Wrapping paper, ribbon should go in the trash; cards and cookie tins can be recycled | Home and Garden | Necklace Box

Don’t settle for a drab plastic spice rack. Instead, use washi tape to add a pop of pattern in a hue that suits your kitchen’s colour scheme.

Comfortable, super-soft and super-stylish, the Edie jumper has relaxed dropped shoulders and a chunky rolled neckline for a laid-back look. With a Fair Isle pattern on a grey background it’s super easy to style, and so comfy she’ll never want to take it off.

Just got these beauties for my table. Two days till Fall. Can you tell I’m excited? #fallidays #falllover #holidayjunkie

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It started with a black grosgrain ribbon that came as part of the packaging for something I’d gotten online. It was raining and my curly hair had frizzed up to the texture of cotton candy. I gathered up the hair that framed my face and tied it back with the ribbon in a messy bow to wear around my apartment. It was more comfortable than a hair tie—and maybe kind of chic? It became a habit to leave the house with a bow affixed jauntily atop my head, first just to walk my dog, but, soon after, for going out to dinner dates and parties. To my mind, the effect is sort of punk, like a stylish, dissolute member of an 18th-century royal court. Or maybe Courtney Love.

I did get that doll. Several years later, we had to move so Dad could build the skating rink, and my beautiful doll was “lost in action.”

The Recycle Your Holidays program, sponsored by the Recycling Association of Minnesota, enables residents to drop off their old and unwanted light strands at participating locations.

The chef on your list can travel the world without leaving the kitchen. Prepare a delicious holiday meal with the recipes featured in “King Solomon’s Table: A Culinary Exploration of Jewish Cooking From Around the World” by James Beard Award-winning cookbook writer Joan Nathan.

Founded by an elite runner in 2013, The RunnerBox is on a mission to introduce athletes to the best products while simultaneously promoting and supporting active lifestyles. Delivered every other month, the box comes packed with 11-14 hand-picked items tested by a team of athletes.

Jane Austen’s beloved classic “Pride and Prejudice” gets a modern twist in “Ayesha At Last” by Uzma Jalaluddin. In Jalaluddin’s novel, protagonist Elizabeth Bennet becomes beautiful, outspoken Ayesha Shamsi, who dreams of becoming a poet, not a wife.

On average, clients spend between £8,000 and £15,000 on their Christmas trimmings, but some splurge as much as £40,000 to have the inside and outside of their homes transformed with festive sparkle

Very low on the flirty scale, unless combined with other emojis to make its meaning more clear. I mean, this is also the face you make when looking at a really good plate of nachos. KaeLyn calls it a “universal emoji,” noting that “friends or sexy friends or crushes or my partner might all receive this from me…in the same day even.”