Fashion
by Sarah Western Balzer (RSS feed) - 5 months ago
When I was a child, there was nothing as fun as going shopping with my father for my mother's gift on Christmas Eve Day. Invariably, we'd end up at the handbag or fine jewellery counter at Burdine's ('the Florida store').
Financial Markets
5 months ago
Christmas seems to get flagged up earlier and earlier each year, and so do the cancellation of corporate Christmas bashes.
You've heard of forget-me-nots, but the TickleMe plant is definitely more memorable -- this perennial herb, a.k.a. the touch-me-not, folds its leaves when you tickle it: • $14 ($28 value) for two TickleMe plant grow kits • Plant responds to touch by folding its leaves, then unfurls them when you stop • Recommended for ages 5 and up What You Get Perfect for party favors or just keeping kids entertained, each kit contains a mini reusable greenhouse made of recycled plastic plastic (5" x 3" x 2.
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Sound Off
by Sarah Western Balzer (RSS feed) - 5 months ago
I've sent out Christmas cards every year of my adult life. But this year, I don't think I can be bothered.
Food & Drink
by Madame B (RSS feed) - 5 months ago
Two years ago we ran an article from The Guardian on making the perfect mulled wine. The recipe is so good that it's worth revisiting every December.
Fashion
by The Guardian (RSS feed) - 6 months ago
This year, I'm spending Christmas with my friend India and her large extended family.
WowFinancial Markets
6 months ago
What more tasteful way is there to celebrate the birth of Jesus than with an obscenely expensive and extravagant advent calendar, designed by Porsche of course.
Fashion
by The Guardian (RSS feed) - 6 months ago
It could be the lure of being closer to Santa's home turf, or perhaps just a desire for simplicity and homeliness at a time of economic stress, but swaths of Britons appear to be abandoning local traditions this Christmas in favour of Scandinavian customs.
Fashion
by The Guardian (RSS feed) - 6 months ago
The process of compiling a Christmas gift guide is arduous. No really, bear with me here. There are endless press releases to scour, sites to browse, gift suggestions to evaluate all so that your shopping is made that bit easier. OK so you have no sympathy whatsoever, do you? Sorry.
Food & Drink
by The Guardian (RSS feed) - 6 months ago
"Ilove it," Claude Bosi tells me. "It's just fantastic." We're drinking early-morning coffees in the understated dining room of Hibiscus, Bosi's two-Michelin-starred restaurant in Mayfair, and the 40-year-old chef is being effusive about the culinary joys of Christmas. What's curious is that he's not talking about the sophisticated gourmet traditions that bring families together during the festive period in his native Lyon, the great food capital of France. No, what Bosi has in mind is the common-or-garden British Christmas, with turkey and ham and all the trimmings, plum pudding and a big, boozy sherry trifle.