Yay Updates!

(picture by me)

Nothing can be said now that hasn't been said or written or before and so I’ll try to change the way I approach this particular piece of typed singularity.

BUT let me just say….Hey, how you doing?

Translation: What can I say about not posting in a really long time that other bloggers haven’t already said so I guess I’ll just say something totally unrelated, How are you?

  That’s right it’s me, I’m back and hopefully to stay for awhile.

So you guys remember how this Summer all throughout this very day I've been saying that the reason for my not writing has to do with the fact that I've either been busy or been uninspired because of not being able to leave the house very much because of house renovations and stuff. Well I'm happy to say that today we finally finished applying the primer and the first coat of paint to the house! Though we might apply the second coat to the front of the house this year...the rest of the painting should be left until sometime next Spring or Summer....so that means for now we can have a time of rest and somewhat normality :) I'm still happy about all of this upgrading and such I'm just not so ecstatic about all the time it's taken to complete these long do renovations it really felt like we were moving not just fixing up some things... so much more than just painting…um…so yeah we’re done and I can no longer bore you with updates on progress so I’ll just end work updates here and save you the annoyingness of having to deal with more of my rather uneventful Summer…don’t get me wrong we had a lot of great things happening and I’ll love this Summer forever I just well yeah you get the picture.

(the house after painting. It still has some green tape on it but doesn't it look nice)

(picture also by me)

To paint our home, we did endeavor 

Though it did seem like forever

We kept hard at it until it was done

Till the completion was won 

(poem requested by my dad)

So yesterday after we’d finished we went out to eat and celebrated our completion of the long “Never Ending Adventure” as I called it.

We were happy it was done but….then it started to rain and paint can’t dry when it’s raining we could only hope that the paint had, had enough time to dry before the rain came…and today we found out that we still had more days of endless rain coming...we were worried it would never have a chance to dry if it hadn't had enough time…but then while we were worrying I happened to notice I was a little hungry so I picked up a fortune cookie from the night before that was lying close by, I cracked it open and pulled out the little slip of paper it read, “The job is well done.” If ever there was a time we needed to hear that it was then…and wow I showed mom and she was just all smiles, thanking God for this strange way of letting us know it was okay we didn't have to worry, my stomach was in knots and was just thanking God over and over again sooo happy…cause you know how amazing it feels when you know God’s spoken two you I've only felt that a few times is my life and it’s so special! :D

Now to less amazing topics, you guys who follow The Artistic Writer know I’ve been drawing a lot recently in fact I’ve been doing a back to back series of Challenging with my friend Samantha…who might I add is Awesome!

And as a result I’ve been pumping more and more creativeness into my drawings…yes this distracts from my writings but I hope with time I’ll be able to refuel that little part of my life that’s still running on empty haha yes I’m writing despite a severe case of writers block, I feel like lately my life has been taking a different turn art is becoming more and more my favorite hobby and it’s very distracting though my character creations do help replenish idea’s for my already in progress stories…even so please bare with me I don’t usually have writers block this bad…please help if you can, maybe provide some idea’s or something how do you guys work with this I keep writing but yeah, it isn’t going so well.

Schools been fine but sleeping hasn’t, I stay up waaaaaay to late. I know I need to remedy that and I have been working on it but still if you guys could please pray I would appreciate it a lot, I’m really moody when I don’t get enough sleep and as a result I’m rude to my sisters and parents and I hate it, also it doesn’t help with school. I’m starting to worry about that….I really care about how much I pay attention and learn I want to take things in, I’m going to need to remember these things if I ever want to be a writer or even to just make it through day to day life so please pray for that too, pray that I am a diligent scholar and take in what I learn J right now I’m enjoying it but I want to be able to remember too.

Sooooo thanks for reading J

Tagged Again ;)

I got tagged twice on this one again by Marissa and Abilaine 

and since it was twice I figured I could do it one more time but I'll have to have some different answers.

Rules

• When you receive the award, link back to keepcalmandsparkle1099.blogspot.com and the blog that nominated you 
• Display the award button in the post
• Answer all of the 12 questions given in this post (Do not make your own questions)
• Once again I'm not nominating anyone but this time because so many people have already done it but I suppose...if any of you lovely readers haven't but would like to than I hereby tag you ;)

Questions:

1. What made you decide to start blogging?

Because I wanted to share my poetry and my love for Christ 

(yeah can't change that one)

2. What is your fashion style

{Picture time!}

P.S.  always wear shorts under your dresses, much more comfortable

3. What is something none of your followers know about you?

I'm going to be an aunt :) 

4. What are some of your blogging goals?

To reflect, ponder, create, and post things that peak both my interest and my readers 

5. Where is your favorite place to shop?

iTunes store,  Amazon, ;) Target, Wet Seal, Book stores, Wal-Mart, and that one store I can never remember.

6. What would your ideal amount of blog followers be?

I have a nice amount right now :)

7. What are your talents?

Like before drawing, writing, reading, listening

8. Are you a leader or a follower?

I'm best at following I think when I'm the leader I get to...controlling?

9. What is one of your favorite quotes?

She is fair, she is wise, She is wisely fair

~Romeo from Romeo and Juliet as quoted by Ani ;)

She is too fair, too wise, wisely too fair...
~Romeo as quoted by Romeo ;)

Show me a mistress that is passing fair,
What doth her beauty serve, but as a note
Where may I read who pass'd that passing fair?
~Romeo another quote from Romeo and Juliet 

To draw or not to draw,

is that a trick question

~????

{also see: To Read or not to read, 

10. Do you have a favorite book or book series?

Dragon Slippers

Nick of Time

Princess of the Midnight Ball

Pride and Prejudice 

The Scarlet Pimpernel 

11. Out of all of the synonyms for elegant, which would you describe yourself with (smart - stylish - dressy - graceful - dainty - fine)?

...superdancealotdrawalotsingalotdefinatelynotanelegantgirl#

butwritingselegantIguess#

maybemusictoo?#

Yep...

12. What is your favorite flower?

I don't have a favorite. I like flowers, yes but I can't ever seem to make up my mind on what kind I like best...something simple and pretty that smells nice is good with me. 

And I nominate only those who haven't all ready but want to do it still :) 

Sorry

Hey Guys,

Sorry I haven't posted in awhile things have been busy over the past few weeks with painting the house, putting in flooring, ect...and I'm afraid I'll be away on vacation with my family this coming week and so I can't write then either (this year has proved exceedingly busy)  and since most of my friends aren't as cyber as I am I can't employ anybody to write while I'm gone especially since I can't give out my email address :/ but anyways I hope you'll hold on awhile while I sort out my life again after we return from vacation..

Now onto the more interesting things; let me try to explain some of the more exciting and fun parts of what's been going on around here in my crazy busy life :D

So about a month ago my sister Liz gave me all her nail polish and a few days ago I decided it was time to use it so I got on the internet and started looking for easy projects because, my friends, I am by no means a nail artist! I found some really fun things and great video's but the only one I've tried so far was the newspaper nails which was fun...AND MESSY...mainly because I'm not an expert at nails seeing as how I NEVER pain my nails except for clear top coat because I think it looks best but my interest has been piqued so my friends here is the results of my attempt at newspaper nails...

(pictures taken by me, with Liz's iPod)

If you want to do it too here's the tutorial I used

(Video below if you can't see it come over to my blog it should be visible)

Note: I didn't have the color they recommended so I just used white also another cute idea is to find your favorite words and just press those on your nails.

Yesterday was my amazing dad's birthday :D 

Love you dad!

If you want to check out his blog click here----> http://taste-that-which-is-good.blogspot.com/

Our family really loves Pilgrims Progress if you want to know where his blog title came from read it's sequel Christiana.

So upcoming event's, I'm going shopping with my sister today, Tomorrows a formal, Saturday is packing day, and Sunday right after church is the day we leave :D soooo excited we haven't been on vacation for forever.

Highlight of the Week

Getting to talk to my dad and Mike (our churches Wednesday youth leader) about what I've been studying!

I guess that's all I have time for today, thanks so much for being patient with me.

Birds!

Hello,
It's Ani once again. I feels like I haven't posted in forever!
  Anyways, so over the months I have taken quite a lot of photos of birds so I thought I would show some.
 
 

                                      I took this picture at the zoo. I had to zoom in all the way to get it.
                                  Swans are so beautiful aren't they! (Though I hear they're quite viscous.)

                                           I reedited the photo to make it look more fanciful. This version is Poem                                           Girl's favorite, but mine is the one up above. :)

 

                                         One day I decided to just go outside and just take as many photos as possible,                               this is one of them. That dove was so silly. It just sat on the wire by itself and once in a  while it would turn it's head to the side....... it was kind of cute. :-)  
                                      

                                         A few months ago I looked out the window and saw a Canadian goose            standing on my neighbor's gazebo, it was watching all the others ducks swim. It kind of looked like he thought he was King over all of them or something. It was very funny. hehehe :-D
                                        

                                          Finches are soooooo pretty! Especially the yellow ones! For one week we saw them every where and now it's like we never see them. Well, I just have to wait till next year. :-)

I saw this bird at the zoo too, but I couldn't manage to get a photo where the bird was in focus because, we were kind of in a hurry at the time. Oh, and for some reason I can't remember it's name! hehehe

Here's another finch taken around the same time as the other one. 

  

And yet another finch. There was so many out that day.(The photos a bit blurry because I had to zoom in all the way and my hands were shaky.)

This is a crane. I took this picture out of our sliding door that faces the backyard. It was really tricky to get, but I was happy to catch the crane making a sort of eight with his head and beak. 

                               This is the same crane, but I took this one without flash that's why the water looks bluer.
                                  (If you look closely the crane looks like it's doing the evil eye.)

                                     Well, that's all. Hope I didn't bore you with all the pictures. :-)

Pics from last Thursday

As promised here are the pic's from the photo shoot we had with our cousin last Thursday...I forgot about the ones we took over by the horses so you'll have to wait a little longer for those :-? aw well can't be helped.
Here they are...

Summer of 2013 

And Yet Another Contest Entry

I'm entering Brittney Ann's Christmas photo contest and here's my entry 

It's a picture of me on the lake in my Christmas Dress and Hockey Skates

Merry Christmas Eve everyone and prepare to be bombarded with Christmas posts!!!

Until Next Time (meaning in a few minutes) 

My Purity Ring

Hello Dear Readers, I thought I'd post a few pic's Ani took of my Purity Ring while we were doing our Photo shoot (Ani's my younger sister in case you didn't know) Ani may even post some of our photo shoot Highlights soon :D

 My Purity Ring 

Glowing Gorgeous Lights

An Article Post tomorrow!

Thanks for Reading :D