About
The face behind the blog
Hey! I’m Kate.
Thanks for floating around on my site. I wanna share a little more about my life with you, if you’re interested. If you were a kid in the 90s, you might even get a nice nostalgic feeling… Go on!
Where do I start?
I’m a creative at heart, and always have been. Whether that was forcing my friends into making a mini movie with my Flip camera (remember those? Or am I showing my age?) or cutting up a Shout magazine to make my own version to redistribute for 50p. Yup, that was me.
In my late teen years, I studied Art, Drama Literature and Spanish, and I even went to study Performance at University – for all of 3 months. I dropped out due to feeling extremely homesick, alone and out of place. Maybe it was something to do with the shiny metal work on the inside of my mouth? Great timing, right?
Into my early adult years, I worked in fashion retail and then I decided I wanted to work with kids… coming from the girl who avoids holding babies and coming into contact with anyone born outside of her century. Though this was possibly the most self-developing job I had, it just wasn’t creative enough.
I found the internet to be the creative space I’d always yearned for. I mean, I’ve been chronically online for half of my life now. Whether that was fashion dress up games, ClubPenguin, Polyvore, you name it, I was on it. I even remember begging my mum to let me have a Facebook account underage (and now I can’t bare to open it..) so yeah, ‘chronically online’ fits the profile.
Then I found Instagram. Yes, if you remember those absolutely tragic pre-made filters that everyone used, you’re probably very old now. Like everyone else, I just posted random stuff, my slippers, my dog, my food. Really nothing to get excited about, until lockdown…
I initially created a travel blog and that was going really well, but literally 2 months into blogging, the whole world shut down. There goes my travel blog. Timing was never really on my side. So I switched up my game. I turned it into a more personal blog, writing about travel still, but also using social media as an outlet. I wrote about photography, social media, editing, my journey in general. If you remember those posts, you’ve been here a lonnnnnng time! My social media passion flew faster than I could chase after it. My Instagram was doing well, my new blog was doing even better, brands started reaching out and collabs started happening. Everything was going so well I even left my job as a teaching assistant… and then things slowed down.
Somehow the burn-out caught up to me. Ideas ran dry, my passion ever drier. My motivation was non-existent. What happens when you stop? Everything else around you stops flowing. Suddenly my whole social presence dropped off the edge of the world. I was on and off right before this. I would consistently post for 3 months, ghost for 3, come back for a month, ghost for 8…
Then, I stopped posting to my blog and lost it all. That was the final kicker for me. I just thought ‘am I even suppose to be doing this with my life? What is the purpose of my life? What even is life?
(Okay, Kate… chill out lol)
Dramatic I know… but those feelings and thoughts were real. I kinda felt like everything had crumbled and I had no control over anything any more. It became so bad that my boyfriend suggested I talk to someone. So I did. And it slowly got better. It took a lot of time and healing.
Fast forward to now, I’m back.
I feel so much more creative, probably more than ever. I feel i have so much to give and create and share and my issue now is stopping myself from giving it all in one go. Obviously, we all have bad days and sometimes I severely doubt myself but luckily I can get out my head and back into the groove. So, let’s just see how it goes?
So if you feel like your winging it daily like me, stick around. We got this.
And if you do plan on sticking around, you’ll find lots of content about fashion, beauty, travelling, my life and social media (and more) on this blog.
Lots of love, as always,
Kate
