Let's Get It Started

My very first vlog post!



Cheers,

JoJo

My Talented Friends #1

I love having artistic friends! The next 3 blog posts are going to be about my talented friends!!

This is my friend Jo...the other JoJo as it may be :) Joanna Eberts is an illustration major at RIT, who is both incredibly sweet, and a mettle head.  Her art spans that same range from fun and cute to classic beauty and trow in a few demon horses and a zombie lady and you have some really incredible art work.

She drew this of me, my brother, my friend Paola, and  her at the Mat and Kim / Spoon concert we went to this summer.  We had an amazing time!!  Check out her blog!

Cheers!!

JoJo

So here is the deal...Life is good!

I officially have the most baller internship of all time!! I'm working for the amazingly talented new couture designer Nicholas Lindsey helping with PR for NYC fashion week. The majority of my job is sending e-mails and finding contact information to invite people to his show which is admittedly a little tedious but I'm a nerd and I love doing it. 

Part of the deal is that I'm moving to NYC in September!!  I wanted to do this anyways but this has given me the extra push to jump in with both feet. Now all I need to do is pack... oh crap... packing!!!  I have roughly 15 days to pack!!!! I have no idea what to take with me or how much! Right now I have 3 categories of things I need.
1: Things for Musical Theatre
2: Things for PR
3: Life things

I've got 1 and 2 basically figured out but "life things" get's a little tricky... do I need plates? What about my pink lawn flamingo... I like him so much... is there room for him? If given the choice between plates and the lawn flamingo would choosing the flamingo be rational? Probably...I guess I'll figure it out eventually.

And by October I might need a room mate... but I'll worry about that later. I've got time right?... right?.... right!

Anyone have advice on what's important to bring with me?

Cheers!

Identity Crisis

I am two people. Not in a United States of Tara kind of way but in a how do I market myself kind of way.
What made me think of this is ? Graduation. I'm graduating soon and for the first time I don't know what I'm doing next year. It's all up in the air. The only thing I know is that I'm planing to move to NYC in september and who knows, that could change if I get some kind of awesome job before then... okay back on topic. I'm graduating and I want a job specifically as an actress. I am also a PR major and would like to use my PR degree form one of the 13 accredited programs in the country some how and get a survival job doing that too.

Here in lies the rub, someone hears that you're striving to be an actor and they figure you aren't serious about having a "regular" job and that you aren't going to be at any job for long.

then in the acting world the saying is  "if you can see yourself doing anything else do that". SO you tell a casting director that you do PR (or what ever) as well then they don't think you are serious... it's a circle of doom!!! so in the social media realm what am I suppose to do? How do I market myself? Do I have a web-cite that says JOJO GINN for PR click here for acting click here or do I go as Joanna in the PR world and as JoJo in the acting world and have two brands, then really give myself an identity crisis... or is it cool to be doing both things? any advice my social networking friends? what oh what shal I do... I've exhausted myself typing about this...


Cheers,

JoJo

CRAFTING!!!

A long long time ago in a galaxy far far away I wrote blog updates... what a beautiful time that was. Alas my life is slowing down in a crazy kind of way, I'm graduating in 4 weeks!!! It's a scary/exciting time. My plan is to work this summer as much as I can them move to NYC to pursue the dream of being an actress and a social media guru... it's fine I'll make it work:)

On a completely different note I've been thinking about crafting lately. (Stop judging right now! I like crafts, they make me happy...I said stop it... thanks) and I wanted to share the gift that I made my mom for christmas with you. I got the idea of making these pumpkin lights from Not So Idle Hands and then was inspired to make snow men!!! (Halloween and Christmas are my mom's favorite holidays, and mine too!)  Plus this gift idea is potentially a "green" project if you you use old jars, candle holders and other glass vessels that are sitting around your house... maybe a vase...I digress... so here are my little creations!!

Not So Idle Hand's Inspired

(My fave is the squatty guy that's made out of a candy dish)

The snowmen!

(I'm like a proud mamma... I love them all)

Cheers, 

JoJo

I'm back!!

Dear blog,
I think I'm back!! i have so much to talk about finally!!  At this very moment I'm "modge podging" if that's a real word. I got some inspiration form an awesome blog called "Modge Podge Rocks" it's an awesome blog to check out very crafty and fun!! She posted a project from another blog that i also love and gave me the idea called " Not So Idle Hands ". Check both of them out for some awesome inspiration. back in halloween for a rockin gift for my mom, it's Halloween and Christmas themed, her ( and my) favorite holidays! I don't want to put up any pictures of my awesome gifts till they are done.

On another note, i;m making my room mates and friends recycled gifts!! (No that doesn't mean re-gifting)'m really pumped about this one. My family and I went to Findlay today to eat dinner with some friends at olive garden then to go see AVATAR afterwards. Wile I was walking to the bathroom at "O.G." I saw all of these wine bottles and had a genius plan ( well I think it's good at least)  I successfully got OG to give me 5 wine bottles and I'm making them into lights!! woot woot!! It's either going to be amazing... or a total disaster. I'm going to be going to other restaurants tomorrow to see what I can get from them, tis the season to be drinking wine... that's how the saying goes right?  I'll put my pictures of my masterpieces up in a wile. Is anyone else recycling things to give to their friends and family this year? let me know what you are up to!!  I've got to go because my cat is slowly destroying all of the tissue paper I'm using for my gifts.

This is John "Buzz" McClaine he's  celebrating christmas by making it snow tissue-paper in my room, what a good kitty;)

Cheers,

JoJo

So about that meteor shower...

As many people know there was a metior shower last night. It was supposedly amazing and the biggest one of our lifetimes... I didn't see it. I was outside at 3:30, I was looking at the sky, I had my glasses on, I got as far away from the city lights as I could... nothing, not even a fast moving plane. I was so upset about this when I finally went to bed.  Then I come to class today and one of my classmates says " Wasn't the meteor shower awesome last night"... I give up... I just give up.

Frackin frack frack... that's just how I feel right now

Cheers,

JoJo