People often choose Venice when they want to mark an important moment in a place that feels different from everyday life. Visitors celebrate engagements, birthdays, anniversaries, and graduations here because the city makes it easy to turn a single evening into an occasion. However, while just being in the city…
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Tell Us About is a monthly blogging prompt where a group of us come together to write about the same theme, each sharing our own personal take on it. It’s always fun to see how differently everyone interprets the topic! Last month I had the pleasure of choosing the theme…
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Every now and then I manage to join in with the SIA Style Challenge (Style Imitating Art), and it always ends up being such a fun little creative exercise. If you’ve never heard of it, SIA is a bi-weekly style challenge where one piece of artwork is chosen and participants…
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Today we celebrate International Women’s Day 2026, a global day recognising women’s achievements and progress towards equality, and this year it feels especially meaningful to me. Not only is it a day dedicated to celebrating women across the world, but it also happens to be the official launch day of…
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If you only saw me on my “good outfit” days, you’d probably assume that is what my midlife style looks like — drifting around Portugal in dramatic black layers, jangling rings and enough eyeliner to summon a small storm. And to be fair… sometimes I do. I adore whimsigoth style.…
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I’m 50. And I genuinely love that. Not in a “trying to convince myself” way. Not in a forced age is just a number way either. I mean it properly, in my bones. Turning 50 in December hasn’t felt like a loss at all — it’s felt like a gain.…
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