SPRING

Look! My first decent new photo since JANUARY! I've been rather lazy with my photography lately. But I'm so happy it's SPRING NOW!!

Fallen Beauty by *LavenderElegance on deviantART

My birthday is in 3 days!! And I have a SURPRISEEEE, and it's so very exciting. I shall post about it very soon. YIPPI!!

Hooray! Jason Castro is in the top 10 on American Idol! He'll be going on tour! Which, as always, I probably won't go see... I seem to always back out of that sort of thing.

I've been making bookmarks too. I will put them for sale on my Etsy soon. There's only one thing there right now, which is sad. Somebody bought the Snitch earrings though, which is very cool! I should make some more.

Happy Birthday Moony!

It was Moony's birthday today! Well, yesterday... it's almost 2am now.

I finished this painting today for it:

Sophie, Ana, Bekka, Sam and I had a little party for Remus.
We experimented with a butterbeer recipe, and ended up putting in a crap load of stuff. It turned out really good though, but really super sweet.

I made a cake, because we had to have chocolate!!

Twas much fun. And I got a new cake recipe out of it too. Chocolate orange bundt cake (vegan). Except that we don't have a bundt cake pan.

Jason Castro

I've been terrible with the updates lately... I added a whole bunch of new stuff to my sketch blog last week though, and I'll try to upload a collection of sketches today.

I've been watching American Idol this year. I used to hate it, and haven't actually watched a whole season since... season 3? That was four years ago, when Fantasia won. I think I liked George Huff and La Toya London that year. I've payed attention every once and a while. I really liked Bo Bice from season 4.

But THIS year, I've been watching, because there's a lot of variety it seems. Except that Danny and Luke just got voted off, and they were a main source of entertainment. I thought Danny would last longer, he's so adorably androgynous.
And since when do I spend so much time talking about dudes? I dunno, it just seems like the girls are all boring this year, except for Amanda and possibly Carly.

Anywho.... I love Jason Castro. He hasn't really got a chance of winning (isn't it obvious that David Archuleta should win?), but he's different, and totally shy and cute. And I LOVED his version of "Daydream", I bought it on iTunes the next day.

His best performances, in my opinion:

I also thought David Cook did really well this week with "Hello"

That's it for now, toodles!

tagged

I got tagged about 2 weeks ago by Martin (http://dibujosybocetos.blogspot.com)
and I'm just now getting around to doing it. Akk, I'm terrible.

I'm supposed to write 5 facts about myself, so here goes...

1. I've got my first grey hair. But apparently, it's more common to get your first grey hair in your teens than I thought. How very odd.

2. My cell phone ring is Dana Fuchs from Across The Universe singing "Why Don't We Do It In The Road", squee!!

3. I just made my first sell on Etsy! I don't have shipping material yet though, so I guess I'll do that after Mom and Sophie get back with the car...

4. Anytime I get sick, my ears plug up. And I got sick FOURTEEN DAYS AGO, and my ears are STILL PLUGGED! Aggravating.

5. I think I might apply at the new Michaels craft store, sound like a good idea? Whoohoo, a cashier job! lol. I'd rather do stocking and stuff, but they're not listing that, so I'm gonna guess that's another part of the cashier job? I dunno...

Well now, wasn't that exciting? ;)

just because...

I haven't posted in 2 weeks, geez!

Well, one of our compters (the one that I use most, so it has all my stuff on it), has been being worked on for a few days, but it should be home pretty soon. And HOPEFULLY everything will be working well again, and our Sims2 games will no longer have graphic malfunctions.

I've got a couple of drawings done, but I haven't been able to scan them. =(

I hope everyone had a good Valentine's Day!

I'll post more about mine later, after I've uploaded some pictures. =)

I also watched the Grammys, which was lots of fun. And now I'm adding lots of new music to my playlist. (the one right above this) =D

That's all for now.

Ta-ta.

Contest Winners

Sophie and Chloe were the only ones to find everything in the picture search, congratulations!

Sophie still hasn't told me what she wants her prize to be, but Chloe asked for a manip of Billy Joel.

She also asked if we could do an art-swap, so she made one for me too! Isn't it beautiful? Thanks Chloe! ^_^

Other news; I sold my first piece of art! My uncle and aunt bought the framed copy of "Icy Fire", which was hanging at Sunnyside Up this month. =D

Icy Fire by *LavenderElegance on deviantART

friday fill-in

1. Once I was an only child.
2. I hate being sick.
3. Today at work I ...didn't.
4. What's the hokey pokey really all about?
5. If I make a mistake I try to fix it somehow, or let it go.
6. When I woke up this morning, I thought about the dream I had that I thought I'd woken up already.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to staying home and probably watching a movie, tomorrow my plans include making plans? and Sunday, I want to go to folkdance!

And here's another cool art video by the guy who did the french fry painting.