I injured my neck last Wednesday, so I spent most of the week in bed. Luckily, I had recovered enough to make it to Sunday brunch, which was at The Diner (we had to wait an hour for a table and the service was soooo slow). Lynz wore her 3D glasses necklace which I had made her!

While injured, Tom and I discovered the awesome Neds Noodle bar – check out the cute intro on their site!

The noodles were really tasty and they come in super cute take-out boxes. I used one of the boxes as a template to make a handbag years and years ago!

CO+K has a little mention in in the latest issue of Craft’s Beautiful magazine. We also did our second press release yesterday.

That reminds me, I found a new favorite magazine – Marie Claire Idées. Unfortunately it’s all in French but it’s filled with loads of amazing crafts and tutorials. Also, I went to see Alice In Wonderland in 3D last night. Lots of people were complaining of being disappointed but I really enjoyed it. It was pretty to look at!

I’m back in London now. Tom met us at the airport which was such a nice surprise. I’m going to miss the sunshine.

I forgot to post photos of the hotel before. It was really nice and right next to the pool, which was the best bit. We would sit out on the balcony at night and watch movies on my laptop.

Someone on CO+K has already made a version of my Kitty Hood Scarf. It took me over a year to finish and they did it in just 1 week! It looks fantastic too.

Today we brunched with Lynz, Claire & Emma at Plan 9, had the cheapest round ever at the Warrington and then went for cupcakes at Hummingbird.

On the way home I spotted this shop covered in bows. I want to do the same to the Mews!

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.

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.

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!

This weekend was Halloween, my favourite time of the year, so we planned a party at the Mews.

Tom did an amazing job with decorations, hanging orange and black streamers across the ceiling with dangly bats, pumpkins and spiders. We also had a spooky doorway, Halloween balloons, fairy lights and candles everywhere. We made super strong jelly eyeball vodka shots and a cauldron of punch, which changed flavour and colour throughout the night. Everyone brought spooky nibbles and lots of booze, so there was sugar overload.

We carved pumpkins. I carved a cat pumpkin, complete with carved ears, which we later sat around in a circle and told scary stories.

I also carved a robot and a spewing pumpkin.

Tom carved a very cute robot pumpkin and Lynsey carved a spewing cat pumpkin.

Oranges also make very good makeshift jack-o-lanterns.

After dressing the Mews, it was time to turn our attention to costumes. I dressed up as Poison Ivy – my hair became more and more green throughout the evening and it was a nightmare to get clean the next day.

Tom dressed up as a drowned sailor, complete with Sailor Jerry transfer tattoos and barnacles glued to his face. Emma and Alex made him an award for the best costume later in the night.

He wouldn’t have won without the help of resident makeup artist, Lynsey.

Emma dressed up as Swine Flu (with piggy tail, ears, flu bag and bottle of Jack Daniel’s Tamiflu), Lynsey was Liza Minnelli in Cabaret, Claire was Judy Garland as Dortohy from the Wizard Of Oz (with tic tac pills to pop), Alex was Sweeny Tod, girl Alex was a sexy pirate, Ben was Wolverine and Andrew was the Invisible Man. I annoyingly didn’t get many photos of costumes during the night.

The evening was filled with bobbing for apples, a spooky Spotify playlist, karaoke, Buzz!, creepy TV shows and spooky stories. I love Halloween.

Today felt like Boxing Day. Emma stayed over, so in the morning we slomped on the sofas under duvets, watched terrible shows and movies on TV and munched on left over candy. In the evening, Alex invited us over to her amazing apartment in Notting Hill for a delicious Sunday roast and we toasted marshmallows over her open fire.

I’ve been super sick with the flu for the past week but I was feeling a little better by the weekend, so I decided to venture out.

On Friday night we were invited to Sarah’s housewarming party in Hackney. Beforehand we met up with Andrew, Gary and friends at a pub in town, where they attempted to cheer Emma up with a lollipop and puppet show. She wasn’t too impressed but it made me happy – I’m quite partial to children’s entertainment and think all friends should have a supply of lollipops and puppets in their pockets!

Emma thought she may have found Raven’s dream man in the underground. We headed to the housewarming and met some nice people, who we arranged to have lunch with on Sunday.

On Saturday, Tom got his hair cut and then we went for free drinks at Grace bar in Piccadilly Circus.

In the evening we went for dinner at Vapiano’s with Tony, Lynsey and Emma. Followed up with drinks at the pub again with Andrew and Gary, and then on to the Trocadero for arcade fun. It was a little more disappointing while sober, but we did see Mr Funland again.

On Sunday, we went for a super wholesome day out with Sarah, Bruno, Dave, Ben and Emma. We started off with lunch on the canal at Little Venice, went to feed the squirrels and peacocks in Holland Park and then went to a pub, just off of High Street Kensington. Tom played piano all night, while we sang along and we had a miniature game of pool.

Last night was Raven’s leaving party, which was very sad but also a lot of fun. Emma and Raven had done an amazing job of tidying up the Mews and lit lots of pretty candles everywhere.

We’re going to miss Raven sooooooo much!

There was cutting of a Hummingbird red velvet cake and we all fell asleep on Emma’s bed (the walk downstairs to our own bed was too much for us) and woke up to the sound of “how do you like your eggs in the morning?” playing very loudly.

Those of us who survived until the next morning went for a yummy brunch at Harlem on Westbourne Grove. We’d been promising to go for ages, so as it was Raven’s last Sunday, the worst hangover in the world wasn’t going to stop us.

Pancakes and a raspberry smoothie hit the spot perfectly!