The Magical World Of Beatrix Potter

Hey guys!!!

Today's topic: A writer! Which one? One and only Beatrix Potter, no not Harry Potter, tho there are some similarities between them, like they are both british and they are both magical!

So Beatrix Potter was born in London on 28th of July 1866. She grew up as a "proper" victorian lady, but she knew she will never be that!
So she and her mother never understood each other, her mother was more of a "lady" than she was, if I may say that! Beatrix was always adventurous, she liked to get dirty sometimes in the garden she liked to explore the woods and she LOVED animals! She was a true Scottish soul! But she could do that in London :/
She, her brother Bertram, mother, father and all the servants went to the most beautiful place in England, no not the Buckingham palace, but to Lake District in Cambria in every late spring. Children Beatrix and Bertram had a lot of work there, they went into the woods, they were chasing the animals, but that wasn't enough for the little Beatrix she wanted to remember every moment, every view, so as her father once did, Beatrix started to sketch, draw and paint! And she was very good! Of course that wasn't proper to go out and paint so her mother wasn't very excited about that, but her father was happy to see her daughter paint and draw, so he arranged painting lessons for her. But she wasn't that much into a still life or even oil paintings, of course she had to paint that for her learning, but that wasn't her favourite thing to do, she and her brother had a lot of animals, and that wasn't really common for children to have, but they had them, birds, mises, hedgehogs, even a bat onces. She named them all, and she really liked to draw them! That was her true passion! And every night before she and her brother went to sleep, she told a story about one of the animals, they had. You wouldn't believe what kind of stories that were, the imagination she had!
On year in Lake District where they were staying she met a friend, farmers son if I'm right (what of course wasn't that proper for a young girl), but he showed her around the farm and met her woth the animals they had on a farm. There was that duck, that didn't lay eggs, she was very strange, but sweet at the same time, and it wasn't that we didn't lay them it was that she didn't lay them there, she liked to wonder around the farm and she made her nest on the meadow. They thought it was because of other ducks or maybe other animals that ate her eggs and that stayed in Beatrix's mind.
When she was cca. 20 years old, she was lonely, her brother wasn't there and she didn't like to hang woth other women, so her old guverness Miss Carter that became Mrs Moore had four kids, and Beatrix liked to visit them and let them play with her rabbit that she named Peter. They became really good friends! She was telling them stories about Peter rabbit and other animals, but when she couldn't visit them she wrote to them and her stories were now on papers and children could enjoy them! In 1893 she wrote to little Neal that was ill most of the times, so she liked so cheer him up with writting latters and the most famouse story that she wrote The Tale Of Peter Rabbit, was first written for the little ill Neal.

Then she knew that children don't like the tales that are written in those old books with heavy typography and no pictures/ illustrations in it, so she started to write tales from the animals she studied and the stories that she heard from people in Lake District, but when it came to publishing her books there was a problem, companies didn't publish that much of children books, because there wasn't that much interest of buying them, so she was unseccessful and she got rejected a lot, until she came to Frederick Warne & Co. Well at first they of course didn't want to help her, until older brothers remembered that a younger sibling wants to work in the comapny too, so why not give him this failier and let him see, that the work is not as easy as it seems. So mr. Norman Warne (the younger brother) came into the picture, he was very excited about the project and he loved the work, the art of Beatrix Potter, so he published her "little" book, that soon became the best seller, so he asked if she had any other stories and this is how it begun the beautiful collaboration between an author and a publisher, that turned soon into love :) (butterflies!!!) Her mother wasn't up for it, cuz he wasn't rich and he wasn't very suitable, but Beatrix became a well known author and she had her own money. But...(everyone hates this but!) Norman got very ill and soon, he was gone. Beatrix was devastated, she couldn't look at London with the same eyes, now it was the darkest place on earth full of disappointment, sadness and madness, she had to leave! So she packed her things leave her mother and father behind and went to start over in Lake District in the velley called Near Sawrey! While she was looking for a great cottage that she could live in, she met her old friend from the farm in the childhood again Mr. William Heelis! Norman's sister Millie visited her several times, to help her get over the death of her fiance. She thought she will never work again, but there she found her peace and inspiration! Pigs, cats, ducks, foxes, birds were all around her and the stories went on and on and on, until all kids from around England and soon the world knew her, even her mother was proud! Soon she got very close with an old friend Mr. William Heelis and she married him in 1913.
All her propery she left to the country, so it could be saved - reserved for future generations, like her stories in a kid's head! It's still the same as it was when she walked around it, when she went out to paint or get an idea for a new story!

She is now one of the most popular and beloved authors for kids, her stories are not just beautiful, charming and magical, but are very educational for the children as for adultes!

BTW there is a film about her called Miss Potter! It is just beautiful for kids and parents! If you haven't seen it go and get it!!! The role of Beatrix Potter is played by the wonderful and always charming Renee Zellweger

Hope I didn't mess up any of the biography if I did really sorry for that you learned something new and if you find yourself anywhere near the bookshop or a library go get one of her books and you'll se what am I talking about!

And if you have your favourite tale of her's you can share it down in the comments! Mine is
The Tale of Pigling Bland

Talking!

Hey guys!

I hope you don't hate ma cuz I didn't wrote for a long time, but I just don't want to repeat myself over and over again and I don't know if I ever wrote about this before, but yeah it's 3 am, still up, deep thoughts are coming to me and I don't want to lose them so I'll share them.
And this will sound desperate or maybe corny, but I hope that you get something out of these posts and I hope you enjoy them :D

So lately I opened myself to a little bit of psychiatry, well it wasn't anything big hahaah, but I really enjoyed talking and finding solutions with a person that I was talking to. I hope she won't be mad or anything that I'm writing this, but I just have to.
And she is "unfortunately" going to the psychiatrist. And I don't know if you from US, think that's pretty common, but here in Slovenia that is a bit taboo (but now it's like very cool thing, but people with real issues don't want to talk about it, but with a bottle of vine, people talk ;) sorry!)
But she talked a bit about the meetings and the way that they are talking (I know that there is a word for that, but it's there on my tongue and it doesn't want to come out, trust me I tried), so I really liked, how the psyhiatrist is really trying to get her to find the solutions and her problem is that she doesn't want to listen, she just talks and feel miserable about her life.

Ok, here I think I'll start talking about the thing that I want to talk about. So first of all, it's really important to talk to yourself (sounds creepy and totally useless cuz you're doing it but...), but not those regular stuff, but get deep with yourself, talk about yourself ask why, ask what is the real problem.

People are obsessed with love, now I understand why the parents married their's kids in the history, so they wouldn't get over excited about love and then totally break because of that, I mean if someone you don't really love is screwing someone else that won't brake you that much to have all of these "mean thoughts" (please god you were put here for a reason! Why was it you? find that!!!) ( *about the history tragedy* ok, that's not totally true that happened, cuz you have to live with that person and you don't have a choice, but to "love" them/ really deeply care about them), so what I mean to say is, that they wanted to protect kids from love :/
(wow! I feel like I'm the devil or something like that LOVE IS BAD!! NEVER FALL IN LOVE!! XD) I totally don't want to say that, I want to say that you have to look for the right person, not just someone who would stick their tongue in your throat and look at you very lovely, but then never call, but smeone, with who you don't have to do all of this stuff to know that he/she is the right one.

Enough about love, cuz I'm not an expert and some people will really hate this part, but what can I do...
So back to tha talking. Two things! First if you are quiet, you are not doing anything, well you are, you're pushing the pain in the back of your mind, and when the good thoughts will be gone, the bad ones will chasing you back, you have to face with the pain and problems! And I KNOW that this is the hardest thing to do, but if you can face with those thoughts you're already a winner! Now, up there we were talking about talking to yourself, now that won't work for everyone, but it can't do you bad. Before you go to sleep (like me, that's why I'm still up now writing this), before you close your eyes, look in the dark and just think for a moment, thoughts will come, don't worrym, when you have them just talk about them (BTW my best song is now on radio XD maybe this post will get any cheerful) and you'll see that when you start talking about what a miserable person you are, you will realise that you can fix all of that with the simplest things, it really amazing! I found them so can you!
But, if this is not working very well, you have this one friend who won't judge you, talk to them, but tell them that you just want them to listen and that you want to help youself and if you see, that this is not working maybe together you can find a solution (I always forget that word... -_-).
I totally believe that in school you didn't understand the thing until you started to talk about it! You know your answers, you just have to let them out and if you're quiet, you're not doing anything, just making it way worse.

Solutions are like bubbles, if you don't blow them them won't happen/appear, so get you stuff together and remeber all you need is to talk, to open those secret mouth of yours and let it out. JUST LET IT GO, LET IT GO, YOU CAN'T HOLD IT BACK ANYMORE! RIGHT?

+ To this friend of mine I gave three metaphors and of course I'll share them (and they are from my imagination :D )

1. So the man is riding the camel and they are traveling through Sahara and they are almost there, almost and the camel dies because she didn't have enough water to drink. What will the men do? will he die aside her?
Will he give up? NO! he will go and save himself he will run cuz he believes in himself!
AND I WANT YOU ALL TO BELIEVE IN YOURSELF!

2. The miner in very cose to find these special diamonds, he is so excited and he is digging and digging with his pickaxe, but he is digging so hard that hid pickaxe breaks, he taked out those sensors for diamonds and he sees that he is alomst there. But he don't have a pickaxe will ge give up? I don't think so he'll dig with his little hands like a crazy dog, cuz he really wants them and he won't what? He won't GIVE UP! NEVER GIVE UP, ALWAYS REMEMBER YOUR GOALS AND WHY DO YOU WANT TO ACHEVE THEM!

3. Ok you have your watch (antique one) and it breakes, so you take the other watch (different model) and you try to get the clock wheel form that watch to work in your antique watch, but it won't work, cuz the clock wheel doesn't fit. SO IF YOU TRY TO FILL A SPECIFIC PLACE IN YOUR HEART WITH SOMETHING THAT DOESN'T BELONG THERE IT WON'T WORK! YOU HAVE TO LOVE YOURSELF FIRST SO YOU CAN LOVE ANYONE ELSE!

PHRASE FROM DAEE DAYS WITH SIERRA BOGGESS: "YOU ARE ENOUGH, YOU ARE SO ENOUGH, IT'S UNBELIEVABLE HOW ENOUGH YOU ARE!"

P.S. you get this creepy painting of mine (I was learning on illustrator- don't judge)

and if you want you can help me with topics to wrote about :)

Have a nice day everyone!

pa3k :D