life ~ a photostory

 

~ a life update in the form of a photostory ~

this is truly Julia's aesthetic, entirely by accident, most of her closet is blue and white stripes. she's always either wearing her airplane propeller necklace or her dream necklace, wearing double dutch braids. 

Once upon a time, there was a girl named Julia.

She was a dreamer, one with a good imagination and wide horizons. Some of her happiest days as a teenager were spent taking photos of dolls, lying in the street to get the perfect angle. Her dolls were like built in friends, companions wherever she went, on trips and vacations and outings. 

As she grew up, Julia grew busier and busier, and high school was a lot of work. But she had goals and she did everything she could to reach them. One of them was graduating two years early, which took up a lot of time and energy. After hours upon hours of studying, she finally graduated. 

Taking a gap year beginning in 2020, the weirdest year of the century, she had no lack of other things to do. Due to the lovely coronavirus, she spent most of her fall studying for the ACT and SAT and praying about the tests and what God would have her to do. When God opened doors to go to a dream college by making her adequate (2 Corinthians 3:4-6 was the verse she held onto) and giving her a 35 on the ACT, she was overwhelmed by His goodness. 

one of julia's actual senior picture poses

Taking a gap year beginning in fall of 2020, the weirdest year of the century, she had no lack of other things to do. Due to the lovely coronavirus, she spent most of her fall studying for the ACT and SAT and praying about the tests and what God would have her to do. When God opened doors to go to a dream college by making her adequate (2 Corinthians 3:4-6 was the verse she held onto) and giving her a 35 on the ACT, she was overwhelmed by His goodness. 

accurate footage of studying for the ACT

For the rest of her gap year, she worked on not overworking, something that damaged her health through high school. Healing from pyloric sphincter insufficiency was patience trying but she was thankful to have a year off to do so. 

She invested in her art, painting a mural on her bedroom wall, taking art classes, doing watercolor portraits and pastel doodles.

fun fact: journey to fort kernera and outcast are actually written by julia and she has miniature copies thanks to her friends

She wrote, tallying her life’s word count so far at near 800,000. Novels, short stories, fanfictions. She began volunteer writing for JAARS, where she hopes to be a pilot in the future but was given the opportunity to write about people who have done what she wants to do.

 fun fact: julia practiced 30 hours in one week. do the math

Practicing La Campanella by Liszt and Appassionata by Beethoven, she had her senior piano recital at the end of 2020. Along with teaching piano and violin virtually, she began tutoring ESL and got a job at Chick-fil-a.  

shhh doll newsies recreations may be coming up soon because i wanna 

Julia is also very obsessed with Newsies. Very.

One day, as Julia was going about her daily routine and really missing having a group of friends (she’d been through a rough season of life and change), she recalled the friends in her closet, her lovely dolls who had always been there. For a while she’d been too busy to relax at all and then when she got the chance, her little sister took over and interrupted any photo shoots. Darling little sister and Julia’s favorite person on earth but a tad bit disruptive.

Julia missed her dolls and the beautiful blogosphere community, from which several people had reached out to her, reminding her of the years that had faded into oblivion. So she decided to pick up a camera again for the first time in awhile and give it a shot (pun intended). Perhaps she’d be able to spend some time every now and then with her doll friends again, at least before heading off to college.

Because this story was just beginning.

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Y'all. I have missed this so. so much and I didn't even realize it until I completely destroyed my room with doll clothes and shoes and props. I did this all in one day and I absolutely loved it, I hope you enjoyed it even a fraction of how much I have!

This is just some of what I've been up to the past year or so ;)

I'm thinking of doing my life in doll photostories, I've got some photo dumps I could give y'all too. O:)

A huge thanks to Madi and Diamond and Jenn and Josie especially for reminding me of how much I miss and love this <3

be back soon (don't know how soon, work and everything keeps me busy and in addition to doing all this I also recording a podcast episode, took my brother to the library, wrote 1.5k in a fanfiction, decorated a cake... yeah. but I loved it so much)!

~ light4thelord/julia rose