Glazed Part Eight

Hi everyone!:)

Thank you all for the feedback on the last part! I am really enjoying hearing what you all think!:D

 

Emma placed her last doll into her bag and clasped the latch. She was so excited to see her family again! And she had an idea to share with them too. Emma sat on her bed and waited for someone to come and fetch her. Growing restless, Emma twisted around to the window and stared out. She thought she could see the faint speck of a carriage coming toward the castle, but it was just a smudge of dirt on the glazed window glass. Emma licked her thumb then rubbed it on the glass. The smudge came off but there really was a carriage much closer than that speck would have been.

Emma squealed in excitement and skipped out of her room and down to the court yard where the cookie carriage was coming straight to the gates. She hopped up and down excitedly and waited for the King and Queen of Donuts and 'Dee' to come to the court yard. Thinking of the king and queen, Emma remembered how weirdly they had acted when she woke up. They had asked her the same questions about how she had felt and what she remembered about last night over and over, it had made her laugh. The king and queen did appear from the castle and glided next to her. A servant with Emma's bags followed them.

“Where's Dee?” Emma questioned, glancing around.

They shared a look and, frowning, said that she was busy starting her first day of studying and classes.

Emma frowned and looked up to where Jaclynn's room's window was sealed tight. Through the glazed window panes she could make out Jaclynn's round face and bouncy hair. She wasn't doing her studies, so why wasn't she down here to say goodbye?

The carriage scampered through the gates, pulled by chocolate horses, and stopped in front of the trio. The king, queen, and princess exited from the doors.

Emma screamed with joy and flew to her family and embraced them, taking in their Cookie scent.

“How did you like it here? Did you have fun? Did you make friends with Jaclynn?” her mom asked Emma and Emma nodded vigorously.

“I call her Dee now and we are best friends! I wanted to see if I could come next year and make this a yearly thing,” Emma explained her idea to her family. They nodded and smiled.

“I think that could be arranged!” Her father said and went to go talk to the King and Queen of Donuts. She watched as they spoke. The King and Queen's eyes opened wide and their lips turned up in thin smiles, but their eyes were scared when her dad explained Emma's idea. Their eyes darted to each other and to Jaclynn's window and Emma's brow furrowed. They nodded their heads but it seemed like a forced movement. Soon, Emma's father came back with a smile on his face.

“They said that they would love to have you next year!” He cried and Emma clapped her hands in joy. She scurried to the King and Queen of Donuts and smiled warmly.

“Thank you for everything! 'Til next year, and the next, and the next!” Emma laughed and hopped joyfully to the carriage and followed her family into it. The coachman snapped the reins and the horses twisted back out of the gate and towards the Cookie Kingdom. Emma stuck her head out of the window and waved her hand to the castle.

You can blow it up to see Jaclynn/Dee better.:)



And there was 'Dee' again, looking mournfully out the castle window.

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Yay! I think I might take a short break from posting Glazed so I can start drawing my normal pictures again because I'm starting to get a little bored with Cookie and Dee, but I will be back soon, I promise! Probably by Monday I will have a brand new part with drawings and all that! I still will be posting as much as I can, not to worry!:)

Well, I gotta get back to drawing and writing!

-Emma-



Glazed Part Seven

Hi everyone!

Sorry this is coming so late! It took me forever to draw the picture for this part! Bleah!

 

They rode off on candy cane horses, towards the mysterious food people that her father was taking them to. They flew into the gloomy forest surrounding the fjord and wove through the dark trees. They slowed the candy horses at a stone circle and slid off of their horses. The family approached the stone circle, not noticing a curious small boy following them with his baby reindeer.

“Please, help!” The king shouted yet the stone circle seemed to be completely empty. Then the earth began to shake and they huddled close together. Round spots in the dirt began to rise slowly from the earth until the thin round spots were towering above the royal family. The tall tube-like people formed faces at the top of the tubes and arms and legs soon followed. Jaclynn gasped at the spindly figures and realized what this food was. These peculiar people were of the souffle kingdom!

The souffles whispered in shock and confusion.

 

The tallest souffle lumbered towards the family and called out, “Your Majesty,” he lowered himself in an awkward bow and his brown beady eyes gazed at Emma to Jaclynn, “born with the powers or cursed?”

“Born, and they're getting stronger,” he informed. The souffle held out his arms and the queen handed Emma to him.

“You should be very glad that the blast hit her head, not her heart. The heart is...Never mind. The head can be persuaded, luckily,” the souffle said as he touched his hand to her head.

“Do what you have to,” the king replied. The souffle nodded and brought his hand away from Emma's head. Sprinkles of magic drifted out of her head and hovered in front of the family.

“I recommend we remove all magic. Even memories of magic, just to be safe. But don't worry. I'll leave the fun, nothing will change besides that.” The magic in the air played memories of the two friends, slightly distorted so that Emma and Jaclynn had no donut magic fun. The souffle lowered the memories back to Emma's head and smiled, “she will be okay.” The pink streak in her hair faded back to blonde.

Jaclynn's eyes widened and she touched the souffle's arm.

“She won't remember I have donut powers?” Jaclynn asked.

“Listen to me, young donut,” The souffle waved his hand in the air and a scene played in the sky of a girl with donut powers, “Your powers will only grow. There is beauty in it,” the souffle paused and the scene shifted and became violent, “But also great danger. Fear will be your enemy,” the scene exploded and Jaclynn backed away to her family.

“We'll protect her!” The queen said.

“She can learn to control it, I'm positive,” the king added, “Until then, we'll lock the gates, we'll reduce the staff. We will limit her contact with people. Including Emma,” he continued, looking down at the two friends. They departed from the souffles hurriedly and rushed the two girls back to their castle. Fear grew rapidly in Jaclynn's heart as she glanced at Emma's still form. Once they returned to the castle, the sleepover was forgotten and the two girls were separated to their rooms. Jaclynn didn't sleep that night. Her powers had almost killed her best friend. She knew that her parents' plan was for the best, but she was still scared. Everything would change, unlike what the souffle had said. Worry planted itself into her mind and she couldn't go to bed. The night stretched on forever until the sun crawled from behind the far away mountains and shone on the rainbow floor. Jaclynn sprung out of bed and ran out to the hallway, desperate to see how her 'Cookie' was doing. Her parents were obviously as worried about Emma as she was and were already in her room asking her questions.

“I'm fine,” Emma said to her parents, who were hovering around her like bees, “the sleepover was fun, nothing happened.”

“Cookie!” Jaclynn shouted and Emma's eyes lit up as she jumped off of her bed. The queen was surprisingly fast and blocked the friends out of each others view.

“Just a second, Emma, we need to talk to Jaclynn for a second,” the queen said and scooted Jaclynn out of the room.

“You finish packing,” the king instructed and Emma nodded hesitantly.

The king and queen shut the door and looked at Jaclynn.

“We can't let your relationship go as it was. I'm sorry. It's for Emma's safety, you want to protect her don't you? If what happened last night happened again and she wasn't alright, then our kingdoms could go to war, the Cookies and the Donuts, they could,” The king said and touched Jaclynn's shoulder.

“Now we have some new rules to establish with you later, once Emma is gone home,” the queen added as she steered her away from Emma's door.

“Everything will be fine. We're hoping Emma won't even come back,” the king said and with that, pushed Jaclynn into her room and shut the door.

 

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I hope you liked this part! Are you enjoying the story so far? Any tips for my writing?:)

Thanks!

-Emma-



Glazed Part Three

Hi everyone!

The next part is up!:)

 

 

Jaclynn sat in her room, next to her dolls. She picked up one and cradled it in her arms.



“I don't know what to do!” said Jaclynn to her doll, “She seems boring and it's always awkward around her. I know I shouldn't write her off as boring just yet, but I can't help it. She's going to ruin my summer,” Jaclynn sighed, “if only there was a way to break the ice between us. But she seems so distant and reserved. I don't see us becoming friends-” She stopped mid-sentence, “Wait. Maybe I can break the ice with showing her my Donut powers!” Jaclynn stood up and placed her doll back onto the floor. Nodding her head, Jaclynn skipped back to Princess Emma's room and knocked on the door.

“I hope this will work!” Jaclynn murmured to herself. She heard the soft pattering of Emma's footsteps, then the door popped open and Emma's head poked out.

“Oh! Come in, Princess Jaclynn,” Emma opened the door wider and Jaclynn noticed that she had already begun unpacking. A couple dresses lay on the dresser and a doll stood up on the bed. Princess Emma stared down at her brown shoes and Jaclynn noticed that the rims of her eyes were red.

From crying? Jaclynn thought then shook away the thought.

“I have something to show you!” Jaclynn grinned widely and Princess Emma's eyes grew a little rounder.

“What?” Princess Emma questioned. Jaclynn sat on the rainbow rug and motioned for Emma to sit as well. Taking a deep breath, Jaclynn smiled and flexed her fingers. Three sprinkles flew from her palm and quickly disappeared. Jaclynn glanced at Princess Emma and saw her mouth hanging open.

“How?” She breathed. Jaclynn shook her head, grinning.

“I don't know! My parents think that because I'm a Donut, my donutness got caught up inside me and gives me the ability to make donut-themed things into existence. The side of Emma's mouth curved up in awe and she grabbed hold of Jaclynn's arm.

“Do it again! Do it again!” She chanted and Jaclynn brought her hand into the sky and glaze flew to the ceiling and fell to the ground. Touching the clear glaze, Emma giggled.

“That. Is. Amazing.”

Jaclynn grinned broadly. Ice broken.

 

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I hope you liked the next part!:D

-Emma-

Sunset-

 





Glazed Part One and Two

Hi everyone!:)

I am here to present you with GLAZED!:D

Since I already showed you all the first part while it was unedited, I decided I would post the second part with the first part so there is something new for you all to see!:)

 

Now everyone be quiet, the story is about to start...

 

Jaclynn sat hunched over on her window seat, her little fingers wrapped around her knees. She watched a brown chunky carriage crawl towards the gates of the castle. Jaclynn sighed as she thought of what that carriage contained. Summer was about to start and the weather was already heating up. Sunlight streamed through the glazed glass window and sprinkles of light were scattered on the rainbow floor. Jaclynn groaned as she looked out at the carriage again and saw that it had paused at the gates.

Why does my summer have to be ruined? Jaclynn thought to herself. A servant scampered by her door and peeked her head inside.

“Your Highness, come along we're to meet Princess Emma at the gates. Do hurry, Princess!” The servant said and Jaclynn sighed and slunk towards the door. She followed the servant through the castle and out to the gates where her parents, the King and Queen of Donuts, stood waiting for her. They were dressed in their most regal attire. Long, orange and turquoise capes, dripping with glaze and sprinkles, were tied around their necks and large pastel donut crowns topped their heads. Jaclynn herself had her own donut dress, it had a yellow top with teal cuffs and the skirt was made of pink and blue sprinkles. She had on her light pink tights and black flats. And, like her mother and father, she had her own Donut crest hanging from a piece of gold string. No one thought anything of their outfits, for this was normal in Dack-A-Woodle-World.

They stood at attention as the cookie carriage rolled toward them. It stopped so close to them that Jaclynn could see the details of it. The walls were made out of hardened cookie crumbs, the trim was chocolate, and the top was a huge chocolate chip that curled at the top. The footmen, wearing chocolate colored suits, opened the doors and Jaclynn held her breath. The King and Queen were the first to come out of the carriage. They were followed by a girl who seemed to be twelve and she was trailed by a small girl only a couple years younger than Jaclynn herself. The royal Cookie family stood tall and a servant announced the Cookies to the Donuts.

“Their Highnesses, King and Queen of the Cookies, with their daughters Princess Pookie and Princess Emma.” The two families bowed to the other, then the adults joined together and spoke. Jaclynn slipped towards the two princesses and bobbed a curtsy.

“Hello,” Jaclynn greeted.

“Hello,” they echoed.

They waited in an awkward silence until Princess Emma said, “I like your hair.”

Jaclynn glanced up at her mop of fluffy brown curls, which had blue sprinkles scattered among them, and nodded her head.

“Thank you,” Jaclynn's eyes wandered to Princess Emma's own bright blonde hair and took in her humble dress. Jaclynn was surprised to see how simple it was. Emma's parents were dressed in their own fancy brown garb, varying in shades, even her sister had on a long, ornate purple dress with deep violet chocolate chips embedded in the skirt, but Emma only had a tan shift that came to her calves and a cookie pendant tied around her throat.

 

They fell back into their uncomfortable silence when the King of the Cookies came to the children with a smile on his face.

“It's all settled now! Emma is to stay here with the Donuts for the summer.”

Jaclynn deflated at his words. She knew it was going to happen, but she still had some hope. But no. Her summer was ruined.

There was a thickness in Emma's throat as her parents and sister came to say goodbye to her.

“Now, we'll be back at the end of summer. You'll be fine here with the donuts. This is only a demonstration of our trust to the Donut kingdom and Princess Jaclynn seems nice,” the Queen of Cookies explained, smiling. Emma nodded, then said her goodbyes to her family, tears forming in her eyes. She had never been away from her family for more than a couple days, and she hated the thought of being alone for a whole summer with only a girl who seemed stuck up as her company. She watched her family climbed back into the carriage. The cookie carriage rolled away and her throat burned with tears. Emma continued to watch until the carriage became a speck in the distance, then completely vanished from sight. The Donut King and Queen broke the silence.

“Come along, Princess Emma! We will show you to your room.” A servant with Emma's bags scurried after them as they began to walk into the immense Donut castle. Emma was struck speechless as she gazed at the splendor of the castle. She could barely make out the regal architecture with such bright, boisterous colors splashed on the walls, ceiling, and floor. Normally, it would have made Emma extremely happy to see such crazy colors, but her mood was darkened with loneliness. The Donuts stopped and turned to look at Princess Jaclynn.

“Jaclynn, please take Princess Emma to her room,” the Donut King said and Princess Jaclynn nodded her head and shuffled away. Emma followed her, as did the servant, and they twisted and turned through the colorful castle until Jaclynn stopped in front of two brightly painted doors.

“This is your room,” Princess Jaclynn pointed to the door on the right, “and this is my room right next to yours,” She gestured to the left door. Jaclynn reached up to the door knob, twisted, then pushed. The door creaked open and Emma walked into the room. The room was mostly bare, besides a tall dresser and a bed with sprinkles on the sheets. The servant placed her bags on the floor and, with a curtsy to the young princesses, rushed out of the room. Emma lowered her head and stared at her shoes.

“Do you want me to leave you to get unpacked?” Princess Jaclynn asked, stepping closer to the open door. Emma noticed her desire to leave, but she didn't want her to go so soon, even though she wasn't the biggest fan of her attitude. She would be all alone then.

“Um,” Emma began, trying to think of something to keep her here for, “would you like to do something?” She asked, not knowing what to suggest.

“Maybe later. You should get unpacked. I'll let you do that now,” Princess Jaclynn dashed out of the room and Emma heard Jaclynn's door open then shut.

Emma sighed and sat on the couch, feeling discouraged. How was she ever going to get through this summer?

 

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I hope you enjoyed it!:D I will probably post it daily, but don't worry! In case you don't really like the story, I'll be posting normal posts too! So that means that some days I will be posting twice.:)

-Emma-

What do you think about Glazed so far?:)



Hot Cocoa and Glazed - November Edition

Hi everyone!

This is another installment of the "Tea and Whatever I am Doing While I Drink That Beverage". LOL! And this month it is completely different! I am drinking hot cocoa!!!-

Exhibit A

With four jumbo marshmallows on the top.:O

-And that's the big difference this time around.;) I am going to be working a lot on my Glazed story today, editing and drawing (Yes, that's right! There will be drawings in the story to make it more interesting!:D).

So here's my post-

I made my hot chocolate from a random mix we have in the cupboard; it was a peppermint hot cocoa from Starbucks. Yum!:D 

And I am going to be using my phone for a guide with my drawings.:)

 

Here are some screenshotsthat I am definitely planning on making into drawings.:)- 

I have quite a few more but I decided you guys wouldn't want to have a whole list of ones I liked.XD

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I hope you enjoyed my post!:D

-Emma-

What stories are you working on lately?:) I'd love to hear what they are about!:D

It's That Time Again - Sketchbook Favorites

Hi everyone!

As I had put in my last post, I finished another sketchbook, which means that I get to show you my favorites in my previous book!:D

 

I don't know if I had showed all of you what my sketchbook looked like, but in case I hadn't...

 

This is the front--- 

And then it says that on the back!:)

 

Okay, I tried to put these in order, but they are my favorites out of the whole sketchbook, so I love them all practically the same.;) 

 

(Disclaimer: I am in no way trying to brag when I say that I "love my drawings". I really only mean that I like the picture and not like I am fawning over my talents!;D :P)

1-

Me and Jaclynn at our book signing in the future, so those aren't our real last names, just our imaginary last names that we will get from our husbands.;)

I really love this picture because this was the first drawing I did of Jaclynn and myself in the future.:) 

2-

I love this drawing!:) I don't usually draw animals often, so this was a different sort of thing for me to do, which helps me keep creativity flowin'.;)

The drawing showcases two characters in a story I came up with in my head.:) 

3-

GOSH! I love this picture.;)

Me and Jaclynn are really into the Disney XD TV show, Star Wars Rebels, and one of my favorite things to do is draw us in our fandoms, so this drawing was born.:)

I drew myself, Jaclynn, and the other person is my sister, Kendra.:) I looove our outfits and I think they match our personalities well, even though I shouldn't have added yellow to Jaclynn's shirt. Maybe a dark blue instead for next time.;) 

4-

Pirates are people that Jaclynn and I really love, (well, the idea of them anyway. I wouldn't want to encounter a real one!;)) so I saw fit that I draw us as pirates.:)

I love her outfit and her jacket and her hair, and her makeup and pretty much everything about the whole drawing.;) 

5-

I saw a picture on Pinterest of a woman with a thin face and black hair (it was a drawing) and I really loved the way she looked. Inspired by it, I drew my own picture of a woman with a slender face and black hair.:) She was originally supposed to look young -in her teens- but with the thin face and the scar I drew on her cheek, creating the appearance of a prominent cheek bone, made her look older than I had intended...more like in her mid 20's.:) Which is fine by me! I am glad that I found a way to make people look older while not being OLD.;) 

6-

This is a drawing of my precious Boo Bear Dog, Hallee.:) Every time I look at her (the real one, not the drawing, ;D) and I see her eyes, I think of how stinking cute she would look as a cartoon dog, and so I finally had made a picture for her!

I think I captured her eyes especially well, and I feel like I can see the actual Hallee in there.:) 

7-

A drawing of the story Glazed! It's of Jaclynn and myself again, and she's making the sprinkles and donuts with her powers.:)

I really love my face and Jaclynn's outfit on this one.:)

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I hope you enjoyed seeing my favorites.:) It's fun to look through my sketchbook and see all of my drawings and decide which ones are good, bad, and definitely could have been better.:)

I am excited to see what drawings will come along with my new sketchbook and I am even more excited to see how I will improve!:D

-Emma-



Some Drawings + Summer Reading Challenge, How Many Did I Read?

Hi everyone!

 IT'S THE FIRST DAY OF FALL! I'M SO EXCITED!:D

 

Here are some pictures I drew of Frozen-

This is Anna, if you can't tell!;) The lighting was funky when I took the pictures, so the drawing looks kind of weird.;) 

Now a picture from Frozen Fever! I just recently got the movie Cinderella so I could take pictures from it and Frozen Fever. WHICH MEANS FROZEN FEVER DRAWINGS!;) This is the first one so far, but I'm sure there will be a ton more coming!;) 

 

Now, I really like to draw pictures of me and my best friend doing different things, in the one below we are in Paris, France, going to go see the Eiffel Tower.:)

And here we are playing in the snow! I really love this picture.:D

 

 

Now, earlier, I had told all of you that I had the goal to read 40 books by the end of the summer. I didn't make it to 40 books, but I did read 22 books! I'm really happy about that, even though it's only halfway to my goal.;)

HAPPY FALL!XD

-Emma-

 



Tea and Writing

Hi everyone!

The amazing Kathryn at her fanastic blog, In the Depths of Dreams, made a really fun post called Tea and a Read. I really enjoyed it and she challenged us to make a post about what we are drinking and reading. Well. I didn't feel like reading tonight, but I did feel like writing! So I am composing this post to tell all of you what I am drinking and writing!:D

What I am drinking-

The Harvest Blend Herbal Tea from Trader Joe's! Fall is right around the corner (which means my summer reading challenge is over too! Guess how many books, in the comments below, I was able to finish!:D) and that means PUMPKIN EVERYTHING!! Trader Joe's has brought in all of their new pumpkin flavored food, which means that I practically eat pumpkin in every meal! I was inspired by Kathryn and the approaching season to drink this yummy fall flavored tea!;)

What I am writing-

Hehe! What I am writing is almost a sort of fan fiction based off of the plot of Frozen, but using different characters...more specifically, I am using myself as Anna and my best friend as Elsa.

If you know me and my best friend, then you know we have nicknames for each other (Cookie and Dee, I'm Cookie, she's Dee), we pretend that we are desserts and for this story I am a Cookie princess and she is the princess of Donuts, she has donut powers and the story goes almost exactly like Frozen does, but it's all food. It's sort of hard to explain over a post.;)

So that's why I have the script of Frozen in the picture. I need it sometimes to remember how certain people say certain things.;)

I hope you enjoyed this post and have a great rest of the night!:D

-Emma-



It's That Time Again... My Top Faves

Hey everyone! It's that time again...I've gone through a whole sketchbook again! I think that whenever I finish a sketchbook, I while post my personal favorite drawings I have made.:)

So here are my personal faves of my previous sketchbook---

I remember when I made this character...I think I was watching the movie The Barnyard. I wanted to make a villain since I'm always making nice people. I like my villain, she has power over lightning!:) 

This girl was loosely based after my sister.:) 

I remember seeing a house on my way to church that was painted turqouise with these purple flowers next to the house.:) 

This couple was based after The Baker and his Wife from Into the Woods. I stink at guys.:P 

This was my hand chart, not good, but still...you know...;) 

I drew a picture of my dog, Hallee. I really loved it, definitely one of my faves!:) 

This picture was based off of Honey Lemon in her helmet, but then I deserted it. But a little bit ago, I drew hair instead of a helmet.;) 

And this is Anna from Frozen Fever. I drew Elsa too, but instead of looking happy, she looked extremely tired and slightly drunk looking.XD

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I hope you liked the drawings!:)

Oh! And guess what? I FINALLY started that writing prompt story!;)

-Emma-