Do you love yourself? Self care is different for everyone. As I’ve gotten older my self care has changed, it used to be to surround myself with people and stuff. Ok I still love people and stuff but the stuff is much less important and the people need to be a good quality of people. … Continue reading LIFESTYLE: Love yourself
If you follow me on instagram, you'll see that I've launched a mini shop. I started drawing leaves, lino printing and painting as a form of self care for a few months now and when I shared some of my leaves on instagram you all loved them! I then got to thinking (Carrie-style), I love … Continue reading SHOP: I’ve launched!
I used to think that being vegan was easy it's just talking about the food right? Nope! Being vegan is about living your life in a compassionate manner and yes, that includes everything from food to skincare and toothpaste. I thought I'd share some easy, go to products. I find Superdrug the easiest place for … Continue reading BEAUTY: Top 3 products from Superdrug
Single use plastic is got a bad rep these days and quite bloody right. For years we were encouraged to drink more bottled water, grab your food to go with a last fork and to drink your gin through a straw with a plastic stirrer too (are you fucking kidding? Just give me the gin … Continue reading LISTS – 4 ways to use less plastic
A year ago I wrote a post about surviving Veganuary, my first tip was to surround yourself with vegans. This year I would still recommend that for anyone trying Veganuary, new vegans, struggling vegans or old timer vegans because it is good to feel like you're part of a community who are trying make a … Continue reading THE VEGAN DIARIES: Fat Gay Vegan writes a book
Some of you may know that I'm a photographer by trade, I've been a photographer my whole adult life, I work for schuh and few weeks ago we were all talking about vegan shoes so we decided that I should write about how easy it is to make better vegan choices. It was really tough not to … Continue reading FASHION: Vegan choices at schuh
Since I ditched the animal products over a year ago I've been surprised how much far veganism has spread into my life. I naively thought that I would be satisfied with moving over to a plant based diet and cutting down on leather, nope! Whilst I have not thrown any leather away (I really think … Continue reading FASHION: Affordable, ethical tee’s from Sun & Sage
This week I was supposed to be away on holiday, I had nothing booked by a friend and I were going to book and go! Unfortunately, I was then taken down by a bad chest infection, I wasn't aware of how bad a chest infection actually is - turns out I've never had one at … Continue reading BEAUTY: The Body Shop Himalayan Charcoal face mask
Remember back in February, I started writing about my fitness journey and I opened with how I'd given OUTrun a bash. OUTrun is a 5 mile run to raise awareness for LGBT+ participation in sports, most of my friends love to run and I hate to miss out on an event. So as simple as that, we all signed … Continue reading THE FITNESS DIARIES: I hate running, still
If you're a vegan in Glasgow, you'll have heard of Vegan Connections. “Vegan Connections is a community; one that brings creative people together through art, education and damn good food.” I can't argue with that philosophy. Last weekend saw the Vegan Connections festival and it was great. Vegan Connections was a two day event in the centre of Glasgow … Continue reading REVIEW: Vegan Connections, Glasgow
