Thrifty finds: the Airstream Teapot
Extra post this week, because AIRSTREAM TEAPOT! I spotted it while browsing in the British Heart Foundation shop, and fell in love instantly.
Jewellery and happiness
I'm sure I start every post like this, but how fast is 2014 disappearing to?! It's turning out to be such a funny year - a mixture of ups and downs both big and small. A few days away from the day job, in theory to work on my businesses and get myself organised again...
What’s your A-Z?
A summer of Instagram and meeting some photographically minded friends last weekend have inspired me to get out and about with my camera. If I'm exploring a new area, I love doing an A-Z challenge alone or with people. Decide on a theme, and then fill it in before you...
Why living on your own isn’t lonely
If you live (or have ever lived) by yourself, chances are you’ll have heard the following at least once.
“But don’t you get lonely?”
“I couldn’t live on my own, I’d get so bored”
A little slice of vintage heaven
A jaunt to Greenwich with my parents for Dad's birthday, led us to stumbling across two amazing shops side by side. Retrobates Vintage and Casbah Records share frontage, and all three of us were drawn to the windows. On venturing in, Dad turned left to the records,...
August Break Day 25: Little
(no, I haven't got another kitten - this is another 2009 throwback, and my oldest friend Claire's cat when he was small. He's not remotely little any more!)
Day 15: Blue
Ahh, my favourite colour. There is blue all over my home and my life, and I'll share some photos on instagram today (a day late, but no matter). But this one made me smile 🙂
{work happy} To blog or not to blog?
When I started blogging back in 2005, relatively few people were doing it, and I kept it very separate from my actual life. So separate, that it took me until 2009 to start blogging for business as well! However, nowadays it seems like everyone and his dog has a blog...
August Break Day 11 – Handwriting
My amazingly talented friend Niroot has the most glorious handwriting to accompany the most glorious illustration work. Here's a note from some seven or eight years ago... the address is not my current one!!
Guilty confessions of a former librarian #1: befriending characters in books
With the very best of books, the ones that are dog-eared from re-reading, and which stay with you long, long after you've reached the last page, I often find myself referring to those characters as my friends. Not directly; but in a "a friend of mine said that..." or...
I'm Carla, a quirky thirtysomething with a penchant for unicorns and glitter. I believe in magic and make-believe, and the gorgeous rebellion of making your life absolutely your own. And I'm a proud multipod!
I am a photographer and catalyst for small business owners, and a real life mermaid. I photograph people as they truly are, help women see and step into their brightest and best selves, add a sprinkling of magic to the mundane, and am a happy ambassador for stationery and slow living.
Proud to be both girly and geeky, when I’m not writing, photographing or daydreaming, you can find me dancing burlesque, riding my bicycle Bluebell, growing herbs and collecting typewriters.