Cat Morley


Blog Posts

Aug

19

My birthday
It was my birthday today and everyone surprised me with presents and cakes in the morning. I got some awesome stationery for my desk including personalised pencils, a camera-style pencil sharpener...

18

Tom's Birthday
We kicked Tom's birthday off with some Lego brick ice cream cakes. As it was Tom's 27th birthday, I couldn't think of any better present to start off his rockstar-death year than a drum kit.

17

Jenny in Edinburgh
Jenny was back from Japan so I met up with her, Rob, Kirsty and Malcolm at Cabaret Voltaire. Jenny and I had an Edinburgh Ice Tea to celebrate. The server ended up burning herself several times on...

10

Bo'Ness Railway
We took my Nana and parents for afternoon tea on the Bo'Ness Railway today. We took the trip last year and I was contacted by the railway after they spotted my blog, offered another free afternoon...

Jul

1

Corstorphine Adventure
We went for lunch at Milk this morning. Their salads are so good and the lime & mint cooler was the perfect drink for a sunny day. The salads fuelled us up for an adventure, so we walked along...

Jun

30

Demolition Day
Seeing a building being demolished has been on Tom's wish list for a while, so we headed up to Dundee for the day where two buildings, Bucklemaker Court and Butterburn Court in the Hilltown where b...

7

Crafty Toolbelt
I started designing prototypes for the perfect crafty toolbelt for CO+K and this was my favourite design, with space for all the essential tools. Now the difficult bit is to turn that design in to...

6

Dad's Birthday
Copies of The Reader arrived from Omaha this morning featuring a two page interview with us. It was my Dad's birthday today, so we treated him to dim sum for breakfast. It was so tasty!

2

The Westroom
Tom and I went for brunch at the Westroom this afternoon. We're attempting to try out a new hipster brunch spot every Sunday. I had mushrooms on toast which were really tasty. Afterwards we went ...

1

Room For Improvement
We had been needing a new coffee table for a while and, when MoneySupermarket got in touch to ask if we'd like to be part of their Room For Improvement Challenge, we knew it was the perfect excuse ...

May

29

Gatsby
Tom and I spotted this amazing Angry Birds cake in the window of a bakery in Marchmont today. It was so awesome! I then spotted a set of tap handles on the back of this plumber's van.

27

Teacakes For Google
Google came to visit us this morning and we were a little nervous about which biscuits to get, so we settled on Tunnock's tea cakes and caramel wafers. In the evening, we used the Facebook restaur...

26

Gorgie Farm
Mum and I started our day with a trip to Georgie Farm, where the animals were looking super cute. We arrived just in time to take a tour, which meant we got to go inside the pens and get up close ...

25

Sunshine
We sent my Dad off to an unlimited whisky tasting festival as an early birthday present and, after 10 or more samples (he lost count), he returned with a hot shave, a free glass and feeling a littl...

24

Barney's Beer
Tom and I headed over to Newington after work today and had smoothies and sweet potato wedges at Metropole. Afterwards we went to a beer festival at Summerhall. It was hosted by Barney's Beer and...

21

Auto-Awesome
I decided that I wanted a new favourite mug last week, so I ordered a custom one and matching pen in the animal ear print Tom designed for me. They arrived today and I love them so much! It was a ...

20

Daily Mail
There was a lovely article about Cut Out + Keep in the Daily Mail this morning. It was awesome seeing Crafterella featured too. We started shooting some test scenes for CO+K TV today and it's loo...

19

Anteaques
We found the most amazing lighting shop inside a church in Newington today. It was the perfect place for taking photos and we managed to find the lighting fixtures we needed to make our fox lamp.

18

Eurovision 2013
We went for dinner at the Caley Sample Rooms this evening. It's a cool pub that looks like a barn with all kinds of beer on tap. I had risotto, with a poached egg on top, washed down with a bottle...

17

The Famous Peacock Inn
It was a lovely sunny day today and Mum brought Nana through for a visit. We started off with a coffee at Nana's favourite pub, the Old Chain Pier where we had an amazing view over the Forth.

16

Edinburgh Evening News
There was an article about us in the Edinburgh Evening News today and we had to spend the whole day sneaking past people reading the paper in the street. You can read the whole article on The Scots...