International BFF's

Hey guys! It's Noelle, who is currently reeeeally tired.  However, I wanted to get this post out tonight because TOMORROW (yup, I'm posting again in like, less than 12 hours) I'm going to be posting something reeeeally special.  It's a surprise, so you'll have to wait (all of 12 hours) and see! However, right now, I'm just talking poetry.  Specifically...rage poetry  Read all the way to the end, because I have some news to tell you guys about as well!  :) A Rage Poem By a girl who undoubtedly will learn better one day I can’t sleep I’m spend days in this dream like state Where the line between Reality and stupid sentimentality Are blurred

Hey y'all! It's Noelle, back again with another fascinating post.  (Note that sarcasm on 'fascinating'.  Didn't hear it?  Better get your ears checked because it was loud as heck). Now, I know my posts are usually pretty lighthearted or...uh...bloodthirsty.... ( *sweats nervously* ) but today is going to be a but more personal and emotional that normal.  However!  The title was not clickbate!  There will be funny comics at the end to cheer you up, I promise.  So let's get started and get the emotional crud out of the way. A lot of people don't know about this, because I never talk about it or write about it, but it's something I want to say.  I'm... Pretty much a mess. "Haha aren't we all," I hear you muttering and you're probably right.  We all have our own personal struggles and everybody has demons that they must wrestle into submission every day.  For me, it's my own self worth and identity as a person, as a daughter of Go...

Hey everybody! It's Noelle, and I'm actually here to talk about a DIY-ish sort of thing that I did recently - an "I'm Bored" Jar.  Now, if you're on Pinterest, I pretty much 100% garantee that you've seen these.  If you haven't, they're basically jars filled with little prompts for activities.  They're usually aimed at kids, so that exhausted mothers can send children away with a tired, "Look in the jar", but since I've found I'm getting bored throughout the summer days, I decided to make one for myself :) Now, like I said, these are normally aimed for children.  And the other boredom busters I found were for people who had free time, money, and most importantly, a car - things I do not possess, my friends.  So a lot of the activities I came up with were ones that I thought, "Huh, that'd be fun to do."  Here's my list: Write a poem  (may I suggest this book to give you some inspiration ;) Make a mu...

Hello! KitKat the demon cat has this new food and she's not only refusing to eat it but taking it out on us in the form of guilt-inducing, big-eyed stares and knocking anything and everything off of tables and bookshelves. In other news, Wonder Woman came out! Yup, hello, it's Noelle, and before you even start, I know that most of my nit picking is usually reserved for Marvel and whatever Chris they crank out of that secret, super-hero-actor farm they have hidden away.  BUT NOPE.  I decided to go see Wonder Woman, mostly because Mom wanted to see it and I like giving movies (and their companies) second chances. *awkward silence as I look passive agressively at Man of Steel* Anywho, I actually legitimately liked this movie.  So I thought I'd break it down for you in my NOT spoiler-free review.  Yeah, if you want to be spoiler free...this is not the place to be.  Sowwy.  ONWARDS, BRETHERN!! I did some art work of Wonder Woman the day after see...

Hi everybody! It’s your favorite crazy sleepy summer girl blogger!  And by ‘summer girl’ I mean I’m planning on staying inside all summer and not get a tan.  Which is what this post is about:  my plans for the summer!  Because I do have a few, and a couple goals to boot! #1:  Golf I  don’t know if I ever talked about this, but I started golf last fall when my parents said, “you need to do sports.  YOU NEED TO SPORT.  YOU IZ A LAZY” (or something like that) and I compromised with them by doing golf...because, confession time, here’s what I got:  my friends will tell you that I’m not athletic.  So when given the chance to do a sport without having to actually sport, I said yes right away. I actually really enjoy golf, and have fun learning to be better at it, so this summer I’m going to be taking golf classes three times a week (once at the course I learned to golf at originally and twice on base).  I’m going to try to im...

hi! Three guesses who's writing this, since we no long put our names in the titles.  ...haha no it's still theChalkGirl.  (hello?  Anybody?  ....welp) So I wish I could say this is a Dear Adults post, or something fabulous and similar to such, but...it's not.  HOWEVER Dear Adults is the main reason I'm posting, and I have exactly fourteen minutes to write this before 'electronic curfew' begins so...let's dive in, shall we?  Good. Alright, let's get the actual adverstising out of the way first (I'm sorry.  But hey, now you can stalk me on MULTIPLE platforms!) My Google+ page  (I post sketches, writing prompts & tips, chalk art, and monthly contests!) My Wattpad account (I'm posting my book series RMS on there bit by bit, we're about 1/2 through the first.  You'll like it, so go check it out) My YouTube channel (will become important later in this blog post) My other blog  (cute comics about wimpy mythical creatures) My o...

Hey guys! So I had a super cool post planned out for this week, filled with lots of doodles and stuff about my trip, since it was jammed pack.  Unfortunately, the week after my trip (a.k.a. last week) left me feeling like this: So now I'm writing this post instead. (yes, that drawing is mine.  Such artistic talent.  Much wow.) Anyway, I've been really busy and this week has been super tiring, so I'm putting off my 'about-my-trip' post for a bit.  Hope you don't mind, and until next time...stay awesome!

Hi y'all! You probably read the title and thought, "Noelle what are you going to beat up an artist?  Did I accidentally walk in on a secret artist fight club?  Is this even the right blog??"  Okay, maybe not those  exact  words, and I WILL explain the title...as some point.  Maybe. Anywho, I have a lot planned for today, so might as well go ahead and get started.  This is sort of a Dear Adults, though not really.  It's also kickstarting a series of blog posts I hope will actually help people, including artist basics, tutorials, etc.  Idk how many there will be or how much I'll cover, but throw all that aside for now, because currently, I'm just going to dispel a myth about artists (ah, my favorite thing to do when I'm in a firey mood) and also, if you stick around to the end of this post, I'm going to be talking about my new writing project! Okay, so let's get started.  The victim of my sarcastic quips today is this phrase, often co...

Hi guys! For those of you who don't know, I attend an online academy that fondly refers to our exam week as "Mostly Dead but not All Dead Week" (better known as Dead Week).  During this lovely week, there are no classes, only exams and essays and a swamping sea of stress, usually on late Thursday-all day Friday as you realize quite how much school work you put off literally to the last second.  *sigh* Anyway, but beyond my once-impending doom, I've also been busy creativity wise, doing pretty much everything...except RMS.  Also, a fond note to all who are nagging me about that:  Stop.  I hear you, and I'm still working on it in my head, and having felt the inspiration needed to keep working on it. Luckily, this is me, Noelle, that we're talking about, the girl with a thousand hobbies, so I haven't been idle.  (Mom in the other room: HAH!)  ...thanks.  Anyway, as most of you know I got Adobe Creative Cloud for Christmas, which is like all the ...

Hello, hello, hello! How's your day been? I hope it's been alright, 'cus over here we've been snowed in. I hate the snow, so I've been huddled up watching OUAT and Stranger Things. And eating tubs of ice cream...all in all, a very lazy day. So recently, I got a graphic design tablet. Normally I used my kindle to draw, but using a graphic tablet is so much easier, Y'all have no idea. It's beauty. Noelle also has a tablet, but she uses Adobe to paint. I use Paint Tool SAI, which is complicated and annoying but also very fun when I'm actually trying. So, today, for a lazy post, I thought I would just pop in and show off some of my recent art pieces. *Makes a Will Smith pose* TADA! This was actually my first piece on SAI! :D

Prepare for rambling. I am a stubborn person who refuses to give up something unless it's absolutely 100% necessary and I'm crumbling from stress.  I am a stubborn person who is more willing to drop social life and going out with my friends if it means I can get a few more hours of work in.  I am a stubborn person  who hates abandoning anything, especially something that's precious and important to me. And now that I've scared the heck out of you, relax.  I'm not abandoning IBFs, lol, never.  I am, however, going to slow down a bit and take a break, because I've been a little uptight and there's no reason for me to be!  Yeah, I love blogging, but if I have nothing to blog, there's no point in trying to force creativity out of myself. Anyway, what have I been up to lately? Mostly lazing around the house and doing nothing important, except playing around with my new drawing programs and writing.  LOTS of writing. *RMS fans grumbling in the dist...

Hi y'all! Side note to the people who don't like reading my super long, boring text posts: there'll be an art tutorial (sorta) at the end of the post, so there.  Have some fun artsy content. Okay, intro, right.  Um, hi!  Today I'm going to be doing a list/description of myself, because...well, when I was writing last Saturday's post , which was also super long and boring, I realized that a lot of times the way I am online doesn't really match up with who I am in person.  Not to the extreme that I lie or fabricate stuff to sound cooler, but just I don't say everything.  Which is okay! But today I thought I'd do a list called "Things I Don't Really Talk About", but since I know me and know that I'll wander off on tangents, I'm just calling it "This is Me", and I think I'll probably link it to my profile on the Authors page . Sooo...hi!

Hi everybody! I've got a lot of material to cover in one blog post, because I'm a terrible procrastinator who puts off everything from essays that could literally cause me to fail my entire course and potentially not allow me into college to blog posts that I enjoy and love to create, and I've been putting off writing posts that actually talk about stuff I'm interested in and just...yeah.  I don't even need an intro, that was an intro all in one go. Okay, so. Update On Life: I used to do all kinds of interesting things, like, I dunno, What My Life Is Like posts and just interesting little tidbits like that (that's literally just a random link to my old blog)  I'd say that changed when International BFFs started up, because more people were viewing it and it wasn't exactly a personal blog anymore.  Not that anybody would be mad at me for doing more personal posts, and I don't really feel the need to do personal posts anymore, but idk.  Sometim...

Hey, nerds. How was your Halloween? Good? Mine was great. I went out with a group o friends and we walked all over the entire base. All the way from the gate to our houses, which is about two miles. Sadly, I don't have any pictures......guess that's the great thing about not having a phone, right? Buuuuuuuuuuut, guess what holiday is coming up? And nah, it ain't Thanksgiving......IT'S CHRISTMAS!!!!!!! (for all your fandom needs: http://www.redbubble.com/ ) Annnnyywhoooooooooo, since Christmas is coming up, I'M DOING DRAWINGS!!!! YES! ART! YAY!!!! But seriously, I am! I'll be doing sketches (full color.....possibly....) for the great price of..........FREE! No cost, dudes! And, if you haven't seen my art before, here's two examples: My French Child, Lafayette, is a half-body rough sketch AND THIS IS MARTIN! He's an OC of mine. And he's a full-color headshot  (though I probably won't be doing any of this kinda stuf...

Hi readers from the interwebs! I'm so excited for Halloween! There will be a post next week of my night of fun, but since I can't do that now, I have been convinced to try and make a contribution to the art side of this lovely blog. So I'm gonna attempt it. Alright! I love photography. I always have. I don't have a super nice camera, which is driving me nuts, but I'm really hoping to get one in the near future. In the meantime, I love looking at pictures so I can practice with my phone and my decent, but not professional camera. Seasonal pictures are my favorite, along with engagement announcements and graduation pictures. I compiled a list of pretty fall pictures to show y'all! Lets just get right to it because there are a lot!

Raise a glass to me not being dead, guys! Yay.... Well, it's 11 and I'm tired as all hell, but let's spit out a post, kay? First off, sorry for not posting. School's been a drag and blogging isn't my main priority right now. So expect on again, off again posts from  moi-même . Oh yeah, and expect Hamilton references. Cus, thanks to Aaron McEvoy and Dyal (a public school friend), I have become Hamiltrash..... thanks guys. Thanks a whole friggin' lot.  Oh, and side note, I am now called John and Philip by most of my friends.....fight me. But other than that, my life has been pretty neat and orderly. :) How about a photo dump, to apologize for my absence? Good? Great! He's handsome and shy but as evil as Charles Lake. Judge him and death will become a good friend of yours.  :) snek boy is too cute for this world WIP MY NAME IS HERCULES MULLIGAN, UPPIN' IT, LOVIN' IT!! (Noelle: I swear the Hamilton fans are literally coming ou...

Hello Wonderful World of the Internet!!! This is post number THREE of Photo Fridays! I'm surprised I have kept up with it for three weeks... I would usually forget or just slack off and not do it. But hey, there is a first for everything!!! I hope all of you are liking my photos! If you are here is another photo just for you! Yes, you... no, no... not you. You! Yes, you, this one is just for you! I know you're going to like this one! BAM! PHOTO! The power of being an editor is amazing! Ok, back to the post... (I don't know why I'm being weird today...) The reason why I like this photo is because the subject is oblivious to the photo that is being taken. She is being no one other than herself. She is opening up her arms, embracing and loving the world around her. She is happy and doesn't need to be anything special because she has a camera pointed at her. The greenery really makes her pop and stand out. The greenery by its self is beautiful as well and the...

Hey hey! Finally... after a week... the Mac still hates me. >:( But after 3x the amount of time it should have taken me, I finally "completed" it :) P.S. Please excuse the hair in this video... didn't realize it until editing (and couldn't cut it out because of the Mac problem) so please bear with me... Onto the post!

Hey hey! How are you lovelys doings today? I'm posting again without my video because the Mac still hates me... Anyway, onto the post!!

Doesn't everybody love a cute frame of fall stuff? Hi lovely readers?! How are you? Lovely? GOOD, I'm glad! So I thought today I would show you a super cute easy DIY using things you can find in your own backyard! Here are the supplies: Colorful Leaves Sticks (optional) White frame White Paint (optional) Paint Brush (foam) And directions might be necessary. So first you need to collect your leaves and possible sticks. Then, if your cardboard back to the frame is brown, you can paint it white. If you want to leave it brown, you can, I just like white more. I also left mine a little streaky because I thought it looked a little cool rustic. While you are doing this step, leave your leaves in the freezer. It will essentially freeze the color in place so they won't fade as quickly. Next, arrange your leaves how you want them. I let some have over the edge of my white border, and some I tucked under. Slip the glass over. Be careful, this is the step were you c...