Making a new outfit for Easter has been a tradition for me ever since I was little. My mom would make a beautiful, frilly dress (that poofed when I twirled, of course), often from a Daisy Kingdom pattern, like the ones below (the pictures don’t do them justice, but you get the idea of the […]
2011 in Retrospect
As I’ve been listening to people talking about the New Year and reminiscing about the events that took place in the old, I had to stop and try to sift through the hazy blur of my perceptions about the year to try to remember some of the details. It was definitely a unique year- my […]
2011 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 1,100 times in 2011. If it were a cable car, it would take about 18 trips to carry that many people. Click here to see the […]
NaNoWriMo- I FINISHED!!!!!!!
I never dreamed it would happen, but by God’s grace I just crossed the 50,000 word finish line for National Novel Writing Month! The story isn’t finished, although the ending is written. I have about three major events left to cover, and I’m looking forward to finding out how they come out. 🙂 I intend […]
NaNoWriMo Novel Excerpt
Here is the promised excerpt from my NaNo novel! The formatting was funky after I copied and pasted it before, but I found a nifty little button that magically made everything better! Yay WordPress! 🙂 So without further ado, here it is (and once again please excuse any typos. Proofreading is overrated when you’re trying […]
NaNoWriMo Madness
Let it be known from this day forward that I, who have in the past said (or at the very least thought) that I 1) did not want to be a writer, and 2) did not want to write fiction or 3) long works of prose, am 13, 769 words into the challenge of writing […]