what day is it?
Sunday, December 30, 2012 at 9:12AM
as if christmas weren't enough of a gut shanker...
fiona's birthday is on new year's eve.
so to say i am pooped at just about this time every year is an understatement.
the slumber party tent this year was just our camping tent with fiona's curtains slung over the top.
and a pink ikea lantern inside..
super easy and effective.
fiona inherited a dollhouse from a family friend and i painted it black with white trim.
inspired by..
right??
plus it looks great on display in the house.
there is still the whole matter of the inside though.
it's vintage so the shell has been gutted.
the decorating will take some time.
i need wallpaper scraps y'all.
send me some.
you guys, hot toddies are legit.
first of all i had never had a hot toddy before,
i am not a liquor drinker-
but i did some internet research and bulleit bourbon is not only smooth and vanilla-y, it's downright delicious!
i did some more internet research and combined a few recipes i found for hot toddies..
here's my recipe for the ultimate cold zapping mother fucker of a hot toddy..
first draw an extremely hot bath (not organ boiling or skin melting but probably hot enough to redden your hiney)..
add 2 cups of epsom salts.
1 cup of baking soda.
1 tsp of powdered ginger (the kind you get in the spice isle).
while this is going down go and chop 1 thumb-sized piece of fresh ginger.
put it in a tea cup.
put 1 1/2 cups of water on to boil.
put one cold and flu season tea bag in your cup.
i use this kind- but you can use any tea you want.
i just happened to have had it and it was at night so i didn't want any caffeine.
next add a generous pinch of red pepper flakes.
you can use cayenne but the red pepper flakes are more mellow while still giving you the much needed heat.
next add a teaspoon or more to taste of RAW honey.
when the water has reached an almost boil add it to the cup.
then add your jigger of bourbon.
i used 2 teaspoons, but a jigger is about an ounce.
you can use more if you want ya filthy animal.
last step is to squeeze the juice of half a lemon in the cup.
now go sit in that hot bathtub for 40 minutes (adding more hot water as needed) while you sip that tea.
i am telling you..
just what the doctor (me) ordered.
see ya on the flerpity flerp florp.
Reader Comments (15)
My mom served us a similiar conconction whenever we had a cold. Bam! We were better the next day.
Totally works. "I'll give ya to the count of 10! Keep the change..."
Happy birthday Fiona. I adore your doll house.
yum! Fiona is the cutest. have lots of wallpaper scraps for her adorable dollhouse. send me your address if ya want them.
Hmmmm. That there is a cold zapping toddy! Love the black and white macabre dollhouse.
Happy early birthday, Fiona! I don't even have a cold (knock on wood), but that hot toddy/bath combo sounds like something I should try in the very near future. Have you brought out the million dollar plums for some kind tea yet? I have yet to try it.
I remember when you first posted that black house with the white trim...you finally got it! Happy New Year.
OMG she is THE CUTEST!!!!!!!!!!!! Hurray for dollhouses! Hurray for New Year's babies! Hurray for toddies -- I'm having one TONIGHT
xoxoxo
Fiona, lovely, lucky, happy birthday!
Happy birthday, Fiona!
Hot toddies = why I love winter. I've gone through 3 bourbons so far. Yum. Thank god for my lemon tree.
Perhaps origami paper? I love it and now want one for me girls!
Use scrapbook paper, Michaels etc. for wallpaper. Cheap, fun prints and scaled appropriately.
love the doll house! check out this website for cute furniture and accessories
http://www.elfminiatures.co.uk/GARDEN%2FPATIO+PUFUTXdBVE02a25jdmRXWjBGMlk
I'm drinking 400 of those after baby comes out- and will be in the bath while doing it.
Happy New Year my friend- xoxo
Ebay has everything dollhousey. Every time I search regular-size stuff a zillion dollhose alternatives pop up...thing I would have never imagined.
Happy Birthday Fiona! My husband's birthday is New Year's Eve too.
Sooo jealous of Fi's dollhouse!! I loved my dollhouse when I was younger. And I would totally play with that one.
Thanks for the toddy recipe, I have been fighting a cold for a week and a half!
Love the new look!!!! And I wish our dollhouse that she got last year for Christmas was black and super cool like Fiona's. My husband put it together and let her pick the colors out. It's a Victorian house that belongs in Seaside. Blech. We got lighting for Vivian's this year and I bought some floral lilac paper for it at Hobby Lobby. Can you use wallpaper samples? That's what I was looking for to no avail cause I didn't want to have to deal with it.