Photo Gallery: Green Leaves and Wheat Fields

  I took some pictures of these beautiful green leaves, and the wheat yesterday. Our house and land is like a peninsula into a field. Right now its wheat. :) Then I think it's going to be soy beans... Want to know what it's going to be next year? Haha. I'm sure you're so interested. :D

                       
                                   It's like the perfect sun rays! Aren't I a lucky photographer? ;)

Just don't look too closely at my hand. I don't know if I have dry hands, or what. It's not winter anymore. :P

   There it is!

DO YOU HAVE ANY FIELDS NEAR YOUR HOME? ANY WHEAT? :)

Photo Editing, Tornados, and Life's Other "Adventures"

 I seem to have done a bit of these sort of posts lately... nevertheless, I'm doing one again! :)

Just to make a random comment, blogging is awesome! :D If you have a blog as well, don't you agree? 

 You may notice that I've been working more on my blog display, as well as adding a new page, Modest Fashion. That page may only benefit my own pleasure... I don't know. :D It's fun putting outfits together. That's a lot of what I did after church on Sunday. :) 

Okay, back to working on my blog. I decided to just write the title on my header... but then you're required to write a title on blogger. So I just did a dot. But then I noticed that on the tab thing above the address bar, there was just a dot instead of "looking through my lens". SO, I wrote the title in on blogger and made it super tiny, so you can't really see it! :D I was laughing gleefully at my genius. OR maybe it wasn't genius at all! Haha. :D I hope you're not scratching your head in confusion at my non-ability to explain this very well. :P

 I want to try making my picture on here round, so I went onto a blog that said to go onto Picmonkey. Its a site for editting pictures! You can use it for free; you just can't use everything on there that way. There are better plans for like $2.75 and $4.99 a month.

Anyhow, I had fun playing around on it. Here's a picture I edited:

BEFORE:

                          

AFTER:

 This probably wouldn't be good for someone's yearly pictures, but for something to frame on your wall... :) 

 THIS one would look good for just normal yearly pictures. :) 

 We also had fun making my eleven yr old brother have a mustache and beard! It got us laughing! :D 

My, I'm starting to really like picmonkey. :D The only bad thing is that it lowers the picture's resolution! WHY would they do that? :\ Or maybe its on a certain setting...


 Are you wondering why my title mentions tornadoes? Well, we had a stormy day this week, with tornado warnings and all.
AND, I may have seen my first tornado! I may have gotten a little creep-ed, but not really. It wasn't very windy at all at our house, so...
 I went to get my camera, but it was not very visible any more when I got back... probably due to rain. 

 But it was out there somewhere. :) Pretty cool. I like excitement like that. :D My mom's pretty sure it was a tornado.  

 And then we played take two in the basement for awhile. :) And we also survived the storms, as you can tell. ;)

 Today I went with my mom and littlest siblings to town. We went to this little downtown street that had an art gallery, another artsy shop, and a hardware store with an antique store in it. I LOVED the antique store! There was TONS of stuff, and it was so fun to look through it! Although, I didn't look through it all. I want to go back when I have some money sometime and stay there a long time! :) There was a couple old stoves in the hardware part. Stoves like the one's you'd see in the Love Comes Softly movies! So cool. :D I love old stuff. Even the smell. Ahh.

 We got tomato plant too. So, hopefully we'll get some yummy fresh tomatos this summer! Is anyone else looking forward to summer? Pretty much everyone, I'm guessing? :) It's already summery where I'm at. 

 Some of my family and I have enjoyed making shaped pancakes using a medicine... uh, squirt-er. Sorry, I don't really know what it's called. It's one of those little medicine things that you put the end in liquid and pull the other end up to suck it in. 

SO. We suck pancake batter into them things, and make shapes on the pan. :) I made my sister above. I've made letters. I should make some again for my little one yr old brother. He's kind of learning letters. Well, at least, if you have a shirt on with letters on it, he'll sometimes touch them and say, "ABC..." and other letters. Or maybe something he thinks is the name of a letter. ;) Such a cutie bear. :)

 What else have I been doing? Well, our fast-growing lawn has needed mowing more than once this year. 

I mowed a bit yesterday; It's actually kind of a fun task. :) You can just talk to yourself as you watch the long weedy grass get cut down into a nice lawn again. :) And no, the picture above is not our lawn. It's our old lawn in MN. I don't know if our lawn here has ever looked that nice.

Well... I guess I could show you all the fish my little brother caught today. Although it doesn't look very nice. XD I'll just say that is was a catfish that weighed like, 17.6 pounds. :)

Thanks for reading this post with lots of words! :D Hope you enjoyed! :)

"These are a Few of My Favorite Things" Tag

 I was tagged by Shantelle @ A Writer's Heart for the "These are a Few of My Favorite Things" tag. 

SO, that is what I am doing today! It sounds fun! ;)

Okay, ten of my favorite things... only, I don't even know if these are all my favorite things. :P That's me- hardly has any favorite anythings!

Ahem:

1) Nature!

 I love the country, forests, nature... and all the beautiful natural things I can find to take pictures of!

2) Old things\Vintage

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Like old attics, old cameras, lace, old cars... old everything! :D

3) Cute animals

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  Such as foxes. We saw one the other day, and it was so cute! <3

4) Wonderful Christian Fantasy Books! 

5) Campfires and night-time fun with friends and family <3

 Doesn't it just sound amazing? Sitting around a fire with your cousins\friends all around, roasting marshmallows... *sighs!!* (July, come soon!! ;) )

6) Pictures!!

I really like pictures. It's not surprising, since I also love to take pictures. ;)


7) Food!!

 I like eating food, making up food recipes, and taking pictures of food! 

8) Fashion

As in, clothes and dressing up nicely- things like that. I've also enjoyed designing clothes since I was younger. 

9) Paper and pens\pencils + other artsy things. ;)

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I'm an artist, so I need these things. ;) When school is about to start and the plain notebooks are super cheap, I'm happy. :D

10) Rope swings 

There's almost something charming about a rope swing... :)

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And now, for the tagging. I'm just going to tag anyone and everyone. :D That's the easiest way! 

Guidelines: 

Write ten of your favorite things, and

                   

...Tag three other people

If you end up doing it, I'd be happy if you let me know by commenting. I'd like to see what your favorite things are! ;)

So that is that! :) I sure hope you enjoyed!

My Recent Drawings and Art

  Today I'm posting some of my pretty recent art and drawings. :) I also drew some pictures for the Ilyon Chronicles Fan Art Contest! But I'm not posting those. :P

Elsa from Frozen :) 

This may be my best eye drawing. :)

 I started doing some calligraphy of sorts while I was sitting at my aunt and uncle's house. I had fun. :D

And this is a foggy sea and lighthouse scene. Perhaps it's in a mystical land, because that water is really bright blue. ;) (It's a digital painting by the way... not very good though :P)

I hope you enjoyed this art! :)

My Life Lately

 Hi everyone! I'm doing a post on what I've been doing lately. A life update, of sorts. ;)

                      

 For one, the school year is coming to an end. I'm am nearing the completion on tenth grade. ;) ... hopefully I did enough. O.o Then, two more years of school till I graduate!  

 We've gotten lots of strawberries from the Amish recently. :) We froze whole strawberries and made strawberry jam. Me and my siblings mostly just prepared the berries. My mom did the other work. I did more of the freezer strawberry jam, though. :)

 And here's my basil. Isn't this a pretty picture with the jam in the background? :) I think it would me fun to have an herb\spice and flower garden. ;) 

   Yesterday I had to take some aerial pictures.

  So I climbed up this little tree with my camera. :D After my brother went up. Our cat came up and joined us later. ;)

  Wouldn't it be nice to read up here? :D As long as you could get into a comfortable position. 

  Today I tried something, which is an idea I got from another blog. 

First, I cooked some rolled oats on a plate with milk, water, and some honey.

Then I put some of it in a little bowl. 

I put smashed up frozen banana on top, and topped it off with shredded coconut (been eating that a lot lately- its so good. ;) ), and a tiny bit of cocoa. 

And it was GOOD! :D It may sound weird, but I really enjoyed it. That coconut, ahh, it's so yummy on there! :)

I'm also almost done this box\chest that I've been making for awhile in a woodworking class. All I have to do is put on the hinges and latch. :) Isn't it nice? I had a lot of help though. :)

  I just had to add a picture of the frozen yogurt I had today at my brother's football game. :) It was watermelon sorbet with mini gummy bears- perfect for this hot day. There were some festivities going on at the park, so... yea. :)

Well anyhow, I hope that you found this post interesting! ;)

The Meaningful Song Lyrics Tag

  Hi all! :)

 So I made up this tag... "The Meaningful Song Lyrics Tag". I mean, someone must make up the tags, so why can't I? :D

Anyhow, this is what you do:

Find some lyrics that you think are really meaningful from a song and type them onto a nice background. Be sure to write the song name and the writer. 

 OR you can just write it all on your blog page- you don't HAVE to make a background. ;) (You can do more than one, too.)

Then post it on your blog and tag however many people you want! You can also save the top picture and put it at the beginning of the post. :) 

Here are my meaningful lyrics. :) 

 I like to make cool backgrounds and type up the words with varying interesting fonts. :) This one above is from Already There, which Casting Crowns sings. It's a good song, and this part is especially beautiful. :)

I didn't right the writers of this song, so if you'd like to see them, (at least if Wikipedia is correct), click here.

   

   We aren't supposed to fight alone. God is always there! :) This statement actually goes for the lyrics above and below. But the one above reminded me of a character from the book I recently read, Samara's Peril. :)

 Anyhow, I tag EVERYONE who wants to do this! :) If you do it, please leave a link to your post down in the comments, so I can see it! :D