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Val the Cookie Queen
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Hey there APJ!
Welcome to 2020. New year, new direction. I am not doing written perfume reviews any more. Well, that is not quite true. Once in a while IF I find something that I think amazing, then I will. What I am gonna do is pick perfumes and the review will be contained in the two or three photos. Add a line or two, job done.
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Val the Cookie Queen.
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Servus APJ
I said I was gonna take a break. I am so damn busy. And yet here we are.
“You can’t have silence on the radio; people will turn away from the station.” Robert Barry. American artist. Conceptual art.
I had my first radio show alone last week. Alone in the studio. I got there early enough to set it all up without going into panic mode. I mean there is not a lot to set up to be honest. I had my suspicions that there might be a hitch when I could not listen to my music on the cue button. Damn. I watched the seconds count down until my jingle played, turned on the microphone and — yeah.
UNSPLASH.
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Val the Cookie Queen.
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Hi Guys.
Into the last month of 2019. Time for a round up of my favourite things. It has been a busy year but when is it not? Let’s start with books and end with perfumes huh? Feel free to jump straight to the scents. Here we go …….
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Val the Cookie Queen.
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Hey there APJ Crew and Friends
“White shirt now red, my bloody nose, Sleeping, you’re on your tippy toes, Creepin’ around like no one knows, Think you’re so criminal …….” Bad Guy. Billie Eilish.
I recently bought a white shirt. Damn expensive, beautiful cotton, no collar. I have wanted one for years but every time I tried one on I looked like death warmed up. White shirt, gray hair. I fell in love with this one particular shirt in the window of a store which was at the time shut, and asked Blondeswunder to go in have look at it for me when it was open. Next thing I knew she called me and said she had bought it and that I owed her money. I love it. And I have to say that a well cut shirt is worth the extra dosh. And as long as I put a ton of slap on and wear a coloured lipstick, I don’t look like the grim reaper.
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Val the Cookie Queen.
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Well hello APJ
I am roaming around Scotland as you read this, although I am sat here writing it a good week beforehand. It is gonna be the shortest post ever as I am up to my eyeballs in cookie dough, packing, decanting, and attempting an online checkin. altho I lived in England for some years I never made it up to Scotland. I have always wanted to go and we finally booked a week there. A couple of days in Edinburgh and the we will head up to Fort William and see that happens along the way. What scents am I taking?
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Val the Cookie Queen.
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Hey APJ
Here she comes, you better watch your step, She´s going to break your heart in two, It’s true, It’s hard not to realize, Just look into her false coloured eyes, she’ll build you up just to put you down, what a clown. Cause everybody knows (she’s a femme fatale) The things she does to please (she’s a femme fatale) She´s just a little tease ……. The Velvet Underground 1967.
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Val the Cookie Queen
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Hello APJ.
There is no pleasure without DOULEUR: French for pain.
“Pain and pleasure. …… I think it is subtly strange, and uncomfortable, and disturbing …… and yet there is a softness, and a sweetness that gradually shines through, that cannot immediately be seen through the piercing beginning. This has been a love filled, explosively creative project, and I am so excited for people to experience DOULEUR.” Freddie Albrighton.
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Sandra
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Hey there dear APJ! How are you all doing?
Summer vacation is over and even though I am ready for my son to head back to school, I will miss spending the days with him. He is entering fifth grade! Where does the time go?
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Val the Cookie Queen
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Well hello there APJ
I recently read a post from one of my favourite UK bloggers, where he mentioned that he had a certain perfume in heavy rotation. I found this highly amusing and dropped him a message asking what exactly heavy rotation meant. “Twice” he replied, which was one more time than I thought he would say.
I was totally inspired by Tara’s Most Worn – Summer 2019 post of last week. It not only had me looking at what I had been wearing, but also stirred the above thoughts on perfume rotation.
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Val the Cookie Queen
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Hey APJ
I lived through my first radio broadcast, and was happy enough with it, despite the mistakes I made.
The technics lady who was teaching me left me alone for half of the show assuring me I could do it. She sat outside where I could get her in if I needed. Coordinating the music with the faders, and talking into a microphone took some concentration, but I did it. What nearly killed me was a deadlift training session that morning that caused my hands to bleed. Honestly, you would have thought that I would have learned by now. As a reward for surviving everything, I ordered my next IUNX perfume.
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