Halloween Round Up

Howdie Party Peeps!

Halloween started fairly early for me this year as I was put in charge of decorating my work... It was the perfect excuse to go to Poundland and buy all the fun decorations I usually can't justify buying for myself! Though I somehow didn't get any photos of the front window I decorated or the fun things I got to put up all through the shop... #bloggerfail

Another bonus about working at a super fun shop for a super fun lady - getting paid to play with stamps!! I got to make Halloween themed tent cards to accompany some of our marshmallows to go to a wedding!

Reminiscing Summer : Adventures with Red Baron

Hey lovelies!

If today was anything to go by... Summer is well and truly over! In order to try and hold onto Summer just that teeny tiny bit longer.. here is a look back at a sunny weekend afternoon spent out biking with the mister and our friend Loz...

Our intention was to cycle around the Waters of Leith into Dean Village, but as there had been severe flooding, a lot of the walking/cycle path had roadworks and diversions which got us all a bit turned around and a little bit lost!

We found ourselves close to Cuckoo Bakery, so decided to stop in for some lunch..

My yummy croissant

So.Many.Cupcakes!

Loz had to dash off, so the mister and I decided to take some cupcakes to go... 

Looking up Dundas Steet to  Scott Monument

...and enjoy them in the glorious sunshine in Inverleith Park!

Olympic & Fringe Cupcakes! :)

Although I'd often been to the Botanic Gardens just across the road from this park, I'd never actually been inside the gates of Inverleith Park...

The park is much bigger than I anticipated... and offers FANtastic views of Edinburgh Castle!

Is Summer still around where you are??

Do you feel you made the most of the good weather??

Were there any fun adventures??

Or are you just heading into Summer??

What are you looking forward to??

Heart!

The mister just sent me a message on facebook and attached this picture at the end...

I dunno where he got it from, but it made me smile!

What's made you smile today??

Have you had a good weekend??

Kampung Ali, Fountainbridge, Edinburgh

This restaurant has recently opened up not far from my work. Based on the lettering and colour schemes, I am hazarding a guess that it is the sister restaurant to Kampong Ah Lee down on Clerk St, by the university.

I have been curious to try it out and when we needed somewhere close by to eat before we went to the airport on Friday night I thought we'd give it a shot.. I'm pleased to say we weren't disappointed... We were there super early (5.45/6pm) so the staff were still eating when we walked in, but they showed us to a table and let us have a peruse of the menu...

 I had the original flavoured bubble tea!! Fairly authentic, tapioca could've been cooked a little tiny bit more but I'm just being picky! The mister had a mango one which was yummy too..

 We started with roti.. it was really yum.. hot off the stove and the curry sauce was good too.. I wanted more roti to dip in it.. or wish I had ordered a rice dish to pour it over... mmmmm

The mister had duck fried noodle.. the duck was a bit boney, tho to be expected..

It was well cooked and the noodles were well seasoned...

 I had the nasi goreng (?) with shrimp and chicken.. bit light on the protein but well spiced and I ate it all up in a hurry...

 There is still reminiscence of the previous Italian restaurant on the ceilings!!

Aside from the strange decor.. the service was good, polite but not overbearing.. the food was pretty reasonable for the price, we spent £25 in total for 3 drinks, 2 mains and a starter including a tiny tip..

All in all: I would definitely go back and might even get lunch from there one day this week!

 At lunchtime I had spotted these Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream 'Wiches at Tesco.. so we picked some up for dessert!!  The mister's never had an ice cream sandwich before!! Well only ones that used wafer rather than cookie... Not as good as the ones in NZ with the super doughy chocolate biscuit outside.. but not too bad...

 YUM!!

So there you have it.. our Friday night food outing!!

Well, it's now 7.20pm and I'm still sat at work... so I'm going to get going to meet the mister for dinner! I have a voucher that expires tomorrow (oops! I thought I had until the end of the month) and I called and they said I could have a table at 6pm or at 8pm, I said ok for 6, then rang the mister but he said he had to stay late at work, so I called back and changed it to 8pm... hence why I'm still at work at this time.. the cleaners have even come and gone!! :D

But lucky for you it means I had some time to write some posts!! Rather than my usual.. go home and veg on crackbook!!

Hope you all have a fantastic Monday evening!! Look out for a post in the near future about our dinner adventure tonight!!

Pool Monkey

So I emailed the mister to say I was feeling bummed..  with a picture of a sad monkey... and this is the picture he sent back to cheer me up... totally made me laugh!! So, thought I would share.. it's 22°C today, which is "roasting" for Edinburgh, like!! Now if only I wasn't at work and was lounging by a pool!!

I love his little sunglasses and shorts!! hahaha.. totally awesome! What a cool dude!!

Ceramics

Well, I have been rather slack with my blog posting recently, due to many long weekends with which I lazed around the house and accomplished as little as humanly possible while still maintaining some meagre form of existence... 

So here is a post about a weekend a while back when the mister and I went to paint ceramics~

I bought vouchers from one of the many sites I'm signed up to.. I think itison or LivingSocial provided this fun afternoon out... and we had meant to go for many weekends but for some reason or other managed to not get round to it... (mostly due to the fact that we usually sleep in till past midday on weekends, then by the time I've made us brunch and we've pottered about the house, it's about 3pm by the time we're "ready" to go anywhere... hmmmm..)

Anywhos!!

Here is the mister working on his projects

My workstation...

Notice I even put a little skull and crossbone on the bottom of my mug! ; )

Yours truly, concentrating...

Bracelet by my friend Ducky over at Duck and Cover Designs

As part of the voucher, we also got a tea/coffee and a cupcake!

My outfit de jour

 Coat & Skirt: Old Navy, Shirt & Sunnies: H&M, Leggings: ? 

Watch: Adidas (bought with a groupon to help Red Nose Day)

Bag: George by ASDA £2 (hoorah clearance sections!), Shoes: Miss KG at Debenhams

Here are my finished products!!

Mustache mug.. hehe

Bird of Paradise Oil/Dressing jug.. 

Reversible tashe mug!! :D

Oops, I forgot to photo the mister's finished products.. but mine were cooler and far cuter than his!! ; )

I know I had a super fun day.. and I think the mister did too... (aside from the loads of screaming children at a b'day party.. eep!)  

So, if you're stuck for ideas of things to do.. why not look up if there is somewhere to go and paint ceramics?? It's a fun way to spend a few hours and you get something to show (off) at the end! (Well, probably a week later when you have time to go pick up your projects after they've had a good bake in the kiln).  I'm rather proud of my efforts!! What do you think??

Postcard Swap & Ice Cream!

So a while ago on one of my wanderings through FITBF posts I found Amber @ Soxial Buttafly and her postcard swap! I love mail... so I jumped right in! I sent her card away a couple of weeks ago and I've kept a keen eye on the mail ever since.. and today...

her postcard arrived!!

 She made it herself, which I think is so super sweet!

 I love the little elephant and her lovely message as well!!

I forgot to take a picture of my card that I sent to her, but if you head on over to this post, then you'll see my card! :) I wrote a bunch of Scottish phrases on the back..

The mister got ice creams on the way home from work... They are ones I've never tried before...  They are called FEAST (you gotta say it like Mr T would.. channel your inner Mr T..) oh and because I found my webcam... I decided to take some photos for y'all!

This is what the mister deals with EVERY day!! Welcome to my life!! :D

 I told you I like making funny faces right??

And that I'm just a little bit.. sh-pe-shial???

Happy Tuesday!!

30 Days of me - Day 20

Day 20 - Someone you see yourself marrying/being with in the future

My wifey!

These ladies!

My Mr J!

the mister!

Now you have met some of my favouritest people in the whole wide world!! I could totally spend my whole life with these people... It would be nice if we all lived in the same country for a start.... so how's about that teleporting huh???

30 Days of me - Day 17

Day 17 - Someone you would want to switch lives with for one day and why

Ummm... I've been thinking quite hard about this one... I think it would be awesome to be a travel presenter.. get paid to travel and stay nice places and eat at nice restaurants.. but that's more of a dream career than someone I want to trade with for one day...

I've been running through celebrities but I don't really know...  maybe it would be interesting to be Lady Gaga for a day... just to dress up all crazy and cause controversy... to live totally "out there" for a day... it would be like playing ultimate dress up for a day!! :D

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I wouldn't wear the meat dress tho.. ick!!










ps. do you like my new signature?? this is how I sign letters & cards etc.  the mister made it all pretty from a picture I took of it.. isn't he clever?!?
 

Awesomest Monkey Mister...

 Look what came to my work for me today!!!

12 Red Roses and a Mini box of chocs!!! NOMMMS!!!

I am a lucky monkey!! I can't decide whether the mister should be a monkey mister or a banana mister.. I think I like monkey mister better because of the alliteration consanance of the double m... It is apparently our 6 monthsaversary today... I am bad with dates... seriously.. it took me about 16 years to remember my MOTHER's birthday... honestly... there was one year I forgot my own birthday.. not because I don't know WHEN it is... just I didn't realise that it was THAT day.. until after dinner and I was like.. hey... it was my birthday today!  Yea.. that's how NOT good I am with days and dates... I dunno why... I think time for me is very fluid.. ie. I consider a "day" - as the time I wake up until the time I go to sleep... as opposed to, from midnight to midnight...  

I don't remember what year things happen, I associate memories with "time periods" ie. I was at uni when that happened, or.. I was working at that places when this happened... or I was going out with that person at the time...  I never remember months... I vaguely associate things with seasons.. ie.. it must have been summer because we were at a bbq.. or we were at the snow... 

So anyyywhos... I am bad at dates... I never remember them... but apparently the monkey mister does!! 

This isn't the first time he's sent me flowers mind you... the last two times I got flowers.. I got

Birds of Paradise.. :)  Coz they are my favourite flowers...

Happy Friday!!

Thanks for my flowers monkey mister!!

These are the things I got today...!!

You may have noticed my overabundance of posts the last couple of days... 

it's coz I've been home, sick... woke up with a migraine and a temperature on Monday...

Still didn't feel all that great on Tuesday.... but got overly bored and decided I was ok to go back to work today..

Just made sure I had a healthy supply of neurofen to get me thru the day...

Annnywhoooos....

There was a parcel waiting for me!!

Inside the parcel was this box...

Inside the box.. was this watch...

 I got Russet to help me model the watch.. 

coz it's surprisingly hard to take a photo of a watch on your own wrist in poor lighting....

I got the watch through a coupon for £20 + £4.99 for shipping... and they donated money towards Red Nose Day... so I got a new watch and helped a good cause! :)

Sooo... Debenhams are having a sale right now.... so I thought I would stop in after work to have a looksee...

Last time they had a sale, I got shoes for £4.. so it was worth a looksee... 

I got this dress for £5..

Bring on Summer!!

And I picked up these wedges for £29.. Down from £65!

 But they only had one size left which are a bit big for me..

but I figure I'll just punch more holes in the strap..

and this way.. they fit my wide feet at the front!

(scuse my nasty feet.. I'm booking a pedi soon, I promise!)

I had seen  online, but wanted to go in and try them on... and they are SO cute!! So I came home and ordered them online.. hehe... because I had a code for an extra 10% off the sale prices.. yeay!! Tho while I was online ordering them.. I also saw...  and I decided that I just HAD to have it as well.... and they're both on sale! AND I get an extra 10% off!! (click the photos to see them at Debenhams website)


So there you are... those are the things I got today!! :)
Shopaholic much?? ahhhhhyup!!

I would say don't tell the mister! But I came home and showed him everything already.. hahaha... and his response was.... "hmmm... what can I buy myself??"  hehe.. I like a mister who likes shopping.. :) it also means it doesn't take much convincing for him to buy me things!! teeheeeheee *lucky* shhhhh.. don't tell him that tho ok??? it's our little secret!! :)   (Hi mister... if you are reading this.. just ignore that last bit ok?? ; ] )