Ah.. Music

Yesterday, I did an odd thing.

Well, odd for my family anyway.

I walked up to our cupboard of CD's, and started looking through the shelf of classical music.

Usually, my family an I listen to Rock and Pop music, but I pulled out classical music, I wanted something different.

To my absolute delight, I found a CD with some Mozart songs on it, and 3 of the tracks were songs written for 'Clarinet and Orchestra' so I can listen to some clarinet playing now. (My family gave me a couple of strange looks when they heard me listening to classical music haha)

Looking again, I was debating what to put on after I finished with my first CD I found.

Maybe I should put on Handel.

Or perhaps Beethoven.

Or maybe I could listen to Vivaldi.

I saw a thin CD cover, and pulled it out, wondering what it was. Tchaikovsky.

I pulled it out, and looked through the names of the tracks. A few familiar names popped up 'Nutcracker', 'Sleeping Beauty', '1812 Overture',

So I decided I'd try out this one.

I knew most of the songs from The Nutcracker, because I saw a Barbie version when I was little (you know, before Barbie went insane and started ruining movies and stuff, the nutcracker one they did is actually rather good) - anyway, I really enjoy this suite of music! It is entertaining, the mood varies, as does the type of music. Some of the time it's exciting, other times it's calm. It's happy, and sad. It's energetic, then soft. Oh and the whole suite goes for half an hour, so that's half an hour of happiness.

I haven't listened to other composers yet, so I can't pick a favourite, but Tchaikovsky was a genius.

Do you like to listen to classical music? Who's your favourite composer? Have you listened to Tchaikovsky before, and if so, what do you think of the Nutcracker Suite?

Good Wishes To..

All the mothers out there, especially mine


Happy Mothers Day!

May God bless you today :)

Easter

"There is no need for you to be afraid. I know you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. He is not here, for he is risen, as he said he would. Come see the place where he lay..." (Matthew 28:5-6)

Alleluia He is risen!!

Happy Easter everyone!

Quilling

Recently I have taken up another hobby; quilling!



To start with, I take a strand of paper. Then, using my quilling tool, I roll it, and shape it into certain shapes. The quilling tool I use is easy to use, I just need to slot the paper in, and I can roll it up.
It is also possible to use a needle to roll the strips of paper. I haven't really got the hang of it yet, but I'm sure I will eventually.

Taking the rolls and scrolls, I arrange them onto a piece of paper, glue them down, and voila! I'm done! I'm using templates for my little gift-tag-cards at the moment.

Here are the three I have done so far. I did the one on the green background first, the yellow background second, and the red background is my latest one.

I love quilling cause, once I got the hang of the twirling and shaping of the strips of paper, I found that it is quick and pretty easy. I can sit there, and keep my hands busy, but I can still let my mind wander, I can still think about things - unless I'm concentrating on getting something really tricky done (like figuring out how to do the silver flower on the latest one). Quilling is one of my favourite hobbies at the moment.

What are your thoughts on quilling? Which one of mine do you like the best?

Pure & Simple

Last year I began to do computer studies with Pure & Simple book one. It's really good!

In the first half of the book, it teaches about inputting commands. Using a program which is purchased when you buy the book (either Microworlds 2.0 or Microworlds EX depending on your operating system [Linux, Windows 7, Windows XP, etc.]).

Basically, you make animations, learn new inputting codes for this particular program, and things like that.

Then, later on, it begins to teach HTML coding. It shows you the basics, and then sets you a project to make your own HTML website. This is the one I made; (ignore the pop-up ads and whatnot)

http://classifyinstruments.freewebsitehosting.com/

It gets back to programing for the microworlds program for the rest of the book.

In Pure & Simple book two, I started out by making games using the Microworlds program. I made a maze, a hangman game, a race, and one where the player makes a city-type-thing.

Then, it got into 'internet basics' - the first two lessons of this section was googling information. And then it was time to make more websites!

I made one, and I got it to look really good, but then I found that it was supposed to just be a layout, and I was to use an actual website editor.

So I uploaded the one I made - and now I am in the process of making one for the website editor.

spiritlyrics.webatu.com

^ There's the link ^

So yeah, it's great for learning computer basics!

New Carpet!

For the past few weeks, I have been expecting new carpets.
About 5 days or so ago, I began to clean out my room. The first couple of days, I was basically pulling out all the 'stuff', as in, pulling out boxes, clearing out shelves, and basically clearing out everything except for the furniture.
On Sunday and Monday, Dad pulled apart one of the two bunk beds in my bedroom.
Tuesday came around, and I knew that it was time for me to get stuck into it, and get this job done.
I organized for my sister and me to move out my dressing table, which is the heaviest piece of furniture in my room. Then, my older sister's dressing table and our cupboard came out.
Last night, Dad gave me instructions on how to pull out the second bunk bed in my room. About an hour or so later, it was done. The carpet was lifted up. The room was ready for the next morning.
The people came to lay the carpet at around 10-ish (in the morning) today.
A couple of hours later, they were done. I walked down my room, to clean, comfortable carpet.
Because I was used to my old carpet, the new one felt strange at first, but I quickly got used to it.
The rest of today has been spent putting furniture back into my bedroom. First of all, I pulled a desk from our shed (I had one previously, but I grabbed a different and, in my opinion, a better one). After dusting it off, I moved it down my room. Then came my oldest sister's dressing table.
Now I needed help, I emptied out a wardrobe from my younger sisters' room, and my brother and oldest sister moved it into my room. Then my brother and I moved my cupboard back into my room, and, to my delight, it was a perfect fit!
Then, I was given the job of putting one of the bunk beds back together (the second wasn't going back in the room as it is no longer needed). This was quickly shown to be a tougher job than taking it apart. Two and a half to three hours after starting, the job was nearly done. Dad came down to check it, and he pushed it into it's rightful corner. Dad and my brother moved my dressing table back into my room, and all the furniture was in!
Now I just have the small job of sorting out all of the 'stuff' that was in my room... this should be fun!

BeFunky

Imgoen from Dancing With Dragonflies put up a link to a website called BeFunky. It is an awesome photo editing website :) .
Here's some pictures I did of a picture I took of a butterfly;

The Original Picture

Lomo Art 

Cartoon-ized

Underpainting

Cyanotype

Sketch

Impressionist 

Inkified

Line Artopia

Motion Colour

Pop Art

Stencilled

Colour Pinhole effect