Summer's Finally Here!

(taken with my Instagram and drawn by me)

I am so ecstatic to say that I am now officially done with my Sophomore year of high school! Which means I only have two years left before I go off to college! :D I'm soooo excited for these last two years of high school! But, it's summer now! So let's be done talking about school and onto SUMMER!!! I've been so ready for it to be summer for a bit longer than I should have been haha :) I have so many things I want to do this summer and I wanted to share them with you guys! Maybe then I'll be able to actually finish them since I have you all holding me accountable. So...here's the plan!

This summer I'm going to (in no particular order):

• Direct more photo shoots
• Make more clothes
• Cover a wall in my room with homemade art pieces 
• Finally get around to taking my driving test
• Finish the book I've been writing
• Get my recording studio finally set up and record something  
• Make a short film
• Bake, bake, and bake
• Catch up on all the blogs I read
• Visit as many sites as I can when I'm in Seattle
• And of course party with my friends!
• Not abandon this blog :)

Oh yeah, speaking of plans, I'm going to Seattle in the first two weeks of July for my Aunt's wedding! I get to sing at the ceremony and the reception! Also, we get to camp in a tent instead of a stay at a hotel! I'm so excited to go there for the first time! It's gonna be great! Hopefully you guys can help keep me on track! I always say I want to do these things but I never actually do! Haha but I really want to this summer so hopefully with all of your help I will!

Have a great day everyone! 

Congrats to the Grad!

With finals coming up I've been really hitting the books hard...which is why I haven't been the best blogger for a while haha :P But school comes first right? Yup! Luckily summer is less than 3 weeks away for me!

Speaking of school...today my oldest brother, Karl, graduated with his undergrad today from IU! I'm soooo proud of him! He's super smart and super awesome with a super big future ahead of him :) He's super man haha!

I've only been to a high school graduation so I was excited to go to a college graduation especially one from an university that I may potentially go to! It was really awesome! The stadium was filled and everything just seemed grand in a way. Also, this year's commencement speaker was Booker T. Jones... ^o^ yeah you read right! Booker T. Jones as in Booker T. and the MG's maker of the fantastic song Green Onions! Yeah...I was quite excited about that! It was such a cool experience! His speech was really well written. In his speech he said this phrase that really stuck with me, "If you want to rise to the top, stay close to the bottom." Oh so wise! :D

Anyways, back to my brother! He's graduating with the Bachelors Science of HPER (a.k.a. Health, Physical Education, and Recreation) Seeing him graduate and getting one step closer made me think about my future! I still have no sure idea of what I want to do yet but my idea is slowly solidifying and I'm getting more and more excited about it!

Here's some photos from this fantastic day!

So hope you all have a wonderful weekend :D
If you don't hear from me for the next few weeks it's because I'll be drowning in coursework :P Haha wish me luck!

Les Miserables

So for the past few months I've been part of my high school's musical. This year we did Les Miserables! Les Mis is one of my all time favorite musicals! It's been a dream of mine to be part of this show and I was lucky enough to be cast in it! This weekend was our show weekend. We had four shows (Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday) and each one was better than the last! Being in such an amazing show like this was just magical! Everything was so surreal! We really became our characters and it just is so hard to believe that it's over :( I only hope that I get the chance to be in another show as amazing and perfect as this :)

Here are some of the photos from the show and backstage:

Hope you all have had a fabulous weekend!!! :D

Weekend Project

I made something!!! I actually sat down for three hours and made something! ...which is really good for me considering I'm not usually a person who can sit down and do one thing for more than an hour :) But surprisingly it happened!

I've always wanted to make a mix-media artwork but never really knew what exactly what to do...until this morning :) I'm not calling myself an artist at all, I just like to do random creative things so of course it's not to a professional level but it's fun to make!

Here's some pics of the process :)

 

Hope you all enjoy :) Have a great Sunday everyone!!!

The Music Hunter

As a person who doesn't necessarily enjoy the music played on the radio now-a-days I just love exploring websites and finding old/new music to listen to! Also, rediscovering music on your iPod is just the best! That's what happened with me and Polyphonic Spree! Best.Feeling.Ever. There's a hobby of making music and then there's a hobby of finding music...I'm obsessed with both haha! Anyways I found some amazing bands today and I just wanted to share it with you guys! It's giving me so much inspiration for my own music! These bands are just pure magic to my ears :) I hope you all enjoy them too!

There's something about music that if heard at the right time can make your day go from awful to perfect :) The power of music is just truly amazing in my opinion!

Since I'm such a sucker for discovering new music are there any bands that you guys love? I'd love to check out any type of band (besides rap and hip hop) haha :)

Here are the bands in no particular order (they are all equally amazing!)

The Polyphonic Spree

Priscilla Ahn

My Little Pony

The Perishers

Art of Sleeping

We are the Birdcage

Marble Sounds

Isbells

The Paper Kites

Sorry for the music overload :)

Hope you've all had an awesome Friday!

100th Post!

Say what!?! I made it to 100 posts?!?! Not gonna lie...I'm so surprised! I love doing things and projects but I tend to get distracted with other things easily (hence my really long break a while back) But I'm glad I'm keeping up with this hobby because I love it so much! It's like once you make it to 100 you know that you can keep going on :) I really hope that's true! haha This blog has really helped me grow and mature so much!

Anyways I just wanted to say thank you to all my followers and readers! It just means a lot to me when people actually read my posts :) I'm really excited for the future of this blog and where it will lead and take me! Soooo I hope you guys stick with me for my crazy adventure on this blog! And I'll see you guys soon!

Hope you all have a fantabulous day!!!

The True Fiasco

So, my friend and I are starting a new blog together called True Fiasco! You guys should go check it out!

My friend Colleen (who I like to call Coco) and I met first semester this year in our honors English class. We found out that we have a lot of things in common and really quickly became best friends! Now we're planning out our futures together as roommates from where we're going to go to college to what celebrity we're going to marry (which will remain confidential in the rare case that it may happen haha) 

We're hoping on somehow having the blog help us out in our journey to LA, California! So go check out our first post and follow! I hope you enjoy our new blog! It'll be a new experience for me doing two blogs at once but I promise to not neglect this blog! :D 

Here are some pictures of the two of us!

We're two goofballs I know! 

So I hope you all have had a wonderful day! And don't forget to go check out my new blog!