It’s been a busy week, so I haven’t had too much time to blog. On Monday, we went to the Album Chart Show at Koko in Camden again but this time we took Duncan and it wasn’t snow day, so the place was packed. We stayed to see Kate Nash and a bit of Sophie Ellis Bextor but left before Scouting For Girls.

On Tuesday, I helped Louise flat hunt. She moving down to London which is so exciting.

On Wednesday, we had cocktails with Lynz, Louise, Claire and Duncan and then went to see Kick Ass, which is the best film I’ve seen in ages. I highly recommend going to see it.

On the subject of comic books, I’ve been working on a Crafterella comic book over the past week and it’s almost finished. I felt it was time to give her a back story.

This week has had two date nights. On Tuesday we went to see The Lovely Bones at The Coronet, which is an awesome cinema in Notting Hill which does £3.50 movies on a Tuesday. The movie was weird but it did have lots of crafting at the start. On Wednesday we went to see Youth In Revolt, an awesome film with Nick from Nick & Norah and Juno in it, at the Trocadero.

After the movie we went to Ben & Dave’s new house for a pre-housewarming / goodbye party for Mel. As always, the food and cocktails were amazing and I was taught how to make a blackforest cocktail, which tastes like cake in a glass.

I had an amazing fabric shop on Goldhawk Road this week. I found the perfect waterproof fabric for my Burberry mac for £6.50 a meter (quite a saving for a £1000 jacket) and some awesome black check silk for the lining (it’s the same design that I made my dress with). I also got lots of silk for making two other dresses, but they’ll have to wait until I’m finished with my coat.

After one day of sewing, this is how my mac is shaping up. The forecast for the weekend is rain, so I shall fill mine with sewing, movies, brunching with friends, button buying and hiding out indoors.

CO+K is in the latest issue of Sew Magazine and Clare posted a lovely little post about us on her amazing new blog, Pass The Pattern.

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.

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.

On Monday, we went for sushi and cocktails with Emma and her twin, Ashley.

Afterwards we went to see Up in 3D, which was a cute film. Didn’t we look cool in our glasses? I wish they were red and green.

On Tuesday, I spent the day helping Raven pack and then we headed out for her last night on town, starting off at Yauatcha for tea. They had an amazing macaroon selection and sell absinthe cake.

Tom wants his tea served with silver service everyday.

Next up was dinner at Cha Cha Moon with far too many noodles.

Anna joined us and our final stop was the infamous Blues bar in Soho, which we had heard so much about but had never visited.

We finally got a group photo with all of us in it.

On Wednesday morning we got up super early, pilled in to a taxi and made our way to Heathrow.

Raven did her Scottish carrot cake impression one last time and then we waved goodbye to her as she went through customs. It was sad with lots of tears

TimeOut had vouchers for free ice cream at The Icecreamists, guerilla pop-up icecream shop at Selfridges, so we headed along on Monday.

Tom went for the Obamarama In The Whitehouse flavour, which was a mix of white and dark chocolate and I went for Crazy About Hazelnuts. I’m glad we had a voucher, because priced at £5 a scoop, it’s expensive ice cream.

On Tuesday we went to see Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs in 3D at the iMax. Apart from having to wear super geeky 3D glasses over my already geeky glasses, the movie was awesome. It looked great huge in 3D and felt like food was actually flying at us from the screen. We want to go and see Up there next.

On Wednesday night, it was date night, so we went to Yo! for far too many plates of sushi, as we had a 40% off voucher. I was going to take photos of all my favorite plates but I forgot all about it half way through the meal. My favorites are kaiso salad (seaweed salad), tuni onigri rolls, veggie yakasoba noodles, pumpkin korroke and Californian handrolls.

I got a little carried away in the Halloween section of Sainsburys and bought fangs and kitty cat ears (which I wish I  could wear all the time), I think I’ve been watching too much True Blood. Afterwards we went to see Julie & Julia, which was an okay film apart from the main actress being super annoying. Also, it made it seem like anyone could get rich and famous from blogging, which was misleading. Ohh, good news… Weatherspoon’s have root beer as a mixer now, so you can get amaretto and root beer, which is the best drink ever!

Hurrah! We’ve reached 5000 members on CO+K, not bad for just over 4 months.

Last night Tom and I celebrated with a bottle of Pink Champagne and mussels. We also watched Hallam Foe, which is an awesome movie, set on the rooftops of Edinburgh – I miss that place :*(

I’ve been trying to correct my sleep, because I have a really bad sleeping pattern. So I loaded up on Red Bull for the mornings and sleeping pills for the night. Day 1 has been successful – in bed by midnight and up at 8.30 in the morning without feeling like a zombie. Let’s hope I keep it this way.

Yesterday I went to the Chinese supermarket to buy an interesting soda can to make a Soda Can Ashtray (to hold my jewelry, as I don’t smoke) and I also picked up some sago balls for making my own bubble tea (I’ve been missing it since leaving Canada). I also bought a packet of pocky sticks for Tom and I to munch in the cinema, like Pucca & Garu do.

The film we went to see was My Blueberry Nights, with Norah Jones in her first acting role. It was a bit of an odd production, an American film, shot to feel low-budget European.

Also, reduced flowers from Tesco are a great way to brighten up a dark Dundee flat.