Merry late Christmas!!! And List of Writing Projects

Merry (late) Christmas everyone! I hope you had a fun and jolly Christmas. What did all of you get? I got speakers, a phone case, chocolate, candy, a lapdesk (!!!) and a ....laptop(!!!!!!!!!!!!), the Chromebook, and I'm super stoked that I can finally blog on my own laptop and not the family desktop or my old one that takes F-O-R-E-V-E-R to load. And oh my gosh this random thought just entered my brain but am I the only one who thinks Cinna and Wolfgang are alike personality wise? Anyway  Merry Christmas and onto my Writing Projects List.

Active

Start Again

Six Girls; One Crown

MDBC Fanfic

Have a Merry Little Christmas

Dormant

Determined

Life in a Fairytale

Harry Potter Fanfic

My story Start Again is moving along great and I only started a couple days ago but I have a few chapters done and I know the basic plot. But I'm having trouble with my Six Girls; One Crown and that may become dormant but I'm hoping not since I love the characters in it and I love the storyline.  

Bridge to Terabithia

Ask me the two questions:
"What is your favorite movie?"
and
"What movie made you cry buckets?"

And the answer will be Bridge of Terabithia. That movie was the most touching, sad, and amazing movie I have seen in quite a while. I love Josh Hutcherson from the Hunger Games. Like a lot... So I was searching YouTube for movies he was in and I saw Bridge of Terabithia so I clicked on it and I am so glad I did. It was a movie made a while ago which starred Josh Hutcherson (as a kid) and AnnaSophia Robb. I'm so not going to tell you why it made me cry because that would ruin the whole movie but see it if you haven;t already! The full movie is available on youtube and you can watch it on a phone or laptop (some you can't watch on mobile devices).

Winterlicious Tag!!

 Thank you to my friend, Aly, who tagged me who has a private blog.

Favorite Winter Movie: The Santa Claus
Favorite Winter Holiday: Its literally a tie between New Years and Christmas. I just love New Years because all my family lives so so far away so we don't get together for the holiday so we get together with close friends (that doesn't even describe them, more like family that happened not to be related) and have a huge party and everyone's up until like 4:00. But, well you know Christmas is... Christmas and who doesn't LOVE Christmas.
Favorite Winter Drink: Peppermint Hot Chocolate
Favorite Winter Accessory: Sweaters
One thing on your Christmas List: New Laptop
One thing you regret: I forgot to give my wishlist to my parents and my mom said they already bought everything. I wonder what I'll get...
Five Pictures something to do with winter or random:

 

I officially tag...

Hermione

July

Seana

Hilda

Happiness

When you think about it you realize how lucky you are. How fortunate you are. Even on the days that nothing seems to be going right, if you think really hard you will find something, even if its a tiny something, that went right.

-There's a fire inside us all that just can't help but shine through.
 -There is always sun behind the clouds

Those are two of my favorite quotes of all time. I think they really explain life. I'm generally a very happy person. I'm cheerful and I love life but of course there are some days in my life that I just wish something would go right. But when I look back to those days I remember one little thing that made me happy and that little thing I grasped on to.

Tis Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas

Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas in my house. I've even taken up the spirit of decorating in my own room. I got out my Christmas pillows to prop on my bed and a wreath to hang on my door. I put away all my fake flowers and put lined up poinsettias by my window. And of course my room wouldn't be complete without my wonderful smelling winter candles. Merry Mistletoe, Candy Apple, and Twisted Peppermint, my personal favorite.

What are you all doing for the holiday season? Drinking mugs of hot cocoa or snuggling up with a good book? My favorite part of the holidays is definitely spending time with the ones I love. Unfortunately all our relatives live very far away so we normally just host a party and inviting our closest friends who almost are family.
I apologize for taking a blogging break, my homework has become a large portion of my time and sometimes that doesn't leave time for blogging but fortunately once I get my laptop for Christmas (its about time!) I'll be able to blog more. Happy Holidays!

Forever in our hearts

*I advise you not to read the following if you
a) did not read all the Harry Potter books
b) are not in the mood for crying  your heart out


3 years after the final battle between Harry and Lord Voldemort, Molly Weasley was visited in a dream by Lily Potter. Lily walked over to Molly, Fred at her side and murmured, "I will look after your Fred the way you have looked after my Harry all these years." Fred smiled at his mother and walked away with Lily.


"To live is the rarer thing in the world, most people just exist after all"

Now if you will excuse me I am going to go blow my nose.

This is kinda late but....

There's a contest giving away a signed copy of Home for the Holidays here

Wonderful... just greeeaaaat

I lost my notebooks and my flute (yeah i do play flute). I know it sounds stupid like "How could you lose a flute!" But I did and that just shows that I really am the master at losing things. I know  this is a pointless post but you only live once, ya know.

Thanksgiving :)

So here's what happened on my second favorite holiday (Christmas is my favorite but after writing this I'm suddenly thinking that Thanksgiving might be my favorite now...). We had a big party and I think there were around 13 adults and 9 kids, they were all younger than me but one of my best friends came also. It was a bunch of fun even though me and my best friend ended up babysitting most of them. I live right next to an elementary school, which is kind of annoying sometimes, so we all went to the school playground and we all ran around and played and stuff and after, we played some Wii, which was quite fun actually even though that might seem really lame plus it got everybody entertained, and finally after all that we sat down and stuffed our faces into our Thanksgiving feast. Oh, and after that we watched a movie and played cards.
      You know those friends that seem like your little brothers and sisters? Hopefully you know what I'm talking about but these two kids who came are like the little brother and little sister I never had. The boy is just a year younger than me and the girl is just starting 2nd grade, she's super adorable. Anyway my point is that yesterday was awesome and that it was even more amazing because it felt more like a family reunion and not a party. Hope you all had a very happy Turkey Day!
                                                           XOXO Lily

OMG I am freaking out right now!

Okay so I know its not that big of a deal... okay it might be... but Heather Vogel Frederick just briefly mentioned me on her blog!!!!! Oh my god I'm acting like a fifth grader, you know how they freak out at every little thing? Anywho not the point, *squeal* but I very happy and hyper right now and yeah... nothing more to say really but the proof is all here. Sorry if I sound like I'm bragging I just felt like I was going to burst so I had to say something.

Congrats and Inspirational Girl

Congrats to one of my favorite authors of all time, Heather Vogel Frederick, for her new book, Wish You Were Eyre to get featured in a blog called Kiss The Book and getting rated Essential which is the highest rating you can get in that blog.

Also I just wanted to mention this very inspirational and amazing youtuber named Talia Joy (username: TaliaJoy18) who is a 13 year old with nueroblastoma and pre-leukemia (two times of severe cancer) but is a bright and very good makeup artist and she is just so amazing and talented and positive of what she is going through and she has even been on The Ellen Show. Recently doctors have given her a choice, to get a surgery that she is unlikely to survive but is the only thing that will save her or live out the rest of her life (estimated up to one year). She chose to live out the rest of her life as long as she can and she is definitely in my prayers. Hopefully doctors will find a cure for her! Please check her out she is an incredible 13 year old girl who doesn't deserve what she is going through. Her slogan is that "Makeup is her wig" because as you can see in the pictures below she doesn't like wigs and she doesn't wear them so she says (and she explains this in one of the "Talia's Story" videos) that makeup is her wig because she says that when she's wearing makeup she feels she can embrace the features that she loves about herself and when people look at her she feels that they are looking at her makeup not her head.

                                                                      XOXO Lily

Just for Fun

First of all I am very very sorry but I will be skipping the Favorites post today because I just do not have time tonight. Second I will be doing a just for fun sort or writing contest. I guess you could call it a contest. The point would be to write a very quick 5-10 sentence (very) short story about anything you want. But it has a catch! I found this on the NanoWrimo homepage and I thought it was really fun so whats going to happen is that you will choose one of the "writing dares" to use in your short story. Here they are.

1. Have the problem in your story be that the character got very embarrassed by someone she/he thought was his/her friend
2.  Include a singing competition
3.  Have a non-important character say the most memorable quote you can think of
4.  Have a character reveal a terrifying secret
5. Have your main character go to a party she/he hates

These are all off or based off the one on the NanoWrimo page.

Pen Name

Okay so I'm not sure if all of you know this but Lily's not my real name, its my pen name like July's, Seana's and Hermione's. And lately a couple people have been emailing me, via lilykbartlett@gmail.com, asking whats my real name. First of all, I'm not just going to tell you my real name just like that. If my name was Claire or Natalie or something pretty common I probably would have blogged with my real name but my name's pretty... unusual unique so yeah. And second of all my real name is not that hard to figure out. I mean I tweet with my real name and I think I followed some of you. So for those of you asking please do not waste your time emailing me because I won't just tell you.
 XOXO, Lily

 

So we went to beautiful Sedona, Arizona which is very close to Flagstaff, via picture,  and I'm really sorry I didn't upload them until now but I had a few other videos and pictures for my other blog, The Pen and the Paintbrush which me and Hermione both share, so that's why. I hope you enjoy these pictures and have a wonderful night.

Poll Results and Little Things

First off, sorry I haven't posted in a while but you now with Hurricane Sandy and the power going out and school's being closed and school's being opened again and then extra school work and everything. Okay so a while ago I put up a poll to see if you all would want to participate in either
1) Chat room
2) Sentence Story
3) Virtual Book Club
4) Party

So in fourth place with an amazing total of zero votes is..... Party!(Didn't really know how I was really going to do that anyways...)
And tied for second place with one vote is the Sentence Story and Chat Room and that leaves the Virtual Book Club with three votes. Unfortunately not that many people voted but that's okay so if you would like to participate in a virtual book club please comment below.
    I've gotten a lot of questions on how this would work so I'll quickly explain it. So what would happen is that I will set up a google document which is basically a page, I guess, which anyone can edit/type on and it's pretty much like a chat room. Then we would all choose a book and we would read it (obviously) and then after we would just talk about it and do other fun stuff.
You will be able to access the google document here.


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note: i have decided to alternate between "little things" and "favorites" each week but this week i will do both

>>>little things<<<
school being off/watching really fun diy videos on youtube/making diy things/friend coming over/scoring well on my math test/finally being able to post/some down time/



>>>favorites<<<
music

 red-taylor swift
 wastin' all my time-grace jeanette
 begin again-taylor swift

books
*11 birthdays-wendy mass
13 gifts-wendy mass
matched-ally condie
crossed-ally condie

blog posts
favorites ll v. 3
*daily makeup routine
taylor swift's new album, and a book review 



 * thanks so much to destiny skye for suggesting that book to me!

 * for that video, the reason i really like it is because at the end she explains why she thinks its good for christians to wear makeup and its one of the most well thought out things i've heard in a long time.

Do y'all want...

Which of the following would you all want/want to be a part of?

-Story which we all write together sorta like a sentence story
-virtual book club where we read a book and talk about it (I think this would be really fun!)
-chat room
-virtual party, like its pretty much a chat room but it has a theme

Unable to Post and Contest

Since Lily couldn't be here today do to the hurricane she has left a message which is set to play at this time.

Hi its Lily and the power just went off in my house so I can't post! I wrote this when I still had power and saved it so my unicorn could post it for me. Anyway I am announcing a contest. First one in Lily's Notebook history! I will award points for the following
1.) Getting me a follower  (10 points)
2.) Making me a blog button    (5 points)
3.) Anything else that might spread the word about my blog  (depending on what it is 4-10 points)
4.) Writing a short fantasy story like two or three pages     (7 points)

The person with the most points by November 10th wins!

And the prize....
A hug!!!!!
Oh yeah and if you want, a guest post and a very creative banner about your blog (sorta like a blog button except with a link you know)

Check out my horsey!

Isn't he awesome!

This is probably the lamest most random blog post I have ever done but whatevs

Hurricane Sandy

So Hurricane Sandy is hitting around where I live and my school is closed for Monday and Tuesday. They say Hurricane Sandy will be even bigger than Katrina so yeah. Its like every year at the beginning of the year there's a hurricane. Last year the first day of school was off because of Irene and now Sandy.

mean people

I despise bullies. They are mean people who do not have lives. I'm sorry this is a rant but when your Tech. Ed partner is just so.... mean and just downright rude its hard to keep it bottled in. Is she trying to make me feel bad? Do bullies get joy from making others feel bad? I don't know. I really don't know.

So yeah...

First off I gotta say, I am so so sorry for not posting in so long but I couldn't post on my phone in Arizona for some weird reason and that was the only internet source I had out there and I was swamped with make-up homework last night plus tomorrow I have two tests to makeup. The two days I'm gone we just happen to have like 5 assessments!Anywho I have to skip the Little Things post this week since obviously it is Wednesday and yeah.
I will be soon to post my pictures from Arizona very very soon.
And......

I GOT WISH YOU WERE EYRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Whoo! I got a bit excited there.....

And just to prove I am the world's biggest MDBC fan...
1.) I bought in on my kindle the second it was available to buy
2.) We drove to Barnes and Noble the morning it came out and purchased it
3.) I finished it already
4.) I'm giddy with excitement
5.) I'm running out of things so I'm just writing randomly to make me seem like a bigger fan
6.) ......

Oh and I have official bragging rights to being the fastest reader ever since I bought Wish You Were Eyre on the 23rd and finished on the 23rd (at around midnight..... but we can forget about that detail) LOL JK

Class dismissed, everyone but you Hermione, stay after class so we can have a little chat about our other blog. Look away now everyone, get to lunch!

Lily to Hermione: What if on the same blog post we each do a review of Wish You Were Eyre and then we write our opinions about eachother's opinions after?

Vacation!~!~!

So I'm going to Arizona and that is W-A-Y across the country from the state I live in, its in the country too, tomorrow since I already have off from school tomorrow I'm getting up at 3 in the morning tomorrow, flying to Arizona and coming back on Monday at like midnight so I get to take Tuesday off! Yay! So I might not have time to post but I will be sure to post pictures when I get back so yeah.... Love ya all and I will hopefully talk to you guys later this weekend.

Liebster Blog Award

 Okay so Seana said anyone reading that last sentence had to do this award s0.... here it is, I guess. I don't know what else to say so I'm gonna just go on with the award now.


Rules!

1. You must post eleven facts about yourself.

2. You must also answer the eleven questions the awarder has given you and make up eleven questions for your awardees to answer in turn.

3. Tag eleven fellow bloggers

4. Notify them that you've awarded them

5. No tagging back

6. And the eleven blogs you tag must have less than 200 followers.

1. I dance, ice skate and horseback ride

2. I have finished 4 short stories, over 20 poems and I currently have about 40 awesome ideas that I can't seem to put down on paper.

3. I love to paint my nails, sometimes all different colors!

4. I am the absolute WORST public speaker EVER

5. I LOVE to read and my favorite books (in order) are Harry Potter, Princess Diaries Series, The Mother Daughter Book Club, and Warriors.

6. I hate math which is funny since my dad used to be a math teacher

7. I love glitter and sparkles and all things pink and anything that a unicorn could throw up.

 8. I have a baby sister who is 2 years old!

9. I tend to forget to write in my journal

10.I have a very amazing story to share but i can't today cause I'm running out of time on the computer, I have to study for math. UGH!

11. I take all my pics on my phone



1. Who is your favorite book character and why? Luna Lovegood from Harry Potter because she's so quirky and fun and people would laugh at me if I say she's my role model but she is cause who else doesn't care at all what other people think of them?

2. What celebrity do you think you're most like? Emma Watson, I'm not even explaining why plus the question doesn't ask!
3. Have you ever wondered what a rainbow would taste like? Yes yes I have
4. When asked to do something, what is your go-to best excuse?  I don't have one I'm more of a go with the flow kinda person
5. If I gave you a present, what do you suppose it would be? An itunes girt card
6. Would you rather eat dirt or mud? neither but if I had to choose dirt
7. What is your dream? To publish books and be as successful as JK Rowling probs not gonna happen though! LOL
8. If someone walked up to you and said they'd give you a million dollars if you would wear a pink tutu on your head, flap your arms like a bird, and sing an opera song by heart, would you do it?
of course!
9. How would you explain to an alien the art of eating a cookie? I wouldn't
10. Why do you suppose I'm not doing an eleventh question?Because you can't think of one

Okay the questions I'm thinking of

If you could go in any book and be friends with the characters which book would it be:
What do you think of Harry Potter?:
If you could be a character for a day who would it be:
If you had to sing on national tv with just a bikini  in the middle of winter to get a million dollars would you?:
What is your favorite color and why:
Favorite season and why:
Do you have a journal or diary of any kind?:
Do you like to write poetry:
What celebrity is your role model:
What celebrity do you think is the cutest/prettiest:
Are you a city girl or country girl:

Tagging...
Hermione
Emma (Bookworm/Future Author)
July
Hilda
Seana
Hannah
Oh well thats all I can think of!

Pictures and Outfit

 

Onto the outfit. Now as you can see I was too lazy to list all the prices so I just photo copied them. But you should know that Luna Lovegood is one of my favorite, heck she's my most favorite, character in Harry Potter so yeah...


 I love, love, love, love, love (okay you get the point), love, love, love Evanna Lynch so much! *Squeal!*