A Thing Or Two We’re Doing Besides Having An Organza Extravaganza

Some design-y Thingies—and a passionate case for microwaving—are coming at you this week on our podcast episode with Monica Khemsurov and Jill Singer, authors of the impressively service-y (and, duh, gifty) book How to Live with Objects. If you could use some more of our book picks right about now, they’re all logged right over here. 

erica’s things

• Browsing honey by NYC neighborhood of origin. (See also: an L.A. take that’s *really* something else.)
   

• Carving out an afternoon between now and the end of the year to consume episode after episode of We’re Here. 
   

• Brainstorming where I could carry what feels almost like a special-occasion Baggu.
   

• Awaiting the opportunity to sew on a button with flourish.

claire’s things

• Worrying that this is not getting enough attention in general, but especially not enough credit for how funny it is.
   

• Responding to my child’s unquenchable thirst for more, more, more seasonal decorations with the nostalgia of paper chains.
   

• Awarding a destination-sandwich badge to this place—the herring sandwich specifically, but I’ve got my eyes on the anchovy one, too.  
   

• ID’ing yet another strong entry to the burgeoning category of pretty toilet-paper holders.
   

• Nominating chai as your alt holiday scent for when all that pine starts to feel a little cloying. Quite cozy, quite cinnamon-y.