Tom decided that he was going to be the most amazing boyfriend ever and headed up to Ikea, in Edmonton at 8pm last night, to get supplies and make me the mirror from my dreams. Today we painted the mirror white (we discovered that we have the best DIY store in London around the corner from us) and Tom wired up and attached the lights to it. It looks totally awesome! I’ve always wanted a mirror like this and absolutely nowhere sells them – my dream came true.

My slightly less exciting present for Tom was a Great Bear poster, which is like a map of the underground but the station names are replaced with the names of famous people from history. We live at Thomas Edison on the Engineer’s line.

I also made an organizer for my bag out of Cath Kidston oil cloth, which I bought during the sale. Now I have individual pockets for all the things I carry around in my bag, so I don’t have to rake through everything when I want to find something. It also makes transferring the contents of one bag to another super easy! In other news, I had a call with ThreadBanger last week, so we’re going to be working together and my cool Canadian uncle arrives in 2 days time.

Last night was Tom’s parents last night in London so we had dinner at the pub. I think we managed to give them a fun-filled touristy visit, so we feel proud of ourselves. 

In other news, Dragonette’s cats have been shipped over from Canada and they’re adorable. I heard meowing outside the door the other night, and presuming it was poppy I opened the door to let her in, but it was these two kitties instead, which now like to let themselves in and out of our mew. Yay for friendly cats!

A bunch of you have been asking for photos of our new mew, so here they are: