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Pumpkins just make me so happy! It’s Friday!!!!! #weekendvibes #workhardandgetdoneearly #falllover #holidayjunkie

Counting down the days until Christmas becomes a celebration in itself with Aldi’s wine and cheese Advent calendars. The calendars, featuring 24 mini bottles of wine or blocks of cheese behind a little door to open each day, are available in select Aldi stores in the U.S. for the first time this year.

This morning, two days after the burglary, she also noticed her laptop was taken from inside a Mona Lisa bag that her sister bought her from Paris. 

Cute Tape is another online retailer who sells hundreds of washi tape options. These Days of the Week Washi Tape ($4 per roll) are popular for scrapbooking projects or even making a DIY calendar for your home! And at under $5 each, you can easily pick up all three colors without breaking the bank.

Competing for $50 during the event, which kicks off at 8 p.m., will be 10 slam poets. Organizers pick audience members to score the performances, using white boards and markers. So you might get to help pick the winner. Tickets are $10 at the door. Visit the Lawn Gnome Publishing website. Lynn Trimble

Ideas for this garland have been floating around since before Christmas and, like a good wreath, can be colour-adapted to just about any occasion. I just tried it and it is super-easy, cheap and fun!

To paraphrase Harry Connick Jr., the time to kick the tires and light the fires is 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, July 4, at both Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Chandler, 4955 South Chandler Avenue, and Tempe, 1140 East Baseline Road. Admission is $7.55. For more information, visit the Alamo Drafthouse website. Jason Keil

Take a leaf out of the Duchess of Cornwall’s book with skincare guru Deborah Mitchell’s pioneering bee sting range. A kit that contains the large signature heaven products to get the desired effect of the heaven bee sting facial.

To make these lighters, wrap your washi tape twice around the top section of your lighter, cut the tape at the back of the lighter, wrap twice again right below where the width of your first wrap ends, and continue until you’ve covered the length of the lighter. You can cut the washi tape widthwise on the final wrap if it’s too long as-is.

Pro tip: Washi tape isn’t always the stickiest, so anchor the end of your tape at the back of your lighter with a few dots of glue for added security.

Border patrols and Homeland Security: 54,000 border patrol employees and 53,000 Immigration and Customs Enforcement employees would continue working through a shutdown, though with their pay delayed.

Walter Benn, a city employee at the Cobbs Recycling Center, takes a shopping cart full of cardboard boxes to a compactor as Christmas gift bags and boxes wait to be recycled.