Cheese louise. Just did a quick inventory of all my perfume oils. If I keep bottles of the scents I use regularly and decant sample vials from the bottles I like but rarely use, the surplus (along with all the samples that I didn't like) is worth over $400. And that's priced very conservatively. Need to get that sales post up and running.

I love fall. Love love love. Right now we're at that perfect point where the days are still delightfully warm but the nights are refreshingly chilly. It's not quite time for the leaves to turn, but getting close. The cat's taken to sleeping on my legs at night, sunrise puts on quite a show during the morning commute, and evenings are perfect for ( Read more... )

More Bards of Ireland BPALs for St. Patrick's Day?  DO WANT. At least to try all of them. The Harp of Cnoc I'Chosgair sounds divine, assuming the vanilla behaves. Which is a big assumption.
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Last year I got away without buying any of the Lupercalias... this year might not be so lucky, though. Woods and resins are my downfall. ^_^ Mini breakdown of the ones that sound good follows.
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Sitting here surrounded by cats (and rabbit), reading Lysistrata, swatching new glittery eyeshadows and shopping for gourmet chocolate online (rose and ginger dark choc, anyone?) while waiting for the Valentine's BPAL series to go live. Sometimes it's good to be a woman. :D

Pics of stray kitty here, looking fairly unperturbed by a shaved foreleg. ( Read more... )

...and for once I have all the ingredients on hand to make those "Buried Cherry Cookies" I've been eyeing in the BH&G cookbook since I was a wee tiny thing. Which of course means there's no way they'll live up to expectations, but they're chocolate! And cherry! So by definition they have to be at least somewhat good. :D ( Read more... )

Just got a new box o' smellies from Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab. The HUGE winner from this order was Pa-Pow (named after the owners' dog). It's supposed to smell like "bright days running through the grass and sun-warmed puppy fur dusted with California wildflowers"... and it really does smell like clean puppy. No idea how that's even possible, but ( Read more... )

My Sorrow, when she's here with me,
Thinks these dark days of autumn rain
Are beautiful as days can be;
She loves the bare, the withered tree;
She walks the sodden pasture lane.

Her pleasure will not let me stay.
She talks and I am fain to list:
She's glad the birds are gone away,
She's glad her simple worsted grey
Is silver now with clinging mist ( Read more... )

Rarely has the divide between "technically feasible" and "practical" been so jarring. I could make it to to the Roswell, GA Black Phoenix Will-Call event this Sunday, and even hit Dragon*Con in Atlanta for a few hours beforehand. It would mean a 900 mile, 14 hour drive each way and two motel stays, but it's possible. Just not, y'know, affordable. ( Read more... )

 Stayed up late stalking the July BPAL update, but it was actually rather disappointing. Desperately want a bottle of Irrelevant and Disturbing Surreal Crawdad Dream, just because of the name and because it's the first BPAL.org exclusive since I joined... *slaps self upside the head* Bad self! You promised you wouldn't fall prey to the collector ( Read more... )