Yes, I decided to open my own shop with magical proprieties, fairy stuff, pagan things and card reading - finally!
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
... 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
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
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
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
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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!
ElvenstarArt
elvenstarart.deviantart.com/JoannaBromley
joannabromley.deviantart.com/kundrys-inner-world
kundrys-inner-world.deviantart… - Beautiful works!
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.
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!
wyldraven
wyldraven.deviantart.com/ The master of darkness and his breathtaking work.
I didnt name every artist I would like to, it would be a long, long, looong journal
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...
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
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...
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
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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!!
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
), 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...
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
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
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?
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
Now I will make me some coffee, so I will not fall asleep
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
My dear DA friends, I hope you will have a nice day and magical Fall this year
Goodbye!