Cadia Magazine

Where did the week go? It's still Monday...right? Yeah, its Wednesday, I know, but I like to pretend. Monday I found myself in a mountain of homework and could barely lift my background and Tuesday was a mirror image of Monday. Fun, right? Tomorrow will be crazy too, so I will share this post with you then share the funny stories and some pictures I dug up Friday. Deal?

I wanted to tell all of you a little bit about a magazine called Cadia. It's a completely free, online magazine for Christian girls. It was started by a girl named Megan, who is 14. How cool, right? She even asked me if she could use the name Girls 4 Jesus Christ, and I said yes. I can't wait to see what kind of article G4JC has! The first issue of Cadia comes out in May, yes its a little while away, but Megan has told me it gives them plenty of time to figure out the things that go into making the magazine.

Megan is extremely nice! Such a great lady for the Lord! I want to bless her today. I know how many of you read my blog, so what if more than 25 of us subscribed to the magazine. That would more than make her day.

So here's the "Bless Megan Game Plan."

1. E-mail Megan at cadiamagazine@gmail.com saying you want to subscribe.

2. Put the Cadia magazine link on your blog's link list or ask Megan for the HTML for the Cadia button.

3. Post on your blog about Cadia magazine encouraging others to subscribe.

Ok, so are all of you ready to make Megan's day? If you subscribe, please comment letting me know. I can't wait to see how many new subscribers we can give to Cadia. What a blessing MORE than 25 new subscribers would be!

Maggie

Lemonade Award

Hey everyone! I was awarded the Lemonade Award (I think thats what its called anyways...) at least 6 times. Sorry that I don't post about the awards very often. I love them, and thank you all for awarding me. I am always so excited when I recieve an award because it gives you the feeling that all of the work that you put into your posts has paid off. But personally, I enjoy reading recipe, funny story, updates, and picture posts, so I try to keep my blog to that kind of stuff along with completely random things along the way. I know, I'm weird, yes, but that's just the way I am. :)





So here's the Lemonade Award. Again, I think thats what its called at least. :)

With this award you are supposed to choose 10 people to award. I have literally sat here at my computer like, "Ok, I should award this person...this person... *twenty people later* this person.. this person *50 people later*...." And I just can't choose. So I award all of you! Take the award, because I have officially awarded you. :)

Blessings,

Update!

Hey everyone! My busy days should be over for now. Before now I had been studying for tests, I was sick, had a dance competition, a ton of homework, and I have been working on a couple of projects like a recipe book for my hope chest. So, now, posts will be back to normal.

Here's a little bit about what was going on while I wasn't blogging. :)

Dance competition. Sorry, no pictures. I took my camera, but we were way too busy. There were no breaks and there was weird stage lighting, which would make for a bad picture. So, since there are no pictures, I will explain it. :) Wish me luck!

This was going to be my first time ever on a competition stage. First time.Ever. On a competition stage.(remember that.)I was so excited. Its one of those things were your heart is quickly beating and you are jumping up and down inside, but if you really jumped up and down you would loose energy and your fake eyelashes would fall off. It's a feeling that you can't really explain though, I guess its like a rush. We were getting changed in a large room then they would call the name of our dance and we would be rushed out a door, around a corner, and out another door onto stage. I walked out on stage and forgot the dance. I could see the judges eyes. I knew they were looking at me. I know that the lady on the right was wearing a sparkly, fire truck red shirt with a navy blazer and a beautiful gold necklace. And I had forgotten the dance. Completely. I couldn't remember where the dance even started or what our starting pose was. All of my memory from the hours at the studio working on the dance was gone. Some how, I got into the beginning position, but what came next? A sick feeling fell into my stomach. All of the sudden, it hit me. Hey, I'm up here showing those judges what I am made of (even though it was a ballet dance) and that I love to dance. The steps in the dance seemed to randomly come to me when I made needed them, but I can tell you I felt like I made at least 5,000,o00 mistakes, and that's just a small number of mistakes from the first 2 seconds of the dance. I was dancing, smiling and in my head the phrase, "I've blown it." just kept coming to me. I was still looking at the judges, right in the eye. Which was nerve racking and gave me a confident feeling I have never had before. Finally the dance was over and we walked off stage. Once we were back in the dressing room I was telling my mom over and over again, "I blew it, I did horrible, I ruined it. If this was school they just gave me a F! I did horrible, horrible, horrible, I ruined it. We are going to have such a low score that no one will even want to look at us when we are done...." My dance teacher looked up, "What????" I stopped talking. "What do you mean." She asked again. "Me and one of the other teachers were talking about how great it was! Did you hear what the judges were saying?" I stopped. "But, I completely forgot the dance!" My dance teacher laughed, but I saw nothing at all funny in this. "That happens to EVERYONE at competition, ask the judges, its happened to them too."

Then the next dance came along. This time, I wasn't nervous, and didn't feel like I was, or had totally just messed up the dance. I smiled, danced my heart out, looked the judges straight in the eye, and did what I loved. Then the next dance, same feeling. I wasn't nervous, but excited. All of this continued through the whole dance.


And you know what the funny part is. The dance that I "ruined" got first place. And the other 11 dances that we took to competition (I am in 5 different competition dances) got either 1st or 2nd.

Lesson learned, hard work paid off, and don't let your nerves take control of you. If you let them take control of you, you miss how much you are affecting other people.

Funny stories coming on Monday, and all of them are from competition. You will love them. I am still trying to figure out why all of the funny stuff comes my way though. Maybe its just the way I am.

Ooh, and I promise, I will get pictures from the next competition, which is in February or March I believe.

Contest Winner!

The winner of the first ever contest here on Behind the Teen Scene and the new owner of the adorable bag is...........................


Clare! Congrats! I hope you enjoy the bag and we will be sending it to you as soon as possible. All I need is your address, so e-mail me at behindtheteenscene@gmail.com or leave a comment with your address and I promise I will not publish it.

Great Christian Girls Magazine!

Hey everyone! Sorry that regular posting hasn't really happened lately. I have been extremely busy, so in two weeks, posting will be back to everyday. Why in two weeks? I have been getting ready for a dance competition, which involves lots of stretching, practices, dress rehearsals, stretching, and stage make-up lessons. So there will be plenty of pictures!

Also, the winner of the contest will be announced later today. I can't wait to figure out who won either. :)

Now, on with today's post. :)

A couple days ago I received an e-mail from a reader of this blog. She mentioned that she would love if I helped her get the word out about her Christian girls magazine which she has just recently started. I checked out her magazine website, and its defiantly something worth posting about! So here's a little bit about her magazine.

She started the magazine at the beginning of this year, when she realized that there aren't that many Christian girls magazines out there. After a lot of thinking, she named the magazine Cadia, which means place of peace. Not only does she want to create a magazine, she also wanted to create a website that including things beside a magazine for girls to enjoy also. So she added a forum and blog. Here's what she says, "I hope once the ministry grows I will be able to get the sites its own URL and expand the site. I haven even been making notes in a notebook about writing a devotional book for girls. I am not sure where God will take me on this journey though, I may be dreaming a little too big, but with God, anything is possible. I just hope the site and magazine are a blessing to girls all over the world."

Since Cadia magazine and it's site isn't even a week old yet, Megan is trying to come up with a magazine staff. She wanted me to mention, " I am looking currently looking for writers, photographers, and editors for Cadia Magazine. I would love to get as many Christian girls on the team as possible because while praying about starting a magazine over Christmas break I realized with a larger team we could get so much more done, the word about the magazine could get out even more, and we could have a magazine filled with lots of amazing things!" If you are interested in joining the Cadia magazine team e-mail Megan at cadiamagazine@gmail.com and she will e-mail you information about being on the staff of the magazine.

Also, be sure to check out the website, www.cadiamagazine.webs.com. The website includes a blog (which had its first post today, I can't wait to read the articles because it sounds like the blog will be amazing) and a forum. You can become a member to have your own user name to post on the forum also.

And closing, Megan e-mailed me saying, "I would love if the girls added the site to their favorites and visited it to add to the forum and read the blog. I would love to see the sites URL on blog links too. God bless everyone!"

Be sure to go over to Megan's magazine site today. I plan on becoming a member and possibly becoming a photographer for her magazine. That would be a lot of fun!

Maggie

Giveaway Winner will be Anounced Tomarrow

Entry time for the purse is up, the winners will be announced tomarrow.

Good luck!

Hey!

Hey everyone! Wow, its been a while since I have updated. I have been sick, like, I ran out of a store and...uhh, how do I say this....lost my lunch on the cement kind of sick. I am still running a temperature, but making progress because now I can sit up and not feel dizzy! I had intended to take Christmas Eve and Christmas day off from blogging, and I did that, but I didn't intend to get sick, which is what extended my little break.

Anyways, I am back and currently feeling much better. So if any of you were wondering what happened, now you know! :)

I was thrilled when I recieved an e-mail the other day that said I could be the next Pioneer Woman with all of my funny stories and sence of humor. I actually re-read the e-mail to make sure I hadn't read it wrong or something, because thats not what I would call something I would read every day.

The reader (who shall remain nameless) meant Pioneer Woman as in Ree Drummond. Hilarious, Pioneer wife, wonderful photographer, butter lover, made the #1 spot on the New York Best Sellers list, Pioneer Woman.

It made my day reading the e-mail. She mentioned that I could be the Pioneer Woman when I was an adult...the only deal, I don't live in the country. So how would that be possible?

I thought for a little bit on that one, then I thought of the name that I originally wanted to name Behind the Teen Scene, it was genus. (and FYI, I hadn't even known the Pioneer Woman exsisted when I thought of the name.) The name, which I will not include because it will be a surprise you can wait for...for ooh, the next 10 or 15 years when I open my adult blog. :) I know, long time to wait, but its worth it, and gives me plenty of time to practice my photography, cuz yikes, it needs a little improvement.

So, through all of my blabbering, can't you tell I am sick? Or do I blabber this much when I do a normal post. I hope not!

More updates later! (as I plan to catch up with the posts I missed posting while being very sick) Expect another post later this afternoon.

Until then, bye!