Travelling as a way through self discovery

Carrie is originally from St. Louis, Missouri. She studied fine art at Columbia College in Chicago and graduated in 1997.

She majored in photography & painting.

After spending six years travelling Carrie moved to Edinburgh in 2003 where where she set up as a freelancer mostly working on photo shoots, before landing a job from a volunteer position at Stills, Scotland's centre for photography. From that emerged a six year long career working for the organisation in various managerial roles until towards the end of her time at Stills she took an interest in sewing and launched a series of pop-up weekend or hacker-spaces called The Stitch Lounge.

Although these proved popular and fun, her idea to open a permanent sewing cafe slowly faded.

In 2011, Carrie left Stills, having decided to dip her toes in the corporate sector, and emerged with a senior role in a digital marketing agency. After four rewarding years at the agency Carrie embraced a new challenge and on the back of her experience as a successful Airbnb host she enrolled in a one year full time Interior Design course. These gave Carrie her next level confidence needed to quit the day job and launch Carrie Susan Interiors in early 2016.

You can find Carrie's website here.

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Opening track prod. Rion Richard