escapades of a musical narniac

But, as lovely as a capo would be right about now, I’ve still managed to let some frustration out by jamming on the guitar a bit. I’ve gotta make myself stop writing songs with only two strings! Hopefully it won’t be too hard to remember everything and put the rest of the notes together when I’ve attained the rest of them.

Well, it’s pretty rainy and dreary today, which usually isn’t a bad thing, but this particular day, it’s a bit of a menace. My older sister had to go to the hospital for a breathing test because of her asthma, so my mom’s been gone pretty much all day long, which is a HUGE bummer cause me and my dad don’t get along so well. Luckily I got school done relatively fast, and we have to go back out shopping a bit more, AND we’re coloring Easter eggs together tonight, so hopefully we can salvage what’s left of today.

In the course of trying to figure out what I’m going to do with myself all summer long, my mom suggested trying embroidery. So, when school is out (THREE WEEKS!!), I’m going to go to Michael’s Arts and Crafts and buy myself a pattern to start on. I’m hoping that by the end of this year, I can get good enough at it to go out and buy a large one with a ship on it, make the sail purple, then hang it up in my room. Plus, my little sister is going to paint my new bedroom door to look like the wardrobe door in The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, so every time I go to enter my room, it’s like I’m walking into Narnia! I can’t WAIT for that to be done. I’ll definitely snap some pictures and post them when it is.

I’ve also finally decided what I’m going to do with the last bits of my room that I can personalize. (In light of what my door is going to look like, I asked my mom if I could put a lamp post in the middle of my room… she did not exactly condone this idea, haha). There’s a long space above my desk on the wall where I want to hang all the Narnia film posters, given that I can track them down. d: And then, with a lot of hard work, I’m going to raise enough money to buy myself a copy of Rhindon (anywhere from $200 to &3000, yiiiiiiikes), which I’ll hang in the space over my door. This will probably take me until I move out haha, but it’ll be so worth it to see it at it’s completion!

Well, I’ve rambled long enough. Hope everyone is having a splendid weekend! :D

DBF out!

Which is quite frustrating, but I’ll keep going till I see the light at the end of the tunnel. (Which would happen to be in the form of everything I’ve been working on for the past month. d:)

Tonight was a great night at church. There weren’t many people in Production, nor were there any productive things to do, so we just sat and swapped stories with our youth pastor, which was loads of fun. This Friday we’re doing a Good Friday service in the youth (called The Good Friday Experience), which I get to help with for Production. I’m fairly positive that I’ll be helping run the media desk, which is always fun. I can’t wait!

SO, I have been able to get one thing to work for me… per request, here are the pictures of the postcards from VDT that I promised! (The first few were taken in my bathroom where I thought the lighting would be best, but it just created a pesky glare on most of them, so I switched to laying across my bedroom floor and taking them instead.)

The Dawn Treader herself on the cover! I used a Color Pop effect on most of these to reflect how amazing the colors ack-chellay are as opposed to the dullness my camera initially gave them. I figured that, as wonderfully artsy as my DBFs are, I might as well add that to give them the full effect.

Love this one of Lucy!

This one is the first one in the book, but the pictures got out of order… oops. d: Anyhow, I adore the shades of blue in contrast to the gold, brown, and yellow on Aslan.

I didn’t use the Color Pop on this one cause it made Eustace look orange. This one made me giggle.

King Caspian looking all scruffy!

My favorite picture in all of Narnia history!! If I didn’t want to preserve their booked beauty, I would hang this one up on my wall. I’m still arguing with myself as to whether I will end up doing just that or not! I should also note that the big bright spot is the glare from my ceiling fan that I failed to block with my head. Fail!

My nemesis. (x I really do like this picture though, I remember back when it was used as a promotional image in People magazine. Ahhh, memories!

Reepicheep rocks my socks! I love his little sword for some reason.

The purple spot on Lucy’s cheek is also not supposed to be there. I have absolutely no idea how it came to be! This is another lovely shot of her.

I adore the detail in this one. The campfire scene between Reep and Eustace was so heartwarming in the film as well!

And now we’ve come to my personal favorite, haha. (With the exception of the one from Aslan’s Country, of course!) Even Caspian’s got a winning smile! And then… there’s Skedmund… *swoon*.

The rest of the packaging is pretty fantastic, but I’m not gonna spoil ALL the surprises! (; Also, on the back of each postcard is a quote from a character on the card, which is really neat. They had a few lines that I’m guessing are from deleted scenes cause they weren’t in the film, and they have a quote labeled as being said by Caspian when it was really said by Coriakin, but it’s neat all the same.

Anyways, I’ve gotta get some sleep, cause tomorrow I’ve gotta get school done early so that we can go shopping. Until later, sail on!

DBF out!

(By the by, I’ve come to realize that the sign-out I usually use has caught on with my DBFs, and I think it’s completely awesome! :D)

Life has gotten CRAZY CRAZY CRAZY! Between trying to finish up school and spring cleaning and more birthdays and all that jazz, I’m afraid that blogging has completely slipped my mind. D: So, here to act as a remedy for that, are several things that I have managed to find time to work on between all the craziness.

First of all, about a week ago, my mom, little sister, and I had to go to Sam’s Club for some stuff, and the line was long, so my mom let me and my sister go and look at the games and movies and stuff, and we discovered that Sam’s Club is on Harry Potter’s side when it comes to the whole Peter VS Harry thing…

Teehee. He never saw it coming!! Thanks to Pookie for holding it for me so that there wasn’t a nasty glare on beautiful Skedmund’s face.

So going to Wal*Mart for Voyage of the Dawn Treader turned out to be quite the adventure. We got a pretty late start on account of my mom being sick and my sister being at work, but, bless her, my mom promised us that we’d get out to get it that day. After going from the front of the store to the back and then returning to the front to get JUUUUUST the right copy (yes, we were ridiculous like that), after we checked out the alarms at the doors went off because the thing on the Blu-Ray hadn’t been deactivated. SO then we stood at the desk where the person who’s in charge of making sure that people don’t steal stuff for a solid ten minutes because the lady there was super slow. (In this time, of course, my palms begin to sweat and I get the shakes cause I’m convinced that we won’t make it out with our lives! Juuust kidding. (;) Fortunately, we got out and got home in enough time to watch it before bed.

Speaking of, the Blu-Ray is pretty fantastic. We got the special collector’s edition (my sister called it “the pretty one”, haha), which had the embellished-looking sleeve over the fold-out case, which held the Blu-Ray, DVD, and a digital copy, which disappeared into my bedroom that night, teehee. It also was accompanied by a book with postcards in it that I dare not remove, thus spoil their awesomeness. There’s a particularly gorgeous one (which I’m fairly certain is the last one in there) of Caspian and Edmund after the crew frees the slaves on the Lone Islands. I was mesmerized for a good amount of time (by Ed, naturally) before I remembered that we had to put the movie into the player in order to watch it, and it was still sitting in my lap.

Ahhhh. Life is good.

In (surprisingly!) non-Narnian news, the weather has been getting increasingly warmer here, which has been rather nice. I just wish that it would rain more often!

I’ve been thinking about making any future Blunderkinds that have a backstory into videos instead of standalone pictures, like I did for Bappy Hirthday. That was a blast, and it allowed there to be a little more humor than normal in the story. Any thoughts? (: Also, I just saw that Kellie had a brilliant idea to put together a video of Skedmund greatest hits, which I would be delighted to do a rendition of! I’m pretty sure that I’ve got a decent list of things to include in it, but feel free to toss some more out there that I may have missed.

Hope you’re having a great week! (:

DBF out!

I feel like I haven’t posted in forever! Ahh well. Here we go with the update.

Yesterday I showed my learner’s permit test who’s boss. >:D My mom told me that today, I’m gonna drive for the first time ever. I’m psyched! Look out world, Megan is now legally on wheels!

On a sadder note, I successfully completed The Potter Plot Part Two, only for my computer to momentarily crash on me, and delete the whole thing. So now, despite being pretty perplexed, I’ll be trying to work twice as fast to re-invent it! My only setback is that every weekend now, I’m getting these horrible headaches. Hopefully that won’t happen this weekend!

And speaking of this weekend…

TODAY IS THE RELEASE OF THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!

Okay. I’m good now.

Anyways, I’ve gotta go and do school so that we can run to Wal*Mart. Oh boy!! I’ll give you the full rundown of the Dawn Treader adventure when we get back!

Have a wunderfull day! (:

DBF out!