My Dad gave me a voucher for Christmas to go and have as many macaroons as I could eat. My parents have been down visiting for the past week, so we headed along to Harrods today to have some at Ladurée.

I had a pistachio milkshake and my Dad ordered  hot chocolate which was literally thick chocolate melted into a liquid. Tom ordered a tasty praline cake.

We got a big box of macaroons to share. My favourites were the praline, black liquorice, chestnut, salted caramel and pistachio flavours.

No sleep tonight – we’re flying to the Canary Islands early tomorrow morning, so I have to leave for the airport in a few hours. I added my Kitty hooded scarf pattern to CO+K incase anyone wants to knit one too…

There’s an interview with me in the latest issue of Sew Hip magazine. It’s also got my how-to and the pattern for making Louis Vuitton style rabbit ears. You can pick a copy up in WH Smith and you’ll know it’s the right issue because it’s got the ears on the cover!

On the subject of crafting, I’ve almost finished my kitty ear hooded scarf, which I started knitting in Paris well over a year ago. I’m just making pockets for it now. It’s sooooo cosy! I’ll post the pattern on CO+K when it’s finished.

In an attempt to eat super healthy in 2010, I signed up to Graze, who deliver healthy snack boxes filled with nuts, fruits and seeds every week. Let me know if you fancy a free box and I’ll give you a code!

Tom got me a couple of late Christmas presents from the Vivienne Westwood sale including an awesome rosette and wrap scoop top, I love them both so much.

The snow has been preventing us from going out as much, so we’ve been raiding the DVD store and having movie nights in with Emma. We did have a trip to Ikea, where we got a new TV bench, magnetic knife rack and rails so that we could hang the bus blind up. This photo reminds me that I need to work on my costume for Mardis Gras – I’m thinking of making a mermaid tail.

If you’ve ever wondered where I come from, here’s an awful video showing Fife at it’s “best” – you can see why I left.

My recipe for Absinthe Lollipops is in the latest issue of Alt Noir magazine. Check it out here.

We launched the Christmas mini issue of Snippets this week with the adorable Twinkie Chan on the cover. She also shared a how-to for crocheting a super cute lollipop brooch.

It’s been another busy week, mostly filled with xmas shopping, movies, eating in diners and pub quizzes. We’ve been going to a pub quiz at Gordon Ramsay’s pub in Chiswick with Ben and Dave. It costs £2 to enter but they give you lots of little snacks from the kitchen – we had pumpkin soup, scrambled egg with truffle on toast, pork pies (not me) and really tasty mince pies. Our name this week was Crouching Tiger, Hidden Fire Hydrant, which we felt was nice and topical. We’ve been spending a lot of time over West recently, on the previous Sunday, we were at a mini Christmas for Mel at Ben & Dave’s with mulled wine, yummy food and generic presents to open.

I’ve fallen in love with Forever 21 - they make such nice clothes and our first order arrived this week. I got a couple of dresses, skirts, belts, a pair of boots and Tom got lots of cool t-shirts. I can’t wait to go on a spending spree in the shop when I get to New York.

On Wednesday we went for a feast at The Diner, complete with hard shakes and Tennessee Toffee Pie for dessert. Afterwards we went to see a midnight movie and Tom lost his wallet but I found it again, after a steward let me back in and we hunted for it in the dark. Speaking of diners, we have our American rail trip all booked for February. We start off in New York for a week, take the train down the east coast (we get beds and our meals on the train) to New Orleans, where we meet up with Emma and Raven for Mardis Gras. It’s going to be so much fun!

At the start of the year, Tom set himself the mission of going to the end of every tube line on the underground map and he only has a couple left to do, so I’ve been keeping him company. Lynz has lent me her Twilight book, so I’ve been reading that.

I’ve also spent a lot of the week wrapping presents, writing cards and doing some Christmas crafting. I can’t post most of the things I’ve made until after xmas, but I did make some geeky Gameboy keyrings, which I think are safe to show off now.

On Friday, we signed up to the DVD store at Maida Vale (the same one Kate Moss goes to, I’ll have you know) and had a girly movie night in with Emma. We watched St. Trinian’s, which is an odd film, and Josie & The Pussycats – I’d forgotten how awesome that film is!

When we got Tom’s pick of film home, we noticed someone had scribbled “worst film ever” on the DVD. We’ve still to watch it to find out.

On Saturday, we ran in to a Santa convention at Trafalgar Square, where there must have been a thousand people in Santa Claus outfits – apparently they were trying to raise awareness of Christmas. They all seemed quite drunk and were handing out chocolates and sweets to everyone.

Tiffany are sponsoring the ice skating at Somerset House, so they have a huge Christmas tree covered in Tiffany charms.

They also had a tuck shop inside a Tiffany box, where you could buy sweets and jewellery.

Tom bought me a cupcake, though I would have settled for a key necklace or this ring.

We had dinner at the Eagle Bar Diner and then went to see Law Abiding Citizen at the big Odeon in Leicester Square. We had went to see a movie a month ago, which had really bad sound, so we were given complementary tickets. Our seats would normally have cost £20 each, because we were in the Royal Circle, which is where all the stars sit during premiers and they had awesome leopard skin seats. That reminds me, Tom’s boss Malcolm had his moustache shaved off by Hugh Grant last week.

This morning we had breakfast at Fifteen. I highly recommend scrambled eggs & mushroom on toast with a side of baked beans and a tasty smoothie.

Afterwards I had a haircut at Taylor Taylor. This time I was at their Commercial Street shop, which is so pretty. Upstairs is all fairytale with chandeliers and stuffed animals for Christmas and downstairs is like a dungeon. They give you special Christmas cocktails, tasty coffee and a head massage before your chop.

I’m going to have to get use to having much shorter hair, but I think I’ll treat myself to some ear muffs to keep warm.

That was a super long post, I’ll update more regularly from now on.

My recipe for absinthe lollipops and how-to for body glitter are in the latest issue of Alt. Fashion magazine.

Tom had never tried curry before, so for dinner on Monday, we ordered food from the Bombay Bicycle Club. I had vegetable curry, rice, pikora, somosa and nann bread. It was the most delicious Indian food that I’ve ever had!

On Wednesday, we decided to give Central Perk another try, so we met up with Lynsey and headed along. Once again the queue was around the corner, so we went to Starbucks instead.

Afterwards we went shopping in Kingly Court, which we hadn’t really explored before. There are so many cool shops and I bought a bunch of amazing buttons from All The Fun Of The Fair - the lady who worked there knew CO+K.

Tom spotted these awesome necklaces in Lazy Oaf, so we got a gold one as a leaving present for Raven and a silver one for me. We hope it helps her to make good decisions when we’re not around.

Also, I made Jason a bunny card for his birthday, complete with a rabbit clip for his shoe.

Yesterday  we dropped Wendy off at Little Venice, so that she could take the boat to Camden, and went for breakfast. The friendly man from Warwick Avenue had written…

“Good morning folks,

It’s Friday, no longer any reason to get out of bed – thank goodness!

Have a lazy weekend.”

… on the service information board. He’s my hero.

We dropped Wendy and her very large bags off at the Eurostar for Paris.

I got a very cute zipper rosette brooch from Accessorize. I really should have made one myself but I couldn’t resist buying it there and then.

In the evening we went to Clare and Jo’s leaving party, which had turned in to a “may be leaving” party, so I’ll be happy if we get to keep them. The party was at Zigfrid in Hoxton, which had terrible customer service and an awesome broken mirrored walls, which made it feel like you were in a forrest.

I forgot to blog about it, but we adopted an unwanted palm tree on our way home the other night. I really like it and wonder how big it will grow?!

This week my parents and Canadian grandparents have been visiting us in London. Today, my Mum and I went on a coffee shop crawl, while the rest of the family visited museums. We started off with breakfast at Plan 9, grabbed a coffee at Cafe Laville over the canal, and then went for red velvet cake at Hummingbird.

After we met up with the rest of the family at the V & A. I can never resist snooping around the shop and this time, I left with Lego photo blocks (you can stack them however you like and put things inside them) for Tom, origami post-it notes and a variety of super cute buttons. I’m going to turn the crayon buttons in to a brooch.

We had a look around the Telling Tales exhibition, which is furniture with a fairy tale twist. I really like this set of chairs, which looked like they had been stretched.

Afterwards we went to Harrods, where they had a £10,000 box of Patchi chocolates. I wish I had taken a photo because the box was amazing, it was mirrored with tiny drawers filled with boxes. Each box was covered in Swarovski crystals. If I had enough spare cash, I’d buy one and make it my jewelry box, I could have used all the crystals to make the jewelry to keep in it!

Our birthdays have lasted for a very long time this year, and when my family arrived, we got to open even more presents. Grandma had brought me a huge bag of craft supplies from Canada.

The latest issue of Alt Fashion includes my tutorial for making a Gothic Lolita Cuff.

CO+K did a little guide about turning your front room in to a festival to watch Glastonbury for Drowned In Sound.