A Color Story App: Review! 

Hi guys! I’m working on the NYC post — sorry for the delay! Anyways, have you heard of the website A Beautiful Mess? It’s probably my very favorite blog to read. The creators, Elsie and Emma, are so so awesome. They have two apps already, I think I’ve mentioned ABM, which is one of them. The other is a stop motion one called Party Party. I love them both so much! On Tuesday, they came out with a brand new photo editing app, A Color Story! It is the coolest and most useful app EVER! I love it so much! I bought all of the filters. I can’t get enough! (It’s a free app, by the way!) I’m going to share what it can do! Here are some examples of how awesome it is:  

 This photo is edited with just ONE filter! ONE! I used the Everyday filter, which comes with the app free. Look at the colors pop and the whites so bright! So amazing.  

 Another example. This one I used multiple filters. A lot were in the Chroma pack, though! (Oh – and there’s a curves feature! It’s so cool.)  

 This one was edited with Punch and Summer Day.  

 This is another really cool effect. (Everyday filter and flare 7, BTW) there’s bokeh, flare, light leaks, and color fog! 

  For this I also used the everyday filter. It really is for the everyday!  
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Hope you guys enjoyed this post! I really recommend this app. This wasn’t sponsered and these are all of my opinions FYI! 

More posts coming soon! 

Happy Friday! 

New York City! Part One.

Hey, guys! So last Wednesday I went to New York City until Friday. (New Years Day) It was so much fun and I am so excited to share my pictures and experience with you all! (by the way – these were all taken with either my iPhone or Nikon) 🙂

This is just part one, so hopefully tomorrow or Tuesday I will put up part two!

We arrived at Grand Central at around 10:30 am. We checked our bags in at the hotel and went out to get lunch! We ended up going to Ray’s Pizza. It was so so yummy!!

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After that we headed to the Winter garden theatre to see School of Rock on Broadway! School of Rock is one of my all time favorite movies (it may even be my favorite!), and I was really impressed with the show! I have seen the movie so many times I could point out everything they did and didn’t include in the show! The cast was super talented and I definitely recommend seeing it!

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After the show, we went to the hotel. My cousin lives in Brooklyn, so we met up with her for dinner. The restaurant we went to was called Bareburger. It was one of the coolest restaurants I’ve been to! I got the black bean burger. It was SO. GOOD. Seriously. One of the best I’ve had. After that I got a chocolate banana milkshake, which was awesome, too!

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After we ate, we went to the Rockefeller Center and 5th Avenue area. It was dark out so it was so pretty! Here’s the tree:

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And here are some more pretty things:

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Radio City!!!!

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And NBC studios!!!!

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The next day, Thursday, we went down to Chelsea. I looooooved Chelsea. It was so cool there and there’s so much to do.

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For breakfast we went to DOUGHNUT PLANT!!!!!!! It has been on my bucket list for months now! So many of my favorite bloggers have been here and have blogged about it. So surreal to actually be there! Some of the crazy awesome doughnuts on the wall:

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And the seats were even cooler!!

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Okay, now for the moment you’ve all been waiting for, I’m sure. THE DOUGHNUTS!!!! Here was our ‘haul’:

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I tried them all. From top left: gingerbread, blueberry, cinnamon sugar, chocolate mint, creme brûlée, and coffee cake. IF I had to narrow it down to my top two, it would be blueberry and creme brûlée. But they were all so so so do amazing! You need to come here if you’re ever in the city!

After Doughnut Plant, we went to the High Line which is also in Chelsea. It was really cool and the view was beautiful!

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And after that… Chelsea Market! I have seen pictures and read a lot about it. It was so so cool and I would love to go back someday. There was too much food to choose from but I ended up getting sushi from Beyond Sushi.

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It was soooo delicious. It had avocado and sweet potato! I also got a watermelon mint lemonade which was really tasty.

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After that we went to Jacques Torres Chocolate! I got a hot cocoa which was good, but very strong and dark. (and I got a chocolate spoon to go with it!)

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So that’s the end of part one! Hope you enjoyed it so far and I can’t wait for you to see part two. There is just so much I decided to make it into two posts!

Have a great week!

A Holiday Playlist!

Hey, guys! If you don’t follow me on Spotify, you should! I make monthly playlists and different themed playlists, too. Anyways, I decided to share my holiday playlist for this year! I’ve been listening to it on repeat lately because the songs are so good and get me in a Christmas-ey mood. 🙂 It’s not snowing here yet, though. 😦 I’m dreaming of a white christmas! LOL.

Here’s SOME of the songs from the playlist: (I’ll link the actual one below)

Wonderful Christmastime // Paul McCartney
Rocking Around the Christmas Tree // Brenda Lee
All I Want for Christmas is You // Mariah Carey
Happy Christmas // Handsome and Gretyl
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas // Brooke White
That’s Christmas to Me // Pentatonix
Last Christmas // Wham!
Silver Bells // She & Him
Holiday // Madonna
Santa Tell Me // Ariana Grande
Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow! // Dean Martin
It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas // Michael Buble
Holly Jolly Christmas // Idina Menzel
White Christmas // Bing Crosby

CLICK HERE FOR THE PLAYLIST!

ENJOY!!! Happy Wednesday!!

 

 

Gingerbread House Decorating!

Hey, guys! So yesterday some of my friends and I decorated gingerbread houses. It was so much fun and they turned out really beautiful! Stay tuned till’ the end of this post for a little video! I took a bunch of pics of everyone’s houses. I’ll start off with sharing mine:

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I’m really proud of it! I wish I could eat it, though! 😦 It’s probably the best gingerbread house I’ve ever made… not that I’ve made very many. LOL. Here are some more pics:

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There’s something about gingerbread houses that makes me so happy. They’re just too cute! So as I said before, I have a little video!

 click here to watch it! 

It’s just a quick 50 something second video I had a lot of fun putting together. (Even though the computer was in a VERY bad mood.) Anyways, go check out the video and subscribe to the studio josie youtube channel! I plan on doing many more fun videos like that!

Hope you all enjoyed the pictures and video! Have a great day!