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Rupert has fresh tissue paper!
A buff and white cat has his front paws on a gently crumpled sheet of gold tissue paper, and is staring at the camera. There's a splotchy rug in the foreground, and a gray cat cave to the left.
December 6, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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So day 1 spoils! This is probably the end of advent reporting, but I hope you're enjoying whatever treats are at hand, and revel in opening whatever tiny doors present themselves.
A blue box of hot chocolate mix, a small package of cheese, two chocolates, a shortbread cookie, and an assembled corner of a puzzle featuring one cat in a Santa hat on a stained glass background. This cat might be yelling.
December 2, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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No spoilers on the Clue calendar, there's also. A bag of goodies to work with.
This advent calendar opens like a book with dossiers on the left and a clue (board game) style map on the left. Both sides feature doors.
December 2, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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Ikea kicks us off with a vanilla truffle.
The ikea advent calendar has a dark blue and green patterned background with various ornaments hanging off the stylized tree that the dark green forms. One door is opened.
December 2, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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The grinch cocoa calendar fails on the primary assignment: Little Doors, instead opting for windows. It's also fundamentally not an advent anything with 12, but last year demonstrated that I don't actually want hot chocolate *every* day, so calling it a win.
A rectangular box that says "12 Days Grinchmas" across the top. There are 3 rows of windows (4 windows each) with different colored boxes sporting different scenes from the grinch. They are numbered in order, and today's is a blue box featuring Cindy Lou Who and Max in his reindeer disguise. It's filled with French vanilla cocoa mix.
December 2, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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I had the cat puzzle last year. I put it away in a more interesting order, but it was a good one last year.
The top of a jigsaw puzzle box featuring a grid of 24 cats in Santa hats is behind the bottom of the box filled with little boxes numbered 2-24 (they're green, red, and cream). One BOS is opened at the front, with its pile of puzzle pieces in the foreground.
December 1, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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Walker's also starting in the upper left, with a chocolate chip round on the first day.
A open book-like advent calendar. It's mostly white with some red candy striping and plaid, in and around various Christmas scenes. Santa and Mrs. Claus hang out on... a balcony? A mezzanine? Elves pushing baking carts filled with cookie trays, a sleigh, several Christmas trees. Shortbread shapes are incorporated.
December 1, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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Trader Joe's chocolate starting in the upper left corner, revealing a chocolate boot.
An advent calendar, with a brown border at the top proclaiming "A Cozy Christmas" above an indoor Christmas scene. There's a fireplace with a fire and stockings, a tree, presents, cookies, pets looking content and/or mischievous, and a snowman visible through the window. One door is opened.
December 1, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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Today's cheese is truffle cheddar, a reasonable start.
The front of a folding advent calendar with a dark blue background and a winter scene. It says "Winter Wonderland Cheese". One door is open, revealing a small package of cheese.
December 1, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Up first: It's not Christmas until Hans Gruber hits the ground of Nakatomi Plaza! He begins his descent on day 1.
A dark teal skyscraper made of press board, meant to look like the building from Die Hard, with a suited figure holding a gun falling from the top. One hand points at the 1 at the top of the tower (it is numbered 1-24).
December 1, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Advent, day 1, 2025. I have no intention of keeping up the documentation, but we absolutely get a first-day tour! #tinydoors #adventcalendar
This year we're going with a modest 8 calendars (to be joined by a 12-day ice cream one that isn't in my possession yet. They are: Clue: Secrets Under Snowfall; Grinchmas Cocoa (12 days); Ikea; Walker's Shortbread; Aldi's cheese; a Trader Joe's chocolate "A Cozy Christmas; Happy Christmas Cats Jigsaw advent; and Hans Gruber falls off Nakatomi Tower.
December 1, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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Guy who doesn't really seem to like boxes when I don't unpack the catnip toy.
Orange and white cat with a blep sitting in a cardboard box from Chewy.
November 22, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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So... took a bit, but I did this thing, and it is good. (@mostlybree.kitrocha.com for good measure...)
Close up shot of a torn piece of foccacia with a visible pool of melted butter inside.
November 15, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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My foccacia is filled with garlic butter and cheese, and @mostlybree.kitrocha.com is partly to blame. 😸
In the foreground there's a piece of foccacia with mozzarella visible inside. It's held over the larger foccacia, sitting I. A cooling rack on a counter with various kitchen stuff in the background.
September 27, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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I mostly went to Costco today to get naan and food court dinner that wouldn't result in dirty dishes... but these adorable pajamas snuck home with me. (August is *far* too hot for them. But soon...)
A zoomed in photo of the right side of a white woman's torso. She's wearing a pink/burgundy striped shawl-collared pajama top, printed with a jaunty smattering of galloping zebras.
August 21, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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I made foccacia as an extended version of pomodoros for myself this afternoon/evening (every 1.5 hours you have to go do a thing with the dough!). Also, honey goat cheese. #3doughs60recipes
A golden loaf of foccacia with flaky sea salt on the surface, resting on a cooling rack. A hand holds a chunk of of foccacia smeared with honey goat cheese above an aqua plate with a larger hunk of foccacia and a knife on it.
August 17, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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I... need to put the foccacia away now.
A piece of homemade foccacia smeared with honey goat cheese, sitting on a small aqua plate. There's a knife balanced on the far edge of the plate.
August 9, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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Fundamentally, this is @mostlybree.kitrocha.com 's fault. (I have other enablers, but...) I made foccacia tonight. (From 3 Doughs, 60 Recipes.)
A slab of golden brown foccacia resting on a cooling rack. It's plain (just a sprinkling of sea salt). A torn piece of freshly baked foccacia. You can see that it's nicely puffy.
August 9, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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I was encattened.
Rupert, the white and buff cat lounges on my side as I lay on the futon. Rupert, the buff and white cat, is draped over me as I lie on the futon, facing me and the camera this time. Rupert, the buff and white cat has moved down to lounge on my pajama-pants-clad legs as I lie on the futon.
June 6, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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Honey Butter Dinner Rolls from Lacey Osterman's 3 Doughs, 60 Recipes.
A tray of 16 freshly baked rolls. They are golden brown and shiny with honey butter. The tray is glass, and resting on a mostly blue tea towel.
June 1, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Rupert has been home alone Quite Enough, thank you.
A downward view of the back and head of a buff and white cat a she rubs against the legs of the photographer (wearing black pants). There's a pale wood floor and the corner of a teal rug. A buff and wite cat pushes his head into a hand for pets. He's standing on a grey nubby bath mat, and his tail is curling. A buff and white cat is loafed on a pillow, pressed against the head of a white woman who's only in the bottom corner of the frame.
May 26, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Update on my obsession-cheese: this is it, at Trader Joe's, and it is good. (And, you know, doesn't get you down the rabbit hole of ordering boxes of cheese from Wisconsin.) This cheese has become an important pillar of my life.
A square, flat plastic package with a burnt orange label that reads Trader Joe's Garlic Bread Cheese (a mild cow's milk cheese seasoned with garlic powder and baked golden brown).
May 25, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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A delightfully creepy read from @tkingfisher.com! (I did make good choices last night about whether continuing to read a horror novel into the night at a catholic retreat center in a former monestary. It was much better to face the teeth in the light of day.)
T. Kingfisher's book A House With Good Bones. The cover art features two vultures, and the text "Southern hospitality to die for."
April 27, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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To combat fury and despair... bright pink shoes.
Bright pink mary janes worn with grey cuffed jeans. Standing on asphalt scattered with pale pink fallen flower petals.
April 24, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Today there was oven (coping) cheese! It is delicious and melty while also being cohesive (texturally a lot like haloumi). Would absolutely stand up to being dipped in things. Very yummy, do recommend.
The front packaging of Gardner's Wisconsin Cheese & Sausage Original Oven Baked Cheese. It's mostly blue, and you can see cream and brown cheese around the edges. One third of the block of cheese, browned in a pan and sliced into 5 narrow strips on a blue plate.
March 10, 2025 at 10:01 PM