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Tania Arpa @taniaarpa.com · 25/09/2026

I found out today that my website didn’t have a proper page-not-found page 🤦🏽‍♀️ so I made one.

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Tania Arpa @taniaarpa.com · 01/09/2026

I did wonder why we got an advisory today about bad air in QC and Makati! Hope the fires are under control now 💔 Sending love to Indonesia 🇮🇩❤️

Screenshot of YouTube video. Thumbnail showing a haze over a city.

Top news
ANC DIGITAL

HAZE OVER METRO MANILA BLAMED ON FOREST FIRES IN INDONESIA
Haze over Metro Manila blamed on forest fires in Indonesia | ANC ABS-CBN News
5.9K views • 13 hours ago
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Tania Arpa @taniaarpa.com · 17/08/2026

Stay safe, folks 🇵🇭 #bagyo

Republic of the Philippines
DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA)
IMPACT-BASED FORECAST NO. 12
Heavy Rains / Flood due to Southwest Monsoon
Issued at 3:00 PM on August 17, 2026
Valid until the next issuance at 3:00 PM tomorrow or earlier.
BAGONG PILIPINAS
Legend:
Minimal = green
Minor = yellow
Significant= orange
Severe = red

RISK MAP FOR AREAS AFFECTED
(Showing the map of Luzon and how severely each area is affected)
Today (Aug 17) = HIGH LIKELIHOOD
Tomorrow (Aug 18) = MEDIUM LIKELIHOOD
Wednesday (Aug 19) = MEDIUM LIKELIHOOD
Thursday (Aug 20) = LOW LIKELIHOOD

AFFECTED AREAS TODAY (AUGUST 17)
Severe:
Metro Manila, Pampanga (Lubao, Floridablanca, Sasmuan, Macabebe, Masantol), Bataan (Abucay, Balanga, Dinalupihan, Hermosa, Limay, Orani, Orion, Obando, Meycauayan, Marilao, Bocaue,
Pilar, Samal), Bulacan (Hagonoy, Paombong,
Balagtas, Guiguinto, Calumpit),
Malolos, Bulakan, Rizal (Rodriguez, San Mateo, Cainta, Taytay) and Cavite (Bacoor, Imus, Kawit, Noveleta, Cavite City, Rosario, Tanza, Naic)

Significant:
Zambales, Bataan (Bagac, Mariveles, Morong), Bulacan (Angat, Baliuag, Bustos, San Jose del Monte, Dona Remedios Trinidad, Norzagaray, Pandi, Plaridel, Pulilan, San Ildefonso, San Miguel, San Rafael, Santa Maria), Pampanga (Apalit, Arayat, Bacolor, Candaba, San Fernando, Magalang, Mexico, Minalin, San Luis, San Simon,
Santa Ana, Santo Tomas, Angeles, Mabalacat, Guagua, Porac, Santa Rita), Rizal (Antipolo, Angono, Baras, Binangonan, Cardona, Morong, Teresa, Tanay, Jala-Jala, Pililla), Cavite (Alfonso, Amadeo, General Trias, General Emilio Aguinaldo, Indang, Magallanes, Maragondon, Mendez, Silang, Tagaytay, Ternate, Trece Martires, Carmona, Dasmarinas, Gen. Mariano Alvarez), Laguna (Santa Cruz, Binan, San Pedro, Lumban, Pangil, Famy, Kalayaan, Mabitac, Paete, Pakil, Santa Maria,
Siniloan) and Batangas (Balayan, Calaca, Calatagan,
Lian, Nasugbu, Tuy, Agoncillo, Laurel, Lemery, Santa Teresita, San Luis, San Nicolas, Taal, Balete, Talisay, Tanauan, Malvar)

Minor:
Tarlac, Nueva Ecija, Quezon, Batangas (Alitagtag, Batangas City, Bauan, Cuenca, Ibaan, Lipa, Lobo, Mabini, Mataasnakahoy, Padre Garcia, Rosario, San Jose, San Juan, San Pascual, Santo Tomas, Taysan, Tingloy) and Laguna (Alaminos, Bay, Cabuyao,
Calauan, Calamba, Santa Rosa, Liliw, Los Banos, Luisiana, Magdalena, Majayjay, Nagcarlan, Pagsanjan, Pila, Rizal, San Pablo, Victoria, Cavinti)

AFFECTED AREAS TOMORROW (AUGUST 18)

Severe:
Metro Manila, Pampanga (Lubao, Floridablanca, Sasmuan, Macabebe, Masantol), Bataan(Abucay, Balanga,
Severe Dinalupihan, Hermosa, Limay, Orani, Orion,
Pilar, Samal), Bulacan (Hagonoy, Paombong, Malolos, Bulakan, Obando, Meycauayan, Marilao, Bocaue, Balagtas, Guiguinto, Calumpit), Cavite (Bacoor, Imus, Kawit, Noveleta, Cavite City, Rosario, Tanza, Naic) and Rizal(Rodriguez, San Mateo, Cainta, Taytay)

Significant:

Zambales, Tarlac, Nueva Ecija, Bataan (Bagac, Mariveles, Morong), Bulacan (Angat, Baliuag, Bustos, San Jose

del Monte, Dona Remedios Trinidad, Norzagaray, Pandi, Plaridel, Pulilan, San Ildefonso, San Miguel, San Rafael, Santa Maria), Pampanga (Apalit, Arayat, Bacolor, Candaba, San Fernando, Magalang, Mexico, Minalin, San Luis, San Simon, Santa Ana, Santo Tomas, Angeles, Mabalacat, Guagua, Porac, Santa Rita), Cavite (Alfonso, Amadeo, General Trias, General Emilio Aguinaldo, Indang, Magallanes, Maragondon, Mendez, Silang, Tagaytay, Ternate, Trece Martires, Carmona, Dasmarinas, Gen. Mariano Alvarez), Laguna (Santa Cruz, Binan, San Pedro, Lumban, Pangil, Famy, Kalayaan, Mabitac, Paete, Pakil, Santa Maria, Siniloan), Batangas (Balayan, Calaca, Calatagan, Lian, Nasugbu, Tuy, Agoncillo, Laurel, Lemery, Santa Teresita, San Luis, San Nicolas, Taal, Balete, Talisay

Regional Weather Forecasting Center
National Capital Region - PAGASA Regional Services Division
Senator Miriam P. Defensor-Santiago Avenue
EWS
Brgy. Central, Quezon City 1100, Philippines
Tel. No.: (+632) 8284-0800 ext. 4805
Website: https://bagong.pagasa.dost.gov.ph

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Tania Arpa @taniaarpa.com · 18/04/2026

I’m just a girl. Standing in front of bag of vegetables and a bag of brown rice. Wondering how long after her medical test results she’ll be able to keep up this eating healthy thing.

A white plastic bag of leafy greens on top of a two-kilo bag of brown rice

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Tania Arpa @taniaarpa.com · 14/04/2026

Good morning it’s eat all the leftovers in the fridge before we cook/buy any more day #food #filipinoFood #PinoyFood

Breakfast spread: a plate of suman and a round dumpling, more suman in another plate, a transparent plastic container with assorted donuts in it, a mug of black coffee

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Tania Arpa @taniaarpa.com · 12/04/2026

The family’s lunch plans did not appeal to me so I stayed behind to make my own food and also enjoy some apple mangoes + alavar bagoong gata, both generously brought over from Zamboanga by my aunt. The mangoes were picked from one of the trees my mom planted decades ago.

A plate of sliced mangoes next to a bowl of bagoong gata mixed with soy sauce, with a small spoon

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Tania Arpa @taniaarpa.com · 09/04/2026

Cousin is back from the gym and she brought the street food my mom has been craving for days.

A plate of fried ngoyong, fried pork, fried squid rolls, fried siomai. Three small bowls of dip on the side.

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Tania Arpa @taniaarpa.com · 08/04/2026

Alavar sauce, we meet again.

Lunch spread, with a blue and white bowl of shrimp cooked in a reddish coconut sauce with spices. Beside it is a bowl of cucumber salad with onions.

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Tania Arpa @taniaarpa.com · 08/03/2026

Update: I won yarn chicken 😎 This is the Hyde Park Hat (designer: Michele DuNaier), non slouch version. It’s my absolute favorite crochet hat pattern.

Blue crocheted hat, finished. Beside it is the last of the skein of blue yarn used to make the hat.

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Tania Arpa @taniaarpa.com · 08/03/2026

Yarn chicken again I guess 🧶 #crochet

An almost finished crocheted hat in blue yarn, with only a few meters left in the skein. Pink crochet hook and stitch marker.

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Tania Arpa @taniaarpa.com · 05/03/2026

Huh www.thesslstore.com/blog/47-day-...

9:56
thessistore.com
TL;DR: A Breakdown of the Changes to Come Starting in March 2026
• The industry is moving toward shorter SSL certificate lifespans (i.e., 47 days). The goal of the ballot's phased reduction is to make the proposed changes "reasonable and attainable."
• Google originally proposed 90-day validity.
Apple said, "hold my beer" and proposed half the lifespan (45 days), but the negotiated validity period ultimately settled on 47 days. (Check out the FAQs at the end of the article to learn more about the changes in certificate validity periods over the years.)
• The certificate lifespan reductions will be implemented in phases:
• ~6 months (starting March 2026),
• ~3 months (starting March 2027), and
• 1.5 months (starting March 2029)
• The amount of time you can reuse validation data will be reduced starting March 15, 2026. This applies to both your organization's subject identity validation data and your domain's validation data.
• Certificates will need to be renewed more often. This increases the need for automation for organizations.
• These shorter validity certificates won't cost you anything extra. TheSSLstore.com

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Tania Arpa @taniaarpa.com · 14/02/2026

The International Criminal Court names Duterte’s alleged “co-perpetrators” in the charges against him. I love this for all of them 🥰 And us! Happy Valentine’s Day, Philippines!

/@Philstarnews graphic

ICC NAMES DUTERTE'S ALLEGED
'CO-PERPETRATORS' IN CHARGES

(Names with photos)
Sen. Bato dela Rosa
Former PNP Chief

Sen. Bong Go
Former Special Assistant

Vitaliano Aguirre III
Former Justice Secretary

Vicente Danao
Former PNP Chief

Isidro Lapeña
Former PDEA Chief

Oscar Albayalde
Former NCRPO and PNP Chief

Dante Gierran
Former NBI Director

Camilo Cascolan
Former NCRPO
Regional Director

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Tania Arpa @taniaarpa.com · 08/02/2026

Requisite shot of the Musselburgh stretched out to show the two different colors of the hat.

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Tania Arpa @taniaarpa.com · 08/02/2026

Not the first #Musselburgh hat i started but it’s the first one I’ve finished. At times I worried it was too tight, then I worried it was too loose. But Ysolda T. was right — one must trust the pattern. It fits perfectly, as it turns out. #knitting #hats 🧶

A knitted double-layered beanie in green with the beige brim turned up.

The same knitted double-layered beanie with the beige out and the brim in green.

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Tania Arpa @taniaarpa.com · 23/01/2026

Who needs breakfast when you have knitting. 🧶

Overhead shot of a knitting work in progress (a beanie with lime green yarn) lying on a black keyboard, beside a black teacup and saucer containing coffee with milk

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Tania Arpa @taniaarpa.com · 14/01/2026

Attempting my first Musselburgh hat. I really should’ve used a heavier yarn because the cast on nearly made me cross eyed.

A knitting project, currently just a square of fabric on four double pointed needles. The yarn is a mango orange, there’s a white stitch marker to mark the start of the round.

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Tania Arpa @taniaarpa.com · 02/01/2026

Amazingly, I have improved upon my social media short bio. I dunno why it did not occur to me earlier to swap out “thinker” for “knitter”.

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Tania Arpa @taniaarpa.com · 16/12/2025

I knitted three dice bags and I don’t even play DND. I had to! The pattern was so cute! 🧶 They’re made with brioche honeycomb stitch in two colors, with an icord, uh, cord. (Yes I’m obsessed with brioche knitting right now.)

A knitted dice bag in grey and white yarn, fastened shut with a cord knotted into a ribbon.

Two knitted dice bags, one in pink and cream yarn, the other in dark green and white yarn. Each is fastened shut with a cord knotted into a ribbon.

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Tania Arpa @taniaarpa.com · 12/12/2025

Finished knitting the second book sleeve today. 🧶 I’m low-key obsessed with this design 😂

Two knitted book sleeves. One in green-grey yarn with a round beige button and one in pink, orange and cream with a purple button

Closeup of two book sleeves, each containing one paperback

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Tania Arpa @taniaarpa.com · 08/12/2025

I’m using the Brave browser btw.

Screenshot of coveryourtracks.eff.org
Our tests indicate that you have strong protection against
Web tracking.
IS YOUR BROWSER:
Blocking tracking ads?
Yes
Blocking invisible trackers?
Yes
Protecting you from fingerprinting?
✅your browser has a randomized fingerprint

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Tania Arpa @taniaarpa.com · 06/12/2025

As you can see, I don’t block very often so I need the practice. 🧶 This was made from the Darling Dishcloths pattern, free to download from the Herrschners website— herrschners.com/darling-dish...

A red knitted dishcloth pinned on a flat piece of blocking foam

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Tania Arpa @taniaarpa.com · 04/12/2025

In my defense, this was the first time I did the I-cord bind off.

My hand holding up the knitted book sleeve, the i-cord bind off is a work in progress.

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Tania Arpa @taniaarpa.com · 04/12/2025

I think I made the i-cord edge of the opening a tad tight oops. My tension was just all over the place, but it’s nothing a good wet block won’t fix I think. All in all, I’m happy with the pattern. Will definitely make it again. 🧶

Knitted book sleeve, grey-green and yellow yarn, beige button, i-cord strap

Knitted book sleeve, grey-green and yellow yarn, beige button. A romance paperback is halfway inside.

Knitted book sleeve, grey-green and yellow yarn, beige button, i-cord strap. It contains a paperback, and fastened shut.

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Tania Arpa @taniaarpa.com · 04/12/2025

Obsessed with knitting book sleeves again! 🧶

A knit work in progress with double pointed needles lying on the keyboard attached to an iPad. The screen displays the pattern for “Bee book sleeve”. Photo is black and white.

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Tania Arpa @taniaarpa.com · 22/11/2025

Playing yarn chicken again.

A knit project with the needles still on. Brown yarn for a small scarf.

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Tania Arpa @taniaarpa.com · 31/10/2025

Affinity/Canva still hasn’t fixed the typo on their website. Catalina is MacOS 10.15, not MacOS 15 (which is Sequoia). I was able to install it on my MacBook which was running on Sonoma (MacOS 14).

Desktop
MacOS
Supported macOS versions: macOS 15 (Catalina) or later

Chip support: Works natively on both Apple silicon (M1, M2, M3, M4, M5) and Intel Macs
Device types: MacBook, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, iMac, Mac mini,
Mac Studio, Mac Pro

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Tania Arpa @taniaarpa.com · 27/09/2025

Sign-Up: bit.ly/decrimnetwor... Email pinsancoordinator@gmail.com if you’re interested to join the launch on Monday, September 29 #ReproductiveRights

Pinsan
PHILIPPINE SAFE ABORTION
ADVOCACY NETWORK

LAUNCHING OF THE DECRIMINALIZE ABORTION NETWORK
September 29, 2025
Metro Manila

Illustration of people marching holding up signs:
REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE FOR ALL
DECRIMINALIZE ABORTION NOW

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Tania Arpa @taniaarpa.com · 20/08/2025

I just discovered the two holes on the side of my phone's jelly case so I did up a makeshift charm ring and now I'm ready to slay vampires.

The side of a phone on a phone stand, showing three steel charms hanging from an elastic black cord: a stake, a head of garlic, a crucifix

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Tania Arpa @taniaarpa.com · 03/07/2025

Putting this sticker here where it will probably be covered by the case lol

An iPad on a stand on a desk facing away from the camera. There’s a sticker in the center of the back that’s a blue/purple gradient background on which is printed the word

“hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahapakyu”

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Tania Arpa @taniaarpa.com · 25/06/2025

Lunch today was chicken pianggang at Dennis Coffee Garden 😋😋 #FilipinoFood #TausugFood

A plate of chicken pianggang beside a separate plate of rice wrapped in coconut leaves.

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Tania Arpa @taniaarpa.com · 25/05/2025

Every day, I take a random sticker (I close my eyes and peel one off) and stick it in my bullet journal daily log page. Sticker sets from @thecreativejournal.bsky.social

An open notebook with blank pages. On the left page is a sticker with the text "people who stop your growth do not belong in your garden". the notebook are sticker sheets of motivational/inspirational phrases. To the left is a plate of sliced ripe mangoes. On the top is a pink keyboard.

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Tania Arpa @taniaarpa.com · 10/05/2025

I knit book sleeves/cozies for all my journals because I don’t want them to be cold. 🧶

An A6 notebook inside a pink and purple knitted sleeve, sitting on top of a bigger A5 journal with a black hard cover, on a wooden desk, behind which is a pink computer keyboard.

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Tania Arpa @taniaarpa.com · 26/04/2025

I was going through my old journals and found this entry from 2020 I made a couple of months before the lockdown. Taal volcano was the reason some of us already had masks by the time the pandemic had been declared. #journaling

2020.01.13 - 12:07 am

Taal volcano spewed steam and ash today.

Apparently, it's not an eruption — yet. But it's on alert no. 4, which means it may erupt anytime now. Or it may not. Even scientists can't be sure.

There's ash everywhere now. Batangas, Tagaytay, Metro Manila. I can't see it but but we saw some on the car. I was

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Tania Arpa @taniaarpa.com · 05/02/2025

We thought this was lovely

Yellow flowers in funeral wreath but in the shape of the socialist symbol hammer and sickle. The ribbon says “condolences from Partido Ng Manggagawa”

*eng: The Workers’ Party

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Tania Arpa @taniaarpa.com · 04/02/2025

I’m sure they’re not hiding anything.

MANILA — The House committees investigating fake news and disinformation in the country on Tuesday issued show cause orders against resource persons who skipped its first hearing over various excuses.

House to begin probe on fake news, disinformation; at least 40 social media personalities invited
Only 3 out of the 41 invited social media personalities attended Tuesday's probe, according to the committee secretary, and majority of them simply sent their excuse letters.

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Tania Arpa @taniaarpa.com · 02/02/2025

This is the ink I used. I don’t know if it’s the same ink found in the cartridge that comes with Pilot fountain pens. I like it a lot and it’s particularly good with pens using extra fine nibs, which I usually have ink flow problems with when i use them with western inks

Pilot black fountain pen ink and the box it’s packaged in

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Tania Arpa @taniaarpa.com · 02/02/2025

Basic Pilot black fountain pen ink passes my water resistance test whew

Inside a blue-green plastic ice cream tub, some water and a small piece of paper floating in it. On the piece of paper are some scribblings with black fountain pen ink redacted with yellow markup. The writing is still clear and readable and barely washed out despite being left in the water for an hour.

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Tania Arpa @taniaarpa.com · 17/01/2025

I can’t even tell you if it’s good pastillas as I don’t eat much of it, all I know is it’s yummy and I can’t stop eating it. Made with carabao milk 🐃🐃🐃

Closeup of a plastic food container of pastillas de leche. Label includes the names and numbers of people to contact to buy

J'S MOICO HOMEMADE

PASTILLAS DE LECHE

JONATHAN 0931-092-2223

MARIS 0976-017-0761

JENIFER 0976-023-0107

CHINNIE 0976-103-7850

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Tania Arpa @taniaarpa.com · 17/01/2025

A trip to the food stalls in the grocery level of Shangrila mall is always a good idea. Not shown: frozen chicken embutido which I had to pop in the freezer

A transparent plastic container of rice cake (biko), another one containing 20 pastillas de leche, a cardboard takeout box with slices of kimbap, some mandu, glass noodles

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Tania Arpa @taniaarpa.com · 15/01/2025

I hate that the electric company which I have to deal with is trying to get me to download an app why does everything have to be an app guys my phone is full

A text message time stamped 9.31 am

Happy New Year. We noticed you haven't migrated yet to the new My Meralco app. It's so easy, just download the My Meralco app via IOS Appstore, Google Playstore or Huawei App Gallery now.

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Tania Arpa @taniaarpa.com · 12/01/2025

TIL I was part of a global record-breaking event 👀

Screenshot of a Wikipedia page for World Youth Day

Highlighted text:
The 1995 World Youth Day closing Mass in the Philippines set a world record for the largest number of people gathered for a single religious event with 5 million attendees.

The rest of the paragraph reads thus:
This record was surpassed when 6 million attended a Mass celebrated by Pope Francis—again in the Philippines—20 years later in 2015.

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Tania Arpa @taniaarpa.com · 25/12/2024

Testing the new knitted cup cozies on an iced coffee cup 🧶 this one's actually the perfect height, I was worried I didn't make it big enough for my hand.

Hand holding a plastic cup of iced coffee, with a pink knitted cup cozy around it.

A plastic cup of iced coffee with a bamboo straw stuck in it, a pink knitted cup cozy wrapped around it. Under the cup is a blue knitted coaster. Behind the coffee is a colorful printed plate on which are cinnamon buns.

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Tania Arpa @taniaarpa.com · 24/12/2024

Hey does anyone know what time it is—

A hand holding up a narrow yellow plastic packaged bite-sizes ice cream. The label says “BITES TIME!”

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