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Christmas!

As we all know Christmas is coming up!!

So I want to ask you 10 questions.

What do you like about Christmas?

What do you really want for Christmas?

How do you like to celebrate Christmas?

What do you like to eat on Christmas?

What colors do you wear on Christmas?

Do you put Christmas lights on your house?

Do you have a Christmas tree?

Do you like Santa?

Do you like to make Christmas decorations?

Do you like to have Christmas at home with your family or do you like to spend the it with your Grandparents, Aunts and Uncles and other family?

There's the 10 questions for you to answer.

I'll answer them too.

What do I like about Christmas?

I like Christmas because it is the day when we celebrate the birth of Jesus!

What do I really want for Christmas?

I want a laptop!

How do I like celebrate Christmas?

I like to celebrate Christmas at home with my family.

What do I like to eat on Christmas?

For Christmas we buy a Christmas ham so we have a special Christmas lunch with it.

What colors do I like to ware on Christmas?

I wish I could wear Christmas colors but most my clothes are white, pink or blue.

Do I put Christmas lights on my house?

No.

Do my family and I have a Christmas tree?

Yes!

Do I like Santa?

I think Santa would be a fun thing to do but my family doesn't do Santa

Do I like to make Christmas decorations?

I love to make Christmas Decorations!

Do I like to have Christmas at home with your family or do I like to spend the it with my Grandparents Aunts and Uncles and other family?

I like to have Christmas at home with my family because when we're around other family my family behave differently and I like it when everyone behaves how they usually do.

If you want to answer the questions do a post on your blog but if you don't want to you don't have too.

Drama and Choir

For the last 4 weeks my sister Naomi and one of my brothers and quite a few other children from our local homeschooling group have been having Choir and Drama lessons.

I think I enjoy the Drama better than the Choir but I'm probably better at the Choir than Drama.

I like to talk and experiment with my voice and try make different sounds and talk in different ways.

I also love to act. At home Naomi and three of my other brothers and sisters have made two films (with our old Video Camera), one of Cinderella and the other of The Three Bears.

In the Cinderella film I played an ugly step sister, it turned out to be in a way funny and very silly!

In the Three Bears film I played Goldy Locks. I think I did a pretty good job at acting her but I preferred acting the ugly step sister.

Naomi was the directer of both the films because whenever she acts in films or plays or something like that she laughs so she can't say what she needs to say.

I think I'm pretty good at choir because at the church my family and I go, about twice a month Naomi, Elise and I are rostered on to play guitar and keyboard and sing with another lady. I usually lead 2 songs every time I'm rostered on so I do sing quite a bit.

It has been really fun having the Drama and Choir lessons!

Honest Scrap

I've been tagged by CB. Thankyou CB.

Here are the rules. 

-Thank the person who gave the award to you

-Post ten honest facts about yourself

-Pass the award onto seven others.

No.1 I'm short for my age

No.2 I love to email people

No.3 I love to run and play sport

No.4 I share a double bed with my twin sister

No.5 I need to wear glasses with close up things

No.6 I have long blonde hair and it goes a little bit green in our pool

No.7 I hate hanging out washing and I hate doing dinner clean up

No.8 I love to draw and paint

No.9 I have a awesome family

No.10 I'm five minutes older than my twin sister Naomi

Thats ten Honest facts about me.

I don't know seven blogs, so whoever would like to be tagged please leave a comment.

But for now I'm going to tag Naomi and Annie.

The Prinecess Bride

Over the last few weeks my family and I have been watching and enjoying the movie The Princess Bride.

I would give it a 4 out of 5 star rating.

I absolutely love the hero Wesley. He's dashing, smart and in one way funny.

I found Buttercup quite beautiful and honest. In a way I felt quite sorry for her the first time I saw the movie.

I also really like Inigo Montoya. His father was killed be a six fingered man when he was young, so from then on he dedicated his life to finding the man who killed his father. He found the six fingered man eventually, he turned out to be the princes right hand man. Inigo Montoya killed him.

The Princess Bride is a nice movie, there's action, true love, fighting and lots of other great things about the movie.

I've been tagged

I've been tagged.

When I first found out that my big sister Elise had tagged me, I thought "What on earth does that mean" Elise told me to go to her blog and there I found out what this tagging business was all about.

Rules:

1. List Seven Things That Make You Awe-Summm!
2. Pass the award on to seven bloggers you read religiously.
3. Tag those seven bloggers.

Now seven things that make me Awe-Summm!!!!

No.1 I'm good at cooking

No.2 I can play guitar

No.3 I can sing

No.4 I'm good at sport

No.5 I have great family

No.6 I can talk a lot

No.7 I'm good at drawing

So as you can see I'm just Awe-Summm!!!

 

Now to be honset I don't know 7 blogs so I can't do the second or the third thing. So that will have to do. 

Basic Pizza Dough Recipe

Ingredients:

2 1/2 tbsp of fresh cake yeast or 1 1/2 tbsp of active dried yeast

1 cup of lukewarm water

pinch of sugar

1 tsp of salt

3 1/2 cups of plain flour

Serves 4

1 Warm a medium sized mixing bowl by swiring some hot water in  it. Drain.Place the yeast in the bowl, and pour on the warm water. Stir in the sugar, mix with a fork, allow to stand until the yeast has dissolved and starts to foam, 5-10 minutes.

2 Use a wooden spoon to mix in the salt and about one-third of the flour. Mix in another third of the flour, stirring with spoon until the dough forms a mass and begins to pull away from the sides of the bowl.

3 Sprinkle some of the remaining flour on to a smooth work surface. Remove the dough from the bowl and begin to knead it, working in the remaining flour in a little bit at the time. Knead for 8-10 minutes. By the end the dough should be elastic and smooth. Form in to a ball.

4 Lightly oil a mixing bowl. Place the dough in the bowl. Stretch a moistened and wrung-out dish towel across the top of the bowl, and leave it to stand in a warm place until the dough has doubled in volume, about 40-50 minutes or more, depending on the type of yest used. (If you do not have warm enough place, turn the oven on to medium for 10 minutes. Turn the oven off. Place the bowl with the dough in in the oven, leave it in there to rise.) To test whether the dough has risen enough, poke to fingers in to it. If the indentations remain, the dough is ready.

5 Punch the dough down with your fist to release the air. Knead for 1-2 minutes.

6 If you want to make 2 medium pizzas, divide the dough into 2 balls. If four individual pizza, divide the dough in to 4 balls. Pat the ball of dough out into a circle on a lightly floured work surface. With a rolling pin, roll out to a thickness of about 5-7 mm in. Place in the a lightly oiled pan, folding the extra dough under to make a thicker rim around the edge.

After that you can top it with anything thing you want to top it with.     

Pizza Base

I love to cook. Some times it doesn't go to plan but it does most the time. The thing I hate about cooking is needing to wash up the mixing bowl and the spoon and everything else. Here I'm making pizza for dinner and I wanted to make my own pizza base for it so a found a recipe that my sister Elise had used before and of I went to make it.

Yeast dissolving and making foam

I was so surprised at how quick it was to make. You just add this and add that a Ta-Da. I added the yeast and water together and and then I kneaded to let it dissolve and foam for ten minutes. Then I added the salt and 1/3 of the flour and mix mix mix mix and then another 1/3 of the flour then I shaped it in a ball and then I needed to knead for around 10 minutes. After that I let it rise for 45 minutes.

This is a photo of me rolling at the dough

After I let it rise, I needed to punch it in the middle to release all the air. Then I rolled it out, put the topping on, and put it in the oven for 10 to 20 minutes and it was ready to eat.

This is a picture of one of the pizzas

If you would like the recipe leave a comment and tell me.

Guitar

I love to play guitar. I play acoustic guitar, electric guitar and a little bit of bass guitar and I can also play a bit of keyboard. My sisters, Naomi and Elise, also play guitar. My sisters and I have been playing guitar for 4 and a half years. I started playing guitar when I was seven.

At first it was fun and then it got harder. The first song I ever learnt to play was Mary Had A Little Lamb. When I learnt to sing Mary Had A Little Lamb I realized I loved to sing. Elise, Naomi and I now all play at church as a music group.

When we first started playing we each had a nylon string guitar, now we've up-graded to steal string Taylor Baby guitars.

This is a pic of a Taylor Baby.

Now we have a Epiphone SG electric guitar and a Epiphone SGbass guitar along with the amplifiers for them.

This is a pic of a Epiphone SG

When I'm older I would like to be a famous song writer, but that's a lot to ask for.

My favorite single song artist is Brooke Ligertwood, and my favorite band is Hillsong.

Ripstiks

If you've ridden a ripstik you will know how fun they are. I got in to ripstik when my neighbour had a baby sitter looking after him and his sister for the school holidays. She brought around two ripstiks for them to ride. Now with a ripstik you can't just get on it and ride it, it takes a lot of practice to be able to ride it. It took me a long time to learn how to ride a ripstick. 

With ripstiks, you can't ride them like a skateboard. It's really tricky to get the hang of it. You need to put your left foot on the front part of the ripstik and then you need to do one quick push of with your right foot and put it on the back part of the ripstik, and then you swivel. 

I've learn't how to wheelie and turn around at the same time and I can do wheelie's on both wheels. Me and my sister share a red ripstick and my two brother's share a blue one. 

My Drawing

I love drawing. I really like to draw cartoon characters. It's so much fun experimenting, using these eyes with this nose and that mouth with that chin or even this face with these ears. My favorite thing to draw would be the hair or the nose. It's hard for me to draw the eyes because it's really hard to get them the same.

At first I thought that scenery drawing would suit my style of drawing but where I live there is not a lot of nice country.

For a while I didn't do much drawing but when I got back into it I tried drawing objects around the house, I was alright at it but I didn't enjoy it. Then we got a free DVD on how to draw cartoon animals and I found it really fun drawing them. So the next time I went to our local library I borrowed a book called Action Cartooning by Ben Caldwell.

I found it really good and so now a draw cartoon people. I still do a little bit of scenery drawing but not a lot. If I had a choice of doing cartooning for a job or scenery it would be pretty hard for me to pick between the two.

Pride & Prejudice

I've seen three versions of Pride & Prejudice. I've seen the 1980 one, the 1995 one and the 2005 one. Elizabeth Garvie plays Elizabeth Bennet in the 1980 P&P and David Rintoul plays Mr Darcy. I don't really like this version of P&P that much but it's OK. 

 I really like the 1995 P&P. I really like the actors in it. Elizabeth is played by Jennifer Ehle, I think she does a great job at acting Lizzie. Colin Firth plays Mr Darcy and like Jennifer I think he does a splended job at acting him. But my favorite person in this version of P&P would have to be Mr Bingley, he is just so knid and cheerful all the time.

And then there's the 2005 P&P. Keira Knightly plays Lizzie, personally I think she giggles to much but she does a great job. Matthew Macfadyen plays Mr Darcy and he does a good job too.

But I think my favorite version of Pride & Prejudice would be the 1995 version.

Sense and Sensibility

Over the last week I have been reading Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen. I didn't think I would get very far with it but I'm about a 10th of the way through it. This is the first Jane Austen novel I have ever read.

It is not the kind of book I would like to read all the time, but it is a nice book. My favorite characters in Sense and Sensibility would have to be Colonel Branden and Elinor Dashwood. I like Colonel Branden because he is so kind to the Dashwoods, especially Marianne Dashwood, but he is kind to everyone. And of course Elinor Dashwood being the main character who couldn't like her, but I like her because she is very sensible.

But I also love Edward Ferrars who is not at like his brother, sister or his mother who are all very rich and proud. They were all expecting Edward to marry a girl with great fortune and they were also expecting great thing from him. But when Edward met Elinor he fell in love with but being engaged to anther lady he could not marry but they do end up getting married in the end which is all that matters.