Photoshoot // My Book Came + Dogs

Okay, so, last Tuesday...the day before my Lulu order was SUPPOSED TO arrive, it came. A day early. *hyperventilates* I mean, it wasn't really a surprise because I may or may not have been obsessively stalking the tracking thingymajing. *cough cough* 

SO YES. After asking Mom every ten minutes when the mail would come, and why wasn't it there yet, and WHAT IF THEY TOOK IT TO THE WRONG HOUSE (OHMYGOODNESS), it came. I walked over to check the mail and it was tthhhheerrreeeee. 

So...yeah. It's like 134 pages of BEAUTIFULNESS. *huggles it* *pets the gorg cover* #timeforaphotodump

(Wanna know another little something special? It arrived on my 16-and-a-half birthday. ^_^) 

As soon as I got it out of the packaging, before even starting home :D 

A little while later, the photoshoot began on the floor of my room... 

Ignore my messy boxes over there in the distance XD 

You get a sneak peek of chapter one -- feel special ;) 

*covers eyes* It needs so much work. 

Then later in the evening, I took my precious baby outside for more photo-love :) 

And my OTHER precious baby was watching <3 

Then I traipsed off down through the field and took a multitude of pictures in da purty grasses :D 

*squeals* I'm so happy with the thickness, eeps!!! XD  

I had on-lookers...at least they weren't blocking the sunlight. :P And my shadow looks cold... 

Da skkkyyyyyyyy

And of course I kept getting sidetracked from the actual PURPOSE of the picture-taking... ;) 

"We are her favorites. Hurt her and you die...by our teeth. We be vicious." 

The cover is SO FAB Y'ALL. *flails* 

Pssh. Yeah, the Kid was ignoring us. :P 

This little brown-eyed darling flopped on to my lap... *pants* Goodness, he weighs a lot. 

Back to the book XD

"Excuse me? I'm still here. Forget the book." 

And when I finally got the doggies out of my lap, I took pictures with my flip-flops and the lovely book ^.^ 

That wraps it up! Hope y'all enjoyed, and that that wasn't toooo many pictures. :P Can ya tell I'm excited? Maybe? Just a little?! *grins* 

Back to editing, 

~Faith 

A Few of My Favorite Things! // Tag

Aloha, all! *waves* (No I'm not in Hawaii.) I know what you thought when you saw the title of this post... "What?? But she does soooo many tags!!!" But I also know that you're reading this anyway. B-) (Well, I hope you are. If you're not, then I... Wait, if you're not reading it you don't care, do you?) 

I can't believe it's been almost two weeks since I've posted here. Sowwwy. ^_^ As I mentioned before, construction is going on. Mom threatened to hack into this blog and leave a quick post telling you all what's happening and that you would see me here after it's all over. But she didn't. B-) Did she? *quickly scans over previous posts* Nope. ;) 

I do have oodles of post coming up soon though, so be watching. ;) Like seriously. My settings look like this... 

Draft, draft, draft, draft, draft. xP Blah. If your eyesight is good enough to make any of that out, congratulations. You get a sneak peek into upcoming stuff. ;P 

While we're on the subject of pictures and excuses for not blogging...my room looks like this right now...

See what I mean? B-) 

I've been a horridly terrible blog follower lately too... :-/ So if you've posted something and I didn't comment, I did see it and I will get to you soon. :) (Translation: my inbox is beyond overflowing and I'm hoping to clear it out by...uh...July? *nods*) 

Anyhow. Lauren from Lauren's Amazing World tagged me for her own unique tag, A Few of My Favorite Things. :) Shall we get started? 

Cool, yes?

RULES: 

• Write down ten of your favorite things. 

• Tag at least three others! 

Before I get into my list of favorite things, I'm going to stop and say that, first, all of these favorite things are extremely random. And second, this is far from all of my favorite things. Thirdly, I noticed that like everyone else added family as one of their 'favorites', but I'm not. That's not to say my family isn't special! I'm just...not adding them to this list. ;) LOL. 

1) Dogs. 

Dogs are girls best friend! Well, this girl anyway. ;) Biskit is my 100+ pound Yellow Labrador Retriever. :) 

Biskit approves of my reading material. :) 

Biskit's brother, Bullet, is my brother's dog. He's smaller and darker in coat color. :) 

2) Candy. 

What would I do without candy?! One thing I probably wouldn't do without candy is write. ;) 

Skittles and Jolly ranchers are my favorites. :D

These are the best jolly ranchers. DO NOT ARGUE! 

3) Pottery. 

Some of you may not have known this, but I'm a potter. ;) I love all the aspects of pottery that I've been blessed to experience and learn from, but my favorite is wheel-throwing. :-) 

Some dishes from a dinner set I made last summer. 

Another important aspect of pottery (in my opinion at least ;)) is test tiles. Test tiles are small, hollow blocked used to test different glaze combinations. Lots of potters will keep their favorite test tiles, or all of them, on a shelf at easy access. And they're so pretty too! Here's mine. :) 

4) I Love Lucy

I Love Lucy is like my favorite TV show. It's an amazing comedy from the '50s starring Lucille Ball, and I absolutely adore it. :) 

5) Notebooks. 

Who doesn't love little books filled with blank paper?! :D I have lots of notebooks and binders for school, church, and writing notes. :) 

Just look at them in all their paper-filled glory. :) 

6) Music. 

What would I do without music?! Honestly, I listen to music all. The. Time. While I'm doing school, while I'm writing, while I'm reading, in the car... You name it, I've probably got my earbuds on. ;) 

7) Bloggers. 

That's right. You!! What would I do without all my blogger friends and followers? ^_^ 

8) Pictures. 

I love pretty, vintage-y pictures. (Check out my new header. :)) 

9) Good Books. 

I was originally going to include movies here (because y'all know I love books :P), but I decided against it. Because books are much easier for me to talk and talk and talk about. Books are amazing. Books are wonderful. Books are words upon words upon words. Books are life. *nod* :) 

10) *plays creepy music* Wait for it... 

Of course... World War Two. I know, I know, who has a favorite war?? But I really love reading about WWII and the '40s. :) 

And I tag... 

Raechel @ God's Peculiar Treasure Rae 

Rebekah Eddy @ Rebekah's Remarks 

Lydia Dyslin @ Through the Wardrobe 

*~*~*~* 

A few things before I scamper off to finish a story, read a book and...yeah. ;) 

-- There's an awesome giveaway going on, hosted by Christian author Rachel Starr Thomson! Click here to check it out!! :D 

-- My friend Amy from Living in Faith and Fun is hosting a writing challenge that ends on May 1st. If you hurry, there's still time to enter! :D Details are HERE. 

-- I am aware that literally everything here on the blog is out of wack. I've tried to fix it, but Blogger keeps shutting me down for some reason. >_< Any advice would be appreciated! 

-- And lastly – join me in taking the challenge to become more responsible in every aspect of our Christian lives. Check out this post on Chosen Vessels! 

Thanks for reading everyone! More posts, coming soon. :D 

~Faith

*6th, 7th, 10th, 13th, 14th, 15th, and 16th pictures are from Pinterest. The rest are mine.*