Forevermore

I don't know what- well, I do. But never mind. I wrote this. It's up to you to interpret it's meaning, but I hope you like it. It's just something random and sudden, so that explains why the grammar is bad. If you can, ignore how it's written and just try to flow with the words. Just a tip. 

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A figure, lost in darkness, curled into an upright ball. Suddenly, a glow softly shines, illuminating the figure's fearful, tear filled eyes as they look up at the glow. It comes from an outstretched hand, palm up, as if offering to help. The figure wrapped in darkness looks from the smiling, kind face of the stranger to the offered hand, hesitant to take it. They close their eyes shut and quickly take hold of the hand before they changed their mind. While their eyes are shut, a powerful wind blows in their face. Fearfully, they grab the hand tighter, afraid that this kind stranger might let go. Suddenly, the wind stops and even through closed eyes, brightness shines through...

Slowly, you open your eyes. There are scars and bruises on your arms; you wear torn clothes. The stranger knew this, yet held onto your hand anyway. You look to them, and they smile kindly at you, extending their free hand out as if to say, 'Look around.' So you do, and what you see brings more tears to your eyes. There is a clearing, but it's full of people. People with cuts, bruises, and scars; just like you. But they smile. They're happy. You look longingly to them, wanting nothing more than to be there, smiling with them. You are afraid, but the stranger just stands next to you, waiting and watching. You realize that this is your choice alone, but you know what you have to do and gather what little courage you have left. Very slowly and hesitant, you take that first step. Then another. And another. Slowly, but surely, you walk towards those smiling, scarred faces. One sees you; their smile grows wider and they run to you, greeting you with a happiness you haven't known in ages. Still nervous and worried, you hold back that small ball of light forming inside you. You couldn't afford to hope only to have it crushed by darkness again. This new person takes your hands and leads you farther into the crowd, happily showing you to everyone else. They all greet you the same. Warm, happy smiles. Sometimes a hug or a wave. Finally, you let yourself smile. It's not big, or perfect, but that tiny smile is the start of more that is sure to come. You begin to feel that, finally, you've found your home, with people who make you feel happy and safe. Best of all? The darkness completely vanished from your eyes, mind, and soul. To be replaced with happiness. Forevermore. 

Some recent drawings

Hi! I haven't made a post in a while, so I thought I'd share some drawings of mine. If anyone's seen How to Train your Dragon, then you may recognize this first pic as a drawing of Toothless. At least, I hope it's recognizable enough. Since I suck at drawing bodies, I left most of his out of the picture. Trust me, it's really bad looking. Would also like to add that this is the first attempt at drawing Toothless, so I hope you like it!

The second one is just a cat. I was experimenting with drawing styles, trying to make it look more realistic. The cat's eyes were colored with several different blues. I'm not sure if you can tell though.

The paper was just plain white, but I took the pictures at night, with a yellow lamp lighting, so that's why the paper looks colored. Hope you guys like it! You might be seeing more drawings from me soon!

I AM BACK!!!

After more than a year, I'm finally posting!!! Yay!

Will anyone still read this?

Giving a shout out: Thrust, that means you too! If you read this, please be redirected to my new announcement blog. 

http://lavenderhopesrandomchannel.blogspot.com/2014/12/announcements.html

That explains everything. Ish. And also, to anyone and everyone else who reads this post: please follow that blog if you haven't already. It'll explain why.

*doesn't know how to end the post*

Um... Thank you?

*poofs*

Birthday+ drawing update and last moment randomness

Well, yesterday was actually my birthday(although, depending where you are, it still is my birthday as of the moment I wrote this) and it was actually pretty fun.

The day before, my awesome friend surprised me by taking me to a duck(which is really good, by the way) restaurant for lunch with three other, previously chosen friends. She surprised me by asking me to wait for her before eating then taking me outside where I noticed the three other friends also waiting and hanging together. Then I started getting suspicious. So my friend said we would be going shopping. I asked her why she didn't tell me sooner so I could get my money, but she said I wouldn't be needing it. As we were riding in the car, being driven by one of my aunts(who helped pay for lunch), we past the restaurant and I started to wonder. Sure enough, we made a U turn at the nearest possible turning place and arrived there. The whole thing was great and I was really happy that my friend actually surprised me. :)

Then yesterday, on my actual birthday, it didn't even feel like I turned 17 that day. It felt like any regular day. Until the party. They had me wait until they were all there before I could go in. Quite a few friends and acquaintances were there. My awesome friend made two cakes, one was an orange crêpe(like a very thin and big pancake) cake and the other was chocolate. Oh my gosh, the chocolate was the best out of both. It was all just. Chocolate. Oh my gosh. Then there were presents.

Even when people kept asking me what I'd like for my birthday, I honestly couldn't think of anything. But they were all really great gifts.

Since having the idea to take me out to lunch and making me two cakes wasn't enough, my awesome friend had to go and get me a present. A few presents. One, which is really awesome of her, was a box of 48 colors of chalk pastels. :O Since I'm trying to draw more, that was absolutely awesome of her. If she was one to like hugs, I would have squeeze-hugged her and not let go, but as she doesn't like hugs, I gave her a quick tight hug. The other was a really cute children's English-Korean dictionary with pictures. That will make learning much easier and a lot more fun. Then she gave me a dark chocolate bar and a bag of chocolate scraps from the cake as a side gift.

Then there's a really good friend of the family, who gave me a small golden heart shaped locket necklace(that can actually open) and silver bracelet with three tiny Scottish terriers linked in.

Now, I'm not going to go into all the details of who gave what, so I'll just list the other things I got.

I got a cute hot pink carry around(handleless) mug with the face of a cat on the front, another necklace with a fish that can actually move its body from side to side(really cool), a small, cute backpack for when we go hiking on a mountain(because I always carry my snacks/lunch in a plastic bag hanging from my wrist), a dark purple suit jacket for formal occasions, a bag of dried bread coated in sugar(called rusk), and from my family, a gift card(with a good deal of money on it) for books!!!! :DDD

All in all, I think it was a really good birthday. :)

Oh, and since I'm blogging, about the drawings from the previous post, I've colored a few, but still need to finish the rest. Will do that when I can and I'll post them. :)

The blogger app looks really nice after I updated it. Easier to bold and italicize words. Sorry, just spouting random stuff now. :P

More drawings!

Okay, so recently I've been wanting to draw, so I thought: why not draw the names of my blog friends?

Soooo, I have started a few. All they need now are some color. But the thing is, I don't want to mess up, so I'm worried about how to color them. So, you get to see my first finished drawings without color. Hmm, it may have been clearer if I had the light on... Oh well.

Niccolo, I'm sorry about the bird. I am absolutely positive it won't be a bald eagle once I draw it. But that was the second time I ever drew a bird. Okay, including the chickens, fourth. And Jubi, I didn't finish it yet so I didn't want to show a headless wollameaver dolvampony. Looks good so far though! At least, with my imagination. Luce, the dots are skittles and you have a diamond as the dot of your 'i'. Death, there's a small thorn near the bottom of the stem. I think you can see it, that dark spot right next to the stem. Sorry that the name is hard to see though. Mara, the dot on the 'i' is a lily flower. And those are charms hanging off the word(in order left to right- heart, four petaled flower, 1D). Sorry, but I didn't think I could draw the boys, so I wrote the lyrics to some of their songs. :) Em, you have an eighth note as the 'd' in Melody and there's a drawing of Dublin Daes. Sorry about the ugly wolf on the cover, I suck at animals. Aaand, Star. Yours will have a spark(or just a symbol to mean bright) as the dot on your 'i'.

Just to remind you, I am still working on these, so the finished(and colored) result could be different.

Wow, I've been very blogpost active recently...

My drawing

The darker shades in the mountains are supposed to be the clouds' shadows. I may have made the sky too light to see, but there are clouds. You might be able to see the grey parts though. Oh, and I cut out the bottom half. You don't need to see it anyway, I drew mostly so I could have something more than a blank half. Still, it wasn't that great.

Oh- and this is the first time in a really long time that I have used crayons. I mean, it's not that I think they're for little kids, but I don't draw with crayons and markers because it's a little hard to control the strokes. By that, I mean with markers, sometimes you get areas with darker shades by coloring one spot too much. I don't like how it looks when some areas are darker when I don't want it to be. With crayons... well, I just don't use them much. But after trying the crayons in the drawing, I might change my perspective. It's almost like using colored pencils. Except that when they get dull, they'll be hard to use. I don't like sharpening them because the sharpener gets all waxy and blech. I'm picky when it comes to my art supplies. XP

Oh! But the crayon colors are so cool! It's all rainbow plus silver, gold, harvest gold, maroon(at least, I think it is. Kind of a brown-red), black, white, brown, and grey. And you get to see my sampling of them. Plus a tree in the corner. XD

A Post!

I've been wanting to write a post for some time now. I have just been so. Busy.

Hopefully, I'll be able to finish the drawing I'm working on and post that(if it turns out good). And I need to get another post up soon. Plus share what's been happening in the past week. But, for now you get this, because as I said, I'm pretty busy and only have time to post this one.

So, Spring. For some people, it would actually be turning Autumn, but over in the north it's turning Spring. Some of the flowers have already blossomed, I can see tufts of green grass growing around. But the leaves of the trees have yet to make their appearance. The sky has been pretty clear for the past week. Sometimes with white fluffy clouds. But the winds are blowing very fast and hard. Even with the sun shining, it's cold! Though sometimes it's nice. Oh- but there's just one little problem about Spring. BUGS!!! Gah, the bugs of the worst kind are back! Wasps, spiders, MOSQUITOS!!! I've seen some already! For those living on the north side, prepare for the bugs!
*grabs bug repellent*