Cat Morley

Rainbow Library

2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

The Cats Around The World calendars I made arrived this morning for my Mum, Nana and Grandma. I quite like them.

Today was the big move day and Jim hired a van so we could bring all of our furniture through to Edinburgh. After dropping our stuff off, we headed to Ikea to buy five bookcases and a second desk for the office.

Tom spent the evening putting together furniture with the power tools my Dad loaned him.

After five hours, the bookcases were built and filled with a rainbow of books. It feels like the craft section in a bookstore and I love it so much. Now, to put everything in Delicious Library so I can start loading them out to friends...

Gin & Tonic Chocolate

2012-02-06T00:00:00Z

Jim & Christine came through to visit today, before taking us back to Kirkcaldy to pack our things.

We tried a bar of gin & tonic chocolate with our coffee at eleven today.

At Dovecot

We then went for lunch at the Dovecot where we had sandwiches.

They were so good at coffee art. I want to send Tom on a course to learn how to do this.

We then had a look around the exhibition.

Some of it was a little questionable.

Could you tell these pieces were "born not designed"?!

I love the top of this painting.

Chocolate Lounge

2012-02-05T00:00:00Z

At Coco Chocolate

We stopped in to Coco which is a really nice chocolate shop to get a bar for Christine & Jim.

Everyday at eleven they have coffee and chocolate, which I think is a great tradition. This bar has orange, ginger and geranium in it.

We then walked through the Meadows.

I love the police box coffee shops which are dotted all over Edinburgh

This one has a pun of the day. I love puns!

There was also a guerrilla playing drums. Some Mum shouted "stay away from that monkey!" to her kid.

At National Museums Scotland

We headed up to the roof on the museum to see the amazing view over Edinburgh.

It's so nice finally living here after all the days and weekends we spent visiting in our teens.

At Chocolate Lounge - Harvey Nichols

We then went to the Chocolate Lounge on the top floor of Harvey Nichols.

It's like Yo Sushi! but with desserts and mini bottles of champagne.

We shared an amazingly glittery millionaire's shortbread.

At Louis Vuitton

Afterwards we admired the candy shop themed window display in Louis Vuitton.

Loopy Lorna

2012-02-04T00:00:00Z

My Nana came through to see our new apartment today.

At Piece Box Cafe

We started with breakfast at Piece Box where I had porridge with maple syrup.

Afterwards we took Nana back to the mews to give her a tour.

She brought an old photo that had been damaged and I repaired it in Photoshop. She had tried taking it to a professional, but they wanted £60 to do it!

It was a really rainy and cold day, with snow predicted but we were determined to make the most of the day and explore Morningside.

At Loopy Lorna's Teahouse

We warmed up with drinks at Loopy Lorna's Tea Room.

They had a cute pink mini with eyelashes parked outside.

I had a tasty hot chocolate.

I loved the little hand grabber for the sugar.

At Morningside Makers Market

We then went for a look around the Morningside Makers Market.

It takes place every weekend and there were lots of cute things to see.

I managed to pick up the Wagamama cookbook for £2.50 and can't wait to try cooking my favourite things from the menu at home.

We then cooked everyone pizza for dinner. It's so good having a huge oven and being able to bake multiple things at the same time.

Everyone seemed rather impressed. Our table extends, so we could have an even bigger dinner party - not that our cooking skills could keep up.

We topped the pizzas with tomato sauce, caramelised onion, Quorn sausage, rosemary, goats cheese, black olives and basil.

Morley Comes To Morningside

2012-02-02T00:00:00Z

We spent a little more time exploring Morningside today. I continue to be surprised by the number of kitsch little shops selling trinkets, coffee shops that look ideal for working in and craft shops selling supplies.

There was a great shop called Bohemia which sells cute vintage dresses and makes their own satchels in pretty colours. They were quite a unique design too with clip on handles, which come in handy.

A little further down the street was Context Interiors which is covered in vintage clocks and sells all kinds of trinkets and gifts.

Who doesn't need instructions on how to fry a Mars Bar?!

I really want to drink hot chocolate out of one of these mugs.