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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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Portia
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Hey there APJ,
You may know that Thursday is my day to post on Perfume Posse. Every week over there I do some kind of fragrance review. As we don’t really do them here on APJ anymore I thought it might be nice to give you a heads up on what’s happening elsewhere.
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Val the Cookie Queen
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Hi there y’all
Been an active couple of weeks here in the heart of the Austrian Salzkammergut. We are busy moving apartments. Amazing how much crap there is to throw away after living in one place for twenty-five years. Luckily we are only moving about 400 meters away, so we have been steadily taking the stuff that we want to keep and setting the place up. Once we have moved in we have two months to clear this place out. We are serial renters. Having chose to live an – uhm – rather wayward life up until our early thirties, we have never been a position to buy. We already own the home that my husband grew up in, as his parents put it into our names about fifteen years ago, so renting is just fine. His parents will continue to live in it until they turn their toes up. And when it is eventually properly ours we will not have to pay inheritance taxes or whatever. Planning ahead.
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Portia
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Hey there APJ Crew,
This week my girlfriend Miharu has been in town from Japan. We used to be buddies back in my showgirl days and it’s been nice to see her again. Loads of fun perfume choices and hanging out with Jin. Work was BUSY too.
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Portia
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Hey there APJ Crew,
So many perfumes I’ve not worn in ages. This warm weather has brought them all out to play. Saw some buddies, worked a bit, hung around with Jin. Lovely week Chez Portia .
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Portia
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Hey there APJ Crew,
A lovely slow and lazy river of a week. I found it hard to focus on anything much. Still, there was a LOT of perfume spritzing, some exercise, friends, work, food and Jin. A fine week of regrouping and reflection, sometimes that’s what we need, right?
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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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Portia
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Hey there APJ Crew,
This week has been infinitely quieter. Thank everything. I really needed some chill time. Still managed to get out and about, saw some buddies and spent some quality time with Jin. The good thing about having more time is wearing more fragrance. YAY! Big week of scent.
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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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