Titles Are So Irritating and Stunt My Thought Process

…so I’m not giving this post one.
I just want to blabber about things and not make sense today. I am sick with a cold-ish thing that requires me to be constantly making and drinking tea (don’t worry, I’ve got some decaffeinated English Breakfast; it’s all good) and have a tissue box within in three feet of me AT ALL TIMES- WAIT WAIT I HAVE TO SNEEZE I HAVE TO SNEEZE

Nope. Nope. It went away- ACHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
I hear this in the other room, where my siblings are chomping on popcorn and imitating Hermione in English accents.

“Viktor, I love you! Viktor, I do! When we’re apart-”
Erm, yeah, anyway. Yesterday I had an orchestra concert which was GOOD and everyone was wonderful, except when I was fake-playing, but we don’t really have to talk about that, right? Good. We closed the performance with a Pirates of the Caribbean medley, which was easy-peasy-lemon-squeezy and a jumble of jollity to play. Before that piece, there was this gift basket drawing and award giving thing, which is great and all, but it was SO LONG and UNBELIEVABLY ANTI-CLIMATIC and, looking back on it, LAUGHABLY DULL. I mean, congratulations to the finalists, and graduating seniors, and concerto people, and the gift basket winners, but HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, SO, SO DULL.
*sniffles* *blows nose* *makes tea*
Whew. Lately I have been drawing a lot, and I WOULD take pictures, but– actually. I will. Right now.
THIS IS GOING TO TAKE FOREVERRRRRR.
Okay, done.
Yes, I know, the shadows around the drawings are utter rubbish. I couldn’t help it. I couldn’t figure out our scanner…

This one was inspired by the song Mariella by Kate Nash, which I listened to on repeat while drawing it. Brilliant song, by the way. I featured in my First Loony Tunes Ever post.

This one is all blushing and cute and straight hair and eyelashes and stuff. Aw. (Not my favorite, but nor horrible.)

Favorite one. I drew this one while giving a spelling test to my sister (ha, homeschooling). Her hair is all curly-wavy-cowlick-y, and she has this big hair bow, and a cute collar, and a chain around her neck that begs to suggest a locket- basically, she’s my favorite and stems from the recent obsession I have with retro fashion and girlhood.

Hahahahahahahahahaha. Evil balloon and a cartoonish girl with braids holding her breath, eyes poppin’.

The noooooooooooose.

I like to think she’s contemplating her existence with her expressionless mouth and stony eyes. But she’s probably grinding her teeth at the state of her lusciously abstract main.

A lily that I sketched while JAMMIN’ to the Smiths and Morrissey and my Best of the Girl Groups album. The shadows are SO BAD, I KNOW.
All right, that’s all for my sketchbook.
Also, at my orchestra concert, I left my purse which had my DEAR LITTLE IPOD in it, and when we went back for it at 10:15 at night, the purse was…gone. Luckily, my conductor grabbed it and has mailed it to me today, as our season is now finished and I will no longer ever see him again (*pretends to be sad* *reminds self that conductor is nice enough to return belongings to self*). But…I’m still without my iPod, and that means I’m without my TUNEZ and such for a couple days. Which kind of reeks, but at least it wasn’t stolen by a DESPICABLY EVIL passerby.
And and announcement! I have finally begun my collaboration blog, Seven Up, with six other marvelous girls. This is our very first week and I INVITE (Read: beg) you to check it out! This week’s theme is interviewing one another with KWEST-SHE-AWWWNS just to do a little introductory post. I hope you like the blog, because I will be shamelessly advertising it here forever and ever.
Last, but certainly not least, I wish a happy birthday to my poppy!
Now, I think I’m finished with this post, but soon I will return! Sorry for my absence and lack of videos lately. I vow I’ll make one soon.
Much love,
Ellie (the Dancing Elephant with a Cold-ishy Illness Thing Involving Bacteria, Probably, Definitely)
Edit: New background made of BOW TIES and SPECTACLES! I love it. What about you?

Give It All Back

I could listen to this song a trillion billion million times, and now that I’ve edited a video with the song in it, I have! Great.
It is a nice song, though.

Give It All Back from Ellie Shackelford on Vimeo.

Bubbles are nice. Thanks for watching, and I hope you liked it , even a teeny bit.
Here is the official music video, in which some kids with RAD hair are awesome, and older versions of themselves wear equally large and exciting glasses. It was actually very worth watching, and remarkably amusing in the sense that THOSE KIDS HAD AWESOME HAIR, SERIOUSLY, and also, ya know, whimsical notion and ambitious kids and stuff. Watching it again right now, and I LOOOOOOVE IT.
If you comment below before anyone else (on Vimeo, OR my blog) what the mistake is in MY video, you will receive a priiiiiiiiiiiiiiize that will most likely be candy, or bubbles, or something similarly fanciful, so have fun with that. I’ll contact you, deer.

I reward you for pointing out my mistakes. Think about that a second. To what is the world coming to? *dramatic fall to knees*
Much love,
Ellie

CAMP and Other Lovely Stuff

Finally, another video! Sorry about the lack thereof in the past month! Yikes! I’ve had some rather busy weekends, which is usually when I film, so I was happy I could record this one. I expect to have a video completely devoted to camp in the next week or so which I may or may not post on my blog. You all have a link to my Vimeo account (Contact the Human), so you have absolutely no excuse to be all “Ellieeeeeeeeeee, I couldn’t find it to waaaaaaatch it!” Anyway, watch this video! That I made! For you!

 

CAMP and Other Lovely Stuff from Ellie Shackelford on Vimeo.

Thanks for watching, love; I appreciate it and hope you liked it!

Much love,
Ellie
P.S. Special guests! Oooooooo.

I Had A Dream

Yes, I know how late this is…

I Had A Dream from Ellie Shackelford on Vimeo.

Thanks for watching!
Much love, Ellie
P.S. I TOTALLY FORGOT THE ENDING “ELLEFORD PRODUCTIONS” THING THE WORLD IS GOING TO END OH MY GOSH

I Hate New Year’s Resolutions

Salutations, [insert endearment here]!
I’m so glad you’ve visited my blog. It warms my heart and cheers my soul.
I’d first like to say that a new video will hopefully be up in the next few days, and that I’m sorry about not being on time, but you know. New Year’s! Christmas! I mean, clearly I’m a party animal, no time for silly vlogs!
*cough*
New Year’s often calls for resolutions, something you’d like to change about yourself in the coming year. It seems like everywhere is littered with these weak promises to change that…admit. They’re mostly always broken. If I’m going to change something about myself, I’ll change it WHENEVER I WANT, DARNIT! Needless to say, I have no resolutions. I have plans.
My first plan is to write. A lot. I want to start all the story ideas I have swooshing around my head, bouncing of the walls of my mind, and get them down on paper. I just want to have them there to remember, and if they work, maybe I’ll write a whole novel. It might happen.
My second plan for 2012 is to complete the masterpiece that is my Wall of Awesome. So far, this work of art holds three collages, two visual and one wordy, a Sound of Music poster, several drawings, random tidbits of scrumdiddlyumptiousness letters from dear friends, and the jewel of this colorful piece, a Twinings English Breakfast Tea ad.
Oh yes.
My third plan/hope/product of madness is to start a collaboration blog. A collaboration blog would be a group of a few people posting once a week and THINKING ABOUT IT MAKES ME EXTREMELY EXCITED AAAAAAHHHHHH. I was thinking it could be…fun. A sort of group of teenagers or something all writing whatever they want once a week and getting to know each other and…this is going to sound really cheesy really soon. If you’d be interested, you are my favorite, and feel free to contact me, the human. Links and information are where you know to find them.
And my fourth and final plan is to take over the world. *cue evil music and laugh* That plan is coming along quite nicely, if I do say so myself…
To sum this post up so you don’t have to read THE WHOLE THING OH MY GOSH NOT EFFORT EWW, I’m going to try to write a book, tape things to my wall, start a collaboration blog, and I’m taking over the world this year. While sipping tea.
I ADORE ALL YOUR FACES YOU’RE SO BEAUTIFUL AAAAGH
Love the Rather Sophisticated and Totally, Completely Articulate Ellie