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Photos with my younger self

Photos with my younger self

Everyday Magic, Journal, Life & Creativity, Self Love & Singlehood

There’s a really lovely trend doing the rounds on social media, inspired by poet Jennae Cecilia, about meeting your younger self for coffee. You can read about why I didn’t meet mine for coffee over on my brand photography blog, and here’s some...
Vision board: 2025

Vision board: 2025

Everyday Magic, Inspiration, Journal, Life & Creativity

A fairly speedy post today – it’s Imbolc, the pagan start of spring and my personal new year. I much prefer it to the depths of midwinter, and it means I get to plan all the way through January in peace, rather than trying to cram it into the madness and...

Your invisible crown

Body Confidence, Everyday Magic, Journal, Magical Words

There’s a wonderful quote my friend Mimi told me once – “Always wear your invisible crown.” Your invisible crown means you can be the brilliant being that you are, even on the days when you couldn’t feel further away from queenly or...

Why I’ll never again wonder what’s wrong with me

Everyday Magic, Inspiration, Journal, Magical Words

This morning, I watched a TED talk by Reshma Saujani, founder of Girls Who Code. It came with a warning that it might make me cry, but I didn’t actually think it would. And then it did. Boys come to me when their code doesn’t work [a computer science...

What you already are (but might not know yet)

Everyday Magic, Journal, Magical Words, Self Love & Singlehood

I’m not sure how to begin this post, so I’m going to start typing and hope it comes together. As a society, we are obsessed by labels. An artist, an author, a designer, a banker, a lawyer… Western society often defines people by what they do. And yet...

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Carla is a photographer and mermaid with a love of the ethereal, nostalgia and magic.
She weaves stories into photographs which could have walked off the pages of a book, and which invite you to find your own stories within them.
Living and working on the north Essex coastline (which suits her mermaid heart), her work pulls together memory, imagination and wonder.
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