unofficial guide to candy trading.

first of all guys, so sorry for the delay of the guest blogger post for today. we still have not received it, so we are going to replace it by starting talking about HALLOWEEN trick or treating. and more specifically the magic of candy trading. if you don't know what candy trading is, clearly you have never fully experienced a true trick or treating event. since some of you have never gotten to do this we will explain it to you. basically after your long candy collection throughout the night, everyone brings their haul home, and you and your friends sit down for some trading of the sweets. every year it's basically the same. so here is a brief guide to the happenings and some tips on a successful trade:

1. anything and everything is quickly attempted to be swapped for the prized sour candy. usually the person will not except any of your offers. bribery is needed. you may have to give up a lot of small candy. but it's worth it to obtain the SOUR PATCH KIDS/sour fruit/warheads/sour straws/etc. 

2. nobody ever wants the tootsie rolls. or tootsie anything. end of sentence. 
 ( my family calls dog poop tootsie rolls)

3. you suddenly become an organizing machine! :
out of the blue, you start piling snickers with snickers, smarties with smarties, lollipops with lollipops, and the gross miscellaneous with the gross miscellaneous . 
admit it, by some point after trick -or-treating, your table/floor ends up looking like a this picture over here. -----------> 

4. you develop trading strategies.....pretending you hate a certain type of candy so that it is less vulnerable. pretending to love another type of candy when you actually hate it so you can get a better trade.  it's as if you are skilled candy dealer(:

5. sometimes hiding your candy works too. or EATING the candy secretly. keeps it mysterious. 

6. avoid parental hunger. aka parents swiping an almond joy  while you are in a angry conflict about the trade of a large chocolate bar for 10 packs of skittles. 

7. packs of cookies or small snacks are not worthy of trade. they should have been eaten prior to your trading session. and raisins should be burned, spit on, attacked, and thrown across your street while a large moving bus drives by. 

8. never agree when your trading partner suggests piling all of the candy into a huge stack and then dividing it up "randomly". hint: it is NEVER "RANDOM" . eventually it will turn into a lose lose situation. 

9. the allergy kids are always singled out. (sena would know this being one with dairy and nut allergies) it is a chance to steal all of the chocolate/nut products. reeses, hersheys, etc. 

10. if you recieve a deal for gummy body parts or fast food it should be met with questionable looks. and then quickly give away the fake gummies, if the other side of the deal is worthy. we're talking 4 smarties and above. 

11. make sure you secure your full candy packs. full packs of starbursts, fruit chews, kit kats, etc. do not give away even if you are met with a very tempting deal such as 20 jolly ranchers and 5 whoppers. 

12. after a successful and satisfying candy trade,  you end up feeling like a proud parent.... to/of your candy.  and then you admire your new pile of candy. before you attack/ consume it. 

for more information please see this informative video:

and for more last minute costumes click HERE.

xx, sena and angela

ps. listen to lots of halloween music, and be sure to comment your tips and tricks to candy trading and trick or treating! 

Wreck This Journal (#1)

it's the first post in my wreck this journal series! i've done a couple pages so far and i'm pretty happy with them. and today i'm going to share the ones i've done with you guys! as you can see from the above picture that the side's have been slightly destroyed already! but the pages inside look cool. so here they are (sorry if the pictures are bad quality...) :

the instructions page:

not really a page but i wanted to show you the instructions to the book. 

press leaves and other found things here: 

i liked this one because since it's fall out right now, i was able to find lots of different colored leaves when i took a walk. but i made the mistake of using cheap tape when i pressed them in and it masked all the colors out. on the last leaf i taped in (top upper left corner) i used good clear tape and the colors looked much better.

scratch with a sharp object:

this one turned out really good surprisingly. i used a paper clip to scratch in all the triangles which was really hard. i tried using a exactoknife but it cut through the page and didn't create the same look as the paper clip. also when i finished there was tons of fuzzy stuff all over my desk and floor. i guess paper is fuzzy? as you can probably tell, i love triangles. 

ask a friend to do something destructive to this page. don't look. :

basically i handed my book to my friends, left and this happened. end of story. 

color outside the lines:

this one is probably my favorite. coloring outside the lines basically describes me! so what i did for this one is since it started out as a circle, i drew in the dream catcher first, then used watercolours to create the stripes. outside the lines of course. here is another pic from before the watercolour to show the details...

anyways that's all for this post. wreck this journal series #2 may take a while but i promise it will come eventually! comment below which is your favorite page of this post! 

love, 

sena

ps. im convinced that if my life was a movie, the ending credits song would most definitely be now is the start by a fine frenzy. i can't over that song.... and it makes sense because the end is the start for something else..... just wanted to say that.. ok... 

wreck this journal.

oh my gosh, today i just got a WRECK THIS JOURNAL! i am so incredibly happy that i got one and i'm so excited to use it. basically if you don't know what it is, it is a super amazing interactive journal where you follow the instructions for complete destruction of the book. you probably are thinking... "waitt.....DESTROY?!" well, as the book says "TO create is TO destroy." the book is to inspire you to think outside the box, stop being a perfectionist, and let your imagination explode like a volcano. this book is by keri smith, who is the author of several other mind-blowing books like mess or finish this book. but anyways i'm SO excited to use it (have i mentioned that? sorry i can't think.)  and wreck it up, but for now i will stare at its still perfect condition. 

i also got a cute pouch to put it in. 

so i've got a question for you, do you guys want me to do a wreck this journal series on this blog? comment here or on our new This Is Me Being Clever google + page! 

-sena