Wish you were here: Sutherland, Scotland

A few select photos from my family's hermitage up in Sutherland, Scotland. Sinking my feet into sheepskin rugs, rural junk shop finds, and the buzzard's nest outside my window are what I'm all about right now.

Hiding out from the whole world is great, and I've been putting the relief of a holiday into good effect - the clear air makes a great feedstock for hatching new plans. What do you think of the new site design, by the way? Two whole days were eaten up doing the sodding coding; no blog design service for me, no sir.

Oh, and I made a new friend. His name is Buddie, and he loves sugar cubes and chin scratches.





An Honest Drug will be briefly running on auto pilot for the next week, so don't expect much in the way of posts or responses until then. You can still find me on Instagram and Twitter, however!





Fiona C.

Goth Valentine's Day Cards

Valentine's day is fast approaching, folks. Make sure you have a card for the grumpy spookster in your life with these macro ones from the gothic humour tumblr Lolgoths.

The cap has barely aged a day, looking at this photo.

Lots of in-jokes, occasionally terrifying declarations of love, and lots of old school goth. What's not to love?

You can find all of the valentine's day cards on the lolgoths' tumblr under the tag 'goths in love'. They just keep getting funnier.

Much love to all my followers! I hope you have a good day, regardless of your relationship status. :)





Fee




P.S. if nerdy valentines are more to your taste, Ben of The Pop Culture Cynic has made some fabulous geek oriented ones for use as proper cards.



Christmas Crafting: Knitted Scarf

I'm sad that I didn't get to make more presents for people this Christmas, but I did my best - I still made fudge, peppermint creams and a phone sock for Ben, but I hope to do better next year.

I did made a scarf over the holidays for my godfather - 10mm needles with Rowan Wool (extremely soft and squishy). The pattern is pretty simple for beginners, and grows like a weed.



As you can see here.

Knitting is something I've been doing for a while, but I wouldn't be able to stick it out for anything larger than a scarf or hat/gloves - jumpers, quite honestly, sound like a nightmare.






Fee

Outfit Post: Christmas Day and presents!

Phew, holidays are over! Love them I do, but they're tiring and I'm ready for a nap. Still, it was a good two days, and I did my best to get presents that people would like, and people certainly did the same in return! It's amazing how family and friends managed to read my mind and get things I hadn't thought to tell anyone about.



Apologies for the bathroom pic; the light during winter is so weak that I can't get good photos in my room. :(


My parents got me this glorious jumper (from TK Maxx, I think), and my god it's so cozy. It also lines right up with my resolution to make dressing goth-like fit in with my lazy desire for comfort. The skirt is one from last Christmas, but the scarf and the necklace is new too. 


Scarf has skulls on it, and oh my I love my gaudy art deco necklace.

I love nothing better on Christmas Day than curling up by the fire and footering with all the presents I receive (everyone is incredibly generous, despite me being an official adult/recessions and what not). One of these was less a present and more a handing down, and explains the good quality photos in this post; my dad gave me his camera! I also got filters and a card reader for it (the port for the cable is broken), so you can expect better photos and hopefully more frequent outfit posts.

 This is only a smaller selection of my gifts - I got make up brushes, fancy earrings, records, an elephant tea pot, a gorgeous beaded top and - of course - a rubber duck light. ;)

Much love to all of you, and I'm hoping that your holidays are going as well as mine are.

Fee

Holly and Candles: Merry Christmas 2013!

Merry Christmas, everybody! Equally, Happy Hanukah/solstice/winter festivities/same old boring day to you. I'm taking a break from blogging over the holidays (I'll still have some posts, but they'll be queued and probably less regular) to take on some shifts at work and build up my blogging queue again. I'll be back full throttle again in the new year, of course!

I thought I would share these photos I took yesterday of my mum's real holly table and mantelpiece decorations which I did for her this year - it's normally my dad's job, but he hates it and passed the responsibility on to me this year. My finger tips are sore and swollen from being jabbed constantly, but it was lots of fun!

Anyway, I hope you're all with loved ones and enjoying yourselves - have a lovely time!


Fee

My Dream Christmas Wishlist

Whilst I've already given a list of things I wouldn't half mind from Saint Nicolas (mostly boring things, like chai tea, rolling pins, earphones, new make up brushes, etc.), there's plenty of other things I'm dreaming of below the Christmas tree, no matter how expensive/improbable/unrealistic. Still, a girl can hope.

• Black Underbust Corset. Cyber in Glasgow does properly fitted ones (and charges over a hundred quid for the privilege), but I probably shouldn't pass up the opportunity to get a properly fitted underbust, especially if it's one I would plan on wearing lots.
• Camera tripod.
• Stompy boots. I love mine. But a goth can never have too many.
• Gramophone.
• A gothic club night in Dundee. It's lonely being a goth in Dundee - there's very little to draw us in our tiny numbers together, and most of the music nights here are metal orientated. Ah well.  
• Juke box.
• Deathhawk. Or any other, suitably inappropriate-for-medical-school hairstyle.
• My own flat.
• Candlestick telephone. (never mind that the only people who would call me are cold callers.)
• Nail varnish that actually stays on longer than a day. IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK.

I totally think these are achievable goals for my Christmas haul. How about you, readers - anything ridiculous or unlikely you would love for Christmas? Lemme know in the comments!



Fee