Cat Morley


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Oct

17

Friday
We headed through to Fife to visit my Nana today and took her and my Mum for lunch at the West Wemyss Walk Inn. Continuing in our tour of local farm cafes, we headed to Muddy Boots in Balmalcolm a...

16

The Last Word
I made a batch of homemade granola this morning and it tasted so good while it was hot out of the pan. Tom even helped himself to a couple of bowls full.

14

Hello Fresh
We were sent a Hello Fresh box to test out today, which is a subscription box filled with everything you need to cook three tasty recipes. Though there was enough food to last us for three meals, ...

13

Monday
Louise was back in the UK for another flying visit and this time she'd brought Robin with her, so we headed through to Fife to see them. We picked them up in Kirkcaldy and went for lunch at the Pi...

12

Blogger Bake Off
Tom and I were invited to the Blogger Bake Off, hosted by Currys and Joe Blogs in Glasgow today. We were really excited to attend, especially after watching a few episodes of The Great British Bake...

11

Saturday
We've started a new feature on CO+K called Craft Test where we're having awesome products sent out to our members to test out by making craft projects with. Sugru was the first product we were tes...

7

Pyrus Autumn Wreath Workshop
I'm the Google City Expert of the week, so they had a little photo of me on their page today. It's starting to get dark really early these days, but on the plus side, there was a really pretty sun...

6

Monday
I handed in my Edinburgh city guide to Bust Magazine this morning, which was a big goal for me, as I've dreamed of writing for the magazine since I was 17. I hope they like my photos! A new fast f...

5

Vintage Bus Museum
We took a road-trip to the Vintage Bus Museum in Dunfermiline today, where we met up with my Mum and Dad. Dad was waiting with our tickets when we arrived and we were just in time for the hourly t...

4

Saturday
One of my favourite artists, rubyetc drew this super quirky drawing of Crafterella and it made me so happy when it popped into my inbox. Even though I work from home, so I could do it on any day o...

1

Loch Ness
We were sad to leave our cozy train carriage at Sleeperzz this morning but it was our last day in the north of Scotland and time to head home. We stopped off to see the seals one last time at Loch...

Sep

30

John O'Groats
After waking up in our cosy rail carriage at Sleeperzzz, it was time to jump in the Fig and head further north than we'd ever been in Scotland. We stopped off in Whaligoe, which was our Nothing To...

29

Sleeperzzz
After waking up in our lovely hotel room in Aberdeen, we jumped in Fig and headed north. When we spotted signs for the Scottish Dolphin Centre at Spey Bay, we couldn't resist making a detour to che...

28

Aberdeen
I won Millennium's Photography Workshop last month and the prize was a night stay at any of their hotels in the UK. We've been wanting to explore the north of Scotland so we picked a night in Aberd...

27

Jupiter Artland
Laura told us about Jupiter Artland a few weeks ago and as this was the last weekend it would be open until next year, we decided to held along a check it out. You collect a map and then set off t...

26

Heads N Tales
We've been wanting to try Edinburgh Gin's new bar Heads N Tales for a while and tonight we met up with Calum & Harriet there for cocktails. Hidden underneath the Rutland Hotel, the bar was ver...

25

Thursday
You know you're starting to become a grown up when you get excited about cookware. I'd been eyeing up these shiny copper pans from Sainsbury's Cooks Collection which were way out of our budget unti...

24

Little Sparta
We read about Little Sparta, an art filled garden for poetry lovers, in the Nothing To See Here book which Kenny gave us and thought it sounded perfect for my Mum. After driving to the middle of n...

23

Tuesday
Tom met the cutest cat on his way home today so he stopped to take a video of it for me. We still haven't heard from our landlady about getting our own yet. Tuna is still my absolute favourite dis...

21

Sunday
Nathan came to stay last night and to say thank you, he offered to cook us cinnamon pancakes for breakfast. It was fun watching him in the kitchen and by the way he cooked, I have a sneaky feeling...

20

Mushroom Foraging
My Dad got us tickets for a mushroom foraging walk in Balquhidderock Wood in Stirling today which is something that's been on my someday list for a while. We'd were assured that none of them are p...

18

Thursday
Today was a big day for Scotland, as it was time to vote on Independence. I was partly glad that all the debating and fighting would finally be over but I also knew that either way, roughly 50% of ...

15

Sakura Tree
I've been asked to write an Edinburgh city guide for my favourite magazine Bust, so Tom and I were busy thinking up all the best places to recommend today. It was raining heavily as we were walkin...

14

Sunday
Rachel Sullivan created this fantastic comic strip of Crafterella and I love it! Keava & Rosa were back in Edinburgh today so we met up with them for coffee and cake at The Secret Herb Garden ...

13

Happy Birthday to the Forth Road Bridge
Tonight was the firework display for the Forth Road Bridge's 50th birthday so we headed along to South Queensferry to see them. There was a procession across the bridge at sunset with other 2000 p...