Waiting on Wednesday

Hey hey!!! I wanted to welcome you to this great Wednesday by working on a new feature! It's called Waiting on Wednesday. I found the feature by wandering around in a ton of other great blogs. Again, it will mostly be about books, but if I'm really anxious to tell you about another item, I'll just post it here. For the first Waiting on Wednesday feature, I want to talk about a new book in the House of Night series that's coming out this year.

Now keep in mind, this is not the next novel in the series. The next novel in the series is Awakened, which is set to come out on January 4, 2011. As you can tell, I'm also waiting for this novel, but the book that I'm showing above is a book which can be read about in the series. In other words, it's a book within a book. The Fledgling Handbook 101 is a manual that all new, incoming fledglings are given when they enter the House of Night. It's really cool for us non-fledglings to be given a chance to read it! I can not wait for this book. I don't really have to wait long, it's going to come out on October 26, 2010!!! Yay!!!!

Here's the trailer for the new book, Burned, which came out a few weeks ago (and I've been waiting to borrow from the library and finally got).



I'm off! Expect at least one more post this week. You know what tomorrow is...

Love and Sugar from me, Sweet Lady Jess

How to Make a Book Wreath and Update

Hello sweets! I've been meaning to update you guys on the progress and finished product of my book wreath. Well, here it is! HAHA! Better late than never! Let me you give you an overview of the steps and pictures of the progress.


Here are the supplies you are going to need:
-Brown acrylic paint
-White 10 inch foam wreath
-A book (Take that George Bush!!!)
-Glue gun
-Extra glue gun sticks
-A pencil
-Some ribbon
-Paper towelsStart by placing paper towers on your work space. Then grab an extra paper towel and squeeze some paint on the paper towel. Rub the paper towel with paint on the edges of the book (except the spine of course). Make sure to coat it evenly. Let it sit for about 15 minutes or so until it dries. Look for the first page that has a lot of words. You want to fill your wreath with pages that have words on it, not blank pages. Follow this tutorial on how to roll your pages to place on the foam wreath.




You are pretty much going to go once around the edge.


This is how it looks like when you flip it around to add the full body of the wreath. You then start adding more pages by going up and around the wreath. Make sure to go around once in the inside edge of the wreath. Add any fillers if you find holes in the wreath. Lastly, make sure to glue on a small strip of ribbon to the back to hold up the wreath and you are done! Make sure to hang it on your house in a nice place! Here's where my mom placed it. She loved it!


Keep in mind that I just gave you the shortened version of the instructions. To see the full instructions head off to this link.

Hope you enjoyed my update. Keep reading!

Lots of Love and Sugar from me, Sweet Lady Jess

From the Stacks!

Hey there dolls! Here's the first edition of "From the Stacks!" I finally figured out a name for posts involving books or other items that I borrow from the library. For this week's From the Stacks, I have three things to share with you.

As you may recall a few posts back, I won a book called My Soul to Save by Rachel Vincent from an online contest. Well you might also recall that the book was the second in a series called the Soul Screamers. So, to read the second book I need to read the first book called My Soul to Take. I borrowed the book from the library a little while ago, and as you might notice my bookmark in the picture, I'm already reading it. So far so good. The concept is kind of cool. Love it! The third book in the series, My Soul to Keep comes out on June 1, 2010. It's odd that Amazon already has it for sale though...

You can also read the prequel novella called My Soul to Lose, which you can read for free from this link. (Note: Your going to need to install the Kindle app to your phone or computer to be able to read it)
As a treat, here's the book trailer to My Soul to Take. Enjoy!

A loooooooooong time ago, I ventured into the great beyond known as the Cal State Long Beach Library. I put on hold a film called I Have Found It. This was more than a month ago. They finally got the film in and I picked it up this past week. I was also informed that a second copy was in it's way to me. What the????

Anyways, I've been wanting to watch this film for a while now because this film is the Bollywood version of Sense & Sensibility. Too darling! I borrowed, from the same library, Bride & Prejudice which, as you can guess, is the Bollywood version of Pride & Prejudice. Loved that one a lot!!!!! Can't wait to watch this film!

Now, I hate being tricked! It's not cool! So when I go to the library, I expect to be able to pick up the book that I put on hold, especially since I was told it was ready to picked up. This was me several weeks ago. I was emailed again last week and told to pick up Burned by P.C. Cast and Kristen Cast. My reaction: FINALLY! YESSS! I got the book! I've been wanting to read this book really BAD!!!!!! Can't wait to crack it open.

Well that's it for today's post. I'll keep you updated of my reading and stuff as school winds down. Expect more posts this week!

Love and Sugar from me, Sweet Lady Jess

In My Mailbox 3 and In My Shopping Bag 2

Yay! Another edition of In My Mailbox and In My Shopping Bag! I'll start out this week with the items that came in my mail box.


I'm a big fan of Disney movies and if you register with DisneyMovieRewards.com, you can trade in codes in each movie for points that you can redeem for stuff! Everyone loves stuff. I've redeemed a few points before, but for virtual items for an old online game called Virtual Magic Kingdom (it was shut down in May of 2008). This time around I redeemed my points for an actually item I can hold in my hands. Haha! I was able to get the Alice in Wonderland poster you see above. I already hung it up in my room, on my closet door actually. Totally loves it. So if you like free stuff, get it, or other Disney stuff.

I won another contest! Yay! Hahaha! Like my cousin Maritza said, I'm on a roll! The contest was made by the sweet doll over at Delightful Reviews. Here's the contest info. I won The Naughty List (Stop giggling! Stop that! It's not what you think! It's a Young Adult book, what would you expect in a Young Adult book...? Certainly not strong Adult themes...) by Suzanne Young. It was signed and had a cute message in it. I also won a signed book mark, which you can see a little closer bellow.

Lastly, I got these great Brush Guards in the mail this week. What is a Brush Guard you ask?


The Brush Guard can help protect your brushes from getting dirt on them and can help you clean them if you slip a washed and clean brush through a brush guard, turn the brush upside down so the water slips downwards and you can do this without ruining your brush!


Here are my bushes being protected by The Brush Guard! There are different sized guards and you can buy them in different packs. I got the variety pack and it was just $5.50. All packs are $5.50 and shipping is already included in the price. Check out TheBrushGuard.com to get your set today!

(Just for your info, I was not payed to say all of that. I just like them that much!)


Now, for the item in my shopping bag! This past week I got the chance to purchase The Young Victoria! Yay! I've seen the film twice since I've purchased it. Too lovely!

The film is a bio-pic based on the early years of the reign of Queen Victoria, the sovereign that ruled England the longest! The film is also about her relationship with Prince Albert, her husband. Totally recommend it!

Well that's it for this week's In My Mailbox and In My Shopping Bag. Keep reading. I'll be posting more as my semester wraps up. Expect more posts this week!

Love and Sugar from me, Sweet Lady Jess

P.S. Happy Birthday little bro, even though you don't read my blog. You're legal now!!!

Happy (Late) Blogoversary to Me!!!

I was suppose to announce this in April, but I let the day pass...

HAPPY (LATE) BLOGOVERSARY TO ME!!!!!

I started blogging as of April 11, 2009 and it is now May 15, 2010! I have officially stuck with something that's lasted more than one year!!! Hahahaha! (A year and a month to be a bit more exact)

I have 12 happy followers, which I appreciate a lot! When I publish this post, I will have about 31 posts!

You have stuck with me through all of my randomness and I promise a lot more! After all, I am the Queen of Random.

With that note in mind, I want to end this post with a great fan made video featuring clips from the film Marie Antoinette and my new favorite song The Queen by Velvet (Now, if only I could purchase it or find a way to get it online...). Enjoy and remember to bow to the Queen of Random!



Love and Sugar from me, Sweet Lady Jess

Kelley Armstrong Signing!

As you may recall, I mentioned that I was going to Kelley Armstrong's signing at Borders in Torrence. Well, I went!!! Yay!!! I was practically counting down the days until her book signing! Here's a report!
I got to Borders at about 6 or so. The seats had been set up and my doll Sergio had saved seats for my mom and me.

Kelley came a little past 7 and started off by reading the prologue to her next book in the Darkest Powers series, which is called The Gathering (to be expected some time next March, April or May, I can remember right now...). You can read for yourself the passage that she read to us by going to this website, scrolling down a little, and clicking on where it says "exclusive sneak peek at The Gathering."

She then took questions from people and to get it rolling, she offered two mouse pads with this image (or something like it, since I put together this image):

The mouse pad had the Chibi (Cutey) version of the main characters from the book series. I didn't get a mouse pad, but a ton of people asked questions. The ones that I felt where the most important where if she was going to write any more novellas besides Dangerous, which can be found here. Keep in mind that novella means short story based off a book. Stephenie Meyer is going to do that soon with The Short Life of Bree Tanner. Can't wait for that book.

But back to the signing: She mentioned that she's going to write two other novellas. One based on the time that Tori and Simon were together, alone, in The Awakening, and the other one is about Simon and Derek and where they were after they escaped Lyle House in between The Summoning and The Awakening. Can't wait to read those!
She also explained about the meaning about the different stones in the covers. In a nut shell, the persons that designed the covers made her add the idea of the necklace/stones into her story. She didn't like it for the first two books and they didn't make her explain the purple stone in the third book. However, don't tell her publishing company I told you this... ^_- Hahaha!


We then got the chance to get our books signed, take a picture with her and get a piece of swag! She was giving away buttons with the pictures of the characters from the book, like the ones in the image I provided above. I had a hard time picking just one! Kelley said that people usually take all the Derek ones first, the Chloe ones second and the rest up until there is only Simon ones left. She was sort of sad about that. However, I took the Chloe one and my doll Sergio took a Simon one. Kelley was very happy about that. Haha!

Here's Sergio's button (Picture provided by Sergio. Thanks doll!)

Here's the button I got along with a picture of the button on my backpack and all of my other buttons on it.


Lastly here's a picture of my books signed by Kelley. To get a close up of the messages that she wrote on each one, head off to my facebook album and you can see those pictures and many more from the signing to your hearts content.


Well that's it for my report on the signing. I hope you like it and keep reading!

Lots of Love and Sugar from me, Jess

A Star is Born!

For those of you that might not have known, I took a Story Telling course this semester. Little did I know before I enrolled that it would turn out to be a drama/acting class. It was very intense because I had to add characterization, movement, emotion, tone, voice, and a whole bunch of other stuff. Plus, I had to memorize my scripts. That was the hard part. I have never had so much trouble trying to get something down to memory! Ugg!

Let's just say that it was a loooooooooooooong semester.

Anyways, I decided to upload the videos on YouTube and show them to the world. Keep in mind to be nice to the actress, since she has had little experience in acting.



This first video was suppose to be a 1 to 2 minute performance on a randomly chosen Cultural Tale. It's called the Christmas of the Animals and it was a folk tale from New Mexico. My particular story was not random because I traded with another classmate that didn't want to do it. I was allowed to call "Line" if I didn't know the next line and I did so twice. I got a "B" for this performance and was told to slow it down. But how could have I slowed down if I went over the time allowed??!!



This second video is of my second performance. It was suppose to be 3 to 4 minutes on a Children's Story of our choice, and I decided to do Disney's Alice in Wonderland (Yes, this is how obsessed I am with it). It went well. I got another "B" on this one because I still went too fast and called "Line" twice. Overall, it was fun to do, and I can't believe I got the courage to do it. Well, I had to do it. I didn't really have a choice.

Now I had one more performance, which I did today. I won't be able to get the video for this one because the semester is practically over. I take my final exam for this class next Thursday, but let me tell you a little about it.

The theme for the third and final performance was about the 1992 Los Angeles Riots. We all chose a person/script based off that person's experience during or after the riots. I first picked a Korean woman that got her store looted, but I traded my story for a different one. I ended up playing Katie Miller. She was a very angry African American woman that felt like expressing her views based off who the blame was meant to be placed on and how Paul Moyer was a jerk (loosely summarized... if you know what I mean...) . I felt like I did it well. I called "Line" twice, and the class seemed to be very happy with it, including the professor because she was psyching me out before I even entered the class for not being in total character (e.i. She said, "Hello Katie Miller." I said, "Hello," but in not in character...). I also went under time. This performance was to be 5 to 6 minutes and the grace period was 4:30 to 6:15 and I did about 4:2o something. It's bugging me a bit because I'm going to lose points for the time and for calling "Line," but it's over. Aww well!

That all for this post. I'll be posting on the Kelley Armstrong signing by tomorrow (Friday). Until then, take care dolls!