My roommate and I celebrated our one month anniversary of living in our new aparment on Tuesday. By which I mean we had ice cream and watched 3 episodes of Hoarders. I’m excited to put some final touches on the apartment so we can have our housewarming party. By final I definitely mean “semi-final” – [...]
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Coming this Month: January 2011
January 3rd, 2011 
The Empress I’m excited for a brand new year of blogging! I can’t wait to show off some of the things I’ve been cooking up. Here are some of the posts you can look forward to this month: Food – Delightful Christmas treats (that may result in a sugar coma) – Soups, soups, and more soups (does that word look [...]
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Tags: January 2011, Look forward to these posts 
Comments OffSecrets secrets
August 25th, 2010 The Empress Okay, so one more thing to add to the list of secrets that I’ve been keeping from my royal subjects is the fact that I am moving. The details of this move will still remain secret because I don’t know anything concrete yet – except that it’s definitely happening. Not this month. Maybe (and that would [...]
Posted in decorating Tags: daydreaming about nesting, forgot to mention I cleaned out my closet yesterday, nesting ideas, organization dreams, these are my confessions Comments OffMixed Message Monday
May 17th, 2010 The Empress In my parents house we have a problem with organization. Especially (and most painfully for me) in our kitchen. My mother, for reasons unknown to anyone but her, likes to keep detachable cords separate from the items they should power. Now that would be fine if only some of them weren’t universal cords – meaning [...]
Tchotchke Thursday
April 8th, 2010 The Empress Don’t worry, this won’t be a regular feature. The alliteration isn’t awesome enough. I just thought, you know, turnabout is fair play. People in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones and all that. In the interest of fair disclosure, I should admit my own house has some knick knacks lurking about that might unsettle an unsuspecting [...]
Jeepers Creepers
March 31st, 2010 The Empress Above: The cuckoo clock, its spinning dancers, the icons, the kitchen witch, the kitchen gnome? the cat (x2) Below: What I came home to yesterday, and the culprit, the dog. The good news is that I figured out the heat – there’s an upstairs thermostat and a downstairs one. duh. Also, the demon dog only [...]
Keeping time.
January 22nd, 2010 The Empress Tonight I made a paper chain, because I most nearly resemble a 5 year old. Perhaps I should hang it from the vaulted ceiling so I need a chair to reach the loops.
Wednesday: Cream Cheese, Enrobed.
January 13th, 2010 The Empress Yesterday we took down the Christmas tree. This is probably the most thankless task…anyway. It’s the first year my parents have ever dealt with a fake pre-lit tree. My mother, bless her heart, went ahead and just unplugged all the cords all willy-nilly without any rhyme or reason. If you’ve never had a pre-lit tree [...]
Christmas Cards
December 23rd, 2009 The Empress This year my Christmas cards will be late. Last weekend I went out and bought all the supplies I needed to make my Christmas cards. Due to my poor planning and the ridiculous amount of holiday gatherings/festivities/general merriment happening I failed to actually assemble these cards, until this Saturday when we were snowed in. I [...]
More Good Things
December 11th, 2009 The Empress I’m discovering these days that a Christmas tree makes for a pretty awesome nightlight. No, your eyes are not deceiving you. I have expanded my Christmas tree beyond my normal magenta and platinum. This year I have grape, gold, and frosted pink also! The credit for that goes to the Queen of the Pirates who [...]
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