When all else fails...go to Target

So my fashion sense is a lot about the simple and easy stuff. I wear flip flops almost every day, otherwise I have my Nikes and for special occasions I have black heels. I always wear yoga pants or jeans. Typically my shirt is covered by a Juicy jacket and then hair is either straight or in a bun. Nothing frilly. Nothing out of the box. Just simple and easy. BUT lately colored pants are in and I love them. I don't want the yellow or the red or even the dark blue..I wanted something different. MINT GREEN. 

Mint green pants are all over Pinterest but no where in stores. It took me forever of looking but I found a pair online for $175. Not happening. If it was pants that I wear every day, then yes, but a fashion trend pair of pants that won't be in style next season...not happening. Then I found a pair for $75 but they didn't fit right and just...no. So I kept looking...and looking...and..looking. Finally, I kind of gave up. So the other day, I went to Target for cat litter. Now the number one rule of Target: if you're there, you just have to look around at everything else. So I did. Found a candle. Some nail polish...and MINT GREEN PANTS! For $22 I might add! I was stoked. Not only that, but they were designed for "curvier legs and butts" clearly, we were a match made in heaven. I LOVE them.

I would post a picture of them but I have already worn them so much that they are in the wash, getting ready for our next day together.

Passport to Communication

So, like I said in my last post..Comm Week is upon us. I had my presentation (that I brought cheater treats for). That day everyone walked to the other writing consultants and I with a paper passport to get stamps. It was our way of encouraging them to participate. Well, I have to say that these passports were pretty cool...guess who made them? Me! Well, Monica printed them but with the help of Pinterest, I designed them. See, I have seen people pin "Passport Invitation's" for weddings so I searched for them in Pinterest and found this template.

It was perfect. I downloaded it, changed the picture to our Communications Studies logo and then took out all the marriage stuff.

Unfortunately, I never got a picture of the actual passport once it was done and printed.

But...I'll tell you all about it. It was designed so that you fold the paper in half twice and then everything should be laid out perfectly. So the front page says "PASSPORT"  has the SJSU COMM logo and then under it in a scripted writing it says "SJSU COMM WEEK WRITING CONSULTANTS" because they were all coming to see us.

On the inside it looks very similar to a passport or even a license with a spot for a picture on the left (we used that for their stamps) then above it in lettering similar to the block letters on our paper money it says "UNITED STATES OF COMMUNICATION." Under that it has spaces for students to put their name, year in school, major, and Professor. It also is filled out for them where it says School: San Jose State University, Date: May 2012 and Event: Comm Week

Overall, I loved it. It was nice to see one of my Pinterest projects in action with people that aren't just me!

Cheating, but effective

Ok, so my entire life, if there was a bake sale or anything that required baked goods, my mom would always bake home made chocolate chip cookies. I always thought this was standard and then I started to realize that some parents take the easy way out with buying things or...rice cereal treats. Maybe it is because I really am not a big fan of cereal treats but I always thought that they were getting credit for a baked good when all they did was mix marshmallows with cereal. Well, someone pinned this the other day. It looks amazing huh?

They are cereal treats made with Trix fruity swirl cereal. Now...I am not big on fruity cereal or cereal treats but they just look yummy.

Well this week is COMM Week. I am a Communications Studies major and my class is giving a presentation during it (mine is on this blog!) so I decided that I would make something from Pinterest for the presentation...with my crazy schedule..good idea, huh? Well, that is what cheating is for. Taking the easy way out. That is what I did. I went to the store, bought cereal and marshmallows, used butter from my mom and my dads baking sheet...

Then melted the marshmallows and butter...mixed with cereal...TA-DA

Now, mine isn't nearly as nice as the ones that were pinned but they are effective!

So going back to my original theory. Cereal treats are cheating..yes..because they are wayyyyy too easy BUT they are effective.

"I solemnly swear that I am up to no good."

Ok, now, honestly, who doesn't love Harry Potter? I remember being in the 4th grade when I first heard of it. This is when the books started to be banned from schools because parents didn't approve of the magic in it. Stupid. Anyways, for that reason, I wanted to read it. I became obsessed. I went to midnight book releases and read them all in a matter of days when it took my friends weeks. Well..then the movies started to come out. I remember rushing home from school and to the theater on opening day thinking, oh lets be like..20 minutes early. Yeah..that put us at like 60th in line. Now days, it would have put you at like 200th in line depending on the theater. Anyways, movies were as good as the books.

Harry Potter Series = Obsession at its finest.

Now there are no more books and no more movies. I literately had been obsessing over this for a little over a decade..that is almost half my life. Soooo...now what?

Well this is where Pinterest comes in. Now I have the idea of not only watching the movies but making a point out of them. Harry Potter movie time is now workout time. Don't think I watch these all the time, I am not that obsessed. But they are on ABC Family like once a month and they are kind of my go to movies when there is nothing else to watch.

Anyways here is the Harry Potter workout. One of my friends created this and then pinned it. I thought it was absolutely brilliant. I have seen drinking games made from movie watching but never have I seen workout games. So my friend Jenna (who is equally obsessed) came over and we decided to do the Harry Potter workout to the first movie.

It was NOT easy.

You don't really realize when watching it how many times some of these things occur..like casting spells or or someone is awarded house points...or even when a ghost talks...it happens a lot.
Needless to say, I got a good workout out of it!