Sarah McCartney
@sarahmccartney
Making perfume at 4160Tuesdays.com teaching perfume making at Scenthusiasm.school fountain pen user, North Easterner, currently a Londoner
The day your 2022 favourite shoes turn into your 2026 gardening shoes.
I mean this fondly, does Sepp Kuss remind anyone else of Noddy? #TourdeFrance
York. The view from the massive new Toppings bookshop, a gargoyle, an astonishing church tower, wildflower meadow by the city walls.
Swifts doing their finest shifting, drinking from the tiny pool at our Athens hotel.
I visualised a multipurpose box and made a prototype and am quite surprised that it all fits together perfectly.
Plants growing in walls, part 2, the Barbican. That second one is Roman, part of the original London Wall.
Small business life. We just got a project which means we have to cancel our planned two day break, so we went for a walk in the park and a smoothie instead. Not really a choice, as times are strange now, and you take your opportunities!
I love a staircase; this one is in a small office building on Borough High Street.
TikTok's new owners have stopped pretending that it's anything other than the money. This little banner just popped up to show me that the algorithm will be blocking me unless I pay up. Not surprised, just disappointed.
We got in the shortlist for the Fragrance Foundation's Perfume Extraordinaire award 2026 with Vianne's Confession. @joannechocolat.bsky.social we're in there with the big boys!
I'm sharing our magnolia tree so we can take a couple of breaths and appreciate some beauty, while it lasts.
Unpack a random box, find your dad's School Certificate from 1944.
Proof from Yorkshire that this is how to serve Christmas cake, with Wensleydale cheese. Cake baked and soaked in brandy for over a year by my sister.
Pitzhanger Manor this afternoon, inside and out, some Georgian perfection for you.
Every time I stray into Threads, I regret it, except for today's gathering of RLS. Also I bought myself a bag and customised it.
What's wrong with Paul Smith's maths? (Who's buying two pairs? 😺)
Light Project and I had our second photoshoot day, and just as the Vianne's Confession shot was finished, Italian Elle magazine asked for a picture! Witchcraft, I tell you. I gather it went down well in Italy @joannechocolat.bsky.social
Greetings New York, from London where the leaves have fallen, but not much else. The sky though! Wibbly. Anyway, welcome to Team Rational.
I'm one of the privileged fountain pen nerds who got a bottle of the new Pelikan Edelstein Apricot Achat ink on Friday night. I've put it into a Sailor with a fude nib. 😁 Sorry. My other obsession leaked out.
Just occasionally, I find myself in the coolest room on the planet at the right time. #same.band
This person just followed me. I wondered why, so checked the profile and found that it only follows 22 older women from various countries. I wonder why? What next? A DM? 😁 Or am I too cynical.