Photography Contest: Winners!!!

Hello everybody! I hope you had a lovely weekend! Today, I’m going to be posting the winners of the photography contest that I hosted! ☺

First, let me just say that everyone’s photos were amazing, and I had such a hard time choosing which ones would win. But of course there has to be a winner, so let’s get into the post! I’ll be linking everyone’s blogs who have participated, as well as their photos!

First place: Maggie

Here is a link to Maggie’s blog, Maggie’s Doodles!

I chose the photo she entered, because I love how the colors work in the photo, and the hedgehog is just so cute!! It’s very unique as well.

https://maggiesdoodles.com/2022/05/03/my-submission-for-beckys-springtime-photography-contest/

Second place: Khushi

Here is a link to Khushi’s blog, Duo Disseminators!

This is a really nice picture! I love all the yellow, and the photo came out really sharp and clear. The quote just completes the whole thing!

https://duodisseminator81314070.wordpress.com/2022/05/11/photography-contest/

Third place: Corrie S.P.

Here is a link to Corrie’s blog, Miraculus Homeschool!

I love this photo because the cat is super cute, and it really reminds me of spring with all the sunlight and green plants!

https://miraculushomeschool.wordpress.com/2022/05/03/spring-is-here/

Other contestants:

Heidi’s photo

Here’s a link to Heidi’s blog, Heidi Lane!

I love these flowers! The colors are really pretty, and the angle that the picture was taken at was really great! The flowers are also really clear and sharp!

https://heidilane1.wordpress.com/2022/05/12/beckys-springtime-photography-contest/

Brendan’s photo

Here is a link to Brendan’s blog, Total History!

Honeysuckles always make me think of spring, and the picture turned out really great! I can see a lot of little details in this photo, which is amazing!

https://totalhistory787513859.wordpress.com/2022/05/19/celebrating-100-followers-beckys-springtime-photography-contest/

Stara’s photo

Here is a link to Stara’s blog, The Pool of Thoughts!

This photo is great; I like it because the dog is super cute and I love the little pop of yellow the flowers add! Definitely reminds me of springtime!

https://stara665483257.wordpress.com/2022/05/03/beckys-springtime-photography-contest/

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Thank you all for entering! I had such a fun time seeing the creative and beautiful pictures you all entered! I actually got more people entering than I expected, so that was nice! 💖😊

What reminds you of spring? What’s your favorite season? Do you like photography? I’d love to chat in the comments!

Okay, I’ll see you guys on Monday with a monthly wrap up! Have a great day, and thanks for reading! Bye!

~Rebekah

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Photography Contest!!

Hello! I hope everyone’s having an amazing day so far!! 😃

Tomorrow is May 20th, the last day you can submit your photo for the photography contest I’m hosting to celebrate 100 followers!! Click here to read about the rules, and how to participate!

Here are all of the contestants so far:

Maggie
Stara
Duo Disseminators
Corrie S.P.
Heidi

If you entered a photo, and I didn’t include it in that list, please comment, so I can add it!!

Thanks for 100 followers, again, and I’ll be excited to judge all of the photos!! ❤ Have an amazing rest of your day!

~ Rebekah

The Remarkable Blogger Tag

Hello and welcome, or welcome back! I didn’t get around to posting yesterday, so I’m here with a blog tag today!

It was created by Selina, then, Maggie did it and she nominated me!! (Here is the link to Maggie’s post!) Make sure to go check out both Selina’s and Maggie’s blogs too, because they’re amazing!

– Rules –

• Add the featured image 🖼️
• Tag your post with #the remarkable blogger tag
• Pingback to original post 😌
• Mention the creator 👋
• Share something unique about you 🥰
• Answer the nine questions the person who nominated you has asked 🤔
• Ask 9 nine questions for your nominees 😁
• Nominate 10 – 15 people 😆
• Have fun! 🤩

– Something unique about me –

Maybe my ability to sympathize with people, and relate to them, even if I’ve never gone through the same things as them.

– Maggie’s questions –

What’s the last blog post idea you had?

The last blog post idea I had was doing a series about the book I’m currently writing once I finish the first draft! Is that something y’all would like to see? I would post probably every day for a week, with different posts relating to the contemporary novel!

What are your top 5 favorite desserts?

My favorite is definitely ice cream, but my other four are cheesecake (homemade especially!!), ice cream cake, brownies, and s’mores!!

Where would you love to travel?

Paris!

What’s the last app you used on your phone?

I actually don’t have a phone. I just use one of the computers I share with my siblings a lot, and my sister sometimes lets me use her phone too. I am currently using the WordPress app!

Do you like collecting stickers?

Not really.

If you could receive one present right now, what would you like for someone to give you?

Hmmm…there’s not really anything that I really need. Maybe some Coboo yarn, because I’ve really been wanting to crochet a top with it, and I don’t have any on hand right now. Or more Kasie West books!

Coffee or tea?

Tea!!

Favorite animal to see at the zoo?

I like seeing all of them, but the elephants and giraffes are some of my favorites!

How long into the future do you see yourself blogging?

I hope to continue blogging through highschool, maybe also when I’m older, but I say highschool because I don’t know if I’ll have the time if I go to college and everything.

– I nominate –

Sophia

Lydia

The Pastel Bicycle

Aamy

 Aayushi

Gelina

Sylvie

Rajonya

Raegan

Shansita

You!!

If I tagged you and you already did it or don’t want to do it, sorry I bothered you!

– My questions –

1. What’s the best compliment you’ve ever gotten?
2. Why did you start your blog?
3. If you could be friends with one book/fictional character, who would it be?
4. What is your favorite color?
5. What genre of music do you enjoy the most?
6. What is your favorite line from a song?
7. If you could live in any era for a week, what time period would you choose?
8. What is your favorite type of candy?
9. What is your favorite movie?

I got this notification on WordPress the other day, and it made me soo happy! Thanks, everyone! ☺

Thank you for reading this post! I hope you are having a good start to your week!

Also, there are only three more days left to enter your photo in my photography contest! If you’re wanting to enter, check out my original post!

Okay I hope you have an amazing day! ❤ See y’all soon!

~ Rebekah

One Week Until the Deadline: Photography Contest!!

Hello, and welcome back! I’m just coming on here to remind y’all that there is only one more week left to enter the photography contest I’m hosting to celebrate 100 followers! The deadline for entering is May 20th! I have five people who have already entered, so that’s great! If you want to enter my springtime photography contest, check out the original post for all the details! Okay, that’s all I have to say! I’ll try to post on Monday, and have a great weekend, everyone! Bye! ☺

~ Rebekah

Five YA Book Cliches (Part Two!)

Hello, happy Monday!!! I hope everyone’s week is off to a great start! ☺

So, around the time I first started my blog, I wrote a post called “Five YA Book Cliches” and I’ve been meaning to do a part two for a while, but never really got around to writing it until now. Thank you to Sophia, who gave me some great ideas for this part two!!!

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#1: Grinning crookedly

I can think of soooo many books with this, where someone (usually the male love interest) “grins crookedly”. Like, what does that even mean? How can someone grin crookedly??

#2: Dreams with meanings

It’s either the main character has a dream that literally solves the whole problem (a lot of the time, they don’t notice this until later), or where the dream has a lot of meaning. I don’t know about y’all, but my dreams are so random and weird and they don’t make any sense at all.

#3: Expressive eyes/faces

It’s always where the main character is like “I can see the look of hope in his eyes”, “She smiles, but I can see the fear in her eyes”, or “The child’s face is pulled together in a look of worry”. This one’s not that annoying, because people can usually see emotions displayed in people’s eyes, but this happens in these books *all the time*.

#4: Looking in the mirror

This usually happens when the main character gets all dressed up and looks in the mirror and says something like “I don’t recognize the girl staring back at me through the mirror”. It annoys me a lot because it’s in so many books, it seems! (A lot of fantasy and dystopian, I think.)

#5: “I hear something in their voice”

This is one that’s similar to the third. It’s when the narrator is like “I hear an emotion in their voice, but choose to ignore it” or “I can clearly hear the distress in her words”. Like the one about the eyes, this isn’t that bad, but it just happens so much!

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Okay, thanks for reading! How many of these are in your current read? Do you have any more to add to the list? Did you enjoy today’s post? I’d love to chat in the comments!

Thanks again to Sophia for giving me a lot of these ideas! Everyone should go check out her blog because she has a lot of really fun posts!

I hope everyone has a great day and week and I’ll see y’all in a week! 😊

~ Rebekah

Monthly Wrap-Up: April 2022

Hey! 😊 Sorry, guys, that I haven’t been posting regularly! Things have been kind of crazy, but I’m going to try to post more consistently in May!

Books I read

Saint Gianna: Her Life of Joy and Heroic Sacrifice by Giuliana Pelucchi. I bought this book because I wanted to learn more about this saint! The book was pretty well-written, though it did get a bit boring at certain points. (I feel like this is the case for a lot of biographies.) I definitely did learn more about this heroic saint through this book! I rated it 4.75/5 stars.

St. Maria Goretti in Garments All Red by Godfrey Poage. This is another saint biography. My sister found it at a thrift store, bought it, and read it. I decided to read it, then. I think that Saint Maria Goretti was such a brave person, and this book was also written really well. 4.5/5 stars.

I Am Margaret by Corinna Turner. My cousin recommended this book, so I decided to get it. I loved it! There were only a few things that I didn’t like, such as the unusual font, but I got used to it as I read. Another thing about it that made me not enjoy it as much as I would have, is the fact that my cousin was hyping it up a lot. I still rated it 5/5 stars, though!

The Case For Easter by Lee Strobel. I watched the movie”The Case For Christ” a while ago, so I decided to pick this book up before Easter. It definitely gave a lot of great evidence of Jesus’s death and resurrection. I would recommend it to anyone! 5/5 stars.

Twelve Years as a Slave by Solomon Thompson. This was another autobiography I was assigned to read for my English class. I found the details very descriptive, and it was written very well. 5/5 stars!

Echo by Pam Muñoz Ryan. I started this book a little while ago and then stopped reading it. I picked it up again and finished it in a few days. I absolutely loved it! It’s a few different stories in one book, following one harmonica as it transforms three different children’s lives. I also loved the ending, because it just tied everything together nicely! I’m thinking about doing a full book review for this book! I gave it 5/5 stars!

Writing updates

I did not get much writing done this month. I feel like I’ve been busier with school and soccer, but I’m going to try and get more writing done in May! I’m just going to try to focus on one of my books, the contemporary one!

Crochet

I got a good amount of crochet done this month! I even posted a pattern for Easter bunny keychains! I’m running out of yarn now, though!!!! I might do a yarn haul soon!

Running

I actually reached my goals this month! I aimed to run 20 miles, and I did *exactly* that!

Posts

Thank You For 100 Followers! 💖

10 Minute Crochet Easter Bunny Keychains

Happy Easter!

Celebrating 100 Followers: Becky’s Springtime Photography Contest

Reviewing goals for April

Get 100 followers and do a special post Yesss! Thank you for 100 followers! I never thought that in less than a year, I’d reach this many followers! 😊 I am doing a photography contest to celebrate! The deadline is May 20th, but I might have to push it back because no one has entered yet.

Run 20 miles (actually do it this time!!) I did! Like I said, it was exactly 20 miles!

Post a crochet pattern I did! Here is my pattern for cute little crochet bunny keychains!!!

Do a book review I didn’t get around to this. I am going to try to do one in May, though! ☺

Get some bike rides in! Yup! I was trying to focus on doing more cross-training this month on the days I didn’t run!

Do at least one lesson of Spanish a day There were some days I didn’t get around to doing a lesson, but I tried to do one lesson a day! In case anyone’s wondering, I’m learning Spanish on Duolingo.

Practice piano every day Yes!

Goals for May

• Post every Monday
• Do a book review
• Follow my 10k running plan
• Focus on writing my contemporary novel
• Finish reading “The Return of the King”
• Get to 60,000 words in the first draft of my contemporary nove

I’m not going to be able to add any of my pictures from April right now. I might come back and add them later!

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Thanks for reading! How was your April? If you celebrate it, what did you do for Easter? Did you reach your goals? I’d love to hear from y’all in the comments! Thank you for reading! I hope everyone is having an amazing Monday! Have a great week! 😀

~ Rebekah