Youtube Artists

Hey Guys!

Thought I'd take the time to show you some of my favorite youtube music artist! ThePianoGuys and Lindsey Stirling. They are truly amazing! ThePianoGuys are incredibly creative with all the different ways they use their interments, i.e. piano and cello. They are passionate and the cinematography for their videos in incredibly professional and entertaining to watch! Lindsey Stirling is something new as well… A dub step violinist! She does covers for many different songs and also has some wonderful originals. She is a self-taught dancer and I have to say it is very impressive the way she busts out those dance moves while playing some amazing violin at the same time.

Here are the first videos I ever saw by these two amazing artists. Hope you enjoy! And don't forget to subscribe to their Youtube channels for more!

First Book Signing Experience (and pictures!)

Hey Guys!

So, my first book signing was a success! I had so much fun and it was amazing to see the friends and family show up to support me. As well as all the new people who asked a lot of amazing questions! Here are some pictures showing my awesome first experience and the good times!

 Questions and answers/discussion time!

Me reading an excerpt. (I'm wearing a big jacket cuz it was so cold!)

Me talking to a great friend who made this book signing possible!

Me signing some books!

The poster! 

Me and my mom and dad :-)

My First Book Signing!

(It's actually 3:00-4:30pm... small mistake, oops :-P)

It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year!!!

THE SAVIOR IS BORN!!!

I HOPE YOU ALL HAVE A WONDERFUL DAY FILLED WITH FAMILY JOYS AND CHRISTMAS LIGHTS!!!

This is one of my favorite songs… the words and the story are so sweet and it is truly a wonderful Christmas story! (This is a fan made music video that I found of the song. Although some of it is quite cheesy… well it doesn't matter! The song is amazing!)

The Woman in White - by Wilkie Collins

'In one moment, every drop of blood in my body was brought to a stop... There, as if it had that moment sprung out of the earth, stood the figure of a solitary Woman, dressed from head to foot in white'

The Woman in White famously opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter on a moonlit London road. Engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful Laura Fairlie, Walter becomes embroiled in the sinister intrigues of Sir Percival Glyde and his 'charming' friend Count Fosco, who has a taste for white mice, vanilla bonbons, and poison. Pursuing questions of identity and insanity along the paths and corridors of English country houses and the madhouse, The Woman in White is the first and most influential of the Victorian genre that combined Gothic horror with pyschological realism.

5 stars

This is one of the very few books that I've had to read for High-school and have actually enjoyed. Although the pace of the story and the way Mr. Collins describes his scenes is definitely nineteenth century style… the way he writes the perspective of his characters is not. He is the author that introduced the style of writing from the first perspective… carving the way for modern day writers. The Woman in White starts off with a young drawing master named Walter Hartright looking for a job… when he stumbles upon a very confused lady dressed all in white wandering the darkened streets of London alone… and that's when the adventure begins. The book is full of a slew of different characters whom I loved, hated, and even some who I had absolutely had no idea what to think of. From the jovial but annoying County Fosco to the brilliant Madam Halmcomb… The frail Laura Fairlie to the endearing Walter Hartright… and then the haunting presence of the Woman in White are but a few of the amazing characters you will meet in this novel. The book starts out fast paced as we are plunged into a new world and new a new mystery… and as the book progresses we learn new and startling things involving our main cast… but then it begins to slow down to an almost boring pace near the middle… Only to pick back up again at the end. I was originally going to give it a 4.5 star rating for various reason (i.e. being slow near the middle and some of the characters annoyed the heck out of me… and the pathetic frailness of a few female characters) but it's such a good mystery that I decided to give it it's current 5 stars despite that!

Halloween Costume

So this was my outfit for the costume party I went to. I was the female version of the Mad Hatter, crazy, colorful, and so much fun to put together! What do you think?

From left to right: Pat, Michael, Zach, Charles, me, Savanna. So, who did you dress up as for halloween?

Makeup Review: Tarte Foundation

(So, I was originally going to post this before Halloween but I forgot. :-O But here it is, better late then never!) I like makeup. You may have noticed that from a few previous blog posts I've done in the past. I like how it can be so creative and artistic - colorful, frightening, dark, innocent, mysterious. That's why I love this time of year! Halloween was originally called Night Before the Holy Ones. Basically the night before the feast day of the Saints. I don't like how society has taken something that had originally had been holy into something demonic, but I like the chance to show my creative side with all the different makeup opportunities! In the next couple of weeks I'll show the various costumes I've come up with for different parties I'm planning on going to. :-) But first I'd like to do my first makeup review! 

Foundation: literally my favorite makeup product. It is what covers all of our imperfections our faces; pimples, scarring, discoloration, wrinkles. But it wipes it all away! (...) Pretty much. I've gone through quite a few different foundation brands (I like a lot of them and still use them from time to time), but my favorite by far is the Tarte foundation. It is definitely better for your skin, they try to keep their ingredients very natural. That's why this is made with Amazonian clay! Interesting hu? Because of being made out of clay (LOL) it has excellent coverage, you don't need much at all which I love because I hate the "cakey face look." You do have to be careful though because using this you can get that look very easily. You really just have to experiment on how much of the foundation looks good on your skin. I don't use very much at all, but other people use a lot. Like I said you just need to find out what works best for you. And it has sunscreen in it! And extra bonus. ;-)