Electric Gardens

This evening I visited the Electric Gardens, an outdoor event currently happening in the Botanic Gardens in Glasgow's West End. It was eerie, magical and beautiful...

These saxophone players were all decked out with lights too...

I'm pretty sure I remember this ice cream cone from the Summer festival! Looks a bit out of place in all the ice and snow.. something rather sad about that

This place reminded me of a fairy glen:

More ice cream! A fab lolly this time...

I loved the effects of the lights moving on the trees - it made it look like the branches were dancing to the music...

This girl was so talented and put on an amazing display. She reminded me of a little fire faerie!

I love this photo of the moon rising behind Kibble Palace:

 Finished off the night warming up with drinks in Hillhead Bookclub, lovely!

If you're in Glasgow and you get the chance to visit the Electric Gardens event while it's on, you definitely should! If you don't mind braving the cold, it's well worth it.

p.s. You can save yourself a few pounds just now: buy your tickets from on itison.com

p.p.s I would recommend a warm jumper and a hot drink or a stiff cocktail following this!

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Edinburgh Fringe Festival!

I do love a wee trip to Edinburgh recently! And since this year's Fringe festival has just started, it seemed like a perfect excuse for another wee jaunt through there on Wednesday. Since I've never been to the festival before I was curious to see what would be going on! When we arrived it was a tad rainy, but that is to be expected! We decided to take shelter in Mamma's Pizza in the Grassmarket, since we were also starving!

Cute teapots in a Grassmarket shop window

Chefs hard at work in Mamma's Pizza

We filled up on pizza and sweet potato fries, then ventured outdoors to see what was happening. Just outside the restaurant, there were street artists painting a massive mural, and a street performer who we watched escape from a straitjacket whilst riding a unicycle. This is no mean feat! We headed up the Royal Mile, watching more street performers including an acapella group and a man who was juggling knives inches away from an audience member's head! The rain had started again, so we took shelter in a cute little coffee shop, shared a pot of tea and a gigantic chocolate muffin! 

The cutest cafe on Cockburn St

It was so cosy. We used the opportunity to look at all of the leaflets and flyers we'd been given, and decide where to go next. We opted for Whistle Binkies pub, which was showing free comedy shows all day. We were lucky enough to see a hilarious comic called Andrew O'Neil doing his act "Mindspiders": very weird but if you like random comedy, you'll love it! Kind of like Noel Fielding/Bill Bailey. I thought he was brilliant. You can check out Andrew's website for more of his upcoming gigs.

After our dose of free comedy, we headed down to St Andrew's Square where there's all sorts of cool stuff happening! They have stalls, a stage with live performances, music and bars with deckchairs! They've even created a cute little pond. It was all very summery and lovely. 

St. Andrew's Square

Princes St. Gardens selfie!

By this point in the evening the sun had come out and it was perfect timing! We decided to enjoy a drink sitting outside a bar in Rose Street. We were going to go and watch more comedy but we were both pretty tired and working the next day so we went for the train home. On the way I stopped in at Primark and randomly purchased this gorgeous backpack! I can't wait to wear it on more adventures! :D

I had a great day in Edinburgh and I would recommend anyone to go and check out the Festival while it's on, because there is sooo much happening! I hope I might get a chance to go back and see more shows in the next few weeks.

Lastly, I've been nominated for a Liebster Award by the lovely Nicole over at Coco Made Her Do It! Thank you Nicole! :D Look out for a post on that featuring my nominations.

Goodnight everyone

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Commonwealth Closing Party!

So, the 11 days of madness are over and Glasgow is no longer host of the Commonwealth Games :( It's been amazing having the games on the doorstep, it's made me so so proud and patriotic! I wish I could have got to see more of it but I'm glad I got to go along to an event, met a lot of the athletes in my work and went along to the closing ceremony party at Glasgow Green yesterday! It was so much fun. We started off by taking a wander round the Merchant City festival - and got a wee glimpse of the Scotland cycling team go past!

There were lots of stalls selling amaaaazing food (the photos speak for themselves!), we got the BEST steak burgers and then Craig got his churros and I got fro-yo! (Classic me)

Before we headed to Glasgow Green we stopped off at Maggie May's (a favourite place of mine) for some amaaaazing cocktails, then we went to queue up to get into the festival.

The atmosphere was amazing, everyone was in such a happy mood! We decided to go on the big wheel since we're just massive children (there was a lot of spinning and dizziness)
Then we went to the bar and got a drink and watched the closing ceremony streamed live on big screens as the sun set over Glasgow.

We watched and danced to Kylie (obviously!) and I got emotional when Dougie Mclean sang 'Caledonia' one of my favourite songs of all time which I listened to loads in Australia when I missed home! (Yep I am that sad!)

It was a great night and I really enjoyed myself and I'm proud to say that Glasgow pulled off such an amazing Games and projected such a great example of Scotland to the rest of the world!


Yey Glasgow!! :D

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Summer Adventures!

Hey guys! Sorry I haven't been blogging in a while! I just wanted to share with you some photos of my recent adventures. My friend Keara's Maid Cafe at the Geek Retreat was such a cute experience- a taste of Kawaii Japan! We got to drink milkshakes, eat macaroons and play card games! The West End Festival in Glasgow was amazing, such a good day out! There was an awesome parade all the way down Byres Road which featured everything from a giant Octopus creature to carnival dancers and it was so fun to watch! There was live music and stalls all through Kelvingrove Park (the food smelled amaaaazing) and Ashton Lane was a buzz with BBQs and chilled summer vibes! I had such a lovely time.

I've been loving the summer weather recently! Edinburgh looked so beautiful in the sunshine when I visited last week. And today I took a trip to the coast - to the fun seaside town of Largs, and also the castle at Portencross which is so beautiful. It's days like this that make me so thankful  to live in such a diverse and gorgeous country as Scotland. So proud!

I can't wait for more Summer adventures! What are your favourite things about Summertime? I love wearing skirts and dresses and sandals, the smell of candy floss and ice cream, the vast clear blue skies and the way that the days feel like they last forever!

Thanks for reading, soon to come will be a haul and a summer lookbook!

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