Saturday, 16 May 2015

Day #69 - #77

Friday, May 8: Lamp. . . again :)

I almost forgot to take a picture again, so it was really late in the night when I took this picture. But I got what I wanted! The background was actually lighted up, not just the light. But I wanted to get it to look like it was dark. . . and the camera did exactly that :D

Saturday, May 9: Marshalling at the Pregnancy Care Centre Relay with my Friend! :)


And I had to add this photo of Toblerone. Mom won a pair of bright pink
headphones, and he decided to try 'em on. Doesn't he look cute? :D
Sunday, May 10: At the Movie Theatre
Mom thought that it would be fun to have a girls' night out, so
she, Tiger Lily, Snow White, and I all went out to watch
the "new" Cinderella. The movie was amazing and we
 all enjoyed going out together. And yeah, this picture was
taken in the bathroom... :P
 Monday, May 11: Red Carnation
We went to Montana's for Mother's Day and they gave Mom
this beautiful red posy. :) 
 Tuesday, May 12: Favourite Bible Verse

Wednesday, May 13: Pattern of Leaves against a Blue Sky


Thursday, May 14: Paper Beads 

 Friday, May 15: Moose Boy :)

Saturday, May 16: A bird that I do not know the name of :P
Do any of you happen to know what the name of this bird is? :)
I'll tell you the story behind this picture in my next post, which
I can hopefully do tomorrow. 


Monday, 11 May 2015

Random Questions . . . and Answers!

This post is going to be a very long one, full of random, random things, so get ready! :)

The people who answered my crazy questions and/or tried to guess which random fact about me was wrong are:


Tiffany C.
Rebekah Raub
Snow White
Olivia from Like Mother Like Daughter
Mikayla Soh from The Delightful Posy
Rebekah from Rebekah's Reading Room

Thank you all! I enjoyed reading your answers and guesses!  :D

If you still wanted to answer the questions I made up, you can click on this link: Random Questions ;). I'd love to see any other answers! :D


Now for those three random facts. . .

                           1. I have 2 times more brothers than I have sisters

                           2. I like the Lord of the Rings trilogy (the books) 

                           3. I like toads and frogs, but not snakes

For those of you who said that #2 was wrong, you were correct. I do not like the Lord of the Rings. Pretty much all the people I know who have read the trilogy say that they love it and they don't know anyone who doesn't like Lord of the Rings. . . and then I have to go "Well, now you do know one!" :P 

The first fact is true. I just love saying that I have 2 times more brothers than I do sisters because people always go, "No, you don't" and then I say "Yes, I do" and then they think about it for awhile and then "Ohh... you do!" Even Dad said that that fact was false! But yes, I do have four brothers and two sisters! :D

And the third fact is also true. I don't mind holding frogs and toads, but I can't stand snakes. I mean, I can look at a snake but it has to be at least two feet away and I can NOT hold them. I'm always scared that they're gonna slither up my shirt. *shudder*

Olivia (mentioned above) answered my questions on her blog and also created 10 new ones. So I'm going to try answering them. Here goes! 

1. Who is your favourite singer/music band?
Hmm. . . I don't have an absolute favourite, but I do like Britt Nicole (she is one amazing singer!!), Sisters (I love their harmonies) and some of Cimorelli's songs.
2. When it comes to gymnastics, what are you best at?
I don't do gymnastics, but do somersaults count? Right now, my brothers are teaching me how to do somersaults on the trampoline. Our goal is for me to be able to do a full somersault in the air without touching ground by the end of this summer. Am I close to fulfilling that? No. :P
3. Red or Yellow?
Yellow. Nice, bright, and sunny.
4. If you could suddenly change into anything you wanted, what would it be?
A bird. A small little brown bird that could fly just anywhere it wanted. That would be so much fun!
5. The Prime minister of Canada just knocked on your door. Your house is a mess. What would you do?
"Guys, let's clean up the house, pronto!" Just kidding. :P That just isn't possible. I'd probably bring him onto the back deck, desperately hope that it won't rain or snow or hail, and talk to him there. Hey, what's he doing at our place anyway? :D
6. You just got asked to sing our national anthem in front of everyone at the baseball game, would you accept or would you decline?
Accept! I don't mind singing, and though it would be kind of nerve-racking to sing in front of who knows how many people, I think I'd still do it!
7. Do you like watermelon or cheesecake better?
Watermelon! Cheesecake is a little too heavy for me, but I like it. Just not as much as a juicy, cold slice of watermelon!
8. What would you do if you were home alone, but then you heard of a tornado that was going to hit in the area where you lived! What would you do?
Umm. . . get out of the area? I can't hide in our basement because there are way too many trees around us and it would be as dangerous inside the house as it would be outside! So I'd probably try to run away! Oh, and call someone to let them know that I was leaving the house and would they mind picking me up so that I didn't have to walk all the way? :P
9. Are you an early bird or a night owl?
I'm both. I can wake up really early, even if I went to sleep late, and I can stay up really late, even if I woke up early. Is it good for me? No. But I do do it sometimes.
10. What are you most afraid of? (tough question I know, but if you don't want to say your worst fear, then say one of your fears.)
People. That's what I'm most afraid of, I'm afraid! Or rather, what people think of me and whether or not I'll be "accepted", if you know what I mean! There were (are) times when I feel like the only way I can get people to like me is to act like them. Recently, I've realized how wrong I am to try acting like others. Now, whenever I go out anywhere, I pray and ask God to help me remember that I am who I am, I'm not out there to be someone else. If my friends don't like me because of who I am, well, then that means that they aren't true friends, 'cause friends accept you for who you are, they don't ask you to change the way you truly are. I could go on and on about this topic, but I think I'll stop right here for now. :)

Also, Tiffany asked if I could answer my own questions, so here are the answers to my questions!


1. Do you think that the photo below is a sunset or a sunrise?
Sunset :)
2. Do you like cooking or baking?
Baking! I especially like frosting cakes!
3. What is the shortest that you have ever cut your hair?
The shortest I've ever cut my hair is up to my chin. *shiver* I doubt that I'll ever have it that short again! It was cut because I had decided to donate my hair, but a bit of a mistake was made while my hair was being cut, so then we had to go to the hairdresser and they made it even shorter. Maybe that's why I hate having my hair cut. . . :D

4. What are your three most favourite farm animals?
Horses (definitely!!), lambs, and chicks.

5. Would you prefer to read a book the entire afternoon or play outside?
It would probably depend on my mood. If I feel lethargic, I'd probably want to stay inside and read a book. And vice versa.

6. What's your favourite subject in school and what's your least favourite subject?
My absolute favourite subject in school (this semester, anyway) is vocal. I just love to sing. There isn't a day that goes by without me singing at least once! Well, except for the days when I'm so sick that it hurts to sing...
As for my least favourite subject, I think it would be either science or math.

7. What do you want to be when you grow up?
Well, right now, I'm interested in midwifery. Although, now that I think of it, I also want to be able to help people, especially homeless people. Not too sure what that kind of profession is called.

8. Pink or blue?
Blue. Especially sky

9. Do you have a book that you can read over and over again and never get bored of it? (next to the Bible :) If so, what is that book?
I've got lots of those kind of books! Some of them are Old-Fashioned Girl, Eight Cousins, Mara of the Nile, and The King's Daughter.
10. Would you prefer to live in the country or the city?
Country!
11. Favourite season?
Unanswerable. I love

Winter because the ice and snow is so beautiful and we can skate and toboggan and have snowball fights.

Spring because all the flowers and new grass sprout up and I can take oh! so many pictures of them! :)

Summer because all the trees are decked out with their big leafy branches and we can swim and bike and hike and have barbecues.

Autumn because there are vivid colours all over the place and we can...rake tons of leaves!

12. Do you make funny faces at babies and toddlers whenever you pass by/hold one?
Yes I do. I know I look extremely silly when I do it, but babies like it! :D

13. Who's your favourite character in Anne of Green Gables and/or Sound of Music (the 1965 film, with Julie Andrews)
For Anne of Green Gables, I liked Anne the best. But for Sound of Music, it would be a tie between Maria and Liesl.
14. Which do you use most for sweeteners, maple syrup, brown/white sugar, or honey?
Maple syrup and sugar

15. Did you ever dream of flying on a horse?
Yup. Lots of times. But then, that was a very long time ago :P I'd pretend that at exactly 12:00 midnight, there would be a huge white horse waiting outside my window and then I'd open the window and jump on and we'd go flying through the clouds and pass the moon.

16. Curls or straight hair?
Curls!

17. Are you camera shy?
Sort of. If I had to choose between being in front of a camera or being behind a camera though, I'd choose being behind the camera!

18. Would you rather read a historical fiction book or write one?
Both.

19. What's the answer to (5 times 4 divided by 2) plus (5 to the power of 3) minus 235 plus 10 minus 149?
I honestly don't know without a calculator. I just put together a bunch of numbers :P

20. What's your absolute favourite main dish?
Mom's creamy pasta with pan-fried chicken and corn. Delicious!! :)



Wednesday, 6 May 2015

Stand

Here is a song by one my favourite singers, Britt Nicole. She's a Christian pop singer and personally, I think that her songs are amazing!

I'd love to hear what you think about this song!


Day #62 - #67

Friday, May 1: Reflections 

Saturday, May 2: Preparing for the transformation in Princess Diaries 

Sunday, May 3: Berry (?) Plant
We were driving to church and I thought that these . . . things were raspberries.
But when I took a closer look, I found out that they weren't, or anyway, if they were
they sure didn't look like it! So, yeah, we're not going to try eating these anytime soon! :P
Monday, May 4: Recent Readings
Have you read any of these books before? They're all pretty good!
Tuesday, May 5: In the car

Wednesday, May 6: The First Forget-Me-Not! :) 

Tuesday, 5 May 2015

The Princess Diaries

Have you ever seen the movie Princess Diaries? I won't tell you the whole of it, but it's basically about a girl named Mia Thermopolis who finds out that she is the princess of Genovia. One of our favourite scenes is where Mia is "transformed". So last weekend,Tiger Lily, Snow White and I tried filming the scene. Or anyway, doing a small trailer on it. Here's a picture of the before and after pictures of "Mia". Of course, Tiger Lily was our talented costume designer! :D

The Princess Diaries


Sunday, 3 May 2015

Random Questions ;)


I was recently tagged by Emily of The Imaginary World of Emily McConnell again, but this time with Random Questions!!!!!

Just as a side note, I checked out Naomi's blog (the creator of this button :) and her blog is wonderful! I would totally recommend that you go see her blog, especially if you're into old-fashioned stuff and costumes and books and writing (like me. . .)

Okay, now for the rules:

1. Paste the button onto your blog post.
2. Leave a new list of questions (or just pass on the question list you answered) and tag a few people of your random choice (and say why you tagged them, if you have time!) (Be original and nonsensical in your question-creativity - make the blogging world a cheerful place :-) And be disastrously random.)
Now for the fun part...
3. Write down three facts about you - one of them is WRONG. Let your commenters guess in the comments which one is wrong (and tell them in the comments after a while)
Answer the questions of the person who tagged you - make it all super random and interesting


I'm going to do the three random facts about me first. Don't forget, one of them is wrong and you need to tell me which one that is! 

                           1. I have 2 times more brothers than I have sisters

                           2. I like the Lord of the Rings trilogy (the books) 

                           3. I like toads and frogs, but not snakes

And now for the crazy random questions that Emily came up with! :)

1. Given the choice between writing historical fiction or contemporary, what would you choose?
I can't choose! I like writing contemporary and historical fiction. :)

2. You’ve been sent to a foreign land as a diplomat and you don’t speak the language. You’re supposed to be talking peace talks with this country. What do you do?
Hmm. . . who exactly would send a person who couldn’t speak the language to a country to discuss peace talks of all things! Isn’t that kind of risky? I might end up starting a war instead! :) But if that somehow did happen and it was absolutely necessary to do it as soon as I reached land, I would 1. Try to use sign language (*cough* how well do you think that would exactly work? *cough*) or 2. Connect a computer to a microphone, type what I want to say in Google Translate and let the computer say it out in the foreign language. :P 


3. Surprise! You’ve been assigned to be the General of an army and you’re supposed to be planning a surprise attack on the enemy. What are you going to do and will your plan succeed?
Ahhh!!! General? Surprise attack? Enemy? What?!?!
That’s what would go through my head. :P 
What would I do though? Is refusing an answer? If I did decide to lead the army, and if my plan succeeded, well. . . that would mean deaths right? Honestly, I do not want to be the cause of deaths, so I would most likely refuse the position. 

4. Would you prefer getting married to a guy who is fairly good and will probably grow more through marriage or would you wait until you’re thirty-nine to marry the perfect man for you?
THE perfect man? Yeah, probably not possible. Anyway, I’m not planning on getting married anytime soon (duh, I’m 15!) but right now I would say that I would marry the guy that would grow more through marriage. Well…that is if my parents consent! :) And besides, I don’t exactly want to marry at 39. . 

5. Indiana Jones just asked you to come and help him save the world. What are you packing for the trip?
Umm. . . who is Indiana Jones?  *silence* Yeah, I know, weird question. . . . 

6. You’ve been thrown back in time and discovered that T-rexes are vegetarians. How are you going to prove this to people in your time?
Tiger Lily saw the question and helped me answer it. She suggested to bring back the T-Rex. But, is it possible to throw a T-Rex (not to mention me) forward into time? 

7. Asked by your best friend to attend her formal tea party, you arrive to discover that she’s invited the presidents/rulers of the world. What would you talk about with them besides politics (because some are bound to get angry when the discussion turns to politics and you can’t talk about those)?
Well, assuming that I am not in some nervous flutter and I can actually speak, I would probably talk about their family, my family, ask how they’re doing, umm. . . did they like their tea? 


8. The police force in your area has asked you to solve the crime of the missing purple giraffe. But you don’t like giraffes and this one has been known to be particularly rude. Are you going to help find him or not? (Bear in mind that he’s a stuffed giraffe who has a tendency to run off whenever he feels like it, and he very well could be on vacation somewhere)
I would try to help find it. Tiger Lily says she’ll help too ‘cause she likes giraffes.

And I nominate. . . Anyone who would like to answer my questions!

If you know of someone who would want to answer the questions, let them know about my post and they can answer the questions!

If you have a blog, then you can follow the rules which are:

1. Paste the button onto your blog post.
2. Leave a new list of questions (or just pass on the question list you answered) and tag a few people of your random choice (and say why you tagged them, if you have time!) (Be original and nonsensical in your question-creativity - make the blogging world a cheerful place :-) And be disastrously random.)
Now for the fun part...
3. Write down three facts about you - one of them is WRONG. Let your commenters guess in the comments which one is wrong (and tell them in the comments after a while)
Answer the questions of the person who tagged you - make it all super random and interesting
Also, (if you're going to answer the questions on your blog) please add a comment in the box so that I know that you did it and I can go visit your blog! :D

However, if you don't have a blog but still want to answer the questions, feel free to do it in the comment box below. I'd love to see different people's answers!

Now let me give you some disastrously random questions! :D

1. Do you think that the photo below is a sunset or a sunrise?

2. Do you like cooking or baking?

3. What is the shortest that you have ever cut your hair?

4. What are your three most favourite farm animals?

5. Would you prefer to read a book the entire afternoon or play outside?

6. What's your favourite subject in school and what's your least favourite subject?

7. What do you want to be when you grow up?

8. Pink or blue?

9. Do you have a book that you can read over and over again and never get bored of it? (next to the Bible :) If so, what is that book?

10. Would you prefer to live in the country or the city?

11. Favourite season?

12. Do you make funny faces at babies and toddlers whenever you pass by/hold one?

13. Who's your favourite character in Anne of Green Gables and/or Sound of Music (the 1965 film, with Julie Andrews)

14. Which do you use most for sweeteners, maple syrup, brown/white sugar, or honey?

15. Did you ever dream of flying on a horse?

16. Curls or straight hair?

17. Are you camera shy?

18. Would you rather read a historical fiction book or write one?

19. What's the answer to (5 times 4 divided by 2) plus (5 to the power of 3) minus 235 plus 10 minus 149?

And the laaaasst question of all. . .

20. What's your absolute favourite main dish?

There! That's all the questions. I hope you all enjoy answering them, and I can't wait to see your answers! Oh, and don't forget to tell me which fact about me is wrong! :)