Happy Thanksgiving!

I love this holiday. It's my favorite. It's not just a day to eat and eat until your stomach can take no more. It's a day to thank God for what he's done. Even if you feel like you have a horrible life, there are blessings to be thankful for. There's always something that could be better, but there's also something that could be worse.

I went with a group of people to see a man who was at our church. He's now paralyzed pretty much from the neck down. He can move his arms and hands a little bit but not much at all. He kept telling us over and over that we should start praising God for the ability to walk and move. He can't even feed himself now and it's something he took for granted when he could.

There are so many things that we take for granted every single day we live. And we should be praising God for those things He allows us to do! We seem to be so gloom and doom anymore (and who could expect different with the news media??). But we all just need a good jolt back to the fact that things could always be worse.

I'm going to make an effort to be thankful for the abilities God has given me and praise Him through prayer, words, and my actions, not only today, but every single day for the rest of my life.

I propose that we start a praise chain. Let's see how many comments this blog can hold. Let's fill it up with things we're thankful for and try to think about them more. Comment with something you're thankful for as many times as you think of something new, after your initial post. Let's tell other people that we're thankful for them. Why should we not be. If nothing else, you could be thankful you have eyes to see them with.

We need to be thankful everyday. There should be no reason to only be thankful one day a year. (How depressing does that sound, anyway?)

So I will just say, I'm thankful for whoever reads this post and comments. I think commenting a lot could help my attitude be better. What do you think?

~ Emi ♥

P.S. I'll start by saying I'm thankful for my family, growing up in a Christian home, and having the use of my limbs.

New Background/Upcoming Post

Wow. Two posts in one day. I'm on a roll!

Anyway, I'm announcing that I have decided to change the background for my blog during each holiday season. Halloween is not a holiday in my opinion, so I will be trashing that one. As you can see, I have started my Thanksgiving background.

Now, I also want to announce over the loudspeaker that a blog post called 'But God' will be coming soon on DVD and Blu-ray. Not really. But it will be coming to this blog. So keep an eye on your inbox. If that doesn't work, Subscribe to me. :P

Anyway, I am very looking forward to writing and posting and sharing and sharing and sharing this upcoming post.

I'm tired and it's after 11pm so that is why I'm so........ weird in this post. That and I like make-up.

............ I just thought it was worth an explanation. Ehehe.. nevermind. Goodnight.

~ Emi ♥

Drawing Challenge - Week 4 ~ Dragon vs. Dragon (Comparison Week)

Okay so this time I actually got it done on Friday and didn't get a chance to post it until just now. So here are the dragons! We're going to do a little comparison.

I really wasn't going to show you the first dragon I ever drew. But I decided to. So here goes. *cringe*

First dragon I ever drew:

Now Obviously... that wasn't the greatest dragon ever. My brother even helped me with it. And just so you guys don't get mixed up. I was not a little kid when I drew this. This was like... probably a year or so ago. But this was pretty bad. Heh. So. Let's move on. Quickly.

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Okay! Here it is! Granted, I did have a picture to base this off of but I didn't really stick with it completely. Anyway. I think It's much better. Just sayin'.

So this dragon I drew for my friend. It was her drawing challenge request. Please remember that I do take requests so comment and give me one if you would like!

Oh and you can see my signature in the picture there somewhere. I like to put it into the picture somehow.

Comment and let me know what you think and if you like it. :)

~ Emi ♥

Drawing Challenge - Week 3 ~ Character: Matthew Allen

Here's a drawing I did. I hope you like it! It's extremely late. Sorry about that. Here's a character of mine. His name is Matthew Allen. He moves west to California on an wagon train to build his own farm. I don't have his whole story worked out yet. But he's pretty great :P

Hamburger Cake!

I made a hamburger cake tonight with my little sister. It turned out so great! And this is going to take place one of the drawings for this week because this is art :P


I made one yellow cake mix, splitting the batter between two 8" round cake pans and baked them. I leveled one of them for the bottom part of the bun and let it sit for a few so it wouldn't get a bunch of crumbs in it when I frosted it. Then I made an 8" round pan of brownies for the hamburger patty.

I mixed orange food coloring into vanilla frosting and then we frosted the two 8" cakes and placed the brownie on top of the bottom bun. Then my sister and I formed little lettuces from green air heads by cutting it into four pieces and each piece getting formed separately. Then we rolled out two red air heads so that one end was round. Then we placed them over the lettuces on opposite ends of the cake. For the cheese, we rolled out/stretched orange air heads and placed it of the lettuces on the opposite ends of the cake (so the tomatoes and cheese form a square sort of).

Then I put the top half of the bun on and my sister sprinkled a few white (only white) sprinkles over the top for the little seeds.

What I would do differently:

• I would get the airheads all ready before I need to actually use them so it's not a rush at the end
• I would frost a really thin layer over the middle of the brownie cake before putting the top of the bun on.
• I would put the lettuces airheads on before the brownie is all the way cooled. The lettuces didn't like to stay on because the brownie cake was cool.

Instructions:
Prepare 1 boxed cake mix (or your favorite recipe). Split between two 8' round cake pans. Prepare one boxed brownie mix (or your favorite recipe) and put in an 8" round cake pan. Bake at directed temperature.

While it's baking and cooling: Clean your mess and start forming little lettuce leaves just by bending the pieces of green air heads however you would like (We used four airheads, I think.) and then the red ones roll out with a rolling pin or something like that. Even a longer cup would work. Flatten it a little and then roll one end so it's round. Do that for the second tomato. Roll the orange airheads out and stretch them into squares.

After the cakes and brownie come out of the oven, as soon as you can, try to get them out onto a solid, thick cutting board to cool.

Put the lettuce pieces around the edge of the brownie cake before it's all the way cooled. But not when it's just come out of the oven either (or I imagine the airheads would melt).

After the cakes are cool, level the flatter of the two to make it even more flat. Then frost it with vanilla (colored tan-ish orange for the bun color). Then carefully place the brownie cake on top of the bottom bun. Frost a little over the top of the brownie then frost the top bun. Make sure all the airhead pieces are in place before moving the top bun onto the brownie (I used a metal spatula). And... TA-DA!

FINISHED PRODUCT!

I hope you like it! It was really good and tasty! Please leave me a comment and let me know what you think and if you're going to try it!

Bye!

~ Emi ♥