New and Improved Cover (Dust Cover)

I bought the book The Highwayman of Tanglewood (By Marcia Lynn McClure)!!!!!! I am very happy because I love it so much! The one thing I can't stand about the book though, is its cover. I know, I know, "never judge a book by its cover" but honestly, when my friend showed me this book for the first time, I just wanted to laugh because the cover made it appear like a corny book with a corny storyline, despite all of the great things i had heard about it! I even tried to get my older sister to read it after I had, but she said, and I quote, "It looks stupid," even though I praised it so much she won't read it because of its cover! So, I decided that I would make my own cover to it, a more attractive cover, one that deserves that book. I thought it would be a cool idea, and so I did it! PICTURES BELOW!!!!

The Original Cover

The Back of Original

The spine of the new book-cover (dust-cover) I  designed & made for the book

What it looks like from the inside with the new dust cover

Front view of the cover I designed & made

Back view of the cover I made (I love the spine strip thingy-ma-bob!)

Inside view of the cover without the book inside, you can see where I drew lines to measure it

The book inside of the cover !!! The finished project! (That took me about 20 minutes tops!)

SWEEEEEET SWEATY SIXTEEEEEEENNNN

(i just felt like adding the sweaty!) So this is what i did with my day so far. I woke up at 3:30 am. not out of excitment, out of uncomfortableness. and i was still up at 5:30, not being able to sleep. So I got up and stetched a bit, and then i read twilight (haha :P) until 7:30 and then i finally got to sleep till 8:20 ish then i ate strawberry oatmeal, yumm. At 9:15 My palio kennedy took me to get my haircut! (isn't that the bestest best friend thing in the world??) And then we went to the mall, and tried some stuff on at Winners (the pictures are of the loverly things we tried on, but sadly, none of the outfits tickled my fancy) and then we went to Despicable Me. which was fun. and we ate yogen fruz and cotton candy, the movie and food are compliments of alysa. yes. and that is it, so far..... i will give the update on my other presents once i unwrap them! wooohooo.

Confidence. = Happiness.

I, being a not-so-self-confident young woman, have decided that my lack of self-esteem is not doing me any justice whatsoever and is in fact ruining my teenage years. Most teenagers, almost all teenagers, are insecure. That is the honest truth and nobody can argue with that! And I confess I am one of those people! So what do I do? I drop it! I decided to stop trying to find probalems with who I am, and being jealous of other people on occasion, because I am stuck with my personality and my body for the rest of my life! I want people to like me for who I am and not for who I think that everybody else will like better. So thats it! I want to be myself, and I will be myself! And I am going to have the greatest sixteenth year in the history of sixteen year olds! If you have ever observed, people are usually different at home then they are with their friends and at school, so this is what im going to do, im going to alter my life so that i am the same person everywhere i go, im just me! and i'll need to improve my attitude at home, and at school somewhat, but i think that this is a good plan and i am already feeling a sparkle of self-sureness.... what do you think?????