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Celia Donnelly

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end of summer feelings by @curledlight

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2 months ago

my life from the past month, in landscape mode 🛣️ shout out to @jennamarbukh for the film pics <3 by @curledlight

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4 months ago

turned 26 last week, in the south of france, surrounded by so many good friends. I ate a lotta good food, saw good live music, and went to the mermaid cove. my life is complete now :,) thanks everyone for all the bday love. I feel so lucky, loved and grateful every day to be alive <3 let’s goooo twenty-six >:) by @curledlight

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5 months ago

things I think about when I look out train windows: the tomato tart I’m going to (did) make, pretty book spines and books of postcards, the comic I’m making, lines I like from a book I finished, all the pretty typography for receiving letters on doors, my diary as a comic strip, my well loved penny loafers in the spring, basilicas and cathedrals, drinking coffee and eating cake with friends, fin ✨ by @curledlight

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6 months ago

every year I brush off my jacket with winter, and I sit outside with the flowers, even if it’s still a little cold. so I drew how that feels to me 🌷🌞 by @curledlight

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7 months ago

explored northern ireland and then wrote a notes app poem about it taken in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK by @curledlight

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8 months ago

happy 26th birthday to my best friend @jennamarbukh 💖 since I can’t bake you a cake like I most definitely would be doing today if I was in Richmond…here is a collection of all of my favorite photos of you and us :) it’s been 6 years since we met on a Zoom call in design school, and I remember I instantly thought: “yeah, I wanna be that girl’s friend”. 6 years later and I truly can’t imagine my 20s without you. not only are you wicked smart, fun and adventurous, you’re also a style icon and my tattoo inspiration. the icon and the blueprint! the designer and the muse! everyone, go get yourself a Jenna! I can’t wait to keep figuring out this crazy world together. love ya so much, Jenn 🎂🌞💞 by @curledlight

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8 months ago

amsterdam / berlin / paris, all before the end of the year

2025 has had so many ups and downs (and a last minute bout of food poisioning to close it all out) when I think through all of this year, I feel like I’ve lived a thousand lives in 365 days. I started this year with the goal of living in europe by the end of it. and I somehow made that happen throughout losing two of my childhood pets, losing water in my apartment two times, working multiple jobs, passing a language test, and a bunch of other things like moving myself out of my apartment. there were plenty of positives outside of all those hardships, they just don’t fit so neatly into an Instagram caption. but over some tea or wine, the positives make for great stories. and now, at the end of 2025, all I can say is how different I feel. I’m more me than ever before, and yet also so unfamiliar to myself. I love that part of being alive. the spontaneity of change, how you can’t know how it’s changing you until it has. I’ve been sitting with that all year, the uncertainty, and instead of trying to run from it, I keep facing it. and I gotta say, it’s been the best way to become closer to myself and the world.

right now, my only goal in 2026 is to wear a shirt with broken pottery on it, like the one I saw at the musée des arts décortifs in paris (see photos). but knowing me, I will make a more comprehensive list of things to do and see soon enough. I’m just gonna sit with the uncertainty of what I want next, a lil more. bisous bious <3 by @curledlight

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10 months ago

there is nothing I love more than a photobooth, a pastry, a coffee, drawing, and soft colored paintings taken in Paris, France by @curledlight

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10 months ago

looking out my window thinking about drawing. so here are 4 pages from my sketchbook. swipe to read comics !! by @curledlight

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a year ago

The only way I’d want ever want to spend a vacation is reading comics outside, changing into my swimsuit under a towel on white rocks, then diving into the cold, turquoise Mediterranean. Tasting the salt in my hair after, and on my lips. Biking the coastline to find pieces of washed up pottery, while a ferris wheel spins in the distance and we snack on fresh baguette. At night seeing punk and synth shows while smoking cigarettes outside with beers and shots of madeline flavored liquor. Peeling the most delicious clementines after a gorgeous hike. That’s been my past week. Better than I could dream up, and the real reason I wanted to visit France again. It was all just to see Marseille, again. taken in Marseille, France by @curledlight

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a year ago

France is now my home for 7 months, while I teach English (and make comics). I’m not quite sure how I got everything together to do this, but I definitely could not have done it without people helping me talk this through (you all know who you are <3)! a year ago I was feeling numb, depressed and just kinda accepting it. I had buried this dream of mine to live in France and make comics in the blur of life. I say this, because if you feel ever this way, go tell some people, get outside, play some sports/move, and go talk it out. these things helped me see myself again, and were it not for my friends, family and my therapist, I’d still feel myself living inside that cloud. now it’s cleared enough for me to try out this dream for 7 months. je te verrai en mai, Amérique <3 taken in Paris, France by @curledlight

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