I have got to rewatch Cleopatra with power couple Elizabeth Taylor and Robert Burton. Elizabeth as Cleopatra is all kinds of fly — those baby bangs! That eyeliner! Golden wings! The costume design is nothing short of jaw-dropping, if not completely historically accurate (but who cares when it looks this good?). Now I just need some more asp and cobra iconography for my apartment — or a snake tattoo…

Definitely a new tattoo. More on that to come!

If you’d asked me in my gap-toothed younger years about my career aspirations, you’d receive one shrill reply: “Egyptologist!” (And maybe anthropologist. Writing was not yet a twinkle in my eye.) I occupied myself with musings on canopic jars, naming my dolls after mythological gods of the dead, and mummifying a deceased mouse I found in my basement.

Read about all my morbid habits and Egyptian obsessions on the Etsy Blog. (Lots of great Egyptian-inspired goodies, too!)

P.S. It’s so good to be back blogging again. That hiatus was killing me.