Unexpected combos

Unexpected combos

I love paradoxical fashion (I'm not 100% if this sentence makes sense, I just wanted to use a big fancy word). Placing things together that shouldn't really go together but do! Like leather and florals, stripes and polka dots, chocolate and chilli, maple syrup and bacon, mmmmm bacon. The juxtaposition (check me out using 5 [...]

Dancing Dry

Dancing Dry

This Saturday I donned my Reebok Classics and ventured to the depths of South London for a Macklemore gig at Brixton Academy. I love the Brixton Academy, it's such a cool venue, not too big, or too small, great acoustics, awesome dancing space and the loos are vaguely clean! I've been here more times then [...]

Weekend sober (no hangover)

Weekend sober (no hangover)

Very little rhymes with sober, apart from - paradoxically - hangoverPeople are often interested in what I do for fun now I'm in recovery. It's a question I'm asked a lot by the patients in the rehab I help out at (the rehab that saved my life). The simple answer is anything that doesn't involve me drinking or taking [...]

Designer Bag For Life

Designer Bag For Life

Follow my blog with Bloglovin Big eeeeeks! My first ever fashion post. I'm still not sure how the whole fashion/sobriety/lifestyle niche is going to work out, but I love fashion and I LOVE sobriety so let's see what I can conjure and work with it for a while... Perusing my local Tesco's superstore on a [...]

The Gratitude Attitude

The Gratitude Attitude

Not sure if I'm clutching at straws with this title but let's give it a whirl! Getting into the habit of being thankful is one of the greatest things I have learnt in recovery. Growing up I was taught to be grateful for what I had, but the consumer culture of always wanting more, having the [...]

My Story

My names Katie and I’m an alcoholic, this is a sentence I say twice a week and will do for the rest of my life. I am living a life in recovery and have been doing so since 24.5.2016 and I love it. I’ve had a few reactions when I tell people the reasons why [...]