It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas...

Yes. It really is! It really truly does look like Christmas!! There is already a lot of snow. I'm listening to Christmas music this very minute. My room is decorated. Christmas is in 31 days. I'm serious! Christmas is finally here! I've decided to show you all my Christmas tree! So here it is:





So, are you excited for Christmas?? I know I am for sure!


P.S. Although I don't have a very good camera, I really like how the lighting turned out with these pictures

Adventures of a Small Town Girl - Summer Edition

Hey everyone! How was your summer?

Well,my summer was pretty boring. Stayed home for the majority, a couple minor day trips here and there. Babysat a few times, hung out with friends. Oh yeah, and I went to the hospital too. Whoops.

So, it started out to be what looked like a small mosquito bite with a hole in it. Now, being the person I am, I got lotion in it, so I decided to get it out with a toothpick. Not smart. I discovered that I could stick the toothpick down the whole. It wasn't pretty.

A couple weeks later, I came home from babysitting with a very sore leg. I pulled up the leg of my jeans to discover my leg had swelled up to an impressive size on the surrounding area.

We visited the clinic the next day, where I got some medication, and was told to visit E.R. if the swelling got worse. It did. We went to E.R. the next day where the doctor cut of the top of the so-called "bite", and dug around a little in my leg.

Soon after, my mom and the doctor were talking and filling out forms. Since I am familiar with the feeling, I immediately started tapping my mom. When she turned around, can you guess what happened? I fainted.


So now that summer is pretty much over, and school has started, my life has once again become much busier. While I absolutely adore school, (and no, there is no sarcasm in that) I do truly miss the green leaves and thirty degrees weather. While it is still pretty hot where I live, it still isn't quite summer.

Birthdays and Business

Hey guys!! Exciting news!! I've got 1175 page views!! (Although, now that I think about it, most of those have probably been me...) But anyways... Sorry I haven't posted in a while... AGAIN!! But, I've been quite busy. We finished up all school assignments, and now we have final exams. Weell.. kinda. We had E.L.A., which was just writing an essay on a book we read, so that wasn't super intense, and then today we had Science, which we decided, we weren't even going to review the whole year - we just did our unit test, which was pretty small, and then on Monday, we have math, which is only a small portion of what we did all year - only the important stuff. So, thats why I've been so busy! But now, I'd like to say a very big birthday wish to my lovely mother!! Now, I know that your birthday is only on Sunday, but I thought I'd do it now anyways. Happy Birthday!!! Have a great day!! i love you sooooo much!!! Thanks for putting up with me!

Happy Birthday Mom!!!!!

Lately...

Wowsers! I haven't posted in forever! A lot of things have happened! Another birthday of mine came, my grandma and grandpa came back from Arizona, my cousins came to visit, school has been incredibly busy, I did my Advanced Rudiments theory exam last Saturday, and track is coming up!! After this post I probably won't post till school is over since I have track on Thursday, and then after that I have to study for finals, and then after finals, school ends, and then I'll get my report card, and then it's summer! Here is one of the projects I did while my little blogging break was happening:







Me and my mom made them together. Aren't they just the cutest things?!

Did I mention I got Instagram?!? I am so pumped! You can follow me: claire_elisabeth2 - Although I will only follow you if I know you. Internet safety first, folks!

My Bucket List

Here goes. . . My forever bucket list. . . I'll add to this as they come to me. . .


1. Get my ARCT in violin
2. Play an unaccompanied Bach piece - completed
3. Learn Spanish
4. Learn French
5. Get another puppy
6. Learn to crochet
7. Knit slippers
8. Create a YouTube account
9. Read "The Hunger Games"
10. Read the entire Bible
11. Get my button collection up to at least 1000 buttons
12. Create a scrapbook of my future - in the process...
13. Start a record collection (now that I have a record player as of 12/25/13) - also in the process


Although some of these may seem odd, I really want to do them all!!

To be continued. . .

Lists and Paper and Music - Oh My!

Hello everybody!!! First come the lists. I've decided that I will create a blog post titled "My Bucket List" and (as you can see from the title), it will be a post about my bucket list. I will add to it over time - you guys (whoever you are), will get to see what I would enjoy doing in the future. Yeah. I know. Brilliant. Lucky for me I don't think many people read my blog, so my idea will most likely stay secluded. Okay, moving on to (drum roll please), PAPER!!! So, this is the paper part of this post. As you can see from above, I've been working hard to create a beautiful paper masterpiece. My guess is the you could do this in a few hours (maybe even one depending on the length), but mine took me a while because I have been very busy lately - you will hear more about my business in the music part. Anyways, I thought that it would be good if I told how to make it since I'm sure many of you will want to know. Whoever you are. So here it goes. . . 1. Grab some paper. 2. Fold the paper over and over and over until you've reached the end of the paper. 3. It should now look like the picture above. Next you unfold it and start ripping it along the folds. Like so: 4. After you've finished ripping it (you can cut it, but I personally think it looks better ripped), you then take one of the strips. Like so: 5. Fold the paper strip in half. Like so: 6. Then fold both ends of the strip in. Like so: 7. Fold together so it looks like a heart. Like so: 8. Make multiple "paper hearts" and hold together. . . again, like so: 9. Staple pieces together, like so: 10. Now it should look like this: 11. Make a few "paper hearts", staple them together, then staple them together with another group of "paper hearts", and so on and so forth, until it looks, like so: And also, like so: And continue to do so until it reaches your desired length, so that it looks (again), like so: If you are wondering how I got the large paper heart flower in the middle of my paper garland, I just stapled a bunch together. Easy-peasy!! Thanks for reading my paper section of the post! Now on to music!!!!!! Okay, our music festival for our town and a few of the surrounding towns started yesterday. (Saturday). And Saturday was the strings day. So, I performed at it. I know that some of you know that I play the violin, and thats what I played. I think that yesterday was awesome, as I was very happy with a few things: my marks, the adjudicator (Anna Bekolay), and my playing. First, I played Allegro Brilliant by William Ten Have - my mark was 88!! Then I played Concerto No. 1 in A Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach - my mark was 87!! And then I played Allegro from Suite 7 by G.F. Handel with my sister, Emma, playing cello - our mark was 88!!! And then we (Emma on piano and me on violin), played Ave Maria by Bach/Gounod - our mark was. . . 90!!!! We did awesome! Next Sunday we are playing Ave Maria at the final concert. I'm really excited!!! Thanks for reading, and remember to always leave a comment after yo read so I know that at least one person other than my best friend and my family reads this!!! Thanks!! <3 Claire

Curls and Stuff. . .

Hello everyone! Hope your start to the year was amazing! Happy Valentine's week(ish)! Just thought I'd tell you about the latest things I've been doing. . . First up is school which has been going great. Okay, enough about that! Now for the fun stuff!!! Here we go. . . So, lately I've kind of been experimenting on my hair. First I straightened it for school, and now I'm getting obsessed with curls as you can see from my picture above. I've really loved these lately. I first put them in on Thursday night and styled them on Friday. Loved them!!! Then I put them in again last night (Saturday), and loved them yet again. For my hair, it doesn't really hold heat curls, so I like to use no heat curls. (Ex: sock curls, rollers, etc.) I used rollers for the curls in the pictures I took. You guys should really try them sometime. . . Silly faces with those fluffy little curls! Posin' for the camera! Being silly and showin' peace! Another typical silly me Thanks for reading! Hope you enjoyed this post! Remember to try roller curls! TIPS: Do not put rollers in wet hair, or dry hair, but always put them in damp hair. I recommend sleeping with them in. And finally wear em' with pride!!! Thanks! Remember to comment! Bye!