Picture Saturday -- Stuff and things.

Yep. It's been a while.

Yes I know.

No, I don't really have an excuse. I mean, I have WiFi now, which is jolly. I have enough time, which is also jolly.

At the moment, I'm just a little bit brain dead when it comes to blogging ideas.

I need to start writing ideas down and putting them in a little clear mason jar, so that when I'm stumped I can stick my hand in and pull out a pre-thought-up post idea. Bountiful!

LET'S DO A LIST!!

A LIST OF HAPPY THINGS!

1.) I wore a cute sailor-y outfit today. I felt quite fabulous. (we won't mention how I may have splooshed wine on it, because that's not a happy thing.)

2.) My sister and her husband and their youngest came out for a weekend visit last week! (Hence no Picture Saturday.) We did lots of stuff and things, and it was really epic.

Yes, I make funny faces at babies. WHO DOESN'T?

3.) I figured out how to make the scanner scan stuff on high quality so my pictures aren't grainy. THIS MEANS I will not be using the camera anymore, and my drawings will look much more better on here. This delights me.

4.) I bought copic markers. *Flails*

Right, so happy thoughts done! (What a freaking relief.... can we get back to the sarcasm now? Thank you.)

Picture Saturday has... very little color. See I have my colored pencils on a shelf. And if I want to use them, I have to get up and get them and that's so much work. I will color more next week. And I will draw Luna the MLP next week as well.


1.) So first we have the bizarre doodles. Yes, I draw people kissing. What can I say? I'm in love with the idea of love.

2.) More bizarre doodles. But I finally drew a smiley person that I like!*

*You may applaud the smiley girl.


3.) HUG, because HUG.

4.) Le fairy, because fairies are always awesome, and I really like them.

5.) I had a really bad week, and this was the Postcommunion at Mass, and it just sort of made my day. And yes, I totally botched writing which Psalm it was, because I got ahead of myself and tried to write the wrong letter first. In pen. Go me.

 6.) My co-worker's birthday was last week, and a couple weeks ago, I found out that she really liked this song called Bus Stop by the Hollies. And since the lyrics were so freaking cute, I figured for her birthday I would draw her a picture illustrating it.

This was the rough draft.

7.) And this was the final version. I was very proud. AND she really liked it, so BONUS!

8.) The semi-self portrait that I did. Semi, because A.) I don't actually look like that. B.) My hair is not that fabulous. And C.) I'm a leftie.

 9.) The really terrible dual.

 10.) Jack posted the other day about how she looks when she rides her motorcycle, and her description was so cute... I had to draw it.

11.) Le scowly girl who did an admirable job depicting my feelings at the moment of her creation.

12.) Le mommy and her daughter, which was inspired by my sister and her kid. I shall probably color it in eventually.

13.) So I was listening to Taylor Swift....

14.) And that led me to my country music mood. And I just happened to listen to Play It Again by Luke Bryan, and that song is fabulous. (So yous all who don't like country *coughHannahcoughJesscough* can go somewhere else, because this is CUTE.)

15.) I bought Copic Markers.....

WELL THAT WAS A MISTAKE. Because see... as soon as I try new art supplies, I can't live without them. COPIC MARKERS ARE SEVEN BUCKS A POP, PEOPLE. Why!? So I only bought two. Yeah, I know what I'm saving up for....

GUYS IT'S ACTUALLY SKIN TONED. IT'S SKIN TONED! NOT PEACH! SKIIIIN.

Yep. My hobby is very expensive and it's sad. OH WELL! *Dances off to work for markers*

Goodbai. I shall see you in a few days.

Tra!

Day twenty-four

A song you want to play at your funeral. 

Are you for freaking real!?

To be honest, I've never really thought much about my funeral. It's not really something I go into. I'm more of a "When I die, I'm going to face God and be judged." which obviously.... takes priority.

But um, let's see.

I'm finking....

Allegri's Miserere is really rather beautiful. (You don't have to listen to it all, the thing last like ten minutes.)

English translation:

Have mercy upon me, O God, after Thy great goodness

According to the multitude of Thy mercies do away mine offences.

Wash me throughly from my wickedness: and cleanse me from my sin.

I mean, seriously. Wow. Doesn't that make your heart hurt a little? 

And now I'm going because I have stuff to do. 

Cheers!

Good Friday

On Holy Thursday, Our Lord was arrested.

On Good Friday, 2,000 years ago, He suffered and died for our sins.

It wasn't just the three hours during which He hung on the Cross. It was all day, from Pilot, to the scourging at the pillar, to the carrying of the cross, to His death. He suffered all day because of what we have done.

"For God so loved the world, as to give his only begotten Son; that whosoever believeth in him, may not perish, but may have life everlasting." John 3:16

God bless.

La Viva Crista Rey!

     Some things are so inspiring... And inspiring is really the only word for them.

     Andy Garcia, Eva Longoria, Mouricio Kuri, and Oscar Isaac star in For Greater Glory, which is the true story of the Cristeros in Mexico in the 1920s. It is so nice to finally see the Catholic Church portrayed accurately.
   
     The Mexican Government abruptly took the religious freedom away from the Catholics.

     You take away religious freedom, people are going to get really angry and rebellious! I actually found it rather disconcerting how much it paralleled, abstractly, the way things are going today. Eerily.
     Yes, it was rated R. I think that rating wasn't quite right though. PG-13, yes. R, not so much. THIS was an excellent site which explains precisely why I think that.
Most of the time when you see Catholics in movies they are generic, feel-good, and wishy-washy. While there were a few of these weak Catholics, they were not shown in a good light and were definitely looked down upon by their acquaintances. The relationship between the General of the Cristero Army and Jose Luis Sanchez del Rio was so neat, I loved them both so much. The martyrdom of Jose was absolutely, heart-wrenchingly, well done. I swear, I cried through the whole movie.

     While I don't recommend this to everyone, I think it is a very good film, and I loved how everyone had a moral arc.




     Therefore, my current heroes are Enrique Gorostieta Velarde...

And Jose Luis Sanchez del Rio.





I would recommend it if you can stand war violence. It was really good.
   

La Viva Crista Rey! Long live Christ the King!