We’re back in Scotland! It was T’s Dad’s birthday on Thursday so we went for a lovely Italian to celebrate. On Friday, Jack gave us a lift through to Edinburgh. He drives a yellow car, so it was fun watching out the window to see if anyone hit each other.

I had a Power Breakfast smoothie which was yogurt, orange, banana, strawberry, honey and muesli blended together. It tasted really good, so I’d recommend crushed up muesli in drinks. We were going to go to Chocolate Soup but the staff seemed so rude when we were ordering that we decided not to bother.

We walked up Calton hill to take in the view, I haven’t been up there in years but it use to be a favorite hangout of mine.

It started raining, so we took shelter with coffee and whoopie pies (a little birdie tells me that they are the new cupcakes).

When the rain stopped, we headed down to see Joey D but he wasn’t in his store. I sent him an email, as he promised to open a London store if we got engaged.

We then met up with friends Siren & Shell, who have been working on an exciting online magazine about Japanese culture. We went to a cosy little pub called the Wally Dug (just off Dundas Street) which had Trashy Blonde on tap. This motivated me to send off a few emails and now we have an interview with Brew Dog lined up for Snippets!

Miquette invited us over for dinner and to stay over. She’s 12 weeks pregnant, so she was really hungry and loved the cupcakes that I had brought her.

Her house is like an extension of her website, with cute things everywhere and new things to discover in every corner. We made Frazer and Tom look cute with bows and a tulip hat.

Calum came over too and I asked him to pick me up a deep fried Mars Bar. I’ve never had one before and, being Scottish, felt I must give it a try. I only managed a couple of bites before passing it off to the rest of the room, who also struggled with it.

Jenny was back from Japan, so we met up with her in Edinbrugh for a day of fun and cock-of-tails. She told us lots of stories about Japan, which has convinced us to go and visit at some point next year. Our first stop of the day was our favorite pub, the Jekyll & Hyde.

Jenny was impressed by the toilets, which are hidden behind a bookcase. The only problem is that they’re not marked with Male or Female, so it’s a pot-luck to which you end up in. For your records: Male to the right, Female to the left!

Jenny brought us loads of goodies from Japan including crazy flavoured KitKats (ginger ale, sweet potato pie, caramel pudding & royal milk tea), koala bear cookie bath bombs, packets of odd sushi, a keyring, a shinkansen (bullet train) Christmas card and a little train girl figurine (who Jenny translated for us was trying her best at her job and is a female station employee). I gave her the awesome Crazy Wacky Theme Restaurants: Tokyo book, because she can go and see them all.

We worked our way through the sin cocktail menu and the barman was impressed with the amount we had drank for 1 o’clock in the day time. Calum and Harriet joined us briefly for a drink and it was nice to see them.

Continuing the theme pub crawl, we headed to Frankenstein’s bar, where Rob and his friend met us.

Jenny gave me one of her belly dancing belts (which has lots of jingly coins on it and made me sound like a reindeer) and told me to look up the moves on YouTube. She had went to a shop earlier and they had given her 3 outfits for free. She’s going to be doing a show in Japan soon, so we were trying to help her think up stage names – Jangly Jenny, Jenny Ba Ba and Jenny from the loch were the best we could think of.

Afterwards we decided to grab a couple of slice of pizza and ended up ordering the largest thing on the menu.

In the evening we headed to the Cameo bar to meet up with Irish Johnny (who we hadn’t seen since we’d started Uni), Miquette and Alistair and girlfriend, Jess. Miq was super happy with her milk carton handwarmer that I gave her for xmas. We all chatted for several hours over kahluas on the rocks (a super yummy drink that Jenny introduced me to).

Yesterday was also my 7th year anniversary with Tom, it sounds like forever but it doesn’t feel like it’s been that long.

The other morning I woke up to super cute and super late birthday presents from my best friend, Miquette. There was a pretty purse made from kimono fabric, which I’m now using as my make-up bag…

a rose hair clip, a super pretty pink and blue ring, zip earrings, a magnet and Urban Slut stickers with such catchphrases as “I ran in to my ex… put it in reverse and hit him again” and “You remind me of my husband, except you’re not buried in the backyard”.

Plan 9 do pancake Tuesdays and we had been meaning to have some for ages, so after work today we shared some apple & cinnamon ones. They said that they had made them “extra special” for their favorite customers.

In the evening Tom’s favorite brewery, Brewdog where hosting a free bar at a pub in Moorgate, so we headed along for a few bottles. I tried Trashy Blonde and Punk Monk, while Tom drank Nanny State and Paradox.

My new Moo business cards arrived. They have Barbie cats on the front and the backs are like postcards, with space for me to write where I meet people and ticky boxes for how they should get in touch with me.

Today Miq and I took to the streets of Camden, camera in hand, to make our own version of the FRUiTs books for the London issue of Snippets.

We met all kinds of interesting people from as far away as Spain, Malaysia and South Africa. Everyone dresses so cool in Camden.

Miq makes vial necklaces, which are filled with tiny trinkets, and as she loves Amy Winehouse’s music, she made one for her and we went to her house to give it to her. Amy said thanks and gave Miq a signed photo, which was sweet of her. We also got to meet some lovely Italian girls.

My bestest buddy Miquette is down to visit for the week, so we’ve been hanging out and doing girlie things.

We were invited to the screening of Goth Cruise tonight by Raz. It was a funny film and there were £1 cocktails at the afterparty and lots of dancing goths.

I made Miquette and I a set of Breast Friend Necklaces and I’ve posted a how-to, so that you came make some for you and your best friend.

I got a lucky cat in China town.

Also, Tom’s massive TV arrived – it’s good because you can see it from anywhere in the mews.

And I’ve been upgrading to a white 3G iPhone because Tom’s Dad wanted my old one.

Tonight was our last night in Dundee and as hectic as everything was, we decided to have a break. We went for a snack at Fast Eddie’s, the new American diner that had opened up over the road. It’s typical that the only decent late-night cafe in the city opens the week before we leave. Miquette came along, wearing a monster hoodie, and it turned out that one of her friends from ages ago, Cat was working.

Miq made me a vial necklace as a goodbye present. It has my name in it, a cat, a dolphin, chopsticks, slices of fruit and lots of stars. I love it and it’s soooooooo tiny. As I was clearing out, I gave Miq my bubble machine, smoke machine and pole dancer’s pole. She was very happy!

I’ve been making Baby Guinness shots to celebrate.

With all the cans of Guinness (which none of us drink) laying around, it was the perfect opportunity to try making Vegetarian Irish Stew for dinner, with the Quorn beef my mum brought up. Mum cooked something similar for my Dad the other night and he said “that’s the difference between Quorn and Beef, it just can’t taste as good as this” – little did he know. We’ve got some Quorn meatballs to experiment with too!

It was Miquette’s craft party the other night. I started off with knitting and then Miquette taught me how to needle felt, so I made a cute brooch which I gave to my mum. We were all going to go to stitch ‘n bitch tomorrow night but I’ve been invited along to a gig, so no knitting for me!

Tonight, Miquette, Tom and I headed over to Jason’s house for a spot of karaoke.

He’s got a new PS3 so he has the latest Singstar, the lucky guy.

Miq brought me some early Christmas presents. Including a bag of trinkets, mosaic tiles and a My Little Pony book.

So many bits and pieces.

Tom and I have been getting in to the Christmas spirit by making Gingerbread Snowmen of each other. He managed to add details like my Bust top, earrings and all the dots on my skirt. I made a knitting snowman too.

My Nana and Grandad came up to visit. They don’t come up too often but I love it when they do.

I made mini fimo Geisha’s to give to my Mum and Nana.

Also Miquette sent me a little package of craft supplies in the mail, including a selection of LED lights, stickers and other trinkets. I love snail mail.

It was our final day of filming on Return To Sender and these were all nights shots.

Frazer stepped in to play the man with the knife in our “scary scene”.

And Tom got to play a waiter in one of the very final scenes of the film. It was lots of fun shooting this film and as long as I was organized, it all went super smoothly. I’ve got just over a month to edit it and then it’s time for hand in… wish me luck!