Jonny Diaz Concert

Hello people! Hows it going? It's great here. And Thanksgiving is coming up!! All the good food guys! :D And Christmas!! I know what your probably thinking "It's not Christmas!! We haven't even had Thanksgiving!" Yeah, whatever. I am in the Christmas spirit now, and it is all Tenth Avenue Norths fault. If you didn't know they just released their first Christmas album called Decade the Halls. IT'S AMAZING!!!!! And I can't mention it without putting a picture of it on here. :P 

Isn't the cover totally Amazingly, AWESOME!!!

Anyways all of that is besides the point. What I came on here to tell you about is the Jonny Diaz concert I went to a few days ago. :D 

So yeah, like I said I went to a Jonny Diaz concert. I am not really a fan of Jonny Diaz, (not because I don't like him, but just because I don't really know him) but the concert was really close and only 5 dollars at the door, so I was like "Let's go!" I mean it's a concert, right? So anyways me and my sister and some family friends went to the concert. It was cool, and Jonny Diaz sang really good. One of the coolest moment was after the show he was standing by his merch table and me and my sister got to meet him and get a picture with him. It was really cool! :D So anyways, here are some pictures from the concert. :D :D (yep I was stuck with the piece of junk camera again, so the pictures aren't that great. :P)

Here is a video of him playing Breathe

So yeah! Although it could never, ever, ever, compare to a Tenth Avenue North concert, (no one ever could) it was still very cool and I enjoyed it a lot! :D 

See you later! 

Tenth Avenue North is the BEST!!! 

IT'S OUT

Decade the Halls is officially released!!!!!! YAY!!! Everyone cheer! :D :D 
Now you all can go buy the album, or go listen to them. You can listen to the songs on YouTube. Mistletoe (the Christmas Sweater Song)  This one is my favorite! :D :D 
You can also listen to them on Spotify and a couple of other places. :) So GO LISTEN TO THEM!!!
Or at least save them for later to listen closer to Christmas. :D

  God bless America!!! (and Tenth Avenue North)

Bound blog tour

Hello people! Today I am participating in the blog tour for Bound by Victoria Lynn! OK, lets get started! :D 

                          About the Author

Victoria Lynn is in her 20s and if she's not writing, she is probably sewing, singing, playing the piano, washing dishes, creating something with her hands, or learning something new. She has a passion for serving her Creator, encouraging others and being creative. She blogs at www.rufflesandgrace.com about writing, fashion, modesty, her walk with God and life. She lives in Michigan with her parents and 8 siblings.

                                          My Review 

                                            3.5 stars

This book was a pretty good read. It was a little slow at first but picked up near the end. I enjoyed it but it wasn't really my taste. Bound is a great book for younger audiences and older people alike, and has an exciting story of two runaways on their way to freedom from their abusive parents. The book was written pretty well (though I didn't understand some of those fancy words. :P :P) Victoria did a good job. All in All I enjoyed it and I'm sure you all will too!! :D :D  I received a copy of this for my honest review

                            Now for the giveaway!!! :D 

For some reason the giveaway picture WILL NOT WORK!! UGGGG! Sorry guys. :( 

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You can buy the book here...Well the link below. :D 

https://www.amazon.com/Bound-Two-Broken-Souls-Journey-ebook/dp/B0774X5XN1/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1509979845&sr=8-1&keywords=bound+by+victoria+Lynn

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Decade the Halls!

Guys! Decade the Halls comes out TOMORROW!!! YES!! TOMORROW!!! 
I pre-ordered it already. :D :D
 So you all should go buy it! :D 

Tenth Avenue North

Guys!!! I went to a Tenth Avenue North concert!!!!!!!! 
It was AMAZING!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! 
And MIKE DONEHEY!!!!!!  HE WAS AMAZING!!!!!!! His VOICE!!!! It is so BEAUTIFUL!!!!!
OK, *takes deep breath* I should probably get a hold of myself. :P :D 
But you guys don't understand what is happening here!! My dream came true! I saw my favorite-est band of all centuries and all time, LIVE!! In concert!! They were there, like right in front of me!! I SAW them in REAL LIFE!! Ohhhhh, it was amazing! Like the best thing I have ever done in my life. THE BEST!! I should probably stop ranting on and on about how amazing, and wonderful, and awesome, and beautiful, and the best thing ever, it was. I will now show you some pictures and videos I took. (I had a pretty junk camera most of the time so the pictures didn't turn out very good)

   We got the VIP experience so this is from the pre-show Q&A and acoustic set.

 

This is where they first came out. :)

Unfortunately my video of them singing Beloved for the acoustic session is to big so I can't put it on here. But I will put it on my YouTube channel. I will put a link to it at the bottom of my post. :D 

Part of the Q&A session

                                         

Then Mike told the story about his unfortunate incident in Honduras, which is my favorite-st story ever! It is SO hilarious!!! But that one won't upload onto my blog either. So I will put them on my YouTube channel. And a link to it at the bottom of my post. :)

Here is a clip of them playing Cathedrals

And here are some clips from Losing

Mike is really getting his dance moves in. :D :D 

                                      

Mike's step by step instructions to get rid of grudges. :D

                                         

I love this one. :D :D

                                          

And finally part of the bridge.

                                          

I really love those videos I got of losing! They are awesome! :D 

OK, now I will put some pictures I took on. :D 

The Stage

                         Brendon Shirley at the keyboard

                             Mike singing
These ones turned out pretty good. :)

I love this picture cause you can see Mike outlined in the blue light, and it looks really cool. :D 

               Jason Jamison playing drums

  
                  Mike Donehey singing
I love how passionately Mike sings.

      

                    Mike Donehey Talking

Mike playing his guitar  (why am I labeling these like this, it is pretty obvious what he is doing :P)

            Brendon Shirley working magic on the keyboard :D 

I took these ones with my sisters camera, which is ten times better than the other camera I was using. :D 

I got this pre-signed poster that came with the VIP experience. :D 

Because sadly I didn't get to meet Mike or the other guys. :( :(

    Yep! There is Mike Donehey's signature! 

My dad bought me this guitar pick from their merch stand.               Front

                                   Back

Signed poster and guitar pick! :D 

Here is how my dresser looks right now! :D :D  

OK! So the concert was totally, completely, unbelievably, awesomely AMAZING!!!! I had the most amazing time of my life! And I can't wait to see them again......Sometime......I WILL go to more of their concerts! And next time (hopefully) I will meet Mike Donehey and the rest of the guys in the band!! :D :D So until next time!! See you later! :D  Here are the links!
Mike's Honduras story
Beloved
Clip of No Man is an Island

I will be putting all my videos on my YouTube account, so keep an eye out for those! :D

Update in.....well Life

Hello people! Whats going on? 

OK, first of all the most exciting thing!!! I was given a copy of Islands by Tenth Avenue North!!! It's so beautiful!!!! Here are some pictures of it. :D 

Yes I probably only needed one picture to show you, but..........IT'S SO BEAUTIFUL!!!!! And I was practicing taking pictures for school. Sooo.........

And this is really late, but I got a ipod/mp3 player for my birthday. I feel like I already told you this.....Oh, well. Anyways here are some pictures of my ipod/mp3player being awesome. (if it can do that) 

And as you can see, I have basically all the Tenth Avenue North songs. I have them all except like two or three from The Light Meets the Dark I think. 

Tenth Avenue North is making a Christmas album!!! And it comes out November 10th!!!!! Ahhhhh!!!! I can't wait!!! I might buy it when it comes out. :D Here is a link to (what I believe is) the cover. https://www.instagram.com/p/BaE-Q-MhD1U/?hl=en&taken-by=mikedonehey

I am SOOOOOOOOOOOO excited!!!!!! OK, next thing.

Just figure I should mention that I finished Shadow Hand, and also read Golden Daughter. And let me just say, Golden Daughter is like the greatest work of fantasy in the world. It left me like: #!&@^*^%$@$^&^*@&@!!^!%$$^#&%^&*^(@#$@*($&*^

So yes read this series. It is Tales of Goldstone Woods by Anne Alisabeth Stengl. They are amazing. 

Also I read a whole new series called Blood of the Kings by Jill Williamson. Guys this series is AMAZING!!! I think they are now some of my top favorite books in the world. :D :D Go read this series too. :) 

Speaking of books, here are some of the new books I got. 

 Here is my messy bookshelf, that, as you can probably see, has ran out of room for books. I need a new bookshelf!!

I have gotten more books but I wasn't really sure which ones and stuff so.............

                                 Here are some CD's I got.

            Like I said, I was practicing taking pictures. :D ;)

And now here is a peak into my bullet Journal. Which I think I am going to start calling my lyric journal. :D Cause that is basically all it is, lyrics. :D 

                        What do you think? 

This is REALLY random but check out these awesome knives I got!! :D :D ;D 

I also have these awesome pig tusks, that I pried out of its jaw. :D 

I am currently reading Rising Shadows. It has been OK, it is getting more interesting though. And since I wasn't able to finish this post and it is now later, I am now finished Rising Shadows. It was pretty good. I am probably going to rate it 4 stars. I am excited to read Chasing Shadows, the second book in the series. :) 

Here are some pictures of my electr-....*coughs* My dad's electric guitar. I keep it in my room though, cause he kind of, sort of, maybe bought it for me to use. :P :) They are not very good pictures though. They looked better on the camera. :P I was practicing manually focusing. (which apparently as you can see from the pictures I'm not very good at) :P :P 

OK, that was very random, and I have no idea why I even put them on there. :P 

Guys, Tenth Avenue North is the best, most amazing, awesomest, coolest, lots of other good words, band EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Like who would not LOVE them! I know, you guys are probably sick of me mentioning them. But I'm not going to apologize for it, cause I'm not sorry for mentioning them. :D 

I am also not sorry for bombarding you with pictures of them. :D ;)

Also check out this blog! :D All the Pretty Things  You will know why I like it. :D ;) ;) 

I will be posting some more stuff on the My Projects and Art tab some time. So be checking that. :) I am currently working on a little project which I may or mat not show you sometime. :) 

And with that I will end this long post. :D So goodbye peoples, and listen to Tenth Avenue North!!!!  P.S and tell me about it if you do

P.P.S comment!!