I'm Cally Anne Highfield, but I've been known online as 'Twinklestah' (or variations thereof) since 2002.
I was born on the 5th of December in Liverpool, 1985, and still live there to this day. I love it here :)
I graduated in 2010, with a BA Honours in Creative Writing and can mostly be found hunched over my netbook or a sketchbook!

      

Art & Writing
I've always loved being creative - I took up drawing as a hobby in 1997. Years later; things haven't really changed much.
My inspirations come from stuff such as mythology, dreams, anthropomorphism, fantasy, fairy tales, nature, classic animation and so on.
I draw animals mostly, especially fantasy-inspired creations. I am deeply interested in art as therapy or expression, and create characters to portray how I am feeling or the way I think.
Most of my personal artwork is based around the fictional world of the Patchwork Plane - a place I created for all my characters to live in (though it isn't really a physical environment as such). This idea fits my scope and way of thinking perfectly, and I'm always thinking up new creatures and thoughts behind this world.
I'll eventually have a website up and running saying more about it
I also create art for money - see my commissions page for more info.

My first novel, Rose Petal Tea, was written when I was sixteen. It wasn't out until four years later.

My next novel, Indigo Sky, had been six years in the making, technically (if you include character & plot development - I "officially" began work on Indigo Sky in 2005, after Rose Petal Tea was published), and again, I reached a point where I'd had enough of the novel just being sat on my hard drive.

Nowadays, writing comes in second to my love of drawing and painting, but I do enjoy it occasionally. I prefer writing poetry (mostly funny, short poems) to stories or novels, though my third novel, Angel City, a story about circus freaks, is tentatively in the works. I also write zines from time to time, and sell them via my Etsy store.

And so on...
I also love making other crafts and taking many photos with my beloved camera, Nautilus! I'm also incredibly fond of making silly blogs and mini websites.
(But you can see more about those things elsewhere!)

 

Personal
In a nutshell: I adore music and animals and making discoveries.
I'm very busy usually, but in what spare time I can grab, I love working on my aforementioned writing and artwork, making good use of Nautilus and taking photographs of pretty much anything & everything, wielding a hapless needle and thread and making terrible crafts, catstalking, going out for lovely meals, adventures, going to the cinema, travelling, gaming and collecting retro games/consoles, cooking, cartoons, reading books about nature or mythology and buying more books than can possibly fit on my bookshelves.
If you want to get to know me, your best bet is to take a glance through my beloved Flickr Gallery... if that wasn't already obvious! :)

Contact: deathworechinchilla@yahoo.co.uk
MSN: twinkleroose@hotmail.co.uk (feel free to add me but please let me know who you are/why you've added me when you do! I'm shy!)
Networks: I'm also on Livejournal, Facebook and Twitter, but I am quite 'selective' (again, shy) about who I add back on those sites. Sorry!
Feel free to add me and watch me though, if you like!
Other: I don't use AIM. If you want to add me on any gaming networks, again, it's fine, and you can easily find me (I'm "Twinklestah" most places), but same rules apply. :)