for some new place to live, we found a nice, big place, that was perfect for a store...

So we moved to our new flat and from 3.10.2012 we started to make the store, so my dream can come true... I want to thank again my beloved man for helping me, because without him... I could not do all of the things alone... :happycry: And then came the day... 15.1.2013 and we opened our store for the first time :yay: ! The name of my store is "Magic Raven" - oh yes, my love for Edgar Allan Poe is showing itself in in all possible ways :D 

I was scared :giggles:, but it was fine! On the first day - 4 people came to see whats new in their town! And from this day - I still have my pagan store open, doing every day something new for my store. Im so happy that my dream came true, one of my biggest dream is now a true and this all could happen just because of my man - like I said - without him, there would be nothing and I... without him... I would lost my life, my everything... So Im happy to have him always near and I love him so much, so much! I cant even describe it with words how much I do love him... The love we have, the love we cherish... Im just 22 years old, but I know that I want to spend the rest of my life next to my beloved man, always hand in hand, always near, always in love... :cuddle:
And what can be found in my store? I sell books, candles, ritual things, hand made jewellery, clothes, herbs, incenses, gemstones and many more things, together with wooden stuff, made by my man, such as wands, altar tables, athames, ouijas and many more things... :lardgrin: We offer card reading too... If you want to see, what can be found in my pagan store, click here - www.facebook.com/mrobchod (its a facebook link - if you want to, click the "like" button :aww: ).

And what did change from the first day? The leader of a group Discordia - an agency, that travels through the Czech Republic and even Germany and shows historical dances, swordplays and so on - came into my store and he said, that he wants us to travel with his group and do tarot cards reading for their customers! So we went to 2 fairs, one in the town where we live now, one at Andelska Hora in Czech Republic - it was awesome!!! Now we are preparing for the third fair, where we go with Discordia! Im so happy and excited!! :happybounce:

So yes - even if my life isnt perfect and we have some problems (...in our republic, the politics... let me describe the current situation in my country with one word - horrible... it like hell, all of the payments, taxations and other things...) but Im happy - I never was so happy as I am now. I have a man, that loves me with everything that belongs to me, he loves me at morning, when I look like a real witch (green in the face :D ), he loves me when he comes home from his work, at evenings when we watch tv and cuddle, in the night, when I cant fall asleep - he holds me tight, he loves me not for I have done or not, he loves me for what I am inside and that is something new for me, something... in my life, there are just few people, that do love me just because its me, and my man is one of them, and I am so thankfull for his presence, for everything about him... :heart: We are slowly reconstructing our flat, so it will be one day a perfect place for our child - oh yes, we want to have children as soon as possible :aww: My mom and my dad will move near to us, so we can be together (when we moved away, my mom and my dad stayed in my hometown) and I hope that we will have a big family christmas this year :aww: My mom and my man - they like each other - who can say that their mother and their partner can talk about everything and the like each other? :aww: Im so happy! The only one thing that makes me unhappy in my life is my sickness... Im still unwell, Im still tired, everything - my whole body - hurts, but Im still standind with my head up and I look forward with hope :)

So yeah, thats what I wanted to share with you, my DA friends :nod: Now I will make me some coffee, so I will not fall asleep :XD: and then Im planning to do my Mabon Altar and unpack all of my halloween decorations and decorate our flat with kinky stuff before my man comes home from his work :D

My dear DA friends, I hope you will have a nice day and magical Fall this year :hug:
Goodbye! :bye:
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