~LPSlover Origins~
Once upon a time, I was just a little girl who loved to make littlest pet shop videos with whatever camera was available. I made all sorts of things back then including: the "Spoiled Princess", "The Haunted House", and many other videos found on LPSlover or LPSkool. I doubt I'll ever see them again. My little sister Elena created a YouTube account secretly behind my dad's back
and started putting on all these slide show videos. Back then I had just finished the original "The Haunted House" in the basement while my mom was doing Piano lessons. I asked my little sister if I could put it on her account and she said yes. Elena's account was becoming so famous that it was overwhelming. And it was all because of my video. I was so happy, but annoyed with people saying that my sister was so great when it was me who had did the stellar video. Eventually, my other sister got so angry at Elena that as punishment, she closed Elena's account. I cried a lot back then.. and begged my dad for my own YT account so I could put "The Haunted House" back up.
So, why did I join YouTube? I joined YouTube 5 years ago on August 5th, 2007. I was so excited. I loved playing with my lps and now I would be able to share my stories with others for the first time. I had asked for months for a YouTube account and my dad always said no. Too dangerous, he said. But, he let me make videos for his YouTube account, and that was good enough for me. Finally, on August 5th I made LPSlover. Why the heck did I call myself LPSlover? Well, since I was going to make lps videos with this account, I thought I should have littlest pet shop in the title. Littlestpetshoplover was too long so I abbreviated it. Thus, I created LPSlover. I'm also a fanatic about capitalization so I had to capitalize "LPS". I created LPSkool as a backup and fun one shot music video account, and created MilkywayMaggie for my puppet videos since I'm also a puppeteer.
~History of the Videos~
In about September of 2007, I started filming "My Beloved Monster", my first littlest pet shop music video ever. It was a song that I liked that was on my dad's computer at the time so I decided to use it. It was lots of fun to make. I used a sock creature I had made the previous Thanksgiving. It was the story of Biscuit, my chinchilla and his love interest the monster. I remember sitting on the swings thinking in my head: "Wowie!! I can't wait to go home and see if someone commented!!"
A bit later I started "Mad World" I first tried filming it in one shot, all of the lps I was using lined up by their role in the song. I had the music playing in the background, and was ready to go. It didn't work like I expected it too, so I quit. Then my dad showed me that I could film it in parts like "My Beloved Monster" and string it all together at the end. I thought everyone was going to love it and go crazy over it. I posted it and it got a pretty minimal response. It didn't dampen my enthusiasm one bit back then. I went on to make "Kat Kong", my first ever series on YT. I made it with Amanda, my sister. It was so much fun. We loved the story, except she didn't like how she had to make kissy sounds at Coral and Peter's wedding. I thought it was cute so I had to put it in. That October, I started putting in new sound effects that I found on the Mac's editing system for "The Haunted House" remake. I posted the video soon after and got a whole bunch of feed back telling me that I had copied MYSELF which made me super mad. Plus, they criticized me about the sound effects. Sure it got me mad, but life goes on. People started copying me more and more on "The Haunted House" and sadly, people keep doing it today. I made other videos after "The Haunted House" but they were removed due to copyright later so I could become a YT partner. People continued to press me for a sequel to the classic "The Haunted House" so I made one. It turned out to be a hit, but not nearly as big as the first one. From there I made more videos that were also removed because of copyright. Soon it was time to go on a vacation to Idaho Hot Springs with my family. I decided to bring my camera and film a random story that I'd come up with there. At that time I barely bought two new sets, a camping set and a obstacle course set. Thus, "Over Come Your Fears" was born. It's a fun series about a fox named Loxie who has a crush on a guy named Al, and a phobia of deer. Her friend Maybelle invites her to go camping with her friends. Loxie accepts and goes camping. She encounters deer and a bear and eventually over comes her fears. I filmed the whole thing in the tiny old fashioned hotel room we were staying at. It reminds me of the trip and all of the fun I had while staying there...
When I came home from vacation, I filmed my first littlest pet shop commercial "The Hypertube". It's a random advertisement for a vacuum tube that can carry your stuff. After that, I did more videos that were removed later. One day I wanted to make something super random so I made up the interactive video "Flo the Fortune Fish". It was lots of fun to make and people really seemed to like it. The "Halloween" series came out that same year. I started making headstones and setting up the graveyard preparing it for filming. It was a story I always wanted to tell, but I never got around to it till then. "Halloween" was removed due to copyright content but can be viewed on my other channel, LPSkool. Time passed, and I finally made "The Haunted House 3". Another great addition to the series. That Christmas was the best Christmas ever. Our family received a HD Sony handy cam camera, and the Sony Vegas editing system. I was really surprised and shocked. I made an Updates video showing some of my newer lps and introduced the new camera. Now, I'd be able to make really awesome movies that I had always dreamed of. I filmed the spoof trailer, "RATS" for fun one day but it turned out to be a hit. People kept asking for me and I said, okay I'll make it into a movie sometime. I continued movie making with the ACSI: LPS (ACSI stands for Animal Crime Investigation) I made tons of episodes all the way up to ACSI: LPS Trouble at Coco's Part 3. Then, I came up with an idea for a brand new series...
While I was watching "Edward Scissor Hands" I came up with the idea for Grave Matters. Grave Matters started out being about a goth girl who fell in love with the angel of death. Now, Grave Matters is totally different, but about that same story line. Ivy Hemlock got me thinking about an orange beagle that I had in my lps box. Maybe I could do something with her..? I thought. So eventually I decided that I would make a paranormal hunters but decided that I wanted the orange dog to be weird. Vampire.. and half werewolf. Oh yeah! Another series I came up with was about an alien with 3 souls. I decided to combine the two, and WALLAH! Strange Happenings was born. I then reached 3,000 subscribers and decided to make a video about it with my director, Sparky Bolt and his "dream girlfriend" Risa. Then, the 4,000 subscriber video came around with a blooper reel that went crazy. That blooper reel is currently my most viewed video with over 2 million hits! My family goes to Oregon every year, so I decided to create an Oregon Vlog with Sparky and Risa. Risa's sister from New York came along and joined the gang. I film Oregon Vlogs every year I go now. One day, I was thinking about all of my fans and all of the things happening in my life. I then came up with the idea for Kandy TV, a series for updates and randomness. Then I started a P.O. box. People wanted me to interview Trinity, so I did, and continued it to interview other stars of LPSlover. Over the years that the P.O. box was open, I received 9 full boxes of fan mail. The P.O. box was closed due to how much mail was sent in. In Kandy TV #13, my boyfriend James was introduced as Jae the lion. I have never had a boyfriend appear on LPSlover before. James is a big support and loves the series. His favorite series of mine is Grave Matters. I am currently working on many new series like the Sparky Bolt Show and lots of other good stuff. Stick around and you'll see!
Check back on this history write-up for updates. Lots of the videos are missing from this history write-up because they were removed due to copyright reasons.
