Advent Calendar

Christmas is coming and we are getting in the spirit! Town is getting busier, the days are getting shorter and I still do not have my Christmas tree up, I am hoping we can get up into our attic to get it down this week, cause I really want to put it up! Dixon says its too early, but I still want to!! So to tide me over until we do get our tree up I got myself an Advent Calendar and made on for Dixon! Lego and Beers!

Dixon has even opened the windows, and not all at once like I know some people do with their advent calendars, total self control!

So its been a busy week for parcels coming as well, not just through the door but picking them up and paying customs charges, hopefully everything will make it here on time. One package that I got came from Camille and Caryn, with a post card from Lea! It was full of amazing things, including a Batsign and a National Geographic, I really should get a subscription!

And we also got our couches! Finally! They were supposed to be at the house late Friday evening, but because of the horrible weather on Thursday, winds in excess of 80 mph, the truck was stuck in Glasgow, but they eventually made it and it is awesome to have something to sit on!

So its a lot of this and that, but hopefully soon I will have my Christmas tree up and more adventures to share with you!

Packages

Its been an exciting couple of days for parcels! I got one yesterday and I was supposed to get one two days ago too but we weren't in, so in fact I got one today! Both of them are really exciting! From Camille and Caryn, Daniel and I got a bit of kitchen stuff, a timer, set of tea towel, and an apron. We have already used the timer, he works perfectly! And then loads of sweets we can't get here which even though Daniel doesn't have a sweet tooth, properly munch a bunch of the coffee crisp bites. I will have to try to eat all of this in moderation, though my Halloween spirit does usually have me eating coffee crisps for breakfast!

And from Sarah, Coffin Crisps! How cool are they. Also another brilliant postcard from Sarah, she always finds the most weird and interesting ones.

So needless to say, it has been a pretty excellent day off.

Part of my day was spent watching Hocus Pocus an October must, and so while watching it I sketched up the Sanderson Sisters, it was a lot of fun and not too serious just good fun drawing them, might be nice to one day do a proper proper drawing. But I managed to draw all three of them within the movie! Maybe not quite as much detail on Mary though. Unfortunately this picture doesn't show her hair, perhaps I will work on the sketch a bit more and show ya the whole think.

August, Thus Far

 So its been a rather exciting week, first of all Blackpool and the rebellion festival, second, moved into our new place, third it was mine and Dixon's anniversary on the 16th and we also got very exciting parcels! Now normally I would split this up into a couple of different posts, but knowing me you would never hear about any of it so its going to be a monster of a post today!

Blackpool was really good again, its just really nice to get away and only  think about what band you want to see next, should I have another pint, ah go on, I'll have another pint! And we ended up seeing basically every band that we set out to see. So that was really good! Unfortunately I got really sick on the Saturday, we went for a Chinese and just after I finished eating I really needed to be sick so I walked extremely quickly back to the B&B and made it up to the room and then threw up for then next couple hours! Luckily there were no bands me or Dixon wanted to see so he stayed with me and we watched crap telly til we fell asleep. Cause Sunday was the best day, it was basically band after band after band that was great! We got to see The Stitches and they were awesome, bought all the merch! and when we came back for the Adolescents (yay!) we met the guitarist and singer! One of Dixon's favourite bands so it was really fun!

We didn't see too much of Blackpool, just a bit of the promenade but it was really windy so we just bought some rock and went back.

 

 

We got back on the Monday and had a bit of a lazy day and we both took the Tuesday off so I finished sanding and staining the chest of drawers for the bedroom and that night we moved in! So it was all very exciting until about nine at night when after a weekend of feeling a bit dodgy turned into a 9 hour puking marathon, so I got no sleep our first night in but on the bright side if we hadn't moved in yet I would have had to run up and down stairs all night to make it to the toilet on time so whooo hoo new house! So I had to stay home from work on my first day back from holidays, but at least I caught up on my sleep and slept all day, Dixon however started to feel ill on the Thursday night just when I was starting to recover. So he stayed home from work Friday, our anniversary!

So it was a romantic first week in our new home but we are still pretty excited to be in the house!

 

 

And the exciting parcels, well I got the one I was waiting for from my Grandma, she sent us an amazing afghan blanket she made, it has a tartan pattern, and I can't believe how awesome it is, a scarf for me and a wooden box for Dixon, and some sweets I have missed and the peppermints were a godsend for my upset stomach this week! Made me miss them loads, now I just need to get my hands on some Wilhemina Peppermints! An the other parcel was from Sarah, who is amazing as well, she stood in line for hours 7 if I am correct, to get a signed copy of Neil Gaiman's new book The Ocean at the End of The Lane and a surprise signing of The Sandman; Preludes and Nocturns! So excited!!!

 

If you've made it this far, congratulations! It has been a brilliant week for me even with all the sickness! Hopefully more regular updates, August is usually a pretty hectic month for me so ttfn!

 

In The Post

So we have still been busy, busy, busy with the flat, and so have the plumbers and electricians. Now the electricians have not only put a hole through the downstairs neighbours ceiling but when using the ladder in her Garden, broke a dog dish that came from Canada. So I would have to say she is not best pleased. Not only wrecking stuff in her house but they have damaged the floorboards at ours and when replacing them, made a real mess of it. So that probably means that Daniel and Gordon will have to redo them, which shouldn't be the case but at least it will be done right. Oh the hassle. But hopefully soon they will be done what they are doing and we can carry on doing things properly.

In other news, I have replaced the missing Doctor for Sarah and he is in the post. I am currently really liking drawing on envelopes. Its a good bit of fun! Plus I got Tardis stamps this time. As long as they do not get thieved!

 

 

Annnd for the first time I think ever I went to the dentist today and I didn't need any fillings! Whoooo! So all in all I am feeling pretty good about today, I am hopefully going to the house for some more wallpaper removing and perhaps it will be nice and sunny later and I can have supper outside! 

So these are some photos of bits around where we live now, I am pretty excited to be living in this area again, and can't wait to have some time to ourselves so I can have a bit of a walk down to the shore and stuff!

And some of Edinburgh, of course.

Doctor Where

So Sarah's parcel arrived already, it must actually take a week to get to Canada, just once it gets to Canada it must take ages to make it to the west coast, because it usually takes at least a month for things to arrive that I send to my family there. So that was pretty exciting that it turned up already, what's not exciting is that along the way someone nabbed one of her Doctor Who stamps, and not just any one, but Tom Baker, pretty well the majority of peoples favourite. That is why I think that it was nabbed not just fallen off. I'm a little bit upset, but hopefully I can get another one to replace the missing one. It could have been worse though, what if they stole the stamp and sent it back to me for not paying enough postage! That would have been an outrage! Either way its exciting she got her parcel already.

 

So after work today, I went to the Filmhouse to meet Gail to see I'm So Excited. I had never been to the Filmhouse for a film before and you might remember from a previous post about the paper sculptures that kept turning up in Edinburgh, well the Filmhouse was one of those locations. So Caryn and I last year (last year already!) had visited it then, but didn't even think of seeing a film (Caryn might have fallen asleep, she was just off of the plane). Anyway it was really interesting to see in the cinema, it had amazing seats and pillars, all you would expect from a proper cinema. Though it had just as many adverts and previews as any other one, just as the film started the curtains closed and then opened for the film. That was a pretty nice touch.

 

 

The film was really good, if you want to see something camp and hilarious this one is for you!

 

 

Its also been a couple lovely days in Edinburgh so I have more pictures for you and also rainy today and yesterday but I like the picture from then too.

 

 

 

 

 

Wibbly Wobbly Timey Wimey.... Stuff

It is my pal Sarahs birthday this month and I got her a signed 50th anniversary book of Doctor Who and when I saw the Doctor Who stamps I knew it was going to be a very Doctor Who themed gift. Which was great because it got me out of this painting slump I have been in. Even when I bring everything through and sit down and get ready to paint, I just haven't been doing it I am not sure what it is but whatever it is, its not good. So whooo! New painting as well. I hope she likes it. I usually struggle with persective and geometric things and this time was no different. But it was still a lot of fun. The picture of it is on a slight angle that I didn't notice til now and its been posted away so there is no going back now. Now I just need to watch more Doctor Who so I know whats going on! But where do you start?!

Now I have been having a painting slump I have been in baking mode, which has been super! This is a loaf made from a recipe on Paul Hollywood's program on the BBC, and I can say I haven't made as good of bread as this since high school, so I am pretty chuffed! Its a filled loaf with roasted veg pesto and mozzarella.

I also do not say enough about my niece and she is awesome so here is my niece with her mom (my sister) and my Grandma! Isn't she awesome. 

And an obligatory instagram of Edinburgh