Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Happy (almost) Thanksgiving!

Hello, friends. It's been a long couple months, hasn't it? 

I'm currently supposed to be writing an essay for school, but I decided to spend some quality time procrastinating and instead write a blog post. Smart, right? 

I just wanted to say that although I've been much less active on my AG accounts than I've wanted to, I want to get back into uploading (hopefully regularly; if not, then at least uploading in general). I miss making videos! I could write a 20-page long rant about my extreme annoyance with school for essentially taking over all (yes, all) my free time, but I won't. I think we all get the message. 

In other news (you know, aside from the whole I've-tried-to-film-but-haven't-been-able-to-finish-anything story), Thanksgiving is only two days away! I'm psyched, to say the least. I'll be spending the day with my family and some family friends, and it'll be amazing to just relax for a couple days and enjoy life for what it is…which brings me to another point.

I walked around my neighborhood a couple of days ago and looked at all the pretty trees. It's that incredible time of year when the leaves are a wonderful scarlet red but are still perfectly intact on the branches—so gorgeous. My plan is to get some nice photographs of them within the next couple of days, before they fall (which might have happened today, since we had a rainstorm).

Who knows, maybe I'll actually be productive this break and film/edit some stuff for you guys! I really want to. Really, really want to.

Friday, October 23, 2015

I'm alive!

Believe it or not, I'm still here! I've been constantly thinking about filming and editing, yet I haven't actually had the time to do so in a while. And by "a while," I mean over two months. Kind of crazy, right?

Don't worry, though. Despite my disappearance, I'm trying (desperately) to find the time to film. If I accomplish one thing this month, it'll be the creation of my Halloween video. Ever since I started my channel, I've had a dream of one day making an exciting, suspenseful Dolloween video. And that dream isn't going away.

In other news, I noticed that I recently got 5,000 subscribers on YouTube and 10,000 followers on Instagram. Honestly, that's insane! Thank you all so much. <3

Thursday, August 13, 2015

HELLO AGAIN

Well. Let's just say it's been a while. A long while.

For those of you who actually read this blog, you guys are awesome, loyal, cool people! Much love for all of you <3

I kind of forgot that I had this thing for the past year and never ended up writing anything on it. Whoops. I hope to write more consistently on here this coming school year, just to keep you guys up to date on big events in my life that may or may not have anything to do with my YouTube/Instagram/other sparkfireproductions stuff. ;)

To say the least, this past year has been a bit crazy. School was okay—not too bad, but still pretty bad. I'm always really busy during the school year with homework and studying and yearbook and dance and other extracurriculars, so I always seem to have a tough time actually making videos, at least during the first semester. By the time January comes along, I tend to have a better hold on everything. Hopefully it'll be the same (or even better) this year.

My summer was also pretty busy—busier than normal, anyway. I usually have at least a month of free time, where I literally don't have to do anything, where I can just sit on my butt for 30 days of my life without accomplishing a single thing (or of course I could make some videos). Well, not this year. We had a guest staying at our house for two-and-a-half weeks in June, before which I was studying for the chem SAT (fun stuff, man). And two days after she left, what did my family do?

Well, we left for Europe, of course. We visited Ireland for a week, then went to Belgium to visit family and celebrate my oldest cousin's wedding. And when the wedding was over, I went with a bunch of family members to Amsterdam. It was a blast, but a busy blast.

Three days after I got home, I attended yearbook camp for my school for a week. Every year, my school's yearbook editors go to this camp to meet with yearbook staff from other schools and to come up with our plan for the next year's book. There's a competition to see which school has the best plan, and this year, my school won first place, which was absolutely crazy, especially since we had never won before.

And now I'm here, trying to enjoy the last few days of summer before it ends and I go back to school. Not excited about that. Really not excited about that.

These last few days (despite the fact that I have umpteen thousand summer assignments to worry about), I've been working on a stopmotion for you guys. I know Infinite's supposed to be going on too, but don't worry, I'm going to continue the series as soon as I'm done with this video. I never meant for it to be very long, but so far it's actually 8 minutes! I can't wait to get it up for you guys!