Wow, look guys! I drew a picture that actually has a background!

I'm Home!

WHOO HOO! Already my whole body has relaxed-- I guess I wasn't aware of how much stuff I'd been doing on vacation. Now I'm ready to just sink back into my old routine.

We had quite a lovely welcome home. Our parents seemed delighted to see us (and I suspect they actually were ;D) and Anna Claire and Wilbo also seemed happy to see us, at least after we'd given them water balloons and cookies. The dog has been following me around since my return.

Heading home!

Well, tomorrow bright and early (think at about 5:00 AM) we're leaving our grandparent's house and begining the long trek home. Hopefully there won't be so much no-gasoline, no-hotels drama like our trip up earlier this month, but we've decided to take the precaution of stopping and refilling our gas tank every hour or so.

I can't wait to be reunited with Mother and Poppy, and of course A.C. and William. I've even been missing the dog and the cat and my bike.

On the other hand, being on vacation has been really, really fun and I sort of wish I could continue with the whole do-nothing-but-eat-sleep-and-goof-off routine.

Venice in a day--

This is a really really cool video and since Venice, Italy is at the top at just about everybody's "most cool places" list, I figured I'd share it with you. :)

I also find it kind of funny, for reasons which are utterly beyond me. Perhaps it is just all the funny little people rushing about.

Yes, I am indeed on a Monsters' Inc. kick right now...

"At one point we asked, 'Should it be a spooky world?' But then we figured out that the monsters wouldn't want to scare themselves."

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I'm gonna honk my own horn for a moment...

I just wanted to remind everyone out there to check out my haiku blog, too!

http://haikus100themes.blogspot.com/

Okay, that's all. Thank you for your time. Good night. :)

Have they returned?

Let us pray they have not.

And by "they", you should all know what I'm talking about. In case you aren't sure, let it suffice it to say that they are very small and leggy, like to bounce on and bite every living creature, and have a name that starts with "f" and ends with "a".

If you still can't guess what they are, I'm sorry but I never say their name aloud.

At any rate, they happen to especially love eating this little guy, a.k.a. Beowulf the Hero, a.k.a. my dog.

What's more, they're impossible to get out of his fur because Mr. Hero happens to be a Yorkie-Pom, and apparently Poms are descended from the Spitz breed of dogs, which unfortunately hail from really wet, cold places and have a lot of really waterproof hair, which Beowulf inheirited.

Hence, it takes almost an hour just to get my five-pound dog wet.

Can you see the family resemblance?

Anyways, let's just take a moment to cross our fingers and pray that they have not returned. (But remember not to say their name out loud.)

yeah I should probably begin to continue posting on here again...

In case you were wondering, I haven't been particularly busy or anything, I just stuffed my computer under my bed back in March and have been ignoring my blog ever since.

I'll do better now, I promise. (At least for a little while. ;D)

Mrrp?

Well, after sitting in Barnes and Noble for several hours, I finally finished the latest 39 Clues: Cahills vs Vespers book. Since there happens to be no bookstores selling new books in my town, and since I'm too broke to buy anything on Kindle, I've been reading it off and on every time we've gone anywhere outside of our town. Hehe.

At any rate, the good news about this is that the book was amazing and super fun to finally finish. The bad news is that now I have to wait until September for the next one. (Which is actually not that far away-- yay!)

Anyways, here's my drawing of two of the main characters, Dan Cahill and Saladin the egyptian mau.

Because yup.

the monsters are back! :D

Whoo-hoo.
Thank you Pixar.

I think it's about time for a new header...

Summer has been here for months now, so I think it's about time to leave Switzerland for a while. Do you have any ideas for a new location I could explore and turn into my new header?
(Also, I'm totally doing my new header in the same style as this one-- I can't wait to redraw another scene.)

Barbies?

Love them or hate them, you've gotta admit that Barbies are everywhere. And recently I've become sort of infatuated with them-- there are Twilight Barbies (rather frightful, if you ask me), Dancing with the Stars Barbies (cool, if only because my family is addictted to the show), and these really cool Barbies inspired by the artwork of Da Vinci, Van Gogh and Klimt.

I've also been interested to see how certain artists repaint and reroot the hair (are those the right terms?) of Barbies, in order to fix a terrible garage sale find or just make a doll that is very unique. I really like the dolls of artist Loanne Hizo Ostlie, who has some really neat dolls that she's redone as specific nationalities.

I think they're pretty nifty.

vacation pictures (thus far)

For some reason they wouldn't buy me a drink...

All weird faces are photographed. The end.

Boats.

Uh... no that isn't me.

I was standing waiting to hit that thing with a stick. NO RABIES MAN.

DONT GET CLOSE ITS A KILLER I CAN TELL

Fireworks. Allie. Binoculars... not sure why.

When you see it....

Mick, with Grandpa in the background. Reading is really the it thing around here.

Le Ben and le me.

Woopdedo.

new coloring style-

I've taken to coloring things with my markers, but adding textures and patterns with pencils and crayons. (and occasionally paint or White-Out, too. XD)

What do you think?

Just a quick post to announce that I am still alive!

My grandfather came and picked three of my siblings and me up and so Saturday afternoon we were driving through West VA. In case you haven't heard-- aliens attacked the East coast last Friday and left the entire state of West VA and large portions of many other states without power. This had unpleasant ramifications for us weary travellers (although thankfully not so unpleasant as those stuck with no power) as there was no way to pump gas out of the ground. Meaning? We were almost stranded in the middle of nowhere, with no empty hotels for miles around. Luckily, Grandpa had the brilliant idea of assking a Ford dealership (who did have power) if they had gasoline, and they sold us a few gallons. So we managed to escape gasoline-less doom and eventually made it to our grandparents house.


At any rate, a lot of people were left without power and cars this weekend, so please pray for them! There were also many, many people with severe damage to their homes from fallen trees and stuff.

Check out my beautiful new header!

Can you guess where it is? No? Well then I'll tell you--Grindelwald, Switzerland. Its one of those places I randomly check the weather on (today the high was like 15 degrees farenhiet) and it happens to be totally beautiful, so it makes a good header.

A Poem

I wrote this poem an age ago (as in, last Autumn), but only just now am posting it. There was this one word at the end that I didn't like, and now I finally figured out what to replace it with. XD

cackling wind
oozes from the water
somewhere in the Atlantic
and, racing over
waves and then Virginia
begins a great road trip
making moving vans,
campers,
and small cars
slip all over the asphalt in Tenessee
it flies through
trees in Missouri
they whistle loudly in admiration
as the wind,
even more daring now,
ruffles the hair of baseball players
blows the balls the wrong way
one stingy pecan
boos the befouled game,
flinging her fruit at
the wind's mischevious fingers
chuckling, he moves on to
a kite-flier in Kansas...

I miss summer.

I miss it quite a lot, actually.

Doodles.

I have been practicing my digital coloring skills. Fun, fun, fun.

Kievan wanted me to do this one. She came up with everything, including the title of the book and the turtle hat.

Drew this for a project. Now that was a whole lot of people...

My character Mal as a billionaire. XD

A sister hugging her brother. He looks somewhat confused.

And finally, my character McKendrick, eating a peice of pizza. I was eating a sandwich when I drew it. ;)

More sketch dumpy-ness! :D

First, identical twins. They were impressivly fun to draw.



And last, some random people in Walmart. That's where I think theyare, anyways. ;)