With the term coming to an end (marking!) and Christmas being right there (shopping! crafting!), I doubt I will get to work on my nanowrimo draft before the new year. But - just because I can:


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We spent a beautiful sunny day in E. , ate way to much and bought tons of fudge. And we got to see some guys in kilts marching through the royal mile, playing their bagpipes and ignoring the biting cold. Someone yelled "Freedom!",  ijinx yelled "Scotland!" and a very scottish moment was had by all.

I snatched a few photos from ijinx, which she ( Read more... )

Fabulous ijinx arrived yesterday in A., that greeted her with ice and snow and athletic challenges well camouflaged as pavements. So far, she has earned my undying admiration as she

- left Sainsbury's without buying anything fun (aka fatty, unhealthy goodness)
- dried my soaked shoes
- whipped frosting by hand

We made lemon cupcakes but it just wasn't ( Read more... )

Yesterday I reached the end of the internet (don't you just hate it, when this happens?) and I decided to take a look into my "crafty" drawer and see if I could come up with some project to keep me busy. Next to an insane amount of glitter and mirrow stones I found two empty cotton bud containers, which I kept because I liked their shape. Well, it ( Read more... )

Well, I figured I might as well put the travelogue on my LJ. A fair warning: I am not gonna mention every castle we drove by/ visited and you will read the word beautiful quite often.

Edinburgh was as beautiful as always but you wouldn’t believe the amount of people who were in the capital for the fringe.  Sadly, we didn’t manage to see any of the ( Read more... )