Christmas Lullaby

Hey, y'all! :) (since only one of us really says "y'all", do I really need to say who this is? ;) )

Just wanted to let everyone know that there is a new clip added to our playlist to the right: Christmas Lullaby is now the first song in the list. When Raluca was at Stamps-Baxter School of Music, she e-mailed me and said, "How would you like to do a Christmas song?" I thought the idea was a great one and asked what style of Christmas song she was thinking of...she suggested a lullaby, and so voila! here is a Christmas Lullaby. :) (I know, real original title and all... *shrug*)

As you might hear on the Lullaby demo clip, I'm having some mic issues (sorry!), so though we have a couple other songs written, we have no demos of those yet. Anyone have a good suggestion for a good, but inexpensive, mic that works well for recording on the computer?! :)

Pictures

(photo credit: Amber Miller)
OK, here are the pictures, etc. from when Raluca and I met last Sunday in Chicago. :) All photos are credited to Hannah Michelle L. unless otherwise marked. Thanks, Hannah! :)

A quick rundown on our day:
Hannah (a mutual friend of ours) and I met Raluca at her church in a Chicago suburb Sunday morning.
(photo credit: Amber Miller)

We hung around for a little bit talking, met Raluca's aunt (a sweet and beautiful lady! :)), and then loaded up in my car to head to the house of another mutual friend, Heidi.

They fed us in fine style and then we stayed at their house for the afternoon, talking, laughing, taking pictures, and playing a game called "Loaded Questions". (quick bit of trivia: Raluca's favorite childhood meal was spinach (her grandmother's spinach, she was quick to specify!), and my favorite breed of dog is Rottweilers. Just FYI. :))

(photo credit: Haley Miller)

Then we went to Heidi's church, which is where we sang "Love Did" (see video in post below).

After church, we hung around for a little while talking to my sister Amber and her friend Kezia, who had driven over to hear us.

And we had a fun little "tailgating party" in the church parking lot with Heidi, Hannah M., Hannah K., Raluca, and myself--all members of the Ernie Haase & Signature Sound message board! :)

During this "party", Curious George got to meet a Romanian. :) (my sister and I brought my brother's monkey with us to take his picture around Chicago.)

Then Raluca's aunt came to pick her up and we parted ways with more than a little sadness. But a WHOLE lot of joy and good memories! :) It was a fun day, for sure.

Raluca and her aunt, Mihaela

(photo credit: Haley Miller)
Hannah and Raluca

Haley and Raluca

We did it!

We finally met! :) It was so much fun!
And...we sang together! :) A mutual friend of ours (whom we also met for the first time on Sunday) asked us to sing one of our songs at her church Sunday night. We sang "Love Did", and aside from some technical difficulties it went pretty good! My sister video taped it for us, so here's the video on YouTube...and I'll post pictures as soon as I get around to it, including an updated profile picture of us actually together. :)

And now...

Hey, y'all! :) Haley here...

Well, so...what are we up to now??? *ahem* We are in the midst of conjuring up and carrying out plans to actually meet --in real life, face to face-- in Chicago this next weekend!! :) Oh, yeah...this is going to be SO fun! :) My sister Amber and I started talking back in January about taking a trip to Chicago "sometime at the end of June/beginning of July", and then we found out that Raluca was also going to be in Chicago at the same time!!! So of course there is no way we are going to be that close to each other and NOT meet. :)

So...just thought I'd let y'all know. Just in case anyone cared. Or maybe just 'cause I am SO excited I had to tell somebody, even if it's just some imaginary person out there that I *think* is reading this blog. :) (Although, our little "where our visitors are from" thing down there to the right is telling us that we have visitors from, like, all over the U.S., so... *shrug*) And, we will be sure to take, and post, pictures. And maybe video. Y'know, if we do anything fun or exciting. :)

Long time, no post...

Hey, y'all!
Yes, we are still alive... :) Sorry for the long silence, but then, we don't really have much to report. We do have another new song, Still Painting Beauty, and once we get a demo made of it the new clip will be added to our sweet little playlist in the top right corner.

Beyond that, we're still waiting for God to work and to lead us. We're reading/researching music publishing and how all that works, etc. But we're not in a huge rush to do anything right now because we don't want to run ahead of God and don't really feel like we have definitive direction from Him about what we should do next. We're trying to find the balance between "doing our part" and waiting on Him! :)

So, anyway...that's pretty much what's up right now! God bless y'all! :)

New Clips, New Song!

Hey, y'all! :) Haley here...
OK, I finally got clips of the *new* versions of the Dancing in the Rain and Love Did demos in the little player over to the right. So, if you want to hear them, click on that.
Also--there's a clip of a brand new (well, new last week anyway!) song called Choose to Worship. The demo for this one was mixed by Raluca, she did the instrumentation of course, and the vocals are done by a friend of hers, Valentin Muresan. Check it out, they did a great job! :)

A couple things to note about the playlist:
One, the songs are in the order in which they were written--Desert Places, Dancing in the Rain, Love Did, and then Choose to Worship. Also, I have it set to *not* autoplay, so if you want to listen to the songs you need to click the play button (the triangle at the bottom of the player). And, once you've set it to play, it will keep playing, repeating the clips, until you tell it to stop.

May the Lord bless each of you richly, and may you have a great weekend as we celebrate the resurrection of our Lord and King!

Happy Easter!

Hello this is Raluca! I haven't been able to post lately, but Haley encouraged me to share this with y'all :)

I'm going to play this song (and others as well) in a concert Saturday night and I did a quick recording of Via Dolorosa.

Here's the link
http://www.trilulilu.ro/sigsoundfan/0338eac3a790db

Happy Easter!

P.S. In my language (Romanian) we don't say "Happy Easter", we say: "Christ Is Risen!" and the reply is not "Happy Easter to you yoo", it's "Indeed He Is Risen!" :)