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Cat McLaughlin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️
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Designer, creator & dreamer. Insatiably curious human being. Typography obsessed. Things I 💜: music, exploring creativity, photography, books, culture & art.

From/living in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 but love to travel.

I sometimes write stuff here: https://catmcl.substack.com/
Another pretty #sky for this week’s #BlueskyArtShow - throwback to Paris, August 2013. 🇫🇷

The huge Tyrannosaurus Rex was perched at one of the Bateaux Mouches stations on the River Seine. I always love the beautiful quality of the light in Paris whenever I visit the city. (Je reviendrai encore!)
December 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
This week’s #BlueskyArtShow theme is #sky so here’s the sky above Loch Morlich & the Cairngorm Mountains, in the Scottish Highlands. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 I’ve spent a lot of time in that part of Scotland and love it dearly - it’s so beautiful.

📷 Photo taken by me in April 2022.

#Scotland #Ecosse #Alba #Cairngorms
December 6, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Happy St. Andrew’s Day, folks! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
November 30, 2025 at 8:17 PM
A little late-night #BloomScrolling for you, my Bluesky friends. These fuchsias always remind me of tiny dancing ballerinas. 🩰
November 19, 2025 at 11:17 PM
It’s a beautiful city, I definitely miss living there! 🏰 I did a little day trip by train today though which was nice 😊
November 17, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Time spent with trees is never time wasted. Today I felt the magnetic pull of some lovely twisty-trunked horse chestnut trees. 🌰

#LoveNature #Trees #Edinburgh
November 16, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I wrote this as a form of letter to myself, but it came out more like poetry (no bad thing!). As it’s World Kindness Day today, I thought I’d share it, in case someone else finds it useful/helpful too. 🧡

#ViralKindness #BeKind #Writing
November 13, 2025 at 8:27 PM
A rare self-portrait for #MonochromeMonday. Wishing you all a good week, folks.
November 10, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Another #evening photo for this week’s #BlueskyArtShow! 🌷
November 8, 2025 at 9:58 PM
#BlueSkyArtShow theme today is #Evening - here’s a photo from a lovely evening, taken in Cherokee on my family trip to North Carolina, USA, in June this year. A special place for sure. 🧡
November 8, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Somehow… it’s November, apparently?! Joining in the #DavidsMonthOfMusic malarkey once again.

Day 1: Eels - “Fresh Blood” 🩸

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November 1, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Found my spooky Lego! 🦇
November 1, 2025 at 10:51 PM
It’s Bat Appreciation Week, apparently! 🦇 I’m still working on a Halloween sewing project, which just so happens to feature the little critters. I love seeing the tiny Pipistrelle bats flitting about here in the south of 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 at dusk, it always brings me so much joy.

#LoveBats #Halloween #Stitchy
October 29, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Quiet Sunday means spooky sewing time. 🧵🪡🦇

#Halloween #ShesCrafty #SpookySeason
October 26, 2025 at 1:48 PM
The view from #inside the Leith tenement building I used to reside in.

#BlueskyArtShow #Spiral #Architecture #Tenement #Edinburgh
October 25, 2025 at 2:18 PM
A view #inside the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh. The Victorian-era building’s design was inspired by the Crystal Palace in London.

#BlueSkyArtShow #Edinburgh #Architecture #Scotland #Museum
October 25, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Took my camera for a walk to see the pretty autumn colours around Galashiels yesterday. 🍁
October 19, 2025 at 6:07 PM
The #BlueSkyArtShow theme this week is #Vertical so please enjoy these roses reaching up into a beautiful blue sky. 🌹
October 18, 2025 at 10:56 AM
The #BlueskyArtShow theme this week is #Glow 🍁 so here’s a lovely autumnal oak tree.
October 11, 2025 at 7:22 PM
The #BlueskyArtShow theme this week is #Glow 🔥

Haven’t dyed my hair this colour for quite a while but love how it caught the golden hour light in this photo.
October 11, 2025 at 5:43 PM
The theme is #Relax for this week’s #BlueSkyArtShow.

I often find spending time in the garden helps me relax. The scent of lavender is very soothing too, and I enjoy watching the bees buzzing around their purple flowers.

#BloomScrolling #Lavender #SimplePleasures
October 4, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Couldn’t agree more! 😍
October 4, 2025 at 12:46 AM
I found some fly algaric in woodlands around the Eildon Hills (Scottish Borders) - a few years ago now, but it was pretty magical!
October 2, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Circles 🌀

Current mood: just trying not to spin out of control - got to find the calm in the centre!

📷 Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, September 2024.

#WheelOfFortune #Circles #Geometry #LookUp #NeoclassicalArchitecture
September 29, 2025 at 6:02 PM
The #BlueSkyArtShow theme today is #TheRoad, so here’s a rather lovely one in Amsterdam, which I recently visited.

#Amsterdam #Netherlands #Wanderlust
September 27, 2025 at 8:51 PM