New Years 2024

Hey there Posse. What is everyone doing for New Years 2024? It will be my first NYE without work for years, maybe decades. Jin has a new-ish office work role and they have enforced shut down for 2 weeks over… Continue Reading

Merry Merry, and Masque Milano Terralba

Happy Kwanzaa! Portia just recently wrote about this one, and as soon as I read “clary sage” and “samples available at Surrender to Chance” I was off ordering. I love clary sage- that herbacious greeness that’s also bone dry is… Continue Reading

Merry Happy

I thought about doing this tomorrow, and then later today. But we are all in different time zones and, to mess with Robert Frost, “I’ve got things to do and promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep”.… Continue Reading

Briefly: Victoria Beckham perfumes

Cinnamon covered these pretty extensively a couple of weeks ago, but since I am nothing if not a follower I had to pop for the sample set and put in my two cents. First off, I get the idea of… Continue Reading

A bit of fanciful thinking

Hannukah finished last week (see pic of last day candles below). It’s the last week before Christmas. So far, work has been decent but not mad. But I looked back at late December 2022 and for unknown reasons there were… Continue Reading

Terralba by Masque Milano

Hey Hey Posse! Terralba has celebrated its tenth birthday this year! Where did that decade go? SNAP! and gone. I’m pretty sure this manufacturers carded sample hasn’t been here the whole time but it just may have been. There’s minimal… Continue Reading

I got nothin’ too

Well, I am coming to the end of the dastardly Flu and the old honker isn’t up to 100% yet. I’m not dying or anything (the dramatics were thankfully brief and happened last week. I had a few posts saved… Continue Reading