My grandma is the best … she sent me a hat! I told her she could knit me one for Christmas, but since she hadn’t yet learned how to do that and didn’t want me to be cold she bought one instead And though it’s supposedly made for skiers and snowboarders and snow-loving mountain-obsessed people, it also works great for those who are always cold (like me) … I’m still wearing it

I got the cutest Banana Republic catalog in the mail: they had it laid out as a series of fairytale, happy-ending, “true” holiday stories that make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Yeah the models were all wearing BR clothes and the stories were interrupted with pages and prices, but I still thought it was a really neat idea. See the online version here.