Have you heard of her? If not I suggest you are crazy. She's Jasmine Star, a OC based wedding photographer and I drool over everything she does. No, literally. She is what I called my crem da la crem of the photographer I want to be. I stalk her blog every day. Yes, my day does get better when I see a new blog post! And I love it. Right now she is doing a five day course for free, live! And I am soaking up every second. I am learning so much and I lovelovelove it. She's talking today about branding yourself. I'm learning to put more of myself out there. Because all my prospective clients need to know who I am. What I love. So here it goes!
If you know anything about you know I am addicted to the show 'The Office'. So it should come to no surprise that on one of my co-workers last day, I surprised him with an Office gift! He loves the Office just as much as I do and naturally he's the only one who truly understood the joke! Needless to say, it was fun to make so I am going to show you how I made it. So enjoy!
Things you will need!:
Jello. I only used two boxes. It depends on the object you want in the jello or the size of the container. I would not recommend red though! It came out way to dark! Green or Blue will prob. be your best bet.
A random object! I used a calculator because it was only a dollar and they used this on the show, but you can use anything I supposed. They also used a stapler on the show as well.
A bowl. I have no idea what size this bowl is. But it fit two packets of jello in it comfortably!
Now just follow the instructions to making the jello. I had a ledge in my bowl that I could shove the calc on but I suggest using other things to make sure the object you want in the jello will stay put otherwise it will float! Just pop it in the fridge and let it harden and your done! Now I presented the gift to my co worker will the jello still in the bowl but on the show Jim put it on a plate like he could eat it. I forgot to take a picture of the finished product but I asked my co worker to take some photos of it. He put it on the plate.
In other related news since other people know of my love for the Office, another one of my co-workers picked up an Office game just for me. It's just a trivia game but Matt and I have loved playing it randomly! So cute packaging too :-)
And! Found the clip of the Jello :-) Enjoy! Happy Monday!
So I met the president last weekend. He was super nice and very well dressed. He offered me a complete tour of Washington D.C and of course I said yes! ...Just kidding. I wish I met the president and it would have been grand to get a complete tour of D.C. Matt and I went last weekend for three days for a vacation. We had a pretty good time. On our first day we went to the Smithsonian Museum of History. We spent pretty much all day there because wow! Those museums are insanely huge! We did see a little bit of the Natural History museum but I had been to that one a couple years ago so I didn't feel a need for a repeat. The next day we went to the Air & Space Museum which Matt was excited about for sure. It was so crowded. So many travelers. There were tons of people from Europe and Asia mostly. We stayed for a little bit but like I said it was way too crowded so we decided to leave early and headed to Pentagon Mall because I heard amazing reviews about it. That was a bust though. I did love the mall but most of the stores were uber upscale. I did enjoy window shopping though! The main reason we went to the mall was to look for a bookstore because I read my book that I brought with me. And no bookstore! A huge mall and no bookstore equals a sad HeatherK. We rode back on the metro and right by our metro station was a Borders. Yay! So whilst I was browsing my eyes stopped across a certain book and I gasped loudly. So loudly the lady next to me chuckled and asked if I found what I looking for. I was not expecting the second of this trio to come out so early, so of course I bought it because I just could not do it!
The next day we met up with my grandma and my two cousins who live in Maryland and we visited the Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial and the Capital. On our way to lunch we had to walk a bit which was about five miles I want to say. And it was insanely hot that day. I sweated like never before but it was a great time spending time with them. After that we headed home and proceeded to watch Interview with the Vampire because Matt had never seen it and he loved it! It was a great trip and I LOVE traveling. Matt even said we should travel more. Yay! Hopefully destination weddings are coming soon!
Has anyone seen the new Harry Potter trailer? Can you say EPIC? I cannot wait until November! As soon as I saw the trailer I immediately wanted to read the Deathly Hallows again...for the fifth time. I'm bracing myself though and waiting until October to read it again, that way I am 100% ready for the movie. Oh and in case you were wondering, I will be attending the midnight showing. I'd be a fool not too! After typing all this I realize how much of a geek I must sound but I can't deny who I am. It also makes me realize I need to buy a whole new set of the Harry Potter series. I'll take you back to a time, let's say six years ago. I woke up on Christmas morning on the crisp age of fifteen or fourteen, i.e I have a horrible memory. But anyway I walked into the living room and saw the first three Harry Potter books under the Christmas Tree and I was so excited! Needless to say after six years of those books and in addition in later years of the others they have received the HeatherK. badge of getting the living snot beat out of them. I looked at them on my bookshelf and they are torn up. No really, my brother's beagle got ahold of the seventh one and there is a huge chunk of the front cover missing. The other books binding are torn, so many dog eared pages, and etc. It is time for a new, pristine set. I once heard a quote, it went something like this. 'Show me a man's library where the books are all in pristine condition, no torn or dog eared pages and I will tell you the man has not absorbed the books into him, he has not fully read them. But show me a man's library where the books are torn, the binding wearing and the pages dog eared and there is a man who truly reads.' That is me. I read my books so much they look awful, but it gives them character. I absorb them into my mind and take them in completely. So I will buy a new set of HP novels but I'll keep the old ones because they show something, something special.
