It's time for this year's installment of the Gingerbread Pubs of St Albans! This is the fourth year I've been recreating the iconic, historic pubs of St Albans, England in gingerbread, and giving them as a gift to the pubs. Read on for lots of pictures and details! 🧵 #stalbans #gingerbread

I have filled my first bag of gingerbread scraps and will be foisting them on everyone I see from now until Christmas. Gingerbreadageddon has begun. #gingerbread #gingerbreadhouse

I just made the most amazing cranberry walnut cookies! Vassar people, it scratches that Nilda's oatmeal raisin cookie itch I've been chasing for YEARS. Texture and flavor of the cookie are perfect, and I've always liked dried cranberries better than raisins anyway! #cookies #cranberrywalnut

This is sublime. Find a place where people can't hear you guffawing and dry-heaving, and read it.

Yikes, I should have guessed this was coming, but...yikes.

Word.

I started learning to ring the bells at the St Albans cathedral exactly four years ago, and have wanted to make this cookie set since that day. I finally had a chance when our tower hosted the St Albans district meeting a few weeks ago! #bellringing #stalbans #sugarcookies #cookiedecorating

Sending this to all of my fellow immigrant friends here in the UK, and casting this call for help wide here, too. It's awful that Dr Fitzharris wasn't allowed back home in the first place, and outrageous that it hasn't been resolved in over two weeks.

#HeathrowExpansion will disconnect the internationally-rare chalk streams of the Chilterns from the #Thames. For Eels and other migratory fish to get to #StAlbans, #Hemel, #Chesham, #Amersham etc etc (or back to the Sargasso Sea) this is catastrophic. www.colnevalleypark.org.uk/heathrow-pos...

Siegfried’s Long Call from Twilight of the Garage (Gäragerdämmerung)

You know those funny "why is my toddler crying" posts? I'm here to inform you that it doesn't end. My 16 year old is furious with me for getting her a hair dye exactly the color she asked for. Except it's more excruciating and not funny now

I generally don’t take a stance on the question of leadership in the Church; I’m not Anglican and it’s not for me to have an opinion. But the position of Archbishop of Canterbury affects every person in England, Christian or no. And this is a massive failure when the church needs… not that

This guy consistently posts songs with incredible lyrics mere hours after events unfurl. This was a good one.

This wrapping paper turns everything into bread 🥖 Created by Japanese designer Ippei Tsujio

Evidently Lancelot loves lettuce??! #dogsofbluesky #maltese

What's your family's Easter meal? We started making Easter pizza after I built a brick pizza oven in our back yard in 2009 (when I was pregnant with our youngest--I nest with power tools!) #pizzaoven #pizza #easterpizza

Throwback to the most fussy yet humble-looking dessert I've ever made. Peeps whoopie pies in all the classic colors, made with homemade soft sugar cookies and homemade marshmallow filling. They were worth it. #peeps #whoopiepies #Easter #baking

Sometimes you just need a miniature bouquet of flowers to cheer up your desk. #miniatures #flowers

In Paris for the coffee festival! Every over-caffinated twitch is worth it. #pariscoffeefestival #coffee

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

Pinterest updated their terms of use and they're going to use all of the content you saved to train their AI. Go to options > your privacy rights > disable GenAI Please do it 🫠

personally would not describe the myth of a man cursed to roll a rock uphill FRUITLESSLY FOR ALL ETERNITY as “a reminder that you can overcome anything” but you do you, meta ad

Trying to find an ev charger for the electric rental car. Budget didn't give me a home adapter. Three strike outs so far. I'm stopping for emotional support tacos and horchata.

Oh, to have the emotional security of a zonked, belly-up puppy. Not likely today, or for the next 4 years. #dogsofbluesky #maltese

A Goldilocks trio of dogs at the pub. Lower red lion is a brilliant place for dogs! #dogsofbluesky #pubpups #stalbans

Toe beans! #dogsofbluesky #maltese

Memories just let me know that it's been 8 years since I made these Hobbit Shire cupcakes! Still some of my all-time favorites! #cupcakes #LOTR

Morgana le Fur meeting her new little brother, Sir Lancelot du Lick for the first time today! Welcome to the family, Lance! #maltese

Attempting to make Chex mix in the UK. Crushed rice cakes are a B- substitution for rice Chex. Lentil crisps are an A+ substitution.

It's time for this year's installment of the Gingerbread Pubs of St Albans! This is the third year of the (many year) project--LOTS of great pubs in St Albans! This year I made The Six Bells, The Mermaid, and The Beehive. #gingerbread #gingerbreadhouse Fab dress by @interrobangart.bsky.social

It's gingerbread season! I made this gingerbread catapult for GISHmas 2017. I miss GISH @mishacollins.bsky.social !

Saw this and had to repost. <3 Credit to Marpal Embroidery for the work!

What's the weirdest Thanksgiving/holiday dish in your family? Ours is "pink food," a Midwestern raspberry "salad" that is essentially raspberry whipped cream. But it wouldn't be a holiday without it in our family!

Remembering years ago when my mom announced that we would have Cornish game hens for Thanksgiving, and my daughter was very disappointed that no Cornish gay men showed up for dinner.

Aw man, I missed #doctorwhoday? Bad form for someone who threw a doctor who themed birthday party for her daughter so epic that it was featured on the 50th anniversary special on SyFy/BBC America.

Coming soon: #Booksky Banned Book Club! We'll read one banned/challenged book monthly and discuss on Bluesky with posts. Coordinators will provide talking points. Follow me for updates and to join. Fellow librarians, let me know if you'd like to be a coordinator. Repost to get the word out pls.

I have liked TWO skeets today that took the number from 999 to 1k so I'm feeling pretty accomplished and satisfied with myself.

Brown Sugar Pop Tart Cookies from Molly at What Molly Made. whatmollymade.com/brown-sugar-... #cookies #baking #recipes #Christmas #Holiday #ChristmasCookies #bloggers

I need a little dopamine today, and I happen to have circles of the rainbow frosting in the freezer. It feel like a homemade rainbow oreo kind of afternoon. Only question is if I stick with chocolate or make a different flavor for the cookie part? #cookies #rainbow

Ooooh, these look amazing--and I just happened to buy a big block of Wookey Hole cheddar this weekend!

What do you do when your cheese-fiend friend has a birthday? Make her cheese themed cupcakes! Pumpkin cupcakes with cream cheese frosting, of course. #cheese #cupcakes

For the past two years I've been making gingerbread replicas of the pubs of St Albans. Gearing up for this year's installment! Here's a peek at some of the previous efforts. There are a LOT of great pubs in St Albans--this is going to take me years!