Stuff I've been doing

So, lets take a break from the brave and beautiful Queen Esther for a bit so I can tell you about what I've been doing.

It has been quite a while since I've mentioned what's going on here at my house, far too long to really try and play catch up, so I'll just mention some cool things that come to mind before I get to my favorite part.

For starters, my mother has decided to teach an art class. We have students come to our home every Tuesday afternoon to draw.

Currently, we are learning out of Drawing on the right side of the brain. I've worked a little out of this book before, but I must say, I am not a very good artist, at least, not compared to the other three girls in the class.

But I'm sure I'll either get better, or I am not meant to be an artist of that sort.

I know for sure that I am not a painter.

We started going back to church this past Sunday. We haven't been going regularly to any church for a long time, since my dad was always busy on Sundays.

But now, we actually have time, so we are going to Jonas Ridge Baptist church. I really like all the people I've met who go there so far, and the teaching is really very good. No 'feel good' messages, as I like to call them, just truth, straight from the Bible.

For my whole life, my mom and dad have been quoting Karate Kid. I never was very interested in it until a few years ago, but I have never been able to convince mom and dad to watch it with me, so I never did.

Until a few days ago.

I. Love. That. Movie.

I really don't know why I hadn't watched it until then.

Daniel reminds me very much of a friend of mine. Through the whole movie, I kept thinking that.

Okay, just a very small mention here:

I just finished season 2 of Walking Dead.

Okay, end of mention.

The other day (Friday), we had some friends over to our house. When I say *some* I mean 15.

8 of them are some of our oldest and dearest friends. One was fiancé to Sunny, and the other two were friends of theirs who happened to be with them at the time.

As I said, these are some of our oldest and dearest friends, but we haven't seen them in a long time. I mean, not invited the over to hang out. We have run into them several times in the mall.

But anyway, it was a great time. Lots of dancing.

Also lots of running around and playing games and talking and eating and general fun stuff. I just mentioned dancing first because I danced for a long time.

Alright. Time for the part that I really wanted to get to:

I have been thinking about studying to become a cosmetologist. I thought that would be great fun.

But before I make that decision, I want to try my hand at playing with makeup for a while. So my sister said that I could use her as my guinea pig.

And so, the moment I have been waiting for: PICTURES!!!!!

 

 

 

 

Okay, so, the picture quality isn't so great on these since I was using my webcam and the lighting in the bathroom wasn't too good. But I thought that the makeup turned out really nicely.

 

When I first started, I was using purple eyeshadow, and that on it's own didn't look very good. But once I got some other colors on, it started looking better. And then I did her eyeliner and lipstick. Afterwards, I added the stars (turned out better than I had even hoped).

 

I had a ton of fun doing this. It's like drawing or painting. I think that a face is a better canvas than anything else.

 

I plan on doing this again really soon. Maybe I'll take pictures of the whole process and post them here.

 

Anyway, that is some of the things I have been up to lately.

 

Hope you'll come back and read my blog again soon!!

 

Cheers!