Blogging Hiatus

After giving this a lot of thought, I've decided to go on a blogging hiatus, until around the New Year. I'm sure you've noticed my posts dwindling lately... I'm afraid I've never been very good at blogging, and recently I haven't had the time to give it my fullest attention. So, until I do have the time to make that happen, I'm afraid I will have to say goodbye. You all have been wonderful readers, and I'm thankful for every one of you. I know when I start posting again in a few months, you'll be there to back me up. Thanks for all the support!

Until we meet again, 

~The Scribbler in the Attic

Infinity Dreams Award

Good morning, everyone! I've been awarded by Megan over at Montana Farm Girl for the Infinity Dreams award. Thanks, Megan!


Rules:

Thank and link to the blogger who tagged you

Answer the 11 questions

Nominate several bloggers and ask them 11 questions

Megan's questions:

- Favorite summer activity? 
Hm... I'd have to say soccer or Frisbee or swimming. Don't make me narrow it down more than that. ;)

- What is your favorite activity / sport for any time of the year?
Haha, soccer and Frisbee again. I love sports in general.

- How many animals do you own?
Our family owns two dogs, a cow and soon some puppies (one of our dogs is pregnant :D .)

- How many siblings do you have?
Five. Two brothers and three sisters.

- What is your favorite color?
Oh dear. I guess I'm not very decisive today, because I'd have to say blue, green or black. And I really love burgundy/coffee hues. I hate to just choose one.

- What is your favorite kind of animal?
Panda bear. Always has been. :) I love large cats like panthers and lynx's, too, though. 

- Favorite season?
Autumn.

- Favorite books?
That's a very hard question to answer! I'd have to say The Ascendance Trilogy (It. Was. Amazing.), Percy Jackson and the Olympians, the Fablehaven books, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Swamp Rat, and Around the World in Eighty Days. 

- Favorite movies?
Another hard one! Let's see... The Return of the King, the Bourne movies, Pirates of the Caribbean, any Hitchcock film, The Proposal, and Tv shows like Psych, Merlin, Heroes and Monk.

- What do you do in your free time?
Read, write, make music videos, create disasters, play pranks, and go on ATV rides. I also watch a lot of movies. :)

- What is your dream career?
Dream career is being a published writer. It's probably been that since I was ten or so. ;D

Alright, I nominate:
Johanna at Writers Who Need To Talk To Other Writers
Elsie at Keep Calm and Beethoven On
Heather at Sometimes I'm a Story


And here are my questions:

-What is the busiest day of your life that you can remember?
-Where is the farthest you have ever been from home?
-Do you have a dream so big you might call it an "Infinity Dream"?
-Are you a polka-dots or stripes kind of person?
-If you could change your entire name, what name would you choose?
-What is the closest you have ever come to a near-death experience?
-What is your favorite song?
-What is your favorite food?
-How long can you hold your breath?
-If you could, would your rather be an Olympic swimmer or gymnast?
-What is your dream vacation?

Well, thank for reading, y'all! Alons-y!
~Willa

In Sunset Red || Selfie Series

I picked a good night to take some pictures. The sunset was simply breathtaking in our little neck of the woods, and I was blessed enough to capture a small portion of it on camera. Dusk had begun falling when I started taking these... after I accidentally forgot to take them earlier in the day. :-/

(No, I am not enthralled with that tree branch, whatever it may look like. :P)

Yeah, so, just as I got started setting up to take these, our neighbor, who waters our cows for us, drove up this back road on our property and passed me... Yeah. Taking selfies by yourself, with a tripod, out in the middle of the woods is more awkward than most people would think...

Y'all ready for spring yet? 
~The Scribbler in the Attic

Photography Friday // 2014 Favorites

As a final ado to this incredible year, 2014, I've put together my favorite pictures. Hope you guys enjoy! And Happy New Year!

"Hope smiles form the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.'" 

~Alfred Lord Tennyson

This is the last time I'll be posting in 2014. A very fond goodbye to all of you until the New Year. :)
~The Scribbler in the Attic

Monday Musings \\ Awkward & Awesome

I don't usually (never, actually) post Awkward&Awesomes, but apparently I had a very awkward week (okay, it was awesome too), and thought it might make a good post.

Yeah... I'm going to regret this. :P

Awkward:

• Running all the way down to your guest house in the your beat up truck to use the bathroom there, because at your own house your little brother is throwing up in the one and your sister is doing a health cleanse in the other.

• Going to a new gyro restaurant and not understanding the menu, so you just order soda. Then you see what your family got to eat and decide that's what you want, so you have to go and order again, and the employees there are literally hiding their smiles of amusement because you were stressing out so bad over it, and then you're mortified the rest of the meal.

• An entire lunch conversation centered around your dad guessing what obscure decoration your sister bought at Michaels, and him actually getting it right. (It was a giant Kelly-green clothespin.)

• Taking outfit pictures of your sister outside a cigar shop.

• Having to write an introductory speech for your speech class and realizing 70% of your life is spent reading books and watching movies and then geeking out about them.

• Writing an email chain back-and-forth in all caps and it feels like someone's been screaming in your ears for hours, so you walk around deaf the rest of the day for no good reason whatsoever.

• When your hair is so long that when you try to flip it over your shoulder at the dinner table, it falls in your food.

• Your family thinking you're goth when you wear a black T-shirts two days in a row.

• Your family buying a sauna and transporting it to your house via mattresses, quilts and a pig trailer behind your big white passenger van.

Awesome:

• This exchange at breakfast:

Emma: "Daniel (our neighbor) didn't get my pun yesterday about him spraying me with the bottle so often putting a damper on our friendship."
Daddy: "He totally mist that pun."
Emma: "Haha, yeah. And then I told him it was okay, it cooled things off.  And he said, 'Well, that's awkward.' And I'm like, 'Dude, I'm trying to make a pun here.'"
Me: "He should have just gone with the flow."
Daddy: "Stream of consciousness."
Me: "You were in too deep."
Emma (laughing hard): "This is why I love you guys."

• Getting a booth at a local fair to sell my jewelry.

• The first of the leaves turning red.

• Finishing writing the first half of your book... (!)

• Spotify. I did not know the extent of music streaming awesomeness until I got it.

• Starting school and not falling behind within in the first week. And not hating it. If it weren't for all the other stuff I have to get done in a very short amount of time, I would actually be enjoying it. My mom let me make my own schedule this year, and so now I get an hour of reading and an hour writing a day. :D :D :D

• Leather jackets. ATV's. Wide open fields. Good friends. And chicken-pot-pie.

What was awesome/awkward about your week? Seriously share, I love hearing from you guys! :)

Word,
~The Scribbler in the Attic

Photography Friday // Selfie Series - Music Video

I thought I'd do something a little different this week and post a selfie "video".
A very dear friend of mine had been laid up sick for weeks, so I bought the most sappy friendship song I could find on iTunes, ran around for about three days filming myself being stupid, and mashed it all together to make the video now before you.
Since almost all of it I filmed myself, with the exception of two scenes which my family filmed for me, I guess this sort of counts as a selfie, right?

And yes, I know I'm lip-sinking to a guy's voice.
An no, I have no idea how to play the guitar.
:) :P ;D

And now some actual selfies:

Au revoir!
~The Scribbler in the Attic

Photography Friday \\ Selfie Series - Randomosity

So, for the entire month of August, my friend Andrea and I decided we weren't going to wear any make-up. 

We weren't going on some "skin-purge" or giving something up like at Lent. We just liked the idea of taking off the mask that so many people hide behind and showing ourselves as well as the rest of the world that we're comfortable and happy with who we are, with or without mascara or eyeliner or any of the other beauty "enhancing" things the world pushes on us.

I have to say it's been a really wonderful month. Empowering and humbling at the same time. I'm now more confident than ever with myself, just for the reason that I stopped spending time worrying about what other people were going to think about my face, and instead resting in the knowledge that God created beautiful in HIS sight, and the rest of the world doesn't matter.

I have acne. I have chicken-pox scars. I have braces and big, blue circles under my eyes. But I'm finding myself no longer caring about that stuff. God likes me and I like me. :) 

So, yes, in all these pictures for the last month, I haven't had much make-up on. Hope you like these new ones. They'll be the last "make-up-less" selfies, because next Friday will be September 5th! 

"I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it."

~Edgar Allen Poe

(I think that's my new favorite quote),

~The Scribbler in the Attic

Writer's Wednesday || Here's To Everything With You

This is a poem I wrote as a sort of tribute to my family. Hope you like it!

Here's To Everything With You

I’ve lived a life of one mess after another

And I always thought, at least we’re together

We may get nothing done day by day

But I would never trade this away

So, here’s to lazy nights and fireflies

Practical jokes by candlelight

All those times we danced

While dirty dishes waited for us inside

Here’s to fireworks and flooding creeks

Here’s to the life God’s given me

Here’s to all those times we loved and laughed and cried

Then fallen asleep beneath starlight

Here’s to when we didn’t know if we could make it through

Here’s to having the time of my life

Doing nothing, and everything, with you

Sometimes it seems as if nothing gets done

This life I’m leading like a hopeless cause

But though it feels painful in the whole run

Each and every one of these battles Christ’s won.

So, here’s to getting nothing really done

But making a difference in the long run

To all those times we sang

While watching the sinking sun

Here’s to truck beds and starry skies

Here’s to the bacon God provides

Here’s to all those times we loved those that left

To all the hard goodbyes

Here’s to when we didn’t know if we could make it through

Here’s to having the time of my life

Doing nothing, and everything, with you

~The Scribbler in the Attic

Photography Friday // Book Shop Hopping

For my sixteenth birthday my sister Emma, my friend Mariah and my mother and I went book shop hopping!
To say the least, it. was. totally. awesome. :D We went around all the small bookstores in our area and did nothing but eat and shop for books all day. I couldn't have asked for a better sweet sixteen.

We ate lunch at Chipotle and then headed over to a bookshop just across the street.

Mariah asked the employee if she could play the piano, and treated us all to the Pirates of the Carribean movie soundtrack. :D

Then we got ice cream... What's a book-shop-hopping-day without that?

Then we went to Books-a-Million and goofed off...

AND I FOUND TARDIS EARRINGS! COMMENT IF YOU'RE A WHOVIAN AND GIVE ME A e-HIGH FIVE!

Our last stop was at McKay's. A seriously awesome place. 

Emma and Mariah in the glass elevator... They were enjoying themselves. :)

"Life is like a book; it will only start to make sense the further you get into it." 

~ (A bookmark we saw at Books-a-Million)

Officially a sixteen-year-old,
~The Scribbler in the Attic