I kind of just threw this together a while ago. It's pretty rough, but Elle and Dakota Fanning are just so beautiful. I just had to.
 
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I'm not sure I'm okay with the fact that I have four weeks left of summer, and after this week, I have band camp for two weeks. I still need to do two graphics assignments and my summer reading! Oh no! I guess AP Lang is already kicking my butt, and I haven't even started the class yet!!!
 
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I've neglected polyvore for far too long, and I'm sorry :( I've just been so busy, and sets take me hours and hours to complete! It's much easier to go on tumblr and facebook haha :-)
 
Speaking of which, follow me on tumblah! as-they-glow.tumblr.com !! <3
 
Or at least check it out, pwease c:
 
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I must depart now, for I have a doctor's appointment! Farewell, my loves.
 
<3 xox

OH HAY~ It's been a very long time since I published a set. A very long time! So hello, everyone, and I hope this set doesn't confuse you too much haha!
 
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This year wasn't all that bad, but next year is going to kill!
I have band camp starting...July 23, I think, and then practically no break until school starts (to which I still don't get a break when school starts).
 
I'm finishing up my online US History AB course tomorrow (FINALLY)! And I took Personal Fitness at a local high school, and that finished about three weeks ago~
 
I still have to read and annotate two books for AP Lang, and do two assignments for AP Graphics ugh.
 
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I'm sorry for leaving. I kept meaning to publish a quick set for everyone, but they take me so long, and this one isn't even very good!!
 
Oh well.
 
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See you all soon :-)
 
as-they-glow.tumblr.com

Oh, good song.
 
...
 
Hey! Didn't see you there. How's it going? It's only 2:30am here, nbd.
 
Chillin' on a Saturday night, taking penicillin so I don't get an infection from my wisdom teeth extraction, which occurred five (six...I guess) days ago. I'm still swollen.
 
Also, chillin' on a Saturday night on tumblr (hiitsmelanie.tumblr.com) and polyvore (which I haven't been on for... maybe a month or so after not going on for like nine months). Sweet life.
 
And my friend, who, to me, is MY best friend, decides to always hang out with these people that are not friends with me, even though we've been in more classes together and SHOULD know each other more, and decides to take pictures every time they hang out, so my facebook newsfeed is all bunged up with them "planking it up", which is hella annoying and they should stop. Really. Just... why? Just no.
 
That's bothering me.
 
Well, anyways, I like the colors in this set, and I would wear this outfit all summer if I could.
 
The end.
<3

Oh, hey. Just took a six-month break. nbd.
 
Sooo, things have changed.
Lots of things, I'd say.
My life.
My likes and dislikes.
My taste.
My opinions.
My friends.
My views.
My experiences.
My style.
My mindset.
 
Or at least I thought.
 
When I came back on to make a set, I realized that, even after six months or however long I had kept from coming on to this website, I still found the same things dainty and sweet. I looked through my saved items, and it all felt rather nostalgic. I really missed this. But at the same time, I've been so busy and rush-rush, this would have taken up too much time that I really just don't have. I realized that I spent too much time creating something that barely represented me, and that it was childish of me to do something like that. Truthfully, I don't even know how to express myself until I figure it out. So I was wasting precious time going back and forth from page to page just to find items to put in a set that I was making just because? They had no purpose, now that I look back. Sure, it took my mind off of things, but I think that I could have been relaxing some other way!
And actually, I bet that my sets had great relevance to my life at the time that they were made, but now I think it was all just silly for me to use my time and energy on this.
 
So, personally, I hope that I don't go on here too often, because I just end up wasting hours upon hours upon hours...doing nothing productive.
I have so much that I have to get done in a night, and next year is going to be even worse. Things are getting harder, AND the AP US book is hell, so I'll need to concentrate on that, not on overpriced clothing.
 
I've become very blunt, eh? Yeah. I realized that about myself, too. Hah.
 
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I didn't proofread this, fyi. I hope there are no mistakes.
 
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Goodbye for now. :)

Hi,
so one single person was asking where I was.
 

...
Here I am!
Not really.
crap set.
I just wanted to inform you all that my nails look like a sparkly New Year's hat.
 
Kay. So go read my last set, if you feel like ganging up on my exboyfriend and harming him.
 
LOL I'M COOL. I'M GONNA GO TELL HIM.
 
no.
bye.

HERRO,
:)
Thanks for being my friend for these past two or three years. You're a lovely person.
I'm rather jealous of you and your guy, if you are still together..I'm not really up to date anymore, and I apologize !
I love talking to you about boys and school and just everything.
But you live so faaaaaaaar away! (All the way across the nation!)
It would be a dream to meet you :)
I'm sorry for always leaving you without notice;
I just never have time to come online, and it's a time-sucker anyways. I found that my grades are a lot better when I don't use the computer as much.
HMMMM. BLOODY BRILLIANT, EH?!
 
Have a lovely holiday. I'm very spent and sick, so I can't think right now...
 
Love,
Me :) <3

Hey, Ex.
 
I thought we would last a little longer, you know. I thought that you cared.
But you just used me.
And broke my heart, because the season was over.
And you expect me to just take you back next season.
No.
NO.
NADA.
NOT HAPPENING.
Kay?
K.
You
Replied
To
Texts
With
One
Word
Answers.
All
Of
The
Time.
You
Still
Do.
 
You broke me.
You took my heart and smashed it into an infinite amount of pieces.
You make me cry.
You make me want to scream and punch a pillow.
You make me want you back.
But I know better.
And my girls have my back.
They'll tear you apart, sir.
You'll be just like my heart: smashed into a million billion unrepairable pieces.
 
Goodbye, and fuck you.
:)
LOVE,
ME.

Dear Stranger,
 
I envy you. Maybe you envy me, and that's why you bothered to read this. Maybe you're just curious. What is this letter madness? Well, I have a long way until I'm finished, because I'm so behind, but this one's for you, my unknown and hopefully-soon-to-be friend.
 
How are you?
I hope you're well, and enjoying the last of the year. You never know; the world may end in two years. It could happen. It's very unlikely, but possible, yes?
I hope you're cherishing everything you've got.
I hope you're taking good care of yourself.
 
I'm not going to pour my heart out whilst taking to you, since it's obvious that I do not know you. That's fair, isn't it?
Have a lovely year. Have a lovely /life/!
Short and sweetly said, eh? :)
 
Warm Regards (much needed during these winter months, unless you preside in Australia; in which case, a simply goodbye is able to replace it.),
Me

Dear Dreams,
 
First off, before I start saying things that may be taken the wrong way: thank you. Thank you for making my nights a little more bearable, for giving my life some false excitement. Well, any excitement is excitement. Plus, with the good dreams, they stay in my mind, and I get to go back to them whenever I please. Then again, the bad dreams stay in my mind, too...
Sometimes I wonder whether you choose what I think about in my sleep, or if my thoughts beforehand do actually make a difference.
You know, (or maybe you don't...), when people say that if you think about something happy before you fall asleep, that you'll dream about it?
Is it true? I would love to know.
Because sometimes I think that you completely ignore my attempt at thinking happy things.
And you know that I don't think about happy things too often.
Also, another question:
Why is it that sometimes, you stretch out one dream for seven hours, and maybe the next night, I have a compiled twenty dreams that night?
Oh,
and why do my dreams repeat sometimes? THE BAD ONES.
That's just not very nice. I feel like you do it for your own pleasure, which is just rude. So stop, please.
Thanks.
But I do like how my friends are rather normal, on the average day, unlike my friends, who dream about the strangest things possible.
Like how once, my best friend dreamed that I was on the bus, and all of a sudden turned, and started making out with this kid that went to our school, but didn't ride our bus? Uh, okay. Thanks for that. Haha.
But I've never had dreams like that.
Well, I do have strange dreams every once in a while, which puzzles me, when it's after a completely perfect and wonderful day. Couldn't you just let me have a full 24 hours of happiness and give me a nice mellow dream?!
Guess not.
Sorry for hating on you. Don't punish me; I'm just putting all this out there.
Would you happen to know why people sometimes, actually, almost all of the time, forget the dream they just had five minutes ago? Knowing that, or answering that, may not be part of the qualifications of the job, so don't feel too compelled to have to find the answer. :)
No pressure.
Keep up the good work, Dreams.
Thanks.
 
p.s.- I do enjoy chill dreams filled with contour illustrations and messy all-caps text. Oh, hey, that actually sounds like the kind of stuff I like looking at.
www.marcjohns.com , much?! :)
 
Love,
Me :)
 
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P.S.-- take a look at that website ^
www.marcjohns.com ,
I do enjoy the simplicity and wittyness of his artwork. It's nice.

Dear Siblings,
 
I think that when people say that, as you age, you get along more with siblings, is a very true statement. As we've grown up, battles have mellowed out, and conversations have become enjoyable, actually.
I'm glad I have four of you to share my life with.
Four completely true siblings, all from the same couple: mom and dad.
Three wise and sarcastic older siblings, and one way-too-young little one. Great, eh?
We're not a perfect family; I know that.
But we're just fine the way we are.
I realized, thinking about what to write, that we're a really loud family. No wonder biggest sister doesn't like to be around all of us, eh, big sis? :)
We're not good at being quiet...
I love that we can all sit down and talk for hours. It's fantastic. We don't even have any of those awkward moments! c:
We seem to share a lot of the same interests, and it's really cool to be able to do things together, and HAVE FUN DOING IT! :)
We get on each others' nerves, yeah, but that's just part of being siblings, eh?
Remember all of those two-day car rides to Canada?
Oh, wait, we still go on those; one's coming up in less than a month... -.-
Hah.
Well, they're fun. Talk about watching kid movies and playing video games, then crashing in a hotel for seven hours before doing it all again for ten hours before we get to grandma's.
Hehe.
I love it. Especially when it gets cold and snowy and big brother takes pictures of the mounds of snow outside gas stations. Hahah.
Thanks for not leaving me, even after fourteen years. I appreciate it.
I love how both younger big sister and big brother, when he's home, will sing their hearts out during clean-up after dinner. And it's just great. :) As soon as we hear the steps creaking, we shut up instantly. Haha.
And remember how, when we first moved to this house, with the island in the kitchen, how big brother would pretend he was going down stairs behind it? Classic. I thought it was the coolest thing in the world. I still can't imitate it. . .
And the time when mom and dad weren't home, and we sat around the kitchen table, attempting to teach biggest sister how to blow a bubblegum bubble? And when she actually tried, the ball of gum FLEW out of her mouth and across the kitchen? Oh, how I miss that..
Younger big sister, do you remember playing with our stuffed animals in our HUGE play-room sized bedroom in Knoxville? Those were the days. I loved those unicorns. Remember? Mine was white with pink specks of sparkles in the fur, and a pink horn and hooves, while yours was the same, but with blue instead? :)
And how we would lie on our stomachs in front of the front door, second floor balcony, and stare at whoever rang the doorbell. No one ever, ever looked up to see two little girls with the same haircut, staring at them from above. We were ninjas, even then, sis :D !
I don't have much to say to you, biggest sister, because we didn't get along for a really long time. The only time I really remember talking to you in the past was when I ran into your room because I was in sixth grade, learning the periodic table, and I had a question. You answered it, of course, but I was like, "ON THIS WORKSHEET, THE HINT FOR THIS ONE ELEMENT WAS, 'you can't do the first three letters; can't say the next three'. DO YOU KNOW WHICH ELEMENT IT IS?!" And I don't think you did, until I said POT-ASS-ium. Heheh. Go science worksheets. And for some reason, that's the only reason that I remember that the symbol for potassium is 'K'..
Hm :)
Hey, so siblings? All four of you, to my two big sisters, one big brother, and one little brother? Well, I just wanted to tell you that I love you.
And that being an only child just wouldn't be any fun.
So what if I can't go to the art school that I want to go to? Think about it; $30,000 isn't reasonable when I can go to an amazing and nationally recognized public college for $3,000 instead.
Thank you for making me realize that following my dreams is still possible, even if I'm most likely /not/ going to Savannah College of Art and Design. (It's called scholarships, so you all say ;P)
I hope you are all successful in whatever you end up doing after or during your education. And I hope I'm right there with you when you celebrate after all of those hard years. I'm always here to lend a hand.
And,
I love you, big sisters, big brother, and little brother.
I love you guys and girls.
I love you all.
Love,
Me :)