The Book of Shadows | Tour | & How to start yours 📖✨
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- Опубліковано 2 чер 2024
- Hello dear Enchanted ones,
Oh my gosh it has been so hot in England this week, but im so glad I got a chance to film this video for you all!! It has been very requested, and I hope you take from it that your book of shadows can have NO rules at all!!
This book of shadows is EXREAMLY personal to me, so I ask to be nice and appreciate what it is for… well what it is!! I felt I needed to have this AMAZING book of shadows to present, and really, its just the outside cover that looks aesthetically pleasing, but again it doesn’t matter like I said in the video, the information is down on the pages, and that’s all that matters.
Let us all be unique and embrace our uniqueness together!!
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Hello my loves I was thinking about doing a LIVE STREAM when we reach 20k!! (what?!?!) and wanted to do a craft with you all that you could follow along with... If you have any ideas of a craft... (Could be one I have done before), please leave this idea below 💚 lots of love and thankyou for being here 💚👇👇
Great idea. Perhaps fun seasonal pages? I hope you will do it on a Saturday, so I can join in. It's my only day off.
Hiii Alwyn!!! 😊❣️I love you so so much I’m a big fan. ❤️🌹✨You can do anything It honestly doesn’t matter.I’m obsessed with nature so maybe something nature-y.☘️🍁🌿🍂🌱🍄🌷🌾I am a small youtuber it would be my dream if you subscribed.😌😘Have a great day everyone and remember “ Don’t try to fit in being different is what makes you special.” 💖🤩😇Bye! ✌🏻
That would be so much fun !!
Yes something on nature or the seasons would be really nice ❣️❣️
This sounds great! What about creating a witch’s ladder?
Thank God. A journal that looks like a human wrote it! I often have quit my BoS because I was ashamed it wasn't "perfect". I'm inspired.
😂😂😂 Yes!!! So glad you feel the same! Function over fashion 💚😊✌️
@@AlwynOak One thing I've learned over the years is that there will always be more info to be added about crystals, herbs, etc. and there's simply no way to leave enough space for future entries.
The solution? A binder you can add pages to (or remove ones you made a mess of without it being obvious) of your preferred size. They come in all different sizes and there are definitely ones that just look like regular, leather bound journals, but they have rings or strings to hold the pages in that can be undone to add or remove pages.
You can even make your own with sturdy cardboard and some string very inexpensively.
Yes thankyou so much for the tip!! I was going to do it in a clippy binder book and couldn't find a small one anywhere!! So then I came up with the card idea from that. But now I see them everywhere aha 😂💚
You're welcome!
I personally feel that there is so much more pride, joy, and power that can come from something made from "scratch" and personalized with your own unique expression, but sometimes, the aesthetic, energetic feel, or simply quality of a premade item can be just as rewarding.
I use a three ring binder too! It opened up new avenues in creativity for me. I use different things as pages- paper placemats, maps, packaging material… whatever fits in the hole punch and can be saved from the trash!
I always get “fear of a blank page” when starting a new book of any kind but Grimoires are the most intimidating. It’s almost like stage fright. Yours are so beautiful!!
“Sit back, relax, and keep on watching.” My favourite sentence 😊💜
Awww thankyou sweet!! Hehe! I never meant it to be a thing at first haha but I like how it puts you into the zone of the video 😊✨📖😘
@@AlwynOak it works, it relaxes me instantly! 🧘🏻 😊🙏
I'm a baby witch and this helped a lot. You just gained a new sub!
I have made 4 books in the past 2 years of practicing. I have written that many because I don’t do artwork or try to make it pretty. I try hard to write and learn all the time. I value knowledge more than aesthetic. I have never really seen any books like that on UA-cam so if anyone is reading this this is totally a thing you guys can do 🥰🥰
Thanks for sharing that ! It feels good when you realize you are not the only one who does that. I know how to draw and paint, and I'd love to do it on my Books, but there is so much to research, to learn and to write, that I feel like it would be a waste of my time If I'd draw instead of reading, learning and writing...
Thanks again. Take care.
I'm actually doing this with my travel size grimoire. Even though it's thick with 660 pages, I'm only writing in it so it can hold as much information as possible that's relevant to my path. I'm making it my practical book, but it's also like a blueprint for my large Grimoire that will have more aesthetic with the information. If i can write everything in my smaller book, then everything and more will work for my larger book that has 800 pages. Loving my small grimoire though, I'm actually more excited to just write in it than i thought i would be. Totally support this idea.
That's cool. For me it's both. I love learning, but I'm also artistic , my brain is like a kids imagination. I love seeing shapes, colour, texture. Yet it comes out looking like something Tim Burton made 😅
I've been wanting to start a BOS and I believe this is my sign 🖤 so thank you! ✨
Yes!!! This is a big sign 😂💚💚💚 enjoy!!
I've been wanting to make one also but didn't know how to begin.💚
Lol! I’m the same way. I literally have to calm myself and slow my heart rate before I start writing, otherwise I miss words because my mind goes faster than my hand. 🤣
Btw, beautiful BOS’s 💖 Thank you for sharing them.
I have a separate book for my herbs. Ofc, it’s not in alphabetical order, but it’s okay it’s my book. 🤣
😂😂 Love this so much! And glad you feel the same!! Sometimes I watch videos and then need to write at the same speed too! Those pages look like a toddler scribbled on them 😂😂 but I love them non the less 😊💚🧚🏻♂️✌️ blessed be
I love the idea of the cards! Easy to access, you can collect and curate information from a variety of sources, and you don't need to worry about running out of room!
I think the box of cards for herbs, flowers and crystals is a great idea, they are hard to find in a journal, and like you say, you easily run out of space. I'm going to start a card box. Loving your content, your voice is so calming.
Since I'm a Virgo sun/Virgo rising I go a little batty when things aren't organized logically so I use a binder so I can insert new pages and keep topics together. However, what it has in efficiency it lacks in... well... magic. So I love looking at books like yours that inspire me to let loose and be a little more creative. Thanks for the tour!
Aww love that, this made me laugh!! I have friends who feel the same way about my chaotic unorganised files haha! Thankyou so much for watching
I am so like this!!! I’m learning to let loose too😂
i have tried over and over again and the only thing that has stuck with me is using notion to write everything down so i dont have to worry about having to tipex things out or having to restart pages because i messed up a drawing etc but youre right in saying it lacks the feeling of magic, of creativeness, and me. as much as i adore "traditional looking" BOS like alwyn's, ive decided that im going to rewrite everything from notion neatly and plan out the pictures before i draw them (or draw them on a different piece of paper/post-it note and stick it in) and then neatly organize everything in a binder😭 im a chaotic researcher and will get halfway through writing things down and researching that i constantly start new topics and have a thousand tabs open that i know even if i calculated how many pages i might need, something will go wrong and ill restart it. good luck to you and all of us on tackling our perfectionist traits and heres to hoping theres a spell out there for it!!!! (sorry for the paragraph ahah x)
Im a virgo too. I also use a binder for the same exact reason.
You can buy leather at a hobby store and cover the binder, you can also purchase cloth paper sheets online and get very artistic even with the binder which i plan on doing once i get my original binder out of my storage unit. Virgo's and those dang organizational needs. I even keep my kid's toy's well organized it's a compulsive need.
“It does not need to be aesthetically pleasing” - 🧐. I know you’re an aesthetic queen by your setup and books, ain’t no shame in aiming for aesthetics when you can. We Stan an aesthetic witch Queen, Mama. Especially in your craft. I am all for aesthetics, helps me connect better and it’s nice to have a NICE space.
Everything looks so lovely! You are such a beautiful soul ❤️
Thank you so much for all of your content, your videos reach my heart every time. I love your music in the backround 🥰
Thankyou so much sweet that's so kind! Glad you like the music too! It all comes together when I add that harp underneath, the final piece of magic it needs!
Your photo, La Cocinadera, is so beautiful...✨
@@gabrielleangelica1977 thank you!
@@LaCocinadera 🤝
You're a good soul, LaCocinadera !!!
BoS are like people, each one is beautiful and unique! You have helped me to appreciate mine even more BECAUSE it is unique to me. I’m looking forward to your Lammas video because I still need to make a page for it in my book. Sending you much love and light! Thank you for posting!
I really like the idea of putting sticky notes in to plan what you want to write, i cant believe i never thought of that, i always just made lists on my phone of how i would organize it, but that just got so overwhelming. Now i am brainstorming prompts, questions i want to answer while writing, and sticking them where i think i should write about it
Your voice is so calming and reassuring. It felt great to see someone lay out the basics but also remind me that everyone's practice is individual to them and that I don't have to worry about being perfect or knowing everything for Magick right away.
Thank you so much for sharing!!! I'm brand new and it's a bit overwhelming to start: SO much information to learn and I don't want to leave anything out. I've started by just journaling traditionally to get going and retraining my brain to think more deeply and less mechanically about my day. This gives me such a great jumping off point to start my BOS/personal reference library. You are so kind to share your journey with us! Have a lovely weekend ❤
Hey my love! Thankyou so much for your message! With regards to leaving anything out, my advice is, don't worry about that too much, because yes there is SO much information, but really its a lifetime of information, and everyday you may learn something new! Great idea about journalling such a great, helpful thing to do! blessed be and good luck on your journey :D
The first thing I always do to get over the whole blank book thing is dedicate the first page to protecting the book. This can be a pentacle, a poem, or a Sigil; depends on what you’re feeling. Personally I do a pentacle with a sigil I designed for protection in the center of the star. After that the book is already used and you’re free to add whatever you like ^^ I also loved your idea of what being a witch means to you. I may add that myself later.
Thank you for sharing your lovely books with us. I know that I need to slow down in my wanting to learn about everything. I'm very new to all this and I run off in all different tangents. I keep most of my info in various word documents because I can type faster than I write (plus I can copy and paste things I've found too), so I guess I have a Microsoft Word of Shadows! I always intend to write things up nicely at a later date but this doesn't happen too often I'm afraid. Seeing your books and cards has inspired me to get going again though. x
Oh what a great idea!! Haha love it 😂 Yes my advice is, pace yourself! Its good to do a bit here and there and then it falls into habit and becomes a part of who we are 🧚🏻♂️✨📖😊💚 Blessed be
you are literally the person i've been looking for to start my journey. thank you for making this video
I love this video!! Another tip for the crystal page: you can add a page by creating a folded, accordian page 😍
What sweet energy with a hint of spice 😁 Be well. Sending you some green aqua energy ✌🏽
I love how you tell a story🌿⭐
Using cards is a brilliant idea!
This is so inspiring as always. Thank you! I will start a new Book of Shadows any day now so this is perfect for me.
I LOVE THIS SO MUCH!! 🌕
This is lovely!!! This has really inspired me to start my own book. Thank you so much!!
I love your energy! Thank you so much for the info! This will really help me on my way to write my own. :) 💜💜💜
This was lovely. Thank you for sharing! This helped me a lot. 💗
This is the best and most helpful one yet 🥰 thankyou for taking away the stress ❤️
This has been very helpful and gave me a bit of clarity on organizing my own books. 💕
I am in awe with the beauty and bliss you created!
Absolutely beautiful books! 💕✨ And so inspiring! 🙌
Thankyou so much Gabrielle! Have a lovely weekend 💚📖✨
What a great video! New subscriber here. I’ve been practicing witchcraft since 1980 & regarding a Book of Shadows what I have learned is this~ do not compare your BoS to others. You do you. Secondly, there is no right or wrong way to design & organize your BoS, there is only your way. Once I figured this out I was much happier with not only my record keeping, but also my practice. ✨🔮✨
Ooh thanks! I am feeling magically inspired! Blessed be!
ive been wanting to start a book of shadows and this video was the perfect one for me! thank you so much! ❤️🔮🍄
This is so cool! I’m setting up on my grimoire now and this gives me loads of ideas!
Thank you so much! I’m a total beginner and I needed to see this so much😭😭💚
Your book of shadows are WONDERFUL ! so inspiring thank you enchanting lady! Xxx
I am so proud of you 💕🥺 you are inspiring beginners.
Your books are lovely and oh so powerful. I really love the circle pages 😊
Female witches are 2 step ahead from the men. Look the accuracy of the elements and the beauty inspiration from natural items 😍. Blessed be the goddess within you.thanks for your craft is appreciated ✨
Ive been wanting to start one with a book i book binded myself for the first time. Thank you for this!!!!
I absolutely love your books and the art you placed in them! I also love that you have more than one and the cards you've made! I think I shall maybe follow suit in the cards as well
My favourite Aquarius lady! I’m now going to buy some blue bells… 😅
Ah why thankyou!! Hehe yes call the fairies!! 🧚🏻🧚🏻♂️🧚🏻♀️
Your books of shadows are so beautiful. I'm getting inspired to continue with my own now. I have not used it for a little while, but now I feel inspired to open it again. Thanks
Of course your a lovely Aquarian. Such a beautiful video. I encourage everyone to just be creative and not try to be perfect. The book is for you, so enjoy the process! Thank you for sharing your books with us Alwyn!
#pisces
Hi sweeet! Yes such a great tip and one that is not said often enough
Blessed be, thank you, this has been very helpful
Thank you for another great video! I love how every BOS can be similar to others, yet remain so very unique. Looking forward to your next post. Blessed be.
You are so lovely, creative, and a true artist. I love all your books and especially the last one! How beautiful! Very cool! Thank you so much for sharing with us!
Thank you SO much. This video was absolutely perfect in helping me with ideas of how to begin my book. Blessings and again, thank you so so much!
Your energy is so lovely 🥰 enjoyed watching
Love this! Thank you for sharing this!
Ohhhh my goodness! I just loved watching this video! I always love a peek into another witch’s book of shadows, and getting inspiration!
I adore your idea of drawing a circle and creating something beautiful, intuitively… I am definitely going to try this in my books!
Beautiful Book of Shadows. Thank you for sharing ❤
Very Beautiful!! The Book of Shadows are too… I love your artistic approach
Your Books of Shadows are beautiful. Thank you for giving tips and sharing your knowledge. 😊
I love your process and evolution of YOU! I had my students keep nature journals and loved how unique each one was to that incredible spirit! Thank you for showing techniques to use at different stages. They are beautiful!❤️🤗❤️
I loved this just seeing your thinking behind each and how you design them it was so interesting I feel I understand your craft better xx
This video sparked lots of ideas in my mind…so anxious to get started on one of my own❤
Happy birthday Alwyn.. have a beautiful day!
Love this I'm just about to start my second book. Great !
So pretty!!
I have always been drawn to starting my own Book of Shadows but not sure where to start. I really appreciate the information on this! I cannot thank you enough 💕
I'm only starting out, this was so informative and makes me love what I'm hoping to do already ^^ Thank you. I have a lot to learn still, but this makes me realise why I want to do this :)
this video has such a calming vibe! your book looks beautiful
Thank you so much!
I’m just barely getting into witchcraft and I find the idea of using the decoration process for intention setting a very powerful thing, I definitely intend to do so when I start a BoS
I absolutely love these book of shadows. So inspiring and beautiful. Very witchy i love it!!
Oh wow this was such a helpful video! I love your book of shadows! Thank you for sharing your tips! This made me think about some ideas to do! Thank you again for your helpful video! :)
Your Bos's and sacred space is beautifully magickal. Thank you so much for sharing.
I really enjoyed this video… lots of information in it. I’m looking forward to making my book of shadows! I’ve been making notes in various note books but this is a much better plan. Neater & easier to find things. ✨🧚♀️🧝♀️
I just want to say a big thank you for your lovely videos! I live in Sydney, and at the moment we are on lockdown due to covid. Its a terrible time, and the world seems so uncertain at the moment. I also suffer from anxiety, and I find your videos so therapeutic, relaxing, beautiful, very informative and meditative. Watching them makes the world a better place, and you make the world a better place. You are lovely, inside and out. Thank you so much. 💖💖🌹🌹
I enjoy your videos so much. I’ve told you once before you have the most amazingly sweet soothing voice. I’ve really gotten some awesome ideas from you. Thank you so much for sharing sacred space and book of shadows.
Love seeing your progression through the various books, thanks for sharing Alwyn
Thankyou so much Sophia! Yes they changed ALOT! blessed be ✨📖📕💚🧚🏻♂️
I found this soo helpful! Thank you so much 💗
Thankyou for lots of ideas. Really individual. Love them! I'm just starting out so really really helpful. Blessings 🙏💖
Alwyn, you are an incredible human who has had such an impact on my life and mental and emotional well-being more than I could ever express. You are performing healing for so many🫶🏼🧹🕯️
Wonderful video. I love your energy. And BEAUTIFUL art work! ☺❤
So so beautiful Alwyn, thank you so much for sharing, I’m just starting a book of shadows. You are so inspiring.
Hi Maxine, thankyou so much, good luck on your book of shadows journey!
OMG I was waiting for this one 😭😭😭 thank you so much for this beautiful video, I’m gonna sit and watch the entire thing.
Yay!! Thankyou so much Emily! I knew it has been requested for a long time! I was a bit self concious about showing it becuase I felt its not up to par yet. But really that's the beauty in it p: lots of love
@@AlwynOak Flaws lay in the truest form of beauty, I’m fixing myself some iced coffee before I get cosy to watch this video haha. I have a few empty leather bound journals scattered about my room which I’ve been hesitant to put use to. I just know that after watching your video I’m going be motivated, thanks alwyn ❤️
Thank you for the tour. The best is the map of the woods and your tea parties. Your art and music is wonderful.
I love this. I received good positive energy with this. I also used to create my own personal journal /book so i reasonate and love this.
Thank you so much for helping me to put my interest so in better prospective & working order.
It sounds like so many of us are waiting for perfection instead of progress!! So funny to add myself to that list. I truly enjoyed seeing your ideas and hope to use some of them that touched me in my own BOS. And.. l love that you took a writing desk and made it magical.
Thank you for sharing.
Those imperfections and handmade-isms have a charm of their own. It's easy for me to notice that charm in other peoples' things, but it takes longer for me to see it in my own.
Absolutley!!! I think the aesthetics are lovely but none the less not the information 😘🧚🏻♂️✨ scribbles mean passion!!! Blessed be 💚🧚🏻♂️
I absolutely adore the card idea. So flexible! Thank you!
Thankyou sweet!! Yes the freedom is unreal and of I mess up a card it doesn't matter and I can just start again!
Unique and beautiful, as always ❤
Thankyou so much my darling as always 😚💚📖✨
Fantastic ideas Alwyn x
Thank you! Beautiful books!
Thank you so much!! I’m new to all this so this is really helpfull!!
Beautiful. Absolutely love your channel.
Thankyou so much Amanda! Blessed be 😘💚✨📖
I love your handwriting. It is so pretty
I’m a beginner witch, and personally this video helped me a lot as I was trying to find a video that fully explained how to start a book of shadows and what to put in one! Thank you! :)
I love the cards for your herbs, crystals etc. might steal that!
I love your perspective, thank you for sharing! You are so very creative, and I find you inspiring. 💜💜
Thankyou so much! Yes I thought it time to share my thoughts!! So glad you enjoyed it. Lots of love 😊✨📖🧚🏻♂️
@@AlwynOak lots of love to you too! 💜💜
A beautiful video as always, Alwyn! You are so right. I was so overwhelmed and intimidated by those amazing BOS's out there. Mine never seemed good enough. As a beginner, it is really easy to fall into that trap. Also what I felt, was that I spent a lot of time putting thins in my BOS that other people told me should be in there. It's really important to put only that in which really resonates with you as a practitioner.
I’ve made witchy journals BOS but the cards are new to me and I love this idea! Thank you SO much for your beautiful energy and inspiration!
Thankyou sweet! Yes I just came up with the card idea on my own, I feel so proffesinal searching through them haha. Can't wait until the box is filled to the brim with them!
I absolutely love this video!!! It has been so helpful to me with my own book of shadows! I cannot wait to see your Lammas celebration video!!!😊❤
I'm so glad! You are very welcome! And thankyou sweet i'll start filming it Monday so hoping to get it up by Wednesday
Oh that sounds great!!! I can't wait until Wednesday then!!!! 😁❤
I just love your creative style 💕🌼🌺
Thankyou Laurie 😘📖✨
I love the fact you write your spell that is needed for you at the time. I too do this and because its for me I too burn it... being who we are we need to be true to ourselves. Blessings
Omg your cup at the beginning of the video 😍 i want it!