Another Little Blog

Hello again everyone! I am back!
I just wanted to say, I created a blog with my friend Maeve Kelehan. It's called Amazing Animals, and, you guessed it, it's about animals!
We are just going to write about animals and stuff. You know, all different types of unusual and amazing animals that we come across. Also, we are going to have Pages of Honour for two of our favourite animals, a sloth for Maeve and I chose armadillos. Just because they are so cute when they are little baby armadillos!
Anyway....we are just going to be blogging every day, taking turns. Maeve one day, I'm the next. By far, we just have my introduction up.
So if you want to check out our blog, here is the link:
unusual-amazing-animals.blogspot.com
Enjoy the show then, and don't throw the popcorn at the monkeys!

Remedy Kitties

Feeling sick is not one of my favourite pastimes.
Not at all!
Sometimes it also helps having five cats that have amazing supercat healing powers. Echo, the eldest female cat and sister of Rambo, the naughty chocolatey orange cat, is one of my most favourite purr machines. Not that I have favourites of course... No way. (Oh no, now they could find out I said that and purr me to death in the middle of the night....) 
Anyway, I find it strange but really cool that they can purr for only a moment on your lap, but you start feeling better almost immediately. It's a wonderful gift.
Here's Echo on my lap!

 

Woah, I just came back and I see a blank page where this post was, and my cat (Kisik, or Lurkeeo) lying (seemingly) innocently beside my laptop. I, of course, wail in despair until I realise that it is actually about 453 spaces in the document...I didn't count, these are approximate figures. Hah.

 Well, I just want to update about my cats, because some of them are currently intent on destroying my mum's expensive camera (Yes, I am talking to you, Kisik!)

 Also, I might sound crazy, referring to my cats as if they can understand me, but you never know. Maybe they secretly plan on taking over my house and occupying all of the computers and sofas so they could read my posts - oh, I think I'm really gone cuckoo now. Never mind. My five cats are the remedy...if they aren't the cause!

Graduation Celebration!

Hello hello, dear readers!
Now, yesterday was a happy day, sad day, exciting day, whatever you want to call graduation day. I finally graduated from Primary School and looking forward to next year, starting secondary school. Oh, I know it's going to be great, but I'm also slightly nervous, meeting new people, new subjects, e.t.c...
I'm going to be studying French, Art and Business Studies, not including the other main subjects such as English, Maths and Science.
Anyway, back to the graduation...
We were all arranged on the stage in a specific order, smallest with their feet sitting down on the stage, with their legs hanging off at the edge, and tallest standing up at the back. The middle row

The First Taste of Summer

Ahh, summer has come at last!
Took it long enough too, it's nearly the end of June. How do you judge when summer starts for you? I know when the strawberries in my back garden ripen fully, and are at their most delicious taste!
Today, my mum and I went to pick some of the ripe ones in our garden, and they were absolutely huge! We picked only five, and ate two (three for my lunch in school tomorrow!). Altogether they weighed 133 grams, and the first one, the biggest and most perfect one was 41 grams alone! It was about half the size of my hand.
Here are some pictures of the giant berry garden we have. These are only the strawberries, but we have tayberries, raspberries, yellow raspberries, blackcurrants, redcurrants, wild strawberries, blackberries and more that I can't name from the top of my head. We also have peaches, plums, pears, apples, crab apples, some nuts, and oak tree and lots of roses. Lots and lots or roses. You have to wade through a pool of sweet smelling roses to get to the other side.
And they have thorns!
Anyway, back to the point, I think we will have a truly plentiful harvest this year, as we have more than twenty strawberries per plant, and we have about 4 plants. They are also ginormous! Here are some pictures!

Bull's Eye

Hello again everybody!
Remember way back to the very first post "The Start of the Beginning: About Me" ?
Remember I told you that I would be starting archery somewhere in mid-June? Now look at the calendar. Yesterday was my second week at archery, and I forgot to post. Last week too.
Archery goes on for two hours, half four until half six. It's absolutely awesome and great fun!
Anyway, we were practising firing at a small target from a distance. I got it on my second arrow, and I was really proud of myself! Yay! Oh, and my teachers told me some stories like when they shoot at keyrings and polo mints from 90 metres (or something like that...)! Also, they told me that if someone slices an arrow with another arrow, the leader/head person owes them a drink. But it doesn't really work out in your favour, because an arrow cost more than €4, usually around €30 or something. So that's actually 26 euros down the drain.
I probably won't do so anyway, so I'm quite safe for now! Moving on, there's a picture too, of the little circle I fired at. Just so you know that I actually did it, because I couldn't believe it myself!

Elaborate Hairstyles!

One thing I love doing is making up my own hairstyles. It's so much fun when the person who wants you to do their hair wants you to do "something long and complicated, so it will take lots of time."
And I love that!!!
This hairstyle took just under a half an hour, and it looks very good. I have a video tutorial, but it is not up yet. It will be up under the page "Hairstyles", you can check it out when I put it up. If the video stops acting so strangely...
P. S. Thanks to "hair girl" (you know who you are, don't deny it!) for being very patient while I was doing this. You don't know how much I appreciate it.

Lord of the Nails

Hello everyone, and as you can see I am back! With another post! (Insert applause here.)
A few days ago, my mum and I went to the pharmacy and we "discovered" a lovely shade of green nail polish there, and also a gold stripe nail polish (the polish with the long and thin brush).
And since, naturally, I am over-obsessed with The Lord of the Rings, I decided to create another look for my nails.
I'm all about arts & crafts, and this could be a bit strange, bit I hope you like them!
LotR stands for Lord of the Rings, and the thumbs are Legolas-based clothing items with gold buckles and gold trimming. Like the other letters.

I used a green Essence nail polish and L.A Colours Art Deco gold stripe nail polish.

Magical Music

A small room with nothing more than a piano is often a good room. For many reasons.
One of them, my personal favourite is that you can relax and be yourself, express your feelings through your music. This is something me and piano teacher usually start off with, creating random music.
Oh, that's another fabulous reason: having a super-cool music teacher. Petra, my teacher, is so nice and is a brilliant piano player and singer. She has absolutely perfect tones and notes, and has helped me to improve greatly with both singing and playing the piano. My mum is thinking of buying a full size piano for me for my birthday, and I'm really excited!!!
Anyway, on a more practical note, Petra's classes are always great fun, and I took some photos of her at the piano. I also had a video, but Petra asked to not put it up, as the sound didn't go through very well from my phone... :(

Double the Gold

There is always something quite special about seeing a rainbow, for me.
I think I read somewhere that from an airplane, a rainbow looks like one giant circle of colour. Is this true? I'm pretty sure it is, if I think about it, but I have my doubts.
The (very) popular legend of a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow, is known to nearly everybody. And what happens when you have two at the same time? I think you get double the gold!
Looks like you've just hit the jackpot!

Little Rays of Sunshine and Splashes of Paint

Hello everyone, it's Elvish Kitty again!
Wow, this might seem a bit paradoxic, but today was the warmest day ever. I mean, Ireland and lots of sunshine? Seems unreal!
I spent the whole day outside, working on a painting I will give to my teacher at the end of the school year - which is only about three weeks away. From there, I will be on to Secondary School and then (hopefully) college. I'm feeling a bit sad not to think that I will leave all my old friends behind, because only one other person is going to the same school as I am.
It's a little bit funny, actually.
The picture I mentioned earlier is painted with Acrylic paint, one of my most favourite mediums for art. The first is probably oil pastels or charcoal. Or all three!
Here is the photo from Google Images that I am painting: (that's how I choose what to paint - I Google it.)

Butterfly!

That's about all I have to say, apart from 'See you soon!' :)

How to Sound Like Your Favourite Artists

Everyone loves a great laugh. Especially me. So that's why I'm showing you this video!
Some (maybe most) of you have already seen this, but for those of you who haven't, I felt a great urging need to share this with you.
So bombs away!

 

Did you watch this? Did you? I hope you did, because if you skipped, you missed out on a lot!
See y'all!

Walking With Nature

Taking an evening stroll through a park with your family means great fun, fresh air and many, many pictures of flowers. And occasionally, you get a lovely sight of a family of swans or ducks, or whatever other animals live in the pond nearby. Even picturesque scenery is a wonderful opportunity to get your phone camera skills up to scratch! And what do you do when you have too many of those photos? Well, I post them on my blog. Here are some of many, many of the aforementioned photographs I took in Bushy Park yesterday!
(Oh, yes, I forgot to mention something strange just happened and here it is. This is supposed to have been published on Wednesday - it was - and I decided to update something, and now, it's published today, before the other posts, which is strange! That's all I really have to say.)

Photos From Bushy Park

Most of the good pictures from Bushy Park, in relevance to my post 'Walking With Nature' will be found on this page. Enjoy the nature!

Random River

Random River 2

Knotty Trees

My Friend's Blog

Hello everyone who is reading this!
My friend has a really good blog, and I love reading it and it's altogether really interesting. Although she has deleted most of her blog entries - for whatever reason -  she is slowly starting to put them back on and they are really good, I think. Her website is called thesims42013.blogspot.ie. It's very interesting, and very cool! Check it out!

What Boredom can do to People

Do you ever sit in school/work and you are bored out of your skin? Can you relate to that? Well, apparently so can my friend Juno.
That being that, random moments of inspiration and boredom can lead to awesome things. Like great works of art on your hand made in a blue ball-point pen. Here is what Juno came up with during a geography lesson: