For You, My January Recommendations

A superb gluten-free bread, new notebook mania (!!), the cleaning product that makes me feel like I'm RICH, two cool lamps I really want + what I wore to my mammogram 😎.

Hi, gang…how are we all easing into 2024? January can be a very moody month, so if you’re feeling tender and need to hole up a bit while you nest and hibernate, by all means, please do so. My friend reminded me not too long ago that flowering plants and trees can’t survive unless they go to sleep for a few months every year. And wouldn’t that be nice…to have a designated month JUST for sleeping/resting/being quiet…oh, do Sign Me Up.

Hibernation station…one of my Raffi’s favorite books for bedtime, Chipmunk at Hollow Tree Lane. Chipmunk knows how to do winter.

In other news, I got my annual mammogram this week. Ever since I had a not-so-great one right before Raffi was born (it led to a lumpectomy, but everything turned out OK), they always fill me with some level of dread. So, I’ve really had to train myself to be upbeat (documented in the changing room below), and remind myself that it’s not just a day I’m getting a mammogram, but a day that all these other wonderful, surprising things can happen, too. Like finding a pair of perfect vintage red-and-white linen kitchen towels at Vintage Thrift afterwards, which I did:)…❤️

Okay, enough yapping, on with the SHOW….

1. My New $15 Corduroy Cap. I found this unexpectedly last weekend at Front General Store in Dumbo, and I’ve been wearing it nonstop (it’s come in quite handy with all the weird wet weather we’ve been having). Here’s a link to camel-colored one and I like the black/brown one, too. Also I’m wild about this plush gold one from Madewell….CUTE.