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It's moderately terrifying realizing that in a mere few months I will be transitioning from the comfort and familiarity of high school to the completely unknown: college.
As much as I have been looking forward to this day for years (seriously), I'm still fairly nervous. I'm gaining endless amounts of responsibility and things are going to start changing rapidly.
As I was sitting in my newspaper class the other day, I started to fill out my application for the newspaper at the college I'm attending. It was sort of a harsh realization that I would soon be going from editor-in-chief to a lowly reporter. Which is fine...you have to start from the bottom, and I get that. But I'm definitely one to exert power so it's definitely going to be a challenge.
As I was filling out my application, I realized that I had the option to start over as a designer or a photographer, rather than a writer. I've always pursued writing in my journalistic endeavors, but it dawned on me that I don't want to be just a writer. I enjoy design. I enjoy photography.
I plan on working at a magazine, and magazine's aren't just  writing. They're composed of so many other aspects, and I want to do it all.
Although I'll probably end up as a writer for the paper, I want to keep myself well-versed in design and photography as well.

So I started doing a bit of designing, and thought I'd share my little "magazine pages" I come up with on here, with you guys!

xo Susie

dallassssss

My sister convinced me to pick this up at Anthropologie because she uses it (and loves it) and I'm so glad I did! Not only does it work on your lips, but you can use it anywhere. Body/cuticles/face....it's all purpose. It is wonderful.

This was on sale at H&M for only $1 and smelled heavenly, so I thought I'd grab it. Now that I've used it, I'm kicking myself for not buying more. It's much too small :(

Found these sunglasses online and fell in love. But they look awful on me.

I wear this bracelet everywhere!

Although I live super close to Dallas, no one in my family really likes going because the traffic is so awful. They have the best mall, though (NorthPark) and it has all of the really nice stores that my local mall doesn't have (H&M, Urban Outfitters, American Apparel, Free People, Anthropologie, etc). My mom bought me some really nice leopard jeans while she was in DC at H&M, but they didn't fit so I needed to return them, and thankfully my sister agreed to drive me to Dallas (too scared to drive in that awful traffic). I was really sad when they didn't have my size left in the jeans, but I found some other nice things! The black and white pants above are what I got as a replacement, as well as a bodycon striped dress (which is basic and boring and didn't deserve a photo) and a delicious body butter. I also picked up a really neat newspaper by Design Sponge and Rosebud Salve from Anthropologie.
I have got to stop spending money, though. Really.