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Stefanie Archivist @stefarchivist.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

In response to post K-drama finale drop I went full cocktail insane and worked up a frozen Mayo-nog! #confinedcocktails

Spices, cream, rum, amaretto, and mayonnaise waiting to be used

A mug with a creamy cocktail, topped with whipped cream and cinnamon

Stefanie Archivist @stefarchivist.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Still playing #Yayadvent post catch up it seems. Day 8 was cat shaped post it notes. The best shape 🐈‍⬛ Day 9 a handy pocket diary Day 10 amazing Xmas socks Day 11 excitingly sparkly bath bombs

A pack of blue, pink and yellow post it notes shaped like cats

A pair of festive socks with a polar bear design

Gold coloured bath bombs shaped like a Christmas tree and a Christmas pudding

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Stefanie Archivist @stefarchivist.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Catching up on #Yayadvent posting after the weekend, day 6 was a festive glove puppet craft kit and day 7 was ever handy beeswax food wraps

A craft kit to make a felt Rudolph reindeer glove puppet lies on wrapping paper labelled 6.

A pack of beeswax infused cloth food wraps decorated with onion patterns lies by a label 7

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Stefanie Archivist @stefarchivist.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Day 5 of #YayAdvent brought this beautiful wooden Christmas tree ornament. It might even prompt me to put up the tree…

A wooden Christmas bauble decorated with green red and white painted mistletoe designs lies on wrapping paper with a number 5 on

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Stefanie Archivist @stefarchivist.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

#YayAdvent day 3. - always welcome handcream in the winter 😍

A tube of citrus and cedar scented hand cream lies on wrapping paper marked with the letter 3

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Stefanie Archivist @stefarchivist.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Day 2 of #YayAdvent and I have been blessed with festive coasters. Seasonal AND useful. Thanks @lizzybarchivist.bsky.social 😀

A wrapped parcel with the number 2 on the label

A packet of drinks coasters decorated to look like gingerbread houses.

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Stefanie Archivist @stefarchivist.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

December brings #YayAdvent and day 1 brought a lovely adventure card and a fabulous gingerbread tin containing a wintery tea blend

A festive advent card and a small wrapped parcel with a number 1 on it.

A festive advent card next to a tin shaped like a gingerbread man. Tin contains tea bags labelled cinnamon flavour.

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Stefanie Archivist @stefarchivist.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Cheers. Dipping my toe back into social media after a bit of a break. I’ve got a winter spritz from a can (v cinnamony) and some Beef Wellington crisps to accompany a K drama sort of evening #ConfinedCocktails

A cocktail glass with a festive red cocktail sits on a table next to a bowl of crisps.

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Stefanie Archivist @stefarchivist.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Accidentally neepless through my own poor planning, I’m fully in on the mash ‘n’ haggis. Sipping a low alcohol G&T and sending Burns’ night greetings out into the world #ConfinedCocktails

A plate contains a pile of creamy mashed potatoes adorned with three slices of crisply fried haggis. Behind the plate is a glass containing a gin and tonic, next to a can from M&S.

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Stefanie Archivist @stefarchivist.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Cheers. In this, day 197 of January, I’m finishing off the last Snowball that was lurking behind things at the back of the fridge. Winter continueth. #ConfinedCocktails

A cocktail glass containing a bright yellow snowball cocktail, garnished with several cocktail cherries on a cocktail stick, sits on a coaster.

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Stefanie Archivist @stefarchivist.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

I’m using my #YayAdvent beeswax tealights as table dressing. Thanks again.

A blue pottery tea light holder with a glass chimney has a burning hexagonal beeswax tea light in it. A decorative coil of silver wire and pearl beads surrounds the holder.

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Stefanie Archivist @stefarchivist.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

May your Hogmanay be as you would want it and best wishes for 2025 to the #ConfinedCocktails crew. I’m starting out with a pomegranate martini along with my Venetian duck leg ragu & linguine.

A plate containing linguine topped with a rich ragu and grated Parmesan sits on a table laid with a tablecloth. A martini glass is nearby, containing a pinkish red cocktail

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Stefanie Archivist @stefarchivist.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Cheers. I’ve been playing with a new breadmaker all afternoon & am now basically eating All The Bread with a pomegranate negroni #ConfinedCocktails

A loaf of wholemeal bread sits in the pan of a bread making machine.

A cocktail glass containing a red cocktail sits on a table next to an open ham sandwich

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Stefanie Archivist @stefarchivist.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

There was the usual over abundance of popcorn croutons. And a discussion about seasoning. #SoupSky

A bowl of cream of corn soup, garnished with popcorn croutons, sits on a Christmas dinner table.

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Stefanie Archivist @stefarchivist.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Using up leftover pomegranate juice on Boxing Day via the medium of a pomegranate cosmopolitan. Though I vaguely feel there should be a pomegranate cocktail out there called a Persephone…. #ConfinedCocktails

A cocktail glass seen from above. In the dark red cocktail floats an orange slice and several pomegranate seeds.

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Stefanie Archivist @stefarchivist.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Cheers to all the #ConfinedCocktail crew. Merry Christmas and best of the season. Mine’s a Select Pomegranate Negroni.

A cocktail glass with a dark red cocktail, garnished with orange is held in a hand.

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Stefanie Archivist @stefarchivist.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Thank you @melindahaunton.bsky.social for a special #YayAdvent Christmas Day treat. My very own trebuchet!! (With added pencil sharpening functionality). I 💖 it 😀 #EveryGirlsFavouriteSiegeEngine

A hand holds a mini die cast trebuchet catapult that doubles as a pencil sharpener. In the background lies an advent calendar, a red and white candy cane and a label that reads 25 Irresistible Bonus

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Stefanie Archivist @stefarchivist.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Day 24, Christmas Eve brings a wee dram of Edinburgh gin. #YayAdvent

A miniature bottle of Edinburgh gin lies atop an advent calendar

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Stefanie Archivist @stefarchivist.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Look at that velvety fabulousness! Makes the Faff Factor 5 and mouli-ing worth while. #SoupSky

A velvety smooth cream of corn soup fills a large pan.

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Stefanie Archivist @stefarchivist.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Sticking with the classics while my tea cooks. A Mumsnet Bellini. Best use of organic peach pulp. Fight me.

A cocktail glass contains a Bellini. Next to it is an empty Rachel’s Organic baby food pouch in pure peach pulp flavour and an empty can of proseccco.

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Stefanie Archivist @stefarchivist.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Combining #ConfinedCocktails and #YayAdvent for Christmas Eve, using my mini stoli & surplus cream for a truly Russian White Russian

A cocktail glass contains a dark mix of Kahlua and Russian vodka with a pale layer of cream floating on it. A miniature of stolichnaya gold vodka sits next to the glass, empty.

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Stefanie Archivist @stefarchivist.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

For those who remember the days of #ConfinedKitchen, Popcorn soup is happening! #SoupSky

A pan contains a slowly simmering soup with stock and sweetcorn. A bay leaf floats in the soup.

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Stefanie Archivist @stefarchivist.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Final tea from my advent calendar for #TeaUp, it’s a cup of F&M’s sold out Christmas blend with cocoa nibs, clementine & Christmas spices.

A mug that reads I knit so I don’t kill people sits on a table, contains hot tea. Next to it is a small stack of chocolate rice cakes.

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Stefanie Archivist @stefarchivist.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Day 23 brings a memory of social media sites of the past… #YayAdvent

A Christmas decoration in the form of a bluebird in a cage lies next to a sign saying 23 Formerly known as Twitter!

A Christmas decoration of a blue bird in a silver cage hangs in a Christmas tree

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Stefanie Archivist @stefarchivist.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

I’m so sorry. Have some festive birbs. Hope you feel better soon.

A flock of hand made beanbag robins sit in front of a bowl of fairy lights.

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Stefanie Archivist @stefarchivist.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Day 21, light for the Winter Solstice, with beeswax tea lights #YayAdvent

Two honeycomb pattern beeswax tea lights sit on an advent calendar next to a label that reads 21 Light on the darkest day

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Stefanie Archivist @stefarchivist.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Much Christmas cooking- apple butter, candied oranges, ginger truffles and one of The Chocolate Pudding. Any ideas on what to do with 3/4 pint of orange syrup?

A patchwork of images of Christmas cooking, featuring oranges and chocolate and jugs of syrup and mixers and chocolate pudding batter.

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Stefanie Archivist @stefarchivist.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Lunchtime #TeaUp is a lovely smelling black tea with fig.

Hello Kitty mug containing black tea sits on a table in front of an open magazine.

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Stefanie Archivist @stefarchivist.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Day 20 so I’m up to date for today’s #YayAdvent which is this sunny, happy wee chap. 🌻

A teeny crocheted sunflower in a pot sits next to an advent calendar and a label that reads 20 A burst of brightness

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Stefanie Archivist @stefarchivist.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Day 18 of #YayAdvent was a beautiful set of notebooks for Important Thoughts and day 19 was a luggage tag for Venetian adventures

A packet of notebooks bound in paper decorated with Van Gogh blossom paintings sits next to a label reading 18 Great Thoughts.

A luggage tag decorated with a Canaletto painting of Venice sits next to an advent calendar and a label reading 19 Great places to be

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Stefanie Archivist @stefarchivist.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Playing catch up this week for #YayAdvent with day 16 an invitingly tactile polished stone and day 17 exciting and difficult to locate #SoyFree chocolate

An oval dark coloured smooth polished stone sits next to an advent calendar
and a label that reads 16 Smooth.

Two bars of chocolate, one Cornish honeycomb flavour and the other browned butter flavour sit next to an advent calendar and a label that says 17 Tasty (I hope).

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Stefanie Archivist @stefarchivist.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Sadly having to drink the last bit of limoncello that didn’t fit in the bottles… #ConfinedCocktails

A wine glass containing limoncello and ice is held in a hand. In the background is a Christmas tree.

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Stefanie Archivist @stefarchivist.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

It’s a festive plum, apple & cinnamon infusion at lunch today #TeaUp

A mug containing a pink herbal tea , which says ‘I knit so I don’t kill people’ on it sits on a table. Behind is an out of focus box of Christmas lebkuchen biscuits

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Stefanie Archivist @stefarchivist.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Evening #TeaUp - Chamomile & bee pollen from the tea advent calendar.

A Hello Kitty mug sits on a coaster, a lilac herbal tea bag tag hangs down. Behind is a stack of slightly out of focus books.

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Stefanie Archivist @stefarchivist.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Day 14 of #YayAdvent was a #ConfinedCocktails appropriate mini bottle of stoli. I’m saving it for a proper Black Russian, I think. Day 15 is a beautiful Christmas decoration which has gone straight on the tree!

A miniature bottle of Stolichnaya gold vodka sits on an advent calendar with 14 open windows.

A red and gold bauble in the shape of a bottle of eau de parfum sits next to an advent calendar with 15 open windows.

A red and gold glittery ornament in the shape of a perfume bottle hangs in a Christmas tree.

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Stefanie Archivist @stefarchivist.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

This morning’s tea advent calendar was a fantastic Assam breakfast blend. Determined to get 2 cups from this bag. #TeaUp

A hand holds a teabag with a printed label reading Fortnum & Mason Famous Teas Breakfast Blend. Behind the hand is a brightly decorated advent calendar with open windows.

A herdy yarn company mug decorated with a sheep’s face and a pattern of knitted stitches sits on a table. Steam is rising from the tea in the mug.

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Stefanie Archivist @stefarchivist.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Cheers. The Xmas birbs are out, the tree’s up and tea is the first snowball of the season, with paprika chicken crisps and olives #ConfinedCocktails

A small flock of pyramid shaped beanbag robins made of felt & brown fabric are sitting on a table in front of a bowl of fairy lights.

A decorated Christmas tree with the lights on stands on a coffee table, against cream curtains.

A small bowl of black olives sits next to a bowl of crisps. A classic bright yellow snowball cocktail with 2 bright red cocktail cherries as a garnish is in a cocktail glass behind the snacks. An out of focus Christmas tree is in the background

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Stefanie Archivist @stefarchivist.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Day 12 of #YayAdvent was ambience bringing tree napkins and Day 13 brought a spooky bat shaped tree adornment for memories of Halloween, along with Polish fruit candies.