Category: Wonderings
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Blogger’s Downfall
Ten minutes ago I did that awful girl thing where you search for something because you saw a girl on a blog wearing it and you thought that if you bought it you would become her, as bread and wine become the body and blood of Christ. (What is that? Transmogrification? Transubstantiation? I was big…
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Fortune Favours The Takers
Sometimes my good fortune makes my eyes tear. Bad days, sure. Too much wine, often. But we soldier on and we claw our way upwards towards the light. Fighting for the future we know is ours – we just have to stretch up real tall and grasp the edges. Getting there, making it. Don’t stop.
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DIY Glitter Mary Janes
So I have a bit of a shoe problem. It’s not so much a PROBLEM as a foible, which poor Sig. Oth. has to attempt to put up with. To say I have many pairs is an understatement. Every girl thinks she has a large shoe collection. But she never met mine. My main suck,…
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My 14-Year-Old Self Wants To Be Just Like Me
Why? 1. I can roll perfect cigarettes. Backwards. She’s spent HOURS trying to get the hang of it and failed. 2. I have more pairs of shoes than she could feasibly count without an hour to spare, a ladder and some kind of spreadsheet. 3. I don’t live with my parents. In fact I live…
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Lovely Writing
This week I’ve been working on a marketing page for beauty industry customers. I’ve been trying to balance sounding like US and sounding like THEM, as well as navigating around clichés without being too corporate. Quel job! Another v. interesting aspect is that the design we’re working on for the page is parallax, meaning all…
