10/30/2020 2 Comments Week 5 The next trend we tried was to make a Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Latte. We wanted to try to learn how to make it ourselves instead of spending a ton of money buying them from Starbucks. So we looked up a recipe online and we found that the actual company Starbucks had posted their recipe so it was perfect for what we were trying to do.
The recipe called for a bunch of spices and stuff that we didn't have, so we first went to the grocery store to buy some things. The recipe also called for the special Starbucks ground coffee, but we decided that it wouldn't make much of a difference to just use the coffee we had at home. So, we bought all the stuff and went home to make it. First we had to put the sugar and the water in a saucepan and dissolve the sugar, after the sugar was dissolved we had to put in all the other spices and let it simmer for 20 minutes. This is the part where we messed up. I don't really know what went wrong but something for sure did because after the 20 minutes was over the stuff in the saucepan looked absolutely disgusting and didn't even look edible. After that we decided it would probably still taste good, so we brewed some coffee and put it in the fridge for it to cool a little but, because we wanted it to be cold when we drank it. Then we waited about 30 minutes and we combined the coffee with the spice mixture we made. It was really gross. I don't think we waited long enough for the coffee to get fully cold so it was like this gross lukewarm temperature and the spice mixture was also hot so it just made the coffee warmer. All around it was really gross and we ended up dumping the whole thing out. We would all definitely recommend that you just spend the 3 or 4 dollars it takes at actual Starbucks to buy a Pumpkin Spice Latte instead of trying to make one yourself.
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10/20/2020 0 Comments Week 4The trend that we did this week is one that is more specific to Tik Tok. There has been a trend going around where people dress up like ghosts and do a photo shoot. So, we decided to try it. We all met up at Sarah West's house and got white sheets. We also found some sunglasses to make the ghosts costumes more decorated. A lot of versions of the trend that we've seen include the people actually cutting holes in their sheets for eyes. We decided not to do that because we didn't want to waste a perfectly good sheet just for a trend. So, we decided that sunglasses would be the better option to make the eyes more apparent. Then, we drove to the back of Sarah West's neighborhood and took pictures. At first we didn't really know what poses to do or anything, so we went to look at the Tik Toks we had seen for some guidance. We matched some of the poses that the original creators of the trend had done and we also tried to get some shots of us in motion, so we ran and danced around.
The final pictures that we got weren't as aesthetically pleasing as the ones that we had seen on Tik Tok. However, some pictures turned out pretty cool, considering we didn't go all out do things like buy more props for our ghosts to have or go to a cool location to take them. 10/9/2020 0 Comments Week 3This week it was harder to find trends because there has not been many lately. So, we decided to start doing trendy things instead for the month or season that we are in. So, for the first trend we wanted to carve pumpkins. First, we went to Lowe's and picked out the pumpkins that we wanted to carve. We all found images online that we wanted to recreate and we all met on Friday night to do it. We started taking out the insides and it was a pretty gross feeling on our hands. Makayla finished first and she started carving her's to look like Mike Wasowski. Megan and Sarah West took longer to scrape out the insides because at first they were trying to make it perfect, but soon realized that it was taking too long. So, then they started carving too. Megan carved her's to look like a cat and Sarah West carved hers as a face with star eyes.
This whole process was overall really fun, but it took a lot longer than we expected. It took us about two hours total to finish. This trend still was a success though because we've all done this before and we all enjoy using our creativity. 10/4/2020 0 Comments Week 2This week, none of us really had time to be able to meet up and do some trends. Also we had already done the three trends for the month of September that we had planned on. Since we didn't complete any new trends, we decided to take another look at the different components of our project and to see if we wanted to change anything.
At the beginning, we planned on meeting up once a month and doing three trends all at once, then writing about it for that week. We now realize that that may be a problem because we won't have anything to write about for the weeks in between. So now we are going to try and do one trend at a time in an effort to spread out the process. We also only planned on doing Tik Tok trends, but now that is showing to be a problem. Lately there haven't been many new trends on Tik Tok at all and there's always the rumors that the app is going to be taken down soon. So, we decided to try and do any trend that we find on any social media platform instead so that way we can have more options of things to do. |
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