Good Morning Sunshine the Earth Says Hello

Getting woken up by puppies <3 Makes my day much better...

(My sister Callie's hair!)

After hunting for eggs on Easter, we had a bit of a cascarone fight.
I'm still finding bits and pieces of confetti in my hair. >.<

Humor

(Unfortunately, I wasn't able to link these photos to their original sites. Meh.)

It's Been Awhile

So it's a been a looooong time since I've reached out to the Blogger World. I've been busy, and posts always took up quite a bit of time to create, and I slacked for awhile. But I'm back again, and raring to go! :}

Guess what...I recently bought my very own Nikon camera:

Cool, right? Right.

My family is paying for Netflix now and with that I was able to watch Seasons 1-6 of the Office. Haha. My friend bought that bumper sticker above for me in New York because I have become such an avid fan.

I have begun doodling constantly in my classes. I try to use some of my teachers as prime models for my sketching, but generally they turn out looking a bit hmm...crazy? Especially in Physics class, my teacher has virtually no eyebrows, which makes him difficult to recreate.

I have a debate tournament coming up, so I must begin researching topics. I bought a Time Magazine, to keep me up to date on Libya/the national debt/elections, etc.

Anyways, I'm glad to be back... HELLO AGAIN INTERNET.

Crafty Goodness Swap Gift Received!

Soooo guess who got her package in the mail from the Crafty Goodness Swap?

Yeah that be me!

I'm seriously

still excited.

First off I'd like to thank Jill so much for

sending me my gift, because

I never got the gift from my original partner and

she stepped in and sent me an "angel" gift.

That was so kind of you! Thank you again. :}

After reading a very sweet card (^see above^) I opened the package

and the first thing that I grabbed was this journal which was

specially decorated by Jill herself, in a fashion called "Zen-Doodling".

Front

Back

neat eh? Gets better...hehe

She also made this adorable bookmark which was

also decorated by herself. It's so cute, it's currently

in my copy of Pride and Prejudice which I'm trying to read

over the Christmas break.

Also decorated in the same theme was a cup

which is now on my shelf holding some of my pencils. :D

Very handy.

The next thing which has to be by far the most elaborate

and one of my favorite items in the package...was an...

*DRUMROLL*

UMBRELLA!

I risked 7 years bad luck by opening it up in my house

and taking a few pictures with it.

But it was so cool I couldn't resist!

She used so much detail...

All the detail and time that she put into

my swap gift was so incredible.

Thank you so much again Jill!

You're an angel for doing my "angel" package.

MERCI!

They Say It's Your Birthday

So recently (Nov. 3) I had my birthday...

I've spent seventeen years on Earth so far.

It's been a pretty good run. haha.

It was actually quite a birthday.

I had two friends bring me cupcakes, and one bring me chocolate and a card.

Which is really awesome because I've never had that happen to me before!

Also when I got home my family members gave me a lot
of lovely gifts such as the quilt that my mother made me

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see below

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isn't it beautiful?

I'm very thankful for such a great birthday!

And thank you to

Rhianne and Mariella

who wished me happy birthday on my last blog post

that was very sweet of you! :}

Well now I'm going to go work on the rest of my costume

for the Harry Potter premiere... I'm going as Luna Lovegood.

COUNTDOWN: 5 MORE DAYS UNTIL HARRY POTTER 7 Part 1

Pre-Winter Cleaning

My sisters (Kaitlyn, Callie) were out at an archaeological dig with some of their fellow

club members and I was home alone with my parents, while my brother was at a sleepover.

So I had quite a bit of time on my hands...

In the morning we went to a garage sale and I bought a few neat items!

Such as:

These glass roses which the lady claimed she bought in England.

And three antique books in pretty^^^ good condition

Then after I had brought all those narly items

up to my room, I decided to CLEAN!

YES...CLEAN!

I know be impressed. ;)

I even printed and framed this picture of my siblings and I

when we were in London. Ah memories.

Then I put up my bulletin board in the center of my room

so it could be seen by ALL!

(pictures follow...)

All the while big Mo was keeping me company!

Kneading dough on my pillow. hehehe.

The final thing I need to do to figure out what classes I want to take next

year, all of which are listed in this large intimidating yellow paper.

-Jessica Leigh La Lou