pros and cons of living in a studio apartment

so far I've loved our little studio apartment. I remember telling my mom that I had a secret dream to live in a studio apartment in a downtown of a city, and who would have thought my wish would...

alexa Z design: how to have pure happiness on your wall

I would really like to cheer up your Monday by introducing you to someone. I don't know how many of you know Lex. She has a wonderful blog about her life with pictures that make me grin from ear to...

++here are some words

+ my style is changing. give it fashion, hair, design. anything. and that's ok. + I have an odd love for graffiti. + not having schoolwork to do makes me feel weird. like I don't know what to do...

an infographic: how to plant succulents

say hello to this infographic: & may the plants be ever in your favor.

Newport [part 2]

on this day, we spent all of our time getting lost in Laguna. we found a semi-secluded beach and played in the tide pools. then spent the sunset on Newport.

Newport Beach [part 1]

nicholas and I took a weekend and drove down to Newport Beach. I've been naughty (in the words of my mother) and haven't posted anything about it. So here we are, part 1 of the Newport Beach...

AE skinny skinny: this has to be a joke?

apparently at the AE store they have new spray on jeans? here's the link to the video. they're naked. this has to be a joke.

winner announced!

thanks to my handy dandy excel sheet & accounting for extra entries, we have a winner! congratulations lady! email me your contact information and i will send it onto Shabby Apple. thanks to...

giveaway! / what we've been up to

{picture from our Newport Beach trip a few weeks ago} obviously, we've been doing a lot around these parts. but that's for another time. today we're leaving on a jet plane for San Antonio tonight...

want to hear my mad ukulele skills?

So, I don't usually do stuff like this. But we did because I like her a lot. Nick and I played our uke and sang a song on Katherine's blog this weekend as part of a Fourteen Days of Love series....

bucket list: donate blood

I did it!! I did it, I did it, I really really did it! almost 2 hours, bags of cookies & a barf bag later (don't worry, I didn't use it! they were just worried about me.) I donated my first bag of...

life musings of the befuddled crazy lady.

let me start by introducing myself to you: HI, i'm stephanie. if i could make an award for myself for the first week of classes it would be: "Most Awkward Person Ever Award of Most Excellence" or...

and so we celebrate

so, we pretty much think you guys are the bestest most awesomest readers ever. i for one so grateful that i have such a great community to write with & be a part of. & for that, we want to...

main street winter date

last week, nick and I went on a winter/Christmas date. We bundled up, made ourselves mugs of hot cocoa and walked across the street to Main Street. We window shopped and visited friends, but the...

HEY 2013!

WE ARE EXCITED! happy new years everybody! p.s. we're so old we all had a hard time staying up until midnight at the party. like, what the what?

plans for the new year

The past month has been ka-razay, if I may say so myself. So many things have happened, such as me quitting my day job and working as a graphic designer. Say what? Typical freelance crazy pants. I...

Christmas Eve & decor

we like our tiny house & tripod Christmas tree. it's officially Christmas Eve and we don't quite know what to do with ourselves except listen to lots of music & eat an outstandingly ridiculous...

Christmas pictures

Merry Christmas everyone! We love you guys & hope you have the most fantastic holiday season you've ever had ever.

say hello to my favorites

(photos used with permission from Josh Rose Photography.) meet Josh Rose. he's a photographer. his travel photos are some of the best I've ever seen. & he's a film guy. i've had the pleasure of...

that one time we had a whole turkey to ourselves

thanksgiving this year was such a success! we had little appetizers just like grownups do & cooked a turkey from start to finish. we didn't even burn anything! (except nick had to do all the...

from us to you:

have a wonderful, wonderful Thanksgiving! we will be having Thanksgiving all by ourselves this year, just the two of us & our dog. (which equals more pie for me! muah ha ha) crossing our fingers we...

2 years ago

2 years ago Nick and I were preparing for him to meet my family on Thanksgiving. For black friday we went ring shopping & that was that. It's so crazy to look back on old pictures and how much we...

cardses

for a club activity we designed Christmas cards. We were only supposed to do one, but I suppose I got carried away. me and my 30 rock addiction.

PSA

catchy, cute, slightly morbid. enjoy.

drink up, holidays.

i got my cheapo gene from my mama, and when she figured out how to make an almost-like-starbucks rendition of "caramel apple spice," i just about died. nick and I had this a lot when we were dating...

All image credit can be found on my pinterest board. - striped sweaters that look like iPhone cases - cutely colored deer sweaters - typography genius sweaters - leopard scarf, neutral chunky...

holga prints

learning this stuff is so freaking exciting.

so, you want to letterpress too?

in our typography class we just got finished with a letterpress assignment. I'm lucky enough to be at a university with a letterpress to physically learn on & experiment with. it's so addictive!...

this is why we don't get invited to parties

these are our friends drew and rachel. they are awesome, and they threw an awesome halloween party which we were invited to. their costumes far surpassed ours, and people begged them to take a...

a post, a post i say!

you probably remember me from this one blog i used to write on. recently: - we went to SLC so Nick could go to jury duty. then we gallavanted around taking pictures. - we repotted some plants. - we...