We’re having a Scottish tour of all of our friends. First stop was Perth with my family, which was heavily covered in snow.

We had a snowball fight with my Dad.

We warmed up with breakfast at Spoons before heading through to Dundee. (My Nana is wearing her squirrel brooch).

We saw our old flat in Dundee, which reminded us how much we didn’t miss the city.

We had a wander around the shops for a while and I managed to find the diary-a-month Moleskins that I wanted. You get a different coloured mini journal for each month, so I’ll be able to take them travelling and keep them in my bag at all times. We bumped in to our old friend Stuart outside the DCA, which was handy because we’d lost his number, and invited him to our pub meet-up later.

In the evening we had dinner and drinks with our old Dundee friends at our ex-local, The Counting House. Duncan also came up from KDY and Emma came through from Arbroath.

The big news is that Malcolm and Kirsty are engaged, he proposed on Christmas Eve and they are the happiest couple that you will ever meet. It was really nice catching up with old friends, reminding us that it’s the people we miss and not the city.

The train back to KDY was covered in trash, Duncan said we were in the “Skins carriage”.

Last night, the few of us who were left in London went for a Christmas dinner at The Diner in Camden. I brought the remaining crackers from our tree so that we could tell jokes and wear crowns while we tucked in to our dinner of breakfast foods including pancakes, hash browns and waffles.

Tom’s boss gave us a copy of the London Nude Tech Calendar to hang up in the Mews, which has him naked on the inside cover.

After dinner we went to Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park. It was huge and filled with hundreds of stalls.

There was a chatting and singing moose, which Lynsey informed us we had to see.

We had cherry mulled wine and roasted chestnuts, which I had for the first time and thought tasted like nutty potatoes.

In other news, it’s looking quite snowy in the Mews.

I also made Tom a couple of RSS cushions to match the social-networking ones I had made on Sunday.

On Saturday we had a Christmas party at the Mews for our friends. We had mulled wine, mince pies, homemade eggnog and gingerbeer (which tasted better than the shop bought bottle that Lynz bought) and presents for everyone wrapped under the tree. I even made some presents…

including a hama bead 3D glasses necklace for Lynsey. I can now post the how-to and it’s here.

Before the party, Tom surprised me with a bag from Vivienne Westwood. My party outfit consisted of a black H&M dress, necklace from Forever 21, sparkly silver eyeshadow, my Vivienne Westwood horns…

and a new pair of Vivienne Westwood skull and crossbone earrings. They’re so sparkly and come in an indestructible box. Tom also got me an hour at Lucky Voice karaoke with up to 15 friends, which will be so much fun.

I gave Tom a whole bunch of geeky presents, including this Come In / Go Away ambigram doormat.

Twitter and Facebook mousepads.

iPhone application coasters.

… and yesterday I sewed him a set of social-networkig cushions. I’m making a pair of matching RSS ones for him today.

Emma gave Tom the best present though, which will be two pet goldfish when we get back from Scotland. We need to start thinking up names… any suggestions?

I also made a couple of squirrel brooches yesterday for the family – I hope they don’t look on here before xmas. Check out the how-to here.

We’d been looking forward to December so that we could open our Lego advent calendar.

It’s pirate themed and each day you get something to build, I’m looking forward to getting the little Lego mermaid.

Don’t worry if you don’t have an advent calendar though, we’ve put together a crafty one for CO+K with a how-to for everyday until Christmas.

On Wednesday night we went to see Twilight. I still can’t make my mind up about the film, so Lynz has lent me her book of it to read. (This lipstick covered tube poster still makes me giggle).

It was an 11.30pm screening, so we had the whole cinema to ourselves, which was the advantage of going so late, but we had to walk home from Finchley Road because we had missed the last bus. It had stopped raining and it was a nice walk, so we didn’t mind.

On Thursday we picked up this year’s Christmas tree from Clifton Nurseries. We thought we had picked a similar size to last year but it turned out to be 2 foot taller and much heavier. Luckily a nice bus driver let us take it home on the bus and dropped us off round the corner next to the Mews. We had to buy a bigger stand to fit it though.

On Friday, Emma moved flat – back in the direction of the Mews and we headed in to town to meet Tom from work. It was Beer O’Clock at the Leap offices, so we were invited in for drinks, organic chocolate and played a game of Jenga, while Malcolm (the boss) was outside with a film crew trying to get passers by to shave off his moustache (which he had grown for Movember) and ended up cycling off in a pedicab while holding up a sign. We didn’t see him again, so we don’t know if he succeeded.

There are two very cute fish who live in the office and now I really want to get some. We met up with Alex and went for dinner afterwards.

Yesterday, we started decorating our tree. We’re going to have a December party and have all our friends come over to help decorate, drink mulled wine, eat mince pies and listen to the Bright Eye’s Christmas album.

New decorations this year include a jumping reindeer and a glass lollipop. In the evening, we headed over to Ealing to hang out with Lynz, Claire and friends.

In other news, I did a nice little interview for Amelia’s magazine and you can read it here.

It feels like November has sped past super quickly… we’ll be opening our Lego-filled advent calendar tomorrow.

I spent my last couple of days with my family hanging around Maida Vale. We had bites to eat on the canals and went Christmas ornament shopping in Clifton nurseries.

We have nice new neighbours upstairs, Olivia and Juliet, who came down for drinks and took our unwanted orange sofa away. When Emma moved out, we got her bigger one and bought a red cover for it. I’m going to make some social-networking cushions to go with it.

On Saturday night we went out for Alex’s birthday, starting off at the Eagle Bar Diner, where we had delicious food that Raven had recommended (goat’s cheese burger, fat fries and a hard shake). Ben and Emma shared a fish bowl filled with cocktail and fruit.

Apple had a sale for Black Friday, so I got myself a shiny new Macbook Pro. It’s so light to carry around. Not only does Tom get to play pingpong and on slides all day at work, but his new boss took him computer shopping in the Apple store and, when he’d picked the one he wanted, told him he could have more money to get a better one. The office were sent 1,500 bars of Green & Blacks chocolate, so Tom came home from work with a big box of them – far to tempting for a Monday afternoon.

Tom’s got a new job as Head Of Technology at Leap Anywhere, a site that features events you can go to to benefit charity, so last night we celebrated with pink champagne and dinner from the Bombay Bicycle Club.

This is Tom’s new boss and his new office – he’s naked for a charity calendar. It’s sad for him to be leaving Drowned In Sound but he’s still going to be their tech-guy and do bits and pieces when the site needs it.

On Tuesday night we went to see Conor Oberst’s new band Monsters Of Folk at the Troxy. It was a very long gig (3 hours) and he only played six Bright Eyes songs. Luckily, we had a nice little press table to ourselves, so we played games and drank the time away.

Also, our first ever press release (written by publicist Sally) was sent out on Tuesday morning, when CO+K had reached 30,000 members. It’s quite exciting waiting so see what the response is. Yesterday morning, we had a call from the Daily Mirror asking for photos to use in a story about CO+K, so keep an eye out for us in the paper on Monday.

On Wednesday, we went to see An Education at the cinema, which was really good.

On Thursday night, Bond Street were having another late shopping night with champagne and nibbles in all the fancy stores. There were carol singers on ever corner, reindeer and fake foamy snow being blown through the streets (which I later think I had an allergic reaction to).

When Emma finished work, we headed to The Diner for some yummy American food – mac n cheese, onion rings and spicy fat fries. Tom had a beer from New Orleans, which made him miss Raven, and I had two alcoholic hazelnut milkshakes, which made me miss BK.

I’ve been working on article for SewHip magazine with Clare, and as part of that I had to put together a tutorial for making Louis Vuitton style rabbit ears. Here’s how they turned out…

It’s been raining horribly, so after a busy week, we’ve had quite a quiet weekend.

On Thursday, Grazia were hosting a shopping evening on Carnaby Street, which was a bit like Fashion’s Night Out, so most of the shops were offering a 20% discount, had DJs and were giving out free drinks and nibbles. I headed along with Lynz and Emma.

Shopping while drunk is fun but maybe not the best idea as I ended up buying lots of homeware from Muji, t-shirts for Tom and loaning Emma the money for a dress for the Chanel Christmas party.

We went for dinner at Cha Cha Moon, which was really yummy and then we did a bit more shopping. Emma tried on a traindriver hat, Lynz a trainspotting beanie, and I found a Brownie hat like I use to have when I was little. We all got very soaked on the way home.

On Saturday, we thought we’d avoid the rain by hiding out in Westfield, but I think everyone in London had the same idea. I tried on pretty rings in Tiffany and then had the most amazing pizza ever at Fire & Stone. It was topped with sweet potato and sprinkled with macadamia nuts.

I also got a cute dress in a sale and a pair of boots, so that I can stomp in puddles.

Tonight we went for dinner with Jason (who’s down visiting from Dundee) and Debbie, which was fun. Our first press release goes out tomorrow, so we’re having to work super hard tonight to get the site all nice and updated.

Today was the Estethica press day at the Mayfair Hotel, so Emma and I went along super early for a snoop around. It’s a showcase for designers who work with sustainable products, including Christopher Raeburn from Project Catwalk. I had already seen most of the designs at Fashion Week but Junky Styling had a really pretty skirt that I want. It didn’t take as long as we were expecting but we did get goodie bags when we left.

Afterwards we went for a snoop around Vivienne Westwood, Emma fell in love with a pair of £500 boots and I got tempted to try on the horns. Emma still couldn’t work out what a Shawshank Redemption was.

Afterwards we went to the Tatty Devine press day at their new (not open to the public yet) store in Covent Garden. The Summer collection has a seaside and tearoom theme and there’s an awesome bunting necklace I want. They gave us red doily-inspired rings in our goodie bags and I couldn’t resist buying a 3D glasses necklace with the 20% discount.

It started raining, so we went for an educational trip around the Science Museum, where we discovered that Emma has a woman’s brain. Apparently you can have sleepovers in the museum, so we want to have an all night birthday party there.

After stopping off at Hummingbird, we headed home for lunch, where Tom and Sean (the no.3 person under 30 to watch according to The Sunday Time) were hard at work on Drowned In Sound. We may have annoyed them by watching Limmy and Adam & Joe, while eating cupcakes (chocolate & chai = yum!) and offering everyone beer.

In the evening, Tom took me to a Facebook Developer Garage, which was quite interesting but after getting up at 6.30 with only 3 hours of sleep, I started dozing off.

I woke up to a call from my bank’s fraud squad this morning because someone had stolen my card details and was trying to buy phone top-ups – super scary! I think I must have used a dodgy ATM somewhere.

This weekend was Andrew’s birthday, so we got him a membership to the Prince Charles Cinema, so that he can go to £1.50 movies in his free periods. Afterwards we met up with Emma, a massive dog licked my leg on the tube, Em dropped 5p and it ended up in the bottom of my shoe, and we went for mussels and beer at Belgo.

After dinner, we met up with Andrew and friends at The Cuban in Camden – a bar filled with couples dancing everywhere. Ben and Dave came too and Ben had an awesome skeleton t-shirt, which lights up when you take a photo. We were sat outside under an umbrella and heat fan in the garden and got very cold.

Afterwards we went for a cherry flavoured shisha pipe to warm us up, it was delicious!

Emma, Alex, Ben and Dave came back to the Mews to watch Limmy on YouTube, drink absinthe and have a band slam. Amazingly Em and Alex fell asleep with all the noise and stayed until the morning.

Tom and I went for an amazing last breakfast at Plan 9. I had French Toast.

Followed up with peacan pie, which made us miss Raven.

We went shopping for a little while in town. Carnaby Street has pretty xmas decorations with pink inflatable reindeer.

We had a coffee in the new look Starbucks. They had little individual cubby rooms with sofas downstairs, I quite like it.

I surprised Tom with little wooden London transport blocks, which I had found in Muji (my new favorite shop). He loved the little tube and routemaster.

Afterwards, we crossed horizontally (twice) at the new and improved Oxford Circus. It felt a bit like a game, because everyone bumped in to each other in the middle and got scared when the green man went red.

In the evening, we went through to see Lynz, Claire, Alex, Emma and Andrew in Ealing and had yummy Nepalese food for dinner.

Last night was bonfire night, so we met up with Lynz, Emma, Andrew and Alex and headed on the hunt for fireworks. We started off up in Wilesden, where our path to the park was blocked off by the police, who said there had been a stabbing. Feeling freaked out, we escaped to the safety of Notting Hill and found a bonfire near Ladbroke Grove.

There was a really good firework display which lastest for ages and every time we cheered, thinking it was over, there was another massive encore.

It was nice and hot next to the fire. Afterwards we met up with Ben and Dave in the slowest and cheapest cocktail bar in town (£2.50 for a drink with a half hour wait).

We headed to Goldhawk Road to meet Claire in a much nicer pub, where there was a ska band. Ben brought sparklers, so we had our own little fireworks display outside, which led to burning my lip (there’s always one and it’s usually me!).

Ben and Dave invited us back to their amazing flat in Chiswick. They live above one of Marco Pierre White’s restaurants, which has real grapes growing from the terraces – they tasted quite weird.

Dave let us try his special recipe falafels and Ben made us amazing cocktails all night, including French Martinis, Bob Marley shots and Chocolate Martinis. They were the best hosts ever!