Two Blog Highlights!

Hey, Riley here! Today I wanted to tell you about to amazing blogs:) I will start with Sophia Moon!

Sophia is my best friend. She's totally amazing! She has been thinking about blogging for a while now and she has finally gotten around to making a blog.

Please visit Sophia's blog Sophia Moon! It is really pretty. She designed it herself and I wish I had that much talent.

The other blog I want to tell you guys about it not yet made yet! You see my big sister, Jane, has decided to start blogging. She's still getting started so I don't have a link for you just yet.

When she has finished making her blog I promise to post the link right here for you guys (or Olivia will do it)!

Well that's all! Once again, please visit Sophia's blog. It is really good!

-Riley

p.s sorry about there being no pictures here!

Books You Must Read at Least Once Before You Die #1

I thought I would write a series of posts about Books You Must Read At Least Once Before You Die! Sounds good? I hope so.

I will write a post like this every week or two, depends on how popular they get to be! I hope they will go down well though.

Today I will tell you about a series I read. There one of Olivia's favourites. The Samurai Kids. The first book in the series is called White Crane. It is about these boys and one girl, named I think it was Kyoko, who are training to be Samurai.

You can read the books separately, they don't have to be read in order. We haven't read all of them yet and we have read them all out of order. I read White Crane last.

 

My favourite character was Taji, Olivia liked Nezume best. I like the idea of an awesome blind boy being a Samurai!

 

 

Another character I like a lot is Sensei. I don't know how to explain it. His lessons, the way he is so secretive. It just adds up to a great character. I bet you will like him too.





 

So yes, this is a great series to read and defiantly worth reading at least once!

Please tell me if you like this post!

Channeling YouTube

While surfing the internet we found this amazing YouTube channel. Its called MissJenFABULOUS. The name doesn't give much away about what it is about, so I will tell you. It has nail art videos, make up tutorials (We don't wear any) and I think some hair stuff, but yeah.

What really caught our eyes was the Easy Nail Art For Beginners series that Jen has been doing. They are totally amazing. Being hopeless at nail polish and stuff, this has really made me excited. I am going to start doing my nails.

'Easy' made me at first think it was just a boring video on how to put on nail polish. There not though. They tell you how to do amazing designs on your nails with only a few tools, if any. I have found other videos by other people on how to make some of those tools so that shouldn't be a bother.

Another video that caught my eye was one on Jen's hair routine. I never bother with my hair that much and it made me think I should take more care of it.

I remember once the hair dresser told Mum that girls with blond hair, have really dry hair. Or something like that. She was right, our hair is super dry and Mum is always going nuts about it. So I am going to try and make my hair healthy.

After being inspired I thought that I could do more still with my hair. It being pretty long is a bit annoying, but I never take the time to tie it up. But now I am going to learn how to do my hair beautifully.

 

 

To do this I have found another YouTube channel. Its called Cute Girl Hairstyles. Mindy shows you how to do a million hairstyles. Some of them you would need someone else to do for you, but Olivia would help me.

So yeah. I have a lot of things I am going to do.  By the by, Mum thinks this is a great idea and says these channels are amazing and totally safe. So don't worry.

Olivia is going to do this with me. Hopefully we will soon have some pictures to post of our nail art. Then again, maybe it won't be good enough to show.

Please check out these channels and tell me of any good ones you know of.

What do you do with your hair? Do you take time over it? Or whiz like me?

Plants Vs. Zombies

Yesterday Dad came home with a present for us. It was a computer game called Plants Vs. Zombies.

Now we are not big computer game fans. No way! I haven't played any in ages, but we do sometimes like to curl up with our computers and have a bit of fun.

My first thought was Zombies??? We don't usually like zombies. We find them horrid and revolting. We asked Dad about it.

"I hear it isn't that bad," Dad told us. "Just try it."

We installed it and then started playing. To our surprise Dad was right. It wasn't bad, it was fun! We enjoyed ourselves a lot.  They aren't normal zombies.

In the game you have to set up a defence in front of your house using plants, to keep zombies out so they can't eat your brains. Brains don't really come into it that much, unless a zombie gets to your house and then it says they ate your brains and you try again.

I really would suggested this game for you to play. You wouldn't want really young kids playing it because of the zombies, and I know different families have different ideas at what age children should be allowed to play these things, but me and Olivia think that nine and up is a good age limit.

Have you played this game? What did you think of playing it? Are you like us and don't like zombies?

We Are On These Sites...Is That Bad?

Today Olivia and I wanted to tell you about some favourite sites of ours. I know most people do posts like these, but I would like to know some of your favourites and to tell you some of our favourites.

1. Goodreads. This is a books site. You can get books recommendations, list out books you have read, take quizzes, find quotes from most authors and so much more. You can find us as by typing our personal email addresses in. We would be delighted to be friends with you. My email us thunderbird1.riley@gmail.com and Olivia's is thunderbird2.olivia@gmail.com 
2. NaNoWriMo YWP. We have done this twice. But our accounts are new. We made them just this year. We used Mum's email address before and shared the account but now we wanted our own accounts. NaNoWriMo is where every November you write a fifty thousand word novel, pretty hard I know! The YWP or Young Writers Program is the same except you get to chose your own word count goal. On both sites there are forums to go on and meet other people. If you want to buddy us are usernames are bookwormatitsbest and abstractprincess!
3. Gamestar Mechanic. This is a game making site where you make and play games. There are also quests to do and challenges to win. We haven't published a games yet, we are too scared. But we are going to. We have played many of other people's games. Our usernames are: Phantasmorania and Petrova!
4. WeHeartIt. A great photo site. You see a photo you like and you heart it. Nothing easier. This is a great place to get some of your photos for novel covers, character ideas and blog posts, plus other things. That is where we got the pictures for out blog header.
5. Pinterest. Olivia is on Pinterest more than me, but I do go on it sometimes. It is were you see a picture and pin it to these boards you have. It is a bit hard to explain, but we both think that it is worth mentioning.

Well that is all we could think of for the moment. Please check them out follow us and most of all, enjoy yourself! Thanks.

Questions Answered!

Hi! I am Riley. You may have noticed that I am a twin, well yes I am.  I am the older of the two X twins, only by a few minutes though.

Sometimes people ask us if we get spoiled because of being twins. Well not really. We are all treated the same. Our mum tries her best not to take one out more than the other or give one heaps of presents and another none. None of us have any trouble with how are house is run.

People also ask if we don't really have friends or go off with our family because we are too busy with each other. Again, no! We have plenty of friends who we love spending time with and our siblings make sure we don't ignore them. I can imagine if I ignored any of them for a day they would probably pull me out of my room and make me play dress ups or board games. So yes, we are not unsociable.

Olivia and I may be identical twins, but there are the differences in us. You can normally tell us apart by our clothes preference. I like to wear short skirts and t-shirts, but Olivia likes jeans and shorts. That answers another question, we do not wear the same clothes! I have no idea why mums would do that to their kids.

We do like the same movies and books. We are both fantasy fans and love Percy Jackson and Artemis Fowl. I guess you could say we are both bookworms. For movies our favourites are Disney, Period Dramas and Lord of the Rings/Hobbit.

Do we get teased at school? Well no because we don't go to school! We are another of those many homeschooling families. Would we swap families to go to school? No way! We would hate going to school and we love our family too much to leave it. No offence to anyone who goes to school. I just like staying home with Mum!

A friend once wanted to know, do we have different drawing styles or are we the same? I will just tell you know we are the same, but we are both hopeless. If you want art, go to my big sister, Jane!

Do you have anyone special in your family?

If you have anymore questions you would like answered, put them in a comment!