Photography Challenge

I think it's time for some fun, what about you???

Welcome to my May 2013 Photo Challenge!!!



I know you. You know me. We all love pictures.

Still, it can be hard to snap a million pictures and keep up with a day by day challenge. So I have decided to do this a bit differently. Instead of making you take a picture a day, I am going to limit it to 6. I will announce when each picture is due. And will give you at least 5 days to find your best pose.

This is going to be so much fun!!!

So, the official rules to enter are pretty simple.

1. be a follower of My Unicorn Has Wings. {how cliché is that, eh? but hey, some things ought to be. ~_*}
2. post your photo's to your blog and make sure you identify that it is for the challenge!!
3. have tons and tons of fun
4. all photo's must be originals that YOU took FOR the challenge
5. please, make sure you send me your link to your blog and the picture so that I can MAKE sure and get them!!


Here are your catagories!!!!


1: a bridge. hopefully a cool one. if not, any ol' bridge will do.





 

{Don't shout at me because I stole all these example pictures from Pinterest}

2: something purple. because that is my favorite color. and I want to see lots of it. :D {hehe}



3: your pet {don't have one? borrow one.}

 

{Ok, I didn't steal this one. These ARE my dogs.}



4: you and a book. any way you want it. just a picture of you and a book {or two, or three, or 300.}

5: happiness in a jar. you know. could be anything. as long as it's in a jar. maybe chocolate. or jellybeans. or socks. whatever.

6: sunshine. be creative. portray it in a new light. {yes, that was a pun.} find something cool.


Pretty exciting stuff, right!? Can't wait to see who all enters and all your fantastic photo's. The challenge will begin with picture #1. on May 1st.


I am going to assemble a judging team before the contest is underway so it will not be *just* me choosing. I don't want to be biased. ;)


And YES, there will be a prize!!! I am considering this {you guys tell me if you like it}: I will draw one of the photo entries of the winner for the winner. Your pick. As long as it is doable.

{Samples of my drawings? Check here and here and here.}


:D


It's been a happy day. Actually, it's been a happy last three or for weeks. No. It's been a happy last year. Yes, almost literally starting January 1, 2013. It's just been fantastic. ~_*

 

 

 

 



blue sky, sunshine, and little flowers

Yesterday was gorgeous. 80 degrees. Luscious breeze. Perfect sky.

That's saying something. Cause today....it is rainy, bleary, and freezing. Literally.

So I decided to share some pictures with you guys from yesterday. Not today. Just two.

 

 

{I have the happiest dogs in creation.}

 

 

 

 

{Our driveway is pretty gorgeous. You can't really see it in this pic though...} :D

 

 

So tomorrow is our choir's music federation contest. It will be super fun. The choir director asked me to sing the high D for one of the songs, even though I am not in the choir this year, but am a teacher. I'm excited!!!

 

Oh. And I am working on something pretty exciting to launch on the blog. I'll tell you all about it soon, hopefully, once I figure out the loose wires. :D It should be pretty fun!! I'll give you a hint. It has to do with pictures.

 

Also, random announcement: I am on instagram!!! If any of you care to follow, I am at myunicornhaswings. :D

 

Sleep tight, my friends!

 



 



Life is Good

*Warning, picture overload.

It's been a busy last couple of weeks. I'm going to top them for you by way of photo's. Enjoy! :D

 

 

{She is not allowed past the line and it makes her sad when the rest of us are.}

 

 

 

 

{My sisters and I....}

 

 

 

 

{This is a present Brisa gave me on Wednesday. Little purple flowers. :D} 

 

 

 

 

 

{She's soooo cute!!!}

 

 

 

 

{Friday we played volleyball after choir and orchestra. This is my friend Lydia!!! She's so pretty!}

 

 

 

 

{Me, in the purple, Brisa, in the grey, Abrienne, in the yellow, Lydia next to her, Joe is the redhead, and Jessica's on the other side of the net.}

 

 

 

 

{Ahem....the epic moment of the day. I got flattened [yes, I am down there]... But we got the point, so it was so worth it! ;)}

 

 

 

 

{What is a picture without a little fun? ~_*}

 

 

 

 

 

{Saturday was one of my good friend's high school Graduation. I didn't get there till much later, after a crazy day of work, but arrived just on time to play volleyball! And a note. See that colorful bracelet on my elbow? I always wear that. Always.} [People: Brisa has the ball, Philip in yellow next to her. He is Lydia's brother. Micah jumping, me next to him, Liz in the blue, and Brenden in back.]

 

 

 

 

{We played speed v-ball. There were four teams. If you've ever played before, you know it is crazy, and awesome. This is my team. We were pretty awesome. We won. :D} [My team: Micah, me, Emily (Liz took her place for one play when she had to leave for a sec), Julia, in the middle, Brenden with the crazy shirt, and Heather, who you can't see in this pic.]

 

 

 

{Before we picked teams, just hanging out and talking. Heather is the other girl in purple next to Brenden. And that is my little brother running in front. He's rather cute. ;)}

 

 

 

 

{Micah and I trying to arrange the team. Again, that is Keaton. :D}

 

 

 

 

 

 

{This is my favorite picture!!! It is sooooo funny! Micah and Julia are hilarious! You can hardly see it in this because it is so small.... I just can't look at it without bursting out laughing.}

 

 

 

 

{Yesterday, I found this pretty thing out in the forest.}

 

 

 

 

{God gave this to me yesterday too, while I was working. It just reminds me of His goodness.}

 

 

I hope you are all praying for the Boston marathon runners right now. It just breaks my heart that someone would do such a thing to others. Can't put my feelings into words....Just terrible. But I know that God is in control and has a reason for everything under the sun. Somehow, somewhere. And that is such an encouraging thing to know.

 

Well, it is so long for now, everyone. Hope you enjoyed my last few days, and I will hopefully be getting a proper post up sometime here. :D

 

<3

 

CKC

 

 



 



I hate cake...

I know, I know. I am admitting a heinous crime. But, really, cake is disgusting. It sort of makes a lot of celebrating difficult. Like right now. Because there is much to celebrate!

First off, Treskie won the AWESOME giveaway!!! {Thank you Jonnah for writing that post for me! I feel so bad everyone that I had to ditch you. But frankly, not one of you compares with my bro, even though you are all awesome, so I spent my evening with him. ;)}

Second, life is good. Don't fool yourself into thinking otherwise. Forget the little problems and focus on what God is doing in your life. Because no matter how dull you make think it is, He is setting you up for something grand, if only you will open up and let yourself be used!

And, yeah, that was actually all I had to say. So eat ice cream! Cause it's fantabulous!

 

 

{story of my life}

 

 



 



And, now that the giveaway is over, I am thinking up a new way to liven up some of these Podunk posts. It will come to me, never fear. As usual, it will probably knock me to the ground and clobber me with it's brilliance. ~_*


Btw, today was beautiful. Simply. Beautiful.



And The Winner Is.....

So. First off I have to give you a big drawn out explanation as to why it is Jonnah sitting here typing and not Caitria. The reason for it being drawn out is so that you guys don't see the name in the window on the little bit of post it shows you on your Dashboard. :-) 

So, First off, This is Jonnah from Merrie Melodies. 

Yeah. Not my blog. I know. But Caitria is busy tonight because her brother is home for a little while from collage. She couldn't write tonight, but since we promised you the announcement today, I will try to get both posts done before midnight. :-) 

Now I want to apologize because it has been so long coming. So many things happened that kept us from seeing each other for three weeks instead of the usual every Friday. 

But yesterday we worked up this really cheesy/fun video of the two of us drawing the name from a hat. But I have spent the last hour trying to get it to work. Well. I wouldn't be explaining all this if I got it to work. Right? So, yeah. I couldn't make it work. 

Anyway. We talked and we (I) am going to announce it right here. 

So. This is drawn out enough. Right? Like, Can you see this on your little dashboard? 

So. I think you have all waited long enough. 

The winner if the Merrie Melodies and My Unicorn Has Wing 100th Post/1 Year Anniversary Hunger Games Giveaway is....

!!!!!TRESKIE!!!!! 

WhoooHooo! 

Congratulations Treskie!!! 

Comment and leave your email addy so I (Jonnah) can contact you for your mailing info. 

Congratulations again, and thanks to everyone for participating! <3 

~Jonnah for Caitria. :-D 

In which I say something somewhat important

So, I know Jonnah and I promised all of you the announcement of the giveaway today. And I promise you, we really did draw a name. But, we also created a video of us drawing that name...and we didn't have the plug to transfer that video to the computer. So it will hopefully be posted tomorrow evening, as long as Jonnah can email it to me sometime tomorrow morning. :D

All I will say is, CONGRATS to the very lucky winner.

And I can't wait to see your reaction.

And good luck to the rest of you! I am hosting another, smaller giveaway at my other blog, Stories in the Mind. Link is at the top of the blog. Go check it out! It's still pretty cool!

Cheers!

~_*



Picture Quotes

I haven't done one of these posts in a long while, so I suppose today is the right day. I need a good dose of encouragement right now. =)