Hi Everyone!

Wow, it really has been a long time. An incredibly long time.

I'm sorry for going away for so long and not really saying anything to anyone about it or posting up any new art. I have an excuse, I promise!

Basically, I just had the busiest year of my life. It was my senior year of high school and I pretty much gave myself a ridiculously full schedule. Unfortunately, it was the first year of my life -- ever -- that I didn't take an art class because I couldn't work anything in. So I was really very very busy and didn't have time for art. I really didn't have time for dA, either. I usually came home, did homework, and, if I had time, showered (okay, I usually showered, but it meant less sleep and I tried to avoid that whenever possible). In any case, I really didn't get a break to do much of anything artistic this entire year, and sadly, I don't even have anything new to post.

Now that school's over, I'm looking forward to doing more stuff (I just embarked on a painting for my Italian teacher of her dog, Santino) and I'm hoping that I can take more classes once I start college in the fall (I'm headed to Dickinson College in PA).

I'm also sorry to say that when I signed on there were over 800 new deviations and some 80 journals, and I really don't have the time to go through all that so I am sorry for not critiquing everyone's work and commenting on your journals.

Well, now that that's said, I think I'm off to read some more HP theory about the seventh book... I really am excited about it... but you should have already known that... hopefully, I'll be back soon with some more updates!

~Sharon