Love: My friend Lisa's idea, from her blog Picnic, for inexpensive, stylish present wrapping: brown paper bag + binder clip + any wintery Instagram picture. This is especially brilliant for people like myself whose presents tend to look like they were wrapped by a small child, or perhaps even an animal lacking opposable thumbs.
Like: This always reliable, always delicious Smoked Salmon Dip from Bon Appetit, for any holiday cocktail party.
Discovery: Some of my favorite gift ideas for the year...
For the geek, any (all?) of these Star Wars prints from etsy's CONCEPCIONSTUDIOS.
For ladies/readers, these lovely versions of the chick canon, sold at Anthropologie.
For the entertainer, monogrammed cocktail napkins from Mark & Graham, in the typewriter font.
For me (hopefully), some new rain gear: a Pendleton umbrella and L.L. Bean Maine hunting boots, based on their original 1912 model.
Complaint: Stella's, not mine: that we only have "totally, completely not-exciting" strands of white lights decorating the trees in front of our house. She is deeply disappointed that we haven't gone full Christmas Wonderland like the houses on Alameda's Thompson Ave, who've been putting on a show every December since 1938 (save for during World War II mandatory blackouts), and where we went to walk around and mail her Santa letter last weekend. For my part, I'm glad that other people go for it, so I don't have to.
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