Two kittens and six months later…
Somehow, time has flown past, and these two little darlings... have been with me a whole six months, and have become these rather gorgeous young ladies... You'll notice Luna still hasn't grown into her ears... They don't snooze together much, but they've grown into...
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[Five for Friday] Post-trip blues
I'm happy to be home with my kitties, but I miss the freedom and warmth of being on holiday. So here's me with extremely blue hair in the world's largest shopping mall (so it's said), the sunset in Wivenhoe the day I arrived home, my best attempt at being a unicorn...
Writing from the pool
Back online after a 48 hour technology detox, and what a way to write my first post! Hah, I've always wanted to blog from the poolside, but Dad left Abu Dhabi the year before I started my first blog, and until now I've usually had clunky laptops with zero battery life...
Sneak peek: best ever cat toys
Or so my kitties think! Now, the downside of living by myself is that it's nearly impossible to play with my kitties and photograph them leaping through the air at the same time. However, here's a quick sneak peek of the cat toys that arrived in the post on Give A...
On leaving technology behind for a while
Following on from my single-tasking experiment (which is rapidly becoming a habit), I've also been thinking and talking about going off-grid for a bit. Just for 24 or 48 hours at a time to start with. Imagine. No phone, no laptop, no tablet/Kindle/internet. No screens...
My first jewellery class
Yep, my first! Though I made and sold jewellery for a few years, I'd never actually taken a formal class - or even an informal class. I was totally self-taught from the internet, books and occasionally squeaking at lovely fellow makers who would show me how to get...
Discovering the perfect blue hair dye
It's been a long journey of wanting, wishing and waiting, but in February this year, just after my 28th birthday, I finally booked an appointment to have my hair dyed blue. Several hours of bleaching, foils, and inadvertently making both of my hairdressers look like...
An unexpected baby unicorn
You might remember that a while back, I declared April 15 to be Give A Girl A Unicorn Day. (Complete with not-especially-well-designed Tackk page, and it's evolved from "buy" into "give". But you get the idea.) Having blurted about it quite a lot on various social...
A peek into my life, through my handbag
Good grief. I work almost exclusively online - here, with The Website Beautician, and as a web content editor at the university. So what I want to know is, how on earth has my daily handbag ended up full of all of this?! Yeah, not Clover - she was just being...
Home in spring
Spring is most definitely sprunging (is that a word?!) in my little corner of the world. Here's my photo roundup of the last couple of weeks... Dad cutting the overgrown lawn in my little garden Shafts of sunlight at long last in my living room Yarn bomb at This One...
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.