Cat McLaughlin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️

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Things I believe in: human rights, kindness, learning about other cultures, and music, art & creativity as a powerful tools for healing. 💜 I’m fundraising for Cancer Research UK here:

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Cat McLaughlin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️@knittedpixel· 17d

A rainy day in Glasgow. ☔️ #Glass #BlueskyArtShow #Dreich

Raindrops on the surface of a window, with the glass rooftop of Glasgow Central train station in the background. (black & white photo)

Cat McLaughlin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️@knittedpixel· 17d

Reflections of Venice: A shop window with beautiful traditional artisan-made masks for the Carnivale 🎭 #Venice #Carnevale #Glass #BlueskyArtShow #Masquerade

A shop window display with a variety of intricately detailed handmade Venetian masks, with gold accents and decorative designs. You can also see the street scene reflected in the glass of the window, with shopfronts and people going about their daily business.

Cat McLaughlin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️@knittedpixel· 20d

I can actually see the Eildon Hills from my window. This view is a short walk from my home.

View of the Eildon Hills as seen from a section of the Southern Upland Way that passes above the town of Galashiels in the Scottish Borders.

Cat McLaughlin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️@knittedpixel· 25d

A small tortoiseshell butterfly having a little rest while it recharges its batteries in the sunlight. 🦋 #AglaisUrticae #ButterflyWeek #SmallTortoiseshell #ScottishWildlife

A small tortoiseshell butterfly resting on the metal part of a train platform shelter, gathering its strength before flying away. Its wings are spread open and you can clearly see the light illuminating its beautiful wing patterns, with orange, black and delicate lacy spots of blue.

Cat McLaughlin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️@knittedpixel· 26d

A small copper 🦋 for #ButterflyWeek! 🧡 This photo was taken at Thornielee Forest in the #ScottishBorders 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 in August 2021, the same day my family went to visit a traditional "clootie tree" around there. (It felt like a good omen.) #ShotOnCanon #SmallCopper #Butterfly #Scotland

A small copper butterfly (Lycaena phlaeas) rests on a patch of flowering ragwort, which has yellow daisy-like flowers, with forest greenery behind. The butterfly is a vibrant orange colour with deep brown markings.

Cat McLaughlin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️@knittedpixel· Jul 12

Late entry for this week's #BlueskyArtShow. Found a lovely wee friend at the train station yesterday. 🦋 #Quiet #Butterfly #Scotland

Cat McLaughlin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️@knittedpixel· Jul 4

Panorama of the rolling hills around Galashiels, a town in the Scottish Borders where I live currently. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 📷 18th May 2022 #BlueskyArtShow #wide #Scotland #HiddenScotland #Alba #Ecosse

Panoramic photograph of a bright spring day in May 2022, with lush greenery, yellow gorse in full bloom and the hills surrounding the town of Galashiels in the south of Scotland.

Cat McLaughlin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️@knittedpixel· Jun 27

#Macro shot of palette knife textures made with acrylic paint. Very satisfying! #BlueskyArtShow #AnalogueArt

Extreme close-up of textured layers of acrylic paint on paper, in warm shades of purple and red. You can see expressive marks made using a palette knife.

Cat McLaughlin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️@knittedpixel· Jun 27

I do love a nice ampersand. 😍 (I am a graphic designer after all!) #BlueskyArtShow #Macro #Typography

A three-dimensional ampersand (the & symbol) painted white, in a stylised curvy typeface. It forms part of the sign lettering on a wooden bridge in Amsterdam's Beatrixpark.

Cat McLaughlin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️@knittedpixel· Jun 26

“Hope” is the thing with feathers - That perches in the soul - And sings the tune without the words - And never stops - at all. 🪶 - Emily Dickinson #BlueskyArtShow #Macro #Poetry

Black & white photo. Close-cropped shot of a white woman's left hand. You can see the tiniest of dark feathers resting gently on my palm.

Cat McLaughlin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️@knittedpixel· Jun 24

It IS too hot. So I decided to make a pretty salad last night!

Round blue bowl with a colourful, carefully laid out salad, including pasta, cubes of feta cheese, cherry tomato, spinach and slices of fresh nectarine around the edge.

Cat McLaughlin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️@knittedpixel· Jun 20

Probably one of my favourite flower photos I've ever taken. 🌸 A dahlia delight! #BlueskyArtShow #Curve #Bloomscrolling

A perfect dahlia flower in bloom. Its sculptural petals are a delicate shade of pink. The flower head is framed by lush, deep green foliage in the background.

Cat McLaughlin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️@knittedpixel· Jun 20

The Leaderfoot Viaduct, near Melrose in the south of Scotland. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 This bridge formerly formed part of the old Waverley Line, a train line which used to connect Edinburgh with Carlisle - Melrose being one of the stops on the route which has preserved the old station platform. #BlueskyArtShow #curve

A tall viaduct spans across the River Tweed in the Scottish Borders. The bridge, known as the Leaderfoot Viaduct, appears to be built largely from red brick and has many curved arches. Two of the railway arches on the far left nicely frame individual trees. On one bank (left) is a green, gently sloping hillside, and the other side is packed with a dense green tree canopy. The sky is bright, with patches of white cloud and hints of blue.

Photograph by Cat McLaughlin, shot on a Canon EOS 4000D DSLR camera. Taken in the summer of 2020.

Cat McLaughlin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️@knittedpixel· Jun 13

This week I've been decorating my hallway - spent a large chunk of today carefully removing a whole load of masking tape (the hall has a slightly ridiculous number of doorways + fixtures!). Took a while, but worth it for those nice clean, #sharp lines! 💚 #BlueskyArtShow

Light streams into a freshly painted sage green hallway through stained glass panels (with a red rose motif) on the front door.

Cat McLaughlin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️@knittedpixel· Jun 8

I did it!! Yesterday's Race for Life 10K in Edinburgh went well, and thanks to everyone's kind donations, I've raised just under £700 for @cancerresearchuk.org which is so wonderful! It really will make a difference 💕 There's still time to donate here: fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/cats-ra...

Cat, a white Scottish woman with long dark hair, is standing smiling in front of a Cancer Research UK Race for Life banner, proudly wearing her medal, having just completed her 10K.

Cat McLaughlin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️@knittedpixel· Jun 6

Well, tomorrow's the big day! Just about all set, got my back sign ready for the @cancerresearchuk.org Race for Life 10K in Edinburgh 💕 You can sponsor me here: fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/cats-ra...

Sign with a pink to purple colour
gradient background. A small bubble says "Cancer Research UK Race for Life" and a lager bubble says "Race for my sister, Helen, our grampa Jim, my friend Amanda, and everyone affected by cancer."

Cat McLaughlin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️@knittedpixel· Jun 5

Merci! 🖤 (Though I possibly prefer the original in colour, because the lighting is so cool!)

A pale Scottish woman with long dark hair is standing in front of a full length mirror with funky purple-pink coloured lighting. She is looking directly at the camera and is wearing a black & red striped top, a maroon corduroy skirt, black opaque tights and shiny black patent leather boots.

Cat McLaughlin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️@knittedpixel· Jun 5

Pick a selfie from your gallery and turn it black and white. { also: remember to add alt text plz! }

A black & white self-portrait by Cat, a caucasian (very pale, Scottish!) woman with long dark hair. She is standing in front of a full-length hotel mirror, wearing a stripy top, a corduroy skirt, black opaque tights and patent leather boots.

Cat McLaughlin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️@knittedpixel· Jun 2

🌸 Good morning 🌸 Yesterday I embarked on a 100 day project, with the aim of working on a zine page for the next 100 days, and hopefully having some completed zines by the end of it! Here's Day 1, a mixed media piece inspired by one of my fave flowers and #Bloomscrolling #100DaysProjectScotland

Mixed media art on squared paper, a mix of drawing and painting, which depicts two vibrant purple bearded iris flowers in bloom. The word "iris" is hand-stamped in block letters down the left side and at the bottom "Iridaceae family" is handwritten in brush pen.

Cat McLaughlin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️@knittedpixel· May 30

Another pic for this week's #BlueskyArtShow theme, #growth. 🌸 Cherry blossom pom-poms from last year. 🌸 #Bloomscrolling #SakuraSeason

An explosion of pink cherry blossom, so dense they look like pretty petal pom-poms.

Cat McLaughlin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️@knittedpixel· May 30

Literal #growth in two senses - iris flowers blooming and development of my drawing skills. These are pages from my sketchbook when I took part in the 2024 edition of 100 Days Project Scotland. #BlueskyArtShow #AnalogueArt #TraditionalArt #Sketchbook #HandDrawn

A dot-grid notebook with a double-page spread laid open. On the pale off-white paper of its pages are drawings of bearded iris flowers. On the right-hand page is a hand drawn tonal pen and pencil sketch of a sculptural iris flower in bloom. On the left page is a similar drawing of a different iris but this one has been rendered in coloured pencil, with green stems and purple petals.

Art by Cat McLaughlin, the owner of the sketchbook.

Cat McLaughlin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️@knittedpixel· May 23

The lovingly-restored 19th century Ross Fountain in Edinburgh's Princes Street Gardens. Until today, I hadn't realised it was made from cast iron! Always lovely to see it working, especially so on a gorgeous sunny day. #BlueskyArtShow #Tall #Edinburgh

Black & white photo of the Ross Fountain in Princes Street Gardens, which is a public park with a view of Edinburgh Castle. The fountain is a highly decorative, cast-iron structure and was made in the Victorian era. It features neoclassical figures such as cherubs, mermaids and water nymphs.

Cat McLaughlin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️@knittedpixel· May 23

Monolith. Today's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Tall so here's an unusual view of the Scott Monument (aka the Gothic Rocket!) in Edinburgh, shot from below. #ShotOnCanon #Edinburgh #Scotland

View from the ground looking up, with a huge, imposing stone structure looming overhead with blue sky and some clouds behind it. It is church-like with huge arches and gothic architectural details, known as the Scott Monument, in honour of Scottish writer Sir Walter Scott.

Cat McLaughlin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️@knittedpixel· May 21

Cherry trees in full swing, five years ago today. 🌸 Petals drifting like pink snow in all their ephemeral beauty. 📷 Bank Street Gardens, Galashiels, Scotland #Bloomscrolling #SakuraSeason #ThrowbackThursday

A public park, Bank Street Gardens in Galashiels (in the Scottish Borders) in May. The green grass is covered in pink petals shed by the cherry trees heavy with blossom. It looks like confetti or pink snow. In the park are old-fashioned street lamps and vintage-style wooden benches with decorative metalwork, lending the scene an old-fashioned charm.

Cat McLaughlin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️@knittedpixel· May 16

I don't often talk about my mental health here, but I've been struggling recently with anxiety & feeling pretty overwhelmed. Not sure what the "answer" is exactly, but getting outside does help a wee bit - especially with views like this on my doorstep. Trying to find gratitude for the good things.

View of the Eildon Hills (or as the Romans called it, Trimontium) in the far south of Scotland. A silhouette of three peaks against a blue sky with lots of puffy white clouds and a green hillside in the foreground, with the outskirts of Galashiels town just visible on the left of the picture.

Cat McLaughlin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️@knittedpixel· May 9

This is one of the softest (and fluffiest) yarns I've ever worked with - a blend of silk, mohair and some metallic fibres for a wee bit of added glam factor. ✨ #BlueskyArtShow #soft #HandmadeLace #TextileDesign #KnittingSky

A close-up of an intricate, delicate knitted lace fabric - clearly a work in progress, as it is shown on a bamboo wood knitting needle, gently held by a caucasian woman’s hand with glittery green nail polish on her nails. The deep wine-coloured yarn used to construct the cobweb-like fabric is very fine, made of silk, silvery threads that catch the light, and fuzzy mohair.

Cat McLaughlin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️@knittedpixel· May 9

These were some fairly convincing not-real daffodils, until we realised they hadn't yet "gone over" like most of the real daffs have by this point in the year! #BlueSkyArtShow #Soft

A window box full of some rather convincing yellow daffodils, which upon closer inspection turned out to be artificial fabric flowers!

Cat McLaughlin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️@knittedpixel· May 9

Soft raindrops on bluebells in Ravelston Woods, Edinburgh. #BlueSkyArtShow #Soft #Bloomscrolling

clusters of pretty wild flowering bluebells in a woodland setting. the petals are heavy with raindrops from a recent shower.

Cat McLaughlin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️@knittedpixel· May 7

Ok, so I may not have funky neon strings, but she's *sparkly* metallic purple! ✨💜✨

Close-up of a left-handed Squier precision bass guitar. The body is a deep purple metallic glitter colour with a white scratch plate and black pickups. The guitar strap is black with a white cobweb motif printed on it.

Cat McLaughlin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️@knittedpixel· May 5

Hello #TulipTuesday! Photo from a visit to the lovely Hortus Botanicus in Amsterdam with @dinodragonrawrrr.bsky.social last April. 🌷 #Bloomscrolling #BotanicalGarden