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As was our custom, we children asked for just one gift from Santa which we could all share. This particular year, we agreed to ask Santa for a wagon.

Naturally, washi tape has hit Etsy as well, and as you can imagine, some Etsy sellers are taking washi tape pretty seriously. Etsy shop MechaKucha808 is another fun way to add to your arsenal.

I’ve found that writing dates and/or headers in pretty colors is an easy way to make your journal look way more artistic and fancy.

Pour 50ml over lots of ice in the largest wine glass you can find and stir through 50ml of juice squeezed from a mandarin.

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.”

A bow in the hair calls to mind Renoir’s painting of the girls at the piano. (In fact, there’s a font of old paintings featuring girls at pianos wearing bows; see also interpretations by Berthe Morisot and François Gall.) Alice in Wonderland’s blue satin, Shirley Temple’s teeny headband, Dorothy’s pert pigtails in The Wizard of Oz. A bow is so child-like, though the bow does not come from the child. It’s an adult trying to make a little girl look her best; childhood as imposed by adults.

Head to the craft store or dollar store. Besides a glue gun and lots of glue sticks, you’ll need about 12 big stalks of flowers, in your chosen colour scheme. The bloggers went for a very on-trend ombre pink. A sheet of styrofoam, a knife to cut it, a couple of cup hooks, some clear fishing line, balsa wood and glitter paper. 

42. Watch "Elf" – This quirky movie makes us laugh every time we watch it. We love Buddy’s take on the four basic food groups: Candy, Candy Canes, Candy Corn, and Syrup!

Straws at least serve a unique purpose. Some people with disabilities need them for drinking liquids; and while there are plenty of non-plastic straw substitutes out there, the options haven’t been perfected. Paper straws and similar biodegradable options may be too flimsy for people with limited jaw mobility, for example, NPR reported.

With just three weeks to go until the big day, time is fast running out to find the ultimate Christmas gift for the women in your life.

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.

in an oversize gray suit with feathery trim along the sleeves and pant leg at the American Ballet Theater Fall Gala in N.Y.C.