i'm sick of my face

Seriously. I'm way sick of my face. I'm way into taking photos right now, because I'm experimenting with new editing, except I don't have anything to take photos of. So, I end up just taking photos of myself before school while I'm waiting to leave. It's lame. It really is. I'm too obsessed with this new editing to stop though! So, if any of you would like photos... please email/comment/text/call/etc.!

Any suggestions of what else to photograph? All my photos are in the same setting. Maybe I"ll try one of those photo an hour things. It's just so hard to think of something to take a photo of every hour! Especially because lots of my hours are spent in school, and I'm not artistic enough to make my notebook and pen look different three times in a row.

ANYWAYS, IF YOU WOULD LIKE PHOTOS I WILL TAKE THEM FOR $50, SO LET ME KNOW.

It turns out I will be applying to grad school this December. Who even knew it was that close? I literally didn't. I for sure thought you had to be graduated before you applied, but apparently you can  apply before you graduate and just include your current classes? So, yeah. GRE here I come. Yay. (No, really. Yay. It will be so great.)

Well, we're off to a friend's reception! I love going to other people's weddings! The flowers, the food, the venue. It's just so fun. Benefits of living in Utah County, right?

XOXO

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life as of late: food 4 dayz

Do you ever get like, mega into cooking? I get on these streaks where I loveeeee cooking, and then I get on these streaks where I hateeee cooking. Right now, I love it.

We were going to go camping on Friday (keyword: were), so I packed our cooler with cute foods like bruschetta and crepes and cute bottles of root beer. We had suspicions the roads might not be open yet, and shortly after departing with a car full of camping gear we happened upon this lovely sight...

It was fine though, because it only took us five minutes to get there. So, we just went home and ate all of our delicious food! It was quite great. We went and saw The Book Thief later that night. I didn't really know what it was about, but it was amazing! If you live in Provo, definitely go to the dollar theatre. They have new seats that are like heaven for your bum. 

I have also been obsessing with Pop 'N Sweets! YOU HAVE TO GO THERE. It's amazing. Like, seriously stand up right this minute and get over there! They have sooooo much candy and soda! I have decided to set limits for myself and say once a week, one candy and soda per visit. So, this was this week's! 

This was a "Pop Shoppe" soda. My mom was telling me that you used to be able to take your empty Pop Shoppe cans into The Poppe Shop, and they would fill it up for you with any flavor of soda you wanted! Why don't they exist anymore! :(

The grape soda was delicious! And in the cutest bottle to exist. I've decided to not purchase things that have strange titles like last week's soda. Haha. Oh, and how awesome is that candy bar? I was chocolate and mint, and as you can see, the mint was aerated! It was really good. Sort of like an Andes Mint, except fluffier? (Shout out to my new macro filters that I am obsessed with.) (Shout out to my new husband that got me the macro filters that I am obsessed with so I am obsessed with him.)

I made this recipe for dinner, and they were delicious! (I left out the beans and mushrooms, and used fresh tomato instead of canned.) I had two... well, one and three quarters? Tofu is so gosh darn filling. 

A meat one for the bebe. :). I wasn't ever worried about being vegetarian while my husband was not, and everyone kept asking me "Are you going to start eating meat? Are you going to make Jake be vegetarian? What are you going to do?" and honestly, it's been super easy! Mainly, because we live off of Mac & Cheese, quesadillas, chili (Jake), and cereal. So, there's not a whole lotta cookin' that happens in this household. But, I have yet to encounter a recipe that couldn't work for the both of us!

And lastly, a cute picture I found of us (printing off some new pictures! yi! goodbye wedding pictures everywhere!) while waiting to be seated at The Melting Pot prior to marriage. I have no idea who took it, but I like the way it turned out. It's sort of like a beautiful accident, ya know?

We also saw The Secret Life of Walter Mitty over the weekend and grabbed a bite at Pizza Pie Cafe. Not a bad weekend... not bad at all. Now, we just need those roads to open so we can start befriending the wilderness!

XOXO
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P.S. If you haven't discovered Barcelona, please go listen to their Fall In Love album right now. It is seriously so amazing. I have been taking a break from Music Mondays because life is cray.

finished photoshoot!

Special thanks to the lovely Madi for being my model! My favorite ones are the dark ones on the grass. I just love the feeling they have to them and the way the lighting turned out.

I'm not sure how long I'm going to keep doing the $100, so make sure to email me if you are interested. I'm about to mega buckle down in school so I can graduate in December (woot!), so yay for that, but goodbye to free time. It will be worth it though. I'm really excited to finish up and get employed!

XOXO
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dana leigh apparel + pop 'n sweets

Hello! Long time, no blog. Haha. School is crazyyyyyy. It's like wake up, get ready, go to school, come home from school, study for school, sleep. Literally. This semester is kickin' ma butt. I've gotta kick back!

In other news, my sister has a lovely clothing store called Dana Leigh Apparel. We took some pictures on Sunday, and she let me keep an outfit! I wore this sweater all day Sunday, all night Sunday night, all day Monday, and all night last night! Gross. I know. But, it's so comfortable. I love sleeves that can cover my hands. They're so cozy! Not to mention the morning light in our office. It kills me. it's so beautiful! I've started eating breakfast at my desk every morning!

Anyways, Dana-Leigh Apparel is offering 20% off right now with the coupon code DLA20! This sweater is normally $18. So, with 20% it's only $14.40! Deals, you guys. Deals. Anyways, go check it out. 

In other news, there is an AMAZING new candy and soda store called Pop 'N Sweets. I went there yesterday and I was blown away! There are 700 different types of candy from alllllll over the world and 500 different sodas! It's craziness. It took me so long to figure out what to buy. I decided to get this soda, because lately life has been throwing my lots of "fails", so what is more fitting than this soda?!

This particular soda wasn't the best. It was actually pretty gross, in my opinion. But, the bottle sure is amazing!

THIS CHOCOLATE BAR WAS AMAZING. Ok, just to answer your question, yes. I have already eaten all of the candy I bought yesterday. JUDGE ME. But literally. I would travel thirty minutes just to buy this candy bar. If you live near Provo go get one! It's such smooth chocolate. And each square is filled with a raspberry jelly. Yummmmmmmm!

FIVE STARS!

I bought this mainly because it was a hippo. I mean, how can you pass it up? So cute!!! It was a biscuit that had a hazelnut filling. I love hazelnut. And I loved this. Probably not as much as I loved the chocolate bar, but I'm definitely still getting one next time (every time?!) I go.

I got these hoping they were candy cigarettes and they were! (Small win!) Jake and I had a good time sending weed pictures to our friends and family. Other than humor purposes, these were just sugar sticks. Nothing too special.

This randomly turned into a food (candy?!) post, but I love candy. And I love soda. And I love that I have an amazing candy and soda store right by my apartment. Life has given me a win, guys. A WIN.

Anyways, I'm off to spend my life watching One Tree Hill (finally done with all my tests and reading, so yay). Can we pause to acknowledge the fact that the episode I'm currently watching starts of animated like The Sims? HAHA!

XOXO

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comments are fixed!

Just a quick post to say commenting is now possible! I didn't even realize it was not working before. Sorry!

valentine's happenings / late happy list: 14

I love Valentine's day! This year I decided to skip school and clean the house/set up cute things. I had to redo my nails though. As much as I loved the scotch tape thing, the tape started snagging on stuff and then it wasn't perfect and it bothered me. So, I redid them yesterday. My sister-in-law gave me this way cool nail polish kit for my birthday. You paint your base coat, and then paint over that with this glue stuff, and then stick foil to the glue! These look a lot more yellow than they are in real life. In real life it looks like I have gold on my nails. It's awesome.

Why don't some girls like flowers? I know my sister thinks they are so stupid. Help me understand! I love them. And I love getting them. 

We dined at Station 22. I liked it! They had this huge wall with 60 different types of soda! You just go over and pick one out, and then the waitress/waiter brings you a cold one. Turns out Sarsparilla tastes delicious! And is also the cutest bottle.

We liked the food too. Their sweet potato fries were TO DIE FOR. I got the veggie burger and it was really good! The patty was kind of weird, because it wasn't like, held together? If that makes sense. But, I loved the bun. And the fries. Did I mention the fries? Safe to say we rate it five stars!

While looking for a vase, I decided to just use my soda bottle and I'm obsessed with how cute it is!

I love Valentine's Day! Any excuse to do cute, fun things while dressed fancy... right?

1/ thick knee socks 2/ finding a parking spot seconds after pulling into the parking lot 3/ getting my first a- on a test 4/ when jake surprised me with treats for no reason 5/ buying tickets to phantogram (!!!) 6/ catching up on all my favorite dvr shows (awkward, pretty little liars, new girl, the walking dead) 7/ taking daily bubble baths (literally) / finding out that chris carrabba's new band is opening for augustana which means that he will be standing by his merch stand like most opening bands do and that means that i might finally get a picture with the lead singer of my favorite band 8/ the rainy and overcast weather we have been having 9/ being able to house sit from the 7-23, which means having bath tubs, big screen televisions, endless supplies of treats, backyards, and pets. we love when our families travel! 10/ celebrating special days with the cutest human.

Make a happy list. It makes you feel better about your life! 

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So, first off, this is the most lovely piece of clothing I own. I am obsessed! My sister got this for me for my birthday. She got it from Craft Lake City. Do any of you go? I've only been once, but there were soooooo many amazing things, it was crazy!

Also, I have decided to stop using heat on my hair. I usually only blow dry it, but I really want it to be long and luscious, so I am going to load up on the fish oil and load down on the blow dryer! I also feel like it forces me to get up earlier, because I have to wait for my hair to air dry. This morning I tried doing two Princess Leia buns. I think it turned out okay. I have done this before, except with like seven buns. I like it that way a little bit better I think. I think it dries faster the more buns you have. I did like that the curls were wavier with only two buns though. Any ideas for heatless curls?

Also, I trimmed my bangs and I just had to laugh for a second at how uneven they are! 

Well, I'm off to read The Stand! I really need to get moving if I'm going to finish it before the end of February. I really want one of those bath shelf things that holds your books. It would be so handy!

XOXO

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