Part 3 of the picture story without pictures

Part 3 of the Matthews Girls and the Talent Show:





Next week at school, everyone prepared to turn in their completed videos.

The Matthews Girls put theirs into two lockers--all of them in Kirsten's and copies of them in Chrissa's. In case of snoopers, they had decided it wasn't best to put the movies in Aprilynne's locker.

After lunch, they retrieved them and took them to the office, dropoff point.

"I'm glad to see you girls this afternoon," the secratery said. "You're the first ones to come by. Tomorrow, head on over to the auditorium for the results."

"Okay." The girls walked out, startning for afternoon classes.

Next day in the auditorium, Aprilynne felt something weird was going on. She was glad she'd recorded everything the last week and a half.

Then the principal came one stage.

"Welcome back to our talent show! We have all the results here from the judges, our teachers, and-"

"Wait! Hold up a minute!" Aprilynne saw Caroline Bek hop out of her seat, running onto stage.

"I have important news!" she said. "I caught some cheaters!"

"Who?" asked the principal.

"The Matthews family girls. They used illegal tapes and broke the rules!"

"What?"said the principal.

"Yeah! A few days ago, Macy caught them using all the tapes they shouldn't have...."



After carrying on for a while, the principal told Caroline to go back to her seat and be quiet.

Some other girl won the prize (she juggled knives while hula hooping and yodeling at the same time, but at the end, the Matthews girls realized that the competition had been more fun than actually winning would have been. Especially since Caroline and her weirdos were disqualified for trying to frame Kirsten, Violet-Courtney, Sonali, Chrissa, Aprilynne and Elizabeth, which actually was against the rules.
THE END!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank goodness that's over. I just wanted to get that over with. Such a boring story to write.
Have a good day! :)

Picture story part 2 (without pictures, haha)

Here's Part 2 of the Matthews Girls and the Talent Show!

Copyright 2009 by Kirsten




Around sunset, Caroline Bek was talking to her cohort and sidekick Macy.

"I heard the Matthews girls in the hall today talking about what their ideas," Caroline said.

"So?"

"They had some great ideas. I can't afford to lose, espicially to Aprilynne. We have to do something."

"Any ideas?"

"Yep."






All of the Matthews were gathering all the items they needed for their films. They made the garage their work area, except for Kirsten, who was in the kitchen baking with Violet-Courtney filming her.

All Sonali needed was her violin. Aprilynne didn't need anything except a soccer ball and her skateboard. And after Elizabeth pulled her pen and legal pad out of her backpack, they realized they didn't need anything more and decided to start helping everyone else.

"Hey, can you grab that paint can?" Chrissa called from a ladder, pointing to the shelf while trying to unhook an old, rusty bicycle down from the ceiling of the garage.

"Sure, but let me help you get that bike down first!" Elizabeth said and went over to where Chrissa was struggling, putting her hands on just the right spot, saving the bike just in time from dropping right on top of them!

Finally, Chrissa got the bicycle propped up against a large wooden board.
"Wow! Thanks! That could have gotten ugly," she said. "Now that I have everything I need to show how to turn an old piece of junk into something amazing, do you think I should I start on my presentation?"

Shaking her head, Aprilynne said, "Nope. You can 't do that without a video camera. Violet-Courtney is still filming Kirsten. At least I think so. Sonali, go check on how they're coming along."

But before Sonali could get up to go inside, the connector door to the house opened up, and Kirsten and Violet-Courtney stepped out.

"My tape is done!" said Kirsten. "Who's next?"

Again, before anyone could answer, the garage door to the outside banged open, and there was Caroline's friend Macy. She crossed the garage, and in the process stomped on a few of the items needed for the girls' videos.

"Um, yeah, RUDE!" Sonali said. "What are you doing in our house?"

"Nothing." Macy minced her way over to where Aprilynne had sat down in a lawn chair and shoved some things into her lap. "Here. These extra tapes and this camera are for you."

"Why?" Aprilynne asked as she turned the camera over. "Where did these come from?"

Macy licked her lips fast. "You know, for the contest-slash-talent show, and from the list that was by the other rules lists on that table after the assembly that told everyone families A-L hand out tapes and cameras, and M-Z, you know."

"Ah. How come we didn't get that sheet?"

"I don't... How should I know? Bye," Macy said, then ran out, slamming the door behind her.

"That was really awkward. Almost suspicious," said Violet-Courtney, shaking her head.

Aprilynne nodded. "I know. Was that supposed to be a joke?"

NEWS!!!!

American Girl has released new items!! I love the dolls and everything. There's something new for almost everyone, inluding the historical dolls. There's a whole new line of Just Like You dolls.
Here's the Sparkly Plum outfit. I also wanted to put up the Silver Belle outfit (????? I don't know if that's the right name)


Here's the dolls!


is one I really would like!

one looks exactly like Nicki!

This one is Sonali except with straight hair:

I don't like the ultra long and straight with hazel eyes versions, though.:

This could be Ruthie's twin:

And Jess's sister:

I like this one for some reason:

Ugh, another long hair with hazel eyes. I don't know why I don't like those kind! Maybe it's because I think they look kind of not real, almost fake.

She's cute. She reminds me of Twix candy colors:

Is is just me, or are there tons of dolls like this one around?:

This one is my absolute favorite of the new batch of dolls:

She looks kind of like I imagine Mibs from the book Savvy looks like.

There's more pictures that you can see on their website. I don't own the pictures.

My birthday!! (Kirsten's here!!!)

Hi! For my birthday I got the Kirsten doll, the violin, Kirsten's baking outfit and some money. Also, I went to McDonalds, and they had American Girl toys! So I got a couple of happy meals and "gave" the toys to my dolls. The toys are a combination of paper dolls, book and a couple of activities. I got Julie and Kaya. They have every character except for Rebecca.

Here's Julie:

These are the paper dolls that you can punch out of the card and some stickers to deocorate the rooms.

This is a 70's style fortune teller but I'm not using it.

This is one of the backgrounds... the front of Julie's house

Picture of some of the activities in the book:
The other side of the backdrop, Julie's kitchen:

This is Kaya outside.

Kaya and her friends before getting punched out of the card:

Speaking Rain and Talto are included.
Inside Kaya's teepee:

Activities in her book with instructions on how to draw Steps High. There's also a trivia quiz about whatever character you got.

Another shot of Kaya's outdoors backdrop:

The two of the toys together:

And here's Kirsten!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:

She says hi.

Violin set:

Elizabeth playing it:

Here's everything in the violin set put together. There's a stand, two music books, the violin, case, and bow.

All of the girls together:

Another close up shot of Kirsten:

I changed her into her Baking Outfit. Kirsten's "meet" outfit and accessories:

I'm so glad I got Kirsten!!

Picture story!!!!!!!

My sisters I saw a few of these on other AG fan sites, so we decided to try our own!


Copyright 2009 by Kirsten.





The Matthews Girls and the Talent Show part one









For half the year, the Matthews girls, Elizabeth, Kirsten and Chrissa, lived in Tennessee with their cousins Aprilynne, Violet-Courtney and Sonali, being homeschooled.(Violet-Courtney, Sonali and Aprilynne also had the last name Matthews becasue their dads were brothers.)


All of their parents were traveling professors, so for the other half of the year, the girls lived wherever the dads were teaching and the moms helping. When they were traveling, the Matthews girls went to regular school werever they were. This year they were in France.


One day at school, all of the students were called to an assembly in the auditorium.


"I wonder what we're being called for," Elizabeth said to her friend Kitty.


"Well, I hope it's a contest!" Aprilynne said before Kitty could answer.Contest and competition were Aprilynne's favorite words.


After every class arrived at the auditorium and was seated, the principal walked onto the stage and started to talk, of course in French.


"Welcome, students! As you know, every year we have a talent show. You can perform anything you like on the stage. But this year, we're trying something new!


"This year, our talent show is going to be through video! Each of you intersted will fill out a form, make a video of you doing your performance, and then we'll judge them. The winner will be the video that has the best performance, like a talent show, but winning will also be based on how good your video is, technically. To do well, you must have good lighting and sound, and also good editing. Does that sound like fun?"


"YEAH!!" the students shouted.


"Well, if you want to participate in the show," the principal said, "pick up an entry form on your way out of the auditorium, have your parents sign it. Then bring it back tomorrow and drop it off to your teacher.Also, there are rules to the show/contest! Please pick up a rules sheet on your way out as well. They're beside the entry forms."


After that, the teachers started to usher the students out of the auditorium and back to class. Most of the girls picked up both flyers.
As Sonali bent down to grab one, she heard Caroline Bek say as she was glancing over the rules page, "Whatever. Who cares about rules? Winning this is going to be so easy."
Then, Sonali heard Aprilynne reply, "Ha! That's what you say. You may have won last year, but this year you're going down!"
Caroline started to say something, but just flipped her ponytail and flounced away.
Back at the house after school, the girls made sandwiches and brought them up to the attic of the house, which they had discovered made a great hideout and started to discuss the talent show.

Elizabeth raised her hand and jumped into the special chair the cousins shared, used for making statements.

"I think," she said, "We should-"but before she could finish what she was saying, the attic door burst open and a light flashed on! There was Kirsten's friend Emily.

"Hi, guys!" she said. "What'cha doing?"
"Shh! Turn out the light and close the door. We're trying to come up with ideas for the talent show contest," Aprilynne said, "and we don't want anyone to hear us!"
Emily shut the door quietly, flipped off the light and plopped down. "So, any good ideas so far? Hope so, because my idea tank is a little low."
Aprilynne replied, "No, none so far. But we're trying to think of a real good one, one that'll put that Caroline Bek in her place!"
"What was that all about earlier, anyway, Aprilynne?" asked Violet-Courtney. "I heard you talking to her after the assembly and it didn't sound nice."
"Oh, I saw on the bulliten board earlier this month that Caroline Bek has won most every contest there is to be won in our school, especially the talent ones, and she's really cocky about it, too. I even talked to some of the other girls in our classes and they said she cheats to win. If there's something I can't stand, it's cheating and cockiness. Espicially if I know we can beat her fair and square!"
Still on the Statement Chair, Elizabeth said slowly, "Yes... I think that's good reason to try to come up with a great idea, but we shouldn't let that be our main focus on trying to win. The talent show is suposed to be fun!"
"And beating a snob isn't?" Aprilynne said.
Chrissa had been looking at the rules paper she had put into a binder. "Wait a minute, "she said, "The guidelines say that we should do something that we're good at, that we can have a person that'll film us, but what we're doing should be the main focus of the film each of us makes.Plus no making fun of others or saying bad stuff about them on tape."

"Not many rules, but I think we should stick to having fun and getting experience in what we're doing."

"Yeah," said Sonali, "And let's start thinking of things we can perform, and not just the reason we we're doing it. So what are we each picking?I'm going to get someone to tape me performing a Mozart violin piece."

"I think I'll write an essay about the history of American railways," Elizabeth said.

Eventually, everyone picked something to do, and Chrissa wrote them in her binder. Even Emily got an idea. It turned out like this:

Violet-Courtney would do a dance she choreographed herself while singing and would do the taping for everyone in the Matthews family, Aprilynne decided on doing a half-pipe routine on her skateboard, a few rainbows with a soccer ball and some tumbling gymnastics moves. Sonali and her violin playing Mozart, Kirsten said she would do a "cooking show" and cook a thanksgiving turkey with gravy.Elizabeth told Chrissa what she was planning on (the essay) Chrissa wrote down for herself that she was to fix up a bike with four simple art supplies.

Once everything was planned out and written down, all of the Matthews girls were excited about the talent contest and went down to dinner looking forward to starting on their videos.

"I'm still going to beat that Caroline," Aprilynne muttered.

Chrissa movie review

My Chrissa movie review:

Okay, alone, this movie is worth a watch. It deals with bullying and has interesting characters. However, standing alongside the rest of the American Girl films, (with the exception of Molly-- I thought Molly was a complete nerd fest.) Chrissa kind of falls flat. Compared with the Felicity, Kit and Samantha, Chrissa is weak and doesn't deal with her problems. She just lets Tara bully her. Sam, Felicity and certainly Kit wouldn't have put up with that!

But when it's not being compared to the other AG movies, Chrissa is enjoyable. Good story and okay acting, I guess.

pictures

I didn't have time to caption the pictures I posted last night because I posted it late and realized I had to go to bed before I had the chance.
So, here's the captions!
I love Narnia, and Lucy is my main favorite character besides Aslan. Aslan and Lucy rock! Oh, I also like the picture of Susan.
The pictures of the little boy are my little brother (so cute!), and the weird one is a photo of a heart-shaped puddle I found on the floor one day.

Random Pictures

Some pictures I love!!