But the camp was good, I had a lot of fun, and I learned quite a bit from it! It’s improved my violin playing a bit. All the people there were awesome/amazing even if they were older than me. It showed me what I needed to improve on the most and goodness my intonation sucked. In chamber music, you have to be REALLY in tune unlike when you’re playing solo…. and because I was 2^nd violin, my intonation would have to match up with the first violin’s

I was really excited because when I got back, I had a very beautiful book waiting for me. What was waiting for me was Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins! Well, I finished it, and it was good, except I wish it was in a different point of view. We’re stuck inside the main character Katniss’ point of view, and throughout the book, she’s part of the action, and then she’s out, asleep or something. So it was a bit hard to follow and very what the heck. We’re told more than shown what happens, but for a final book it wasn’t too bad. Katniss ends up with the person I wanted her to end up with, but she becomes such a shell of her previous self… But I’m a bit too lazy to go into all the details. As for site updates….

PLEASE TURN YOUR ATTENTION TO MY NEW AFFILIATE REI FROM KOKORO! Kokoro is an icon archive that has a variety of icons for you to choose from, and I can see her grow from each update.
Also, 2 Transparent PNG’s, 1 from Touhou, 1 from Cardcaptor Sakura.

Look for a layout collaboration between myself and Sasha from Project Nixi sometime soon!

Edit: One Link Exchange! Kristin from Kristin X!

A NEW AFFILIATE! SILVER FROM THE SKY PILLAR!
The Sky Pillar is also an icon archive, and it offers a lot of Vocaloid icons! The Sky Pillar also offers PSD’s and tutorials so you can replicate her icons too!

Also I started playing a game called Pokefarm, and I’d appreciate it if you’d click on my Pichu, April for me! Just click on any type of berry and she’s good

So I’m off to camp tomorrow, and it’s like a week long so you won’t be hearing anything from me for a week, so don’t be offended if your comments aren’t returned. I really should be packing right now, but I “lack the inspiration” to, a.k.a. procrastinating. Plus it’s a pain trying to keep track of everything you’ll need for a week. But anywho, while I’m mixing and matching clothes to be packed away in a small suitcase, I thought I’d just tell of some of the updates on the site~

First of all, I downloaded Firefox again! I uninstalled it a while back because I got a few viruses from it when I tried to upgrade it, but now it’s all good BD. I didn’t remember Firefox being so fast, and it’s such a nice browser to use. The only bad thing about it is that I can’t watch videos (since the newest flash player to quote my fadre is very laggy) but I have IE for that~

Second, there has been a change in the Terms of Use. since I’d be a hypocrite if I said you couldn’t use my graphics to make your own (since as an anime graphics site, I use anime fanart/official art to make my designs). Visitors can now take my graphics and make what they want out of them. The thing is that editing must be done! If you take and claim as your own, I won’t be very happy. So what do you guys think about this change in policy?

Thirdly, please welcome a new affiliate! Suicine from Simple Nite!
I haven’t known Suicine for too long, and her site is fairly new so I look forward to seeing what she comes up with next!

Fourthly, I removed Wallpapers from the site. I never really liked making them and found them to be a pain to make anyways. I prefer working on smaller spaces.

Well, as for graphic updates….

• 2 Axis Powers Hetalia Signatures
• 1 Axis Powers Hetalia Icon

Umm well that’s about it so I shall see you lovelies in a week!

Hey, slow it down, Whataya want from me? -Adam Lambert. So, I realize I haven’t updated like at all during July. Well the reason for that is that it was a busy month. My uncle came from China, and for two weeks we were on vacation. We went up north, and canoed for four hours, and boy that like killed my arms later. Then a family friend came, so we went south, and went to the spam museum, and went to go climb in a cave. Well, never climb a cave in knee-long shorts and a sweatshirt. You will be freezing by the time you get out of there. The temperature from inside the cave was 49 degrees fahrenheit I believe, 9 degrees celcius. When we came out my glasses fogged major time. So what have I been up to other than that?

• Reading Naruto Manga
• Practcing instruments
• roleplaying

Yeah, not very productive for this site. Though I did manage to scrape a few updates.

• 1 Icon
• 2 Signatures
• 1 DIV LAYOUT
• fixed the front page, normal links aren’t default colored anymore

Yes, I finally added another premade layout to this site, which I coded by myself. It’s for Senzafine’s contest (the banner is up there) and I have yet to make the graphic, but yeah, there’s a whole blurb on my inspiratoin for the layout and yada ya. I’m actually quite proud of myself for coding it in a day. Anywho, I’m going off to camp in two weeks, and it’s a music camp for college-aged people, so most of my time now is spent on the computer reading manga and practicing for that ORZ. Yeah, reality is kicking in. -sigh- Well, life shall go on! Summer’s almost ending too, and I’m quite disappointed I didn’t do as much as I’d like to this site.

As you can see, cutenews is gone. It’s been replaced by fanupdate (because wordpress seems a lot more complicated) in compliance to the bubble.nu rules. (Edlyn’s hosted by them), and I’ve had quite the troubles with spam, and I didn’t know any hacks. It also didn’t really feel like a good blogging system, like it wasn’t like a blogger blog, or a wordpress, where you’re like “Oh, I can actually write about myself here”, it seemed more like an updates only type of system. While this isn’t a fancy fancy system, fanupdate seems easier to work with than cutenews, but then, I could be speaking too soon.

I’ve been reading a lot recently, finished the Harry Potter series (finally), finished reading The DaVinci Code and generally just reading online articles. Reading has always been a strong hobby of mine, as I was never athletic, nor artsy. It’s hard for me to find books I enjoy though, since I’m picky about the story. One book that has really stood out to me is The Hunger Games. The idea of these cruel games where children are forced to kill each other, first of all is something that can be worked with. It is rather, original I’ll say. Second, Suzanne Collins’ writing shows that she has put thought into her book. The complications that happen, how she manages not to make the main character Katniss annoyingly useless, but imperfect at the same time. I don’t want to spoil it for anyone, but it is a really good read. I highly reccomend it!

Because of my revived love for reading, I haven’t exactly been working on that many graphics. But, you should see something from me at least once this month, not promising anything more than that, since July, I am booked.

Anywho, before I post this, please welcome one new link exchange. Alblenox from Hiwatari! He has some pretty awesome graphics, and his layout is, well I wouldn’t say cute, but it’s elegant : D~