I recently contributed some projects to Brother and they’ve put together a little download which is on their site now.

This week has felt like an extension of my birthday. On Monday, I received a box of awesome treats from Medusa’s Make-Up and then my purple heart-shaped Daisy Rock bass, and then on Tuesday Sarah sent a package of awesome birthday treats, including a super cute Momiji doll with a really sweet note inside.

I love love love my bass. It’s looks even prettier in real life and it’s really easy to play because it’s designed for girls fingers. Tom and I have been playing Desaparecidos, McClusky and Paramore… hehe!

This week’s work included making Make-Up tutorials for Medusa’s Make-Up.

This is the first one I’ve made, so I hope I described everything properly.

I got a lot of purple things for my birthday, including this awesome Canon camera from Tom. It has a wide-angle lense, so all my photos will be 16:9 and it’ll look like I’m in a movie.

I couldn’t resist taking minature-style photos of Camden.

It looks so cute, like a toy-set complete with miniature drug dealers and punks.

Ross invited us along to their party in a really cool pub up in Belsize Park.

His band, Mars Patrol were using half the room to shoot a music video. We were too scared to go in it but there were break dancers, sumo wrestlers, dogs and lots of crazy people.

Today, we’re off on the hunt for weird ice cream. Last week I made some lemon sorbet, which was sooo easy and really tasty!

We have just launched Snippets 20, the Happiness issue!

This issue has musician Sia on the cover, Tom’s interview with his favourite beer company BrewDog, a feature on one of my heros and the happiest person ever Mr Warwick Avenue and an interview with The Oskar, who we met at Newark Station on our way to New York.

I had to pull in all the reinforcements for this issue, including Barbie for another modelling photo shoot with my ring.

I can’t believe we’re already on issue 20! Tom got the covers printed out and I didn’t realise there would be so many of them. My favourites are the the Emily Strange, Trashy Life, Amy Lame and Tarina Tarantino covers, but I like the new one a lot too!

We put them all on the wall. Not sure what to do when we get past issue 21…

On Tuesday, Tommi and his lovely new wife Julia came to visit on their holiday away from Canada. We haven’t seen Tommi in over a year and a half, so it was great catching up and reminiscing about our Dundee days.

They even brought us three cutesie wooden turtles.

It’s our birthday party tomorrow morning, so I made myself a bunting necklace to wear. I’ve also been baking all night and have successfully made a three-tiered absinthe chocolate cake!

I sewed some owl cushions. I’ve decided that I don’t want any cushions I haven’t sewn myself (apart from the awesome tube fabric one). The owls were made out of two tweed skirts and pieces of Liberty print fabric – I’ll post a how-to on CO+K soon.

We’ve been doing lots of de-cluttering in the mews and I finally organized my shoes with DIY polaroid photos. I can’t tell you how long I’ve wanted to do that for.

Because polaroid film is so expensive, I came up with a super cheap DIY solution and you can see how to make your own on CO+K.

The exciting news in my life at the moment is that I’ve learnt how to play guitar. I’ve been terrible at it for years but after being taught how to play bass, I picked up the guitar and magically knew how to play it. Tom’s decided I’m getting an electro-acoustic Daisy Rock guitar for my birthday… we’re just torn between the sparkly pink (which is amazing) and the purple (which is a bit more me!). We want to get a heart shaped bass too, so I can play along with T’s music. I also got a 4-track app for my iPhone and I’ve been having so much fun with it!

I’ve done a few interviews recently and there’s one in the latest issue of Alt Fashion Magazine and another one on the Bead Army blog. We have a meeting with our publicist Sally after work today, so hopefully we’ll be doing a few more *fingers crossed*.

Bead’s Unlimited sent me a box of beads and links to play around with, I need to get my crafting hat on and see what I can make with them.

In other news, I’ve been doing DIY The Look guides for various stars on the CO+K blog. So far, we’ve had Katy Perry, Lady Gaga and Kristen Stewart. Any ideas on who to feature next? Also, Knitten Kitten Jenny came to stay on Monday night. I love that her hair is a different colour everytime I see her (last time pink, this time bright purple).

Ahoy! I finally finished my sailor dress. This is the second dress that I’ve made and now I have the hang of it, I’m going to make lots more.

I’ve started a new fashion scrapbook to keep all my ideas in, so I’ve been drawing coquette’s (which I will do a how-to for soon) and cutting out pictures and fabric patches. The fabric I used for this dress was a striped linen, which cost £5 a meter.

It has big bulky pockets at either side (I love pockets on dresses), metal buttons down the front and a wide collar.

I’m going to style it with a sailor hat, anchor necklace from Forever 21, the Vivienne Westwood pirate boots I wish I had and a bottle of rum!

It was Louise’s birthday yesterday, so I made her a whoopie pie cake and we attempted to surprise her with it on her way home from work. I made muesli whoopies with honey and raisin buttercream, ginger whoopies with chocolate buttercream, plain chocolate whoopies, rose flavoured whoopies and peanut whoopies. I wonder if she managed to eat them all on her own?!

We all went for dinner at Jack’s again in Queen’s Park.

I also made her a newt bracelet because she loves newts.

On the subject of crafting, I bought a bunch Liberty fabric scraps, which I’m going to turn in to owl cushions. I love the prints.

I also got a really cute robot watch necklace from eBay but within the first 24 hours, one of his arms fell off and got lost in the streets of Soho. Luckily a replacement arrived today.

My Mum was browsing through a sewing magazine and spotted this article on me after recognising our bed. She was so unfazed she didn’t even buy it!

Last week Tom’s brother Jack came down to stay for a few days, as he was in an art show at Truman Brewery. His work included a photograph of him naked in a quarry next to two giant diggers and a series of photographs of bathroom taps – Tom’s pointing to the one’s in his bathroom back home.

I also bought 4 pairs of shoes… a black pair, a purple pair, a red pair (with matching red bag and Gay Pride sparkly red velvet cupcake)…

and a pink Vivienne Westwood pair with a matching skull & bone orb necklace.

I also made a quilted star bag. I’m going to braid some fabric through the chain when I figure out how to make piping on my sewing machine.

I love the Cath Kidston meets Chanel bags, but they’re £45 so I decided to make my own. I’ll post the Cat Kidston how-to on CO+K soon.

This weekend was full of crafting. I met T after work on Friday and we went for frogurt from Snog – guilt free apart from the mini oreos on top.

We met Emma for milkshakes at the Diner, so that I could give her the dino bone necklace I had made her for her birthday. She loves the T-Rex Tatty Devine one, which cost £110, so I decided to have a go at making a Brontosaurs. The waiter walked past when she was opening it and said “my friend has that necklace”, so it must look pretty similar.

I put the how-to on CO+K, if you want to make one too. It does take quite a long time though!

I also made a Union Jack pin cushion wristband, which is really handy when sewing. I really love Union Jacks at the moment but I’m hating St. George Crosses because of the football. We were trying to avoid the World Cup this weekend, but even Plan 9 was divided in to England vs. America, with flags on one side or the other. Louise came over to watch it and knew a surprising amount about football – even managing to explain the offside rule to us.

I countered the football by crafting and made us a spotty cosy for our cafeteria.

I also made Tom an Octocat, from the Github website, to be his little coding mascot. We might get to meet Mark Zuckerberg from Facebook on Monday

It was such a hot weekend, hopefully that’s the summer here to stay. On Friday, Ben, Claire & Lynz came over for 30p beers (which the Wine Rack were selling off fast) and stir fry, while we sat outside the mews. I showed off the embroidery skills of my new sewing machine and made Ben a royal hanky with his name and a crown stitched on it. Tom taught me how to play Lover I Don’t Have To Love on his roll-up piano – maybe there’s still hope for me musically yet!

On Saturday we went to see the London Roller Girl’s bout Smack To The Future. We felt typically British watching “the game” with our beers.

Lynz & I decided to cheer on the team with the cutest outfits (they move too fast to get a clear photo) and make up derby names for everyone – Lynz & Let Die, Benecol, aTom Bomb and Catastrophe.

When we got back to the mews, there was a massive film crew shooting a scene. It looked like an episode of Skins or something similar, so I’m sure we’ll end up watching it someday.

Sunday was soooo hot, it felt like a different country. In the evening, we caught up with Louise and Lynz for a bite to eat at Plan 9.

Louise was showing off with her camera, so I attempted to compete with my compact’s weird colour mode. We spent the rest of the night outside, it stayed so warm that we could have slept outside.

I’ve been trying to do something crafty every day to get me back in to my old ways and the other night I dreamt about a necklace with birds all over it, so I decided to give it a try. The how-to is on CO+K now.

We launched issue 19 of Snippets on Friday. This one is the Glitz & Glam issue with Tarina Tarantino on the cover. We have interviews with RockLove (+ a giveaway), Cake Wrecks (which is sooooo funny), Sew Crafty Fox and musician Jason Webley. We’ve also got how-to’s for making Chic Steals, Glitzy Decor, a Valentines Brooch, a competition to win the Crafty Chica’s latest craft novel and much, much more.

I can’t believe we’re at issue 19 already! We’re going to have a proper launch party for issue 20 with a cake with the cover printed on it.

Yesterday morning I woke up to an exciting package that Brother sewing machines had sent me. It’s sooooo pretty, has loads of amazing sewing and embroidery features, and it comes with an attachable mini-sewing table, which is really handy when you’re sewing something big. I’ve got lots of exciting plans with Brother and now that the sewing machine has arrived, I can get started!

Our Crafty Superstar on CO+K last week was Audrey Kitching, who shared lots of awesome DIY fashions projects. She makes me want to run down to the craft store and buy all kinds of glittery things.

Tom and I have had a cold for the past week (in Summer, not fair ), so instead of lazing around and getting better, we’ve been working full speed on CO+K and have so many new features on the go. Today we’re launching project embedding, so that people can share projects elsewhere! (If you have projects, go here to embed them).