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[Tenethia]

ooh, Engee, which piano pieces?
and tell us about your trip around the world!

Also, Islie, I think the tassel must be a burnt tree that fell over

[albero1]

Ooh! Nice hat! (I knit and crochet sometimes but don't have enough skill or patience to make anything except misshapen blobs.

[Ariel.of.Narnia]

@Islie: lol, my dad and I are like that too. You know you live up north when you can say (with great excitement), "Hey, it's less below freezing!"

@Berry: *wince* I'm sorry. Being sick that much really stinks.

[narniagirl11]

Well, I can blame Ariel for what I'm learning to play on piano. She made Aragorn/Arwen sets with lyrics from the song 'A Thousand Years' by Christina Perri (I think that her name anyway ). I've heard that song before and it's beautiful, even though I agree with Ariel and wouldn't touch the movie it came from with a ten-foot pole. So anyway, I found some sheet music for it and I'm learning to play it. The second piece that I'm learning to play is 'For the First Time in Forever' from Frozen! That one is harder than 'A Thousand Years' so I'm tackling 'A Thousand Years' first.

And my world trip...let's just say that my two best friends and I are planning on visiting every continent and beyond, the Moon, Mars, Pluto, plus fantasy worlds, Narnia, Middle Earth, Neverland... Climb Mt. Everest, ride in a submarine, zipline from the top of a skyscraper, and travel back in time in the TARDIS so I can do it over and over again. My last stop is the garden in the New Narnia.

Other news: I'm working on a new story! Yay! My friends and I have started a little writing group with weekly writing challenges and this week's challenge has really inspired me to jump out of my writing comfort zone and try something entirely new.

Edit: I also made a slouchy beanie hat on my sister's knitting loom. I love it! ^.^

[Ariel.of.Narnia]

@Engee: Well, look at that. It seems I've got you back for having inspired me to work on something by way of exposure to a song. (Except you're making more progress than I, lol.)

[narniagirl11]

@Ariel Lol! We're even now. :p

Well, I liked my hat so much that I looked up a different pattern and I'm now making a red cabled hat to match my red coat. It's gonna have off white flowers on the brim too because I learned how to crochet flowers today. ^.^

[Ariel.of.Narnia]

*grins*
Well, the past couple days, I've had the urge to mess around on the piano. I've played through the easy (well... define "easy") arrangements of "Forbidden Friendship" and "Romantic Flight" (both from How to Train Your Dragon) a couple times each... with both hands all the way through (previous attempts to do so tended to eventually drop the left hand completely and just continue with the right, lol). Both are ridiculously rough, but hey. I love HTTYD music enough to suffer listening to my own botched playing.
And I played by ear the next part of a Narnia/Christmas medley I started working on before Christmas. But I have to actually write it down now, lol.

[narniagirl11]

@Ariel I've been eyeing "Forbidden Friendship" and "See You Tomorrow" for a while now, but I haven't tried to conquer them yet.

I had to start over with my hat because I didn't like the brim. I found a better pattern, but it called for a bigger loom, which I'm really hoping is gonna fit my head. If it doesn't fit maybe I can shrink it in the wash? Or find someone with a bigger head than me. Or take it out and start over again.

[Ariel.of.Narnia]

@Engee: I don't recommend "See You Tomorrow" yet unless you're confidant about it. At least, not if you're looking at the same sheet music I am (fantastically arranged by Sebastian Wolff, who, btw, also did two Narnia arrangements).

[narniagirl11]

@Ariel That's why I haven't tried it yet!

Edit: After re-starting my hat about three times today, I have finally made progress and finished the brim! Yay!