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Great Gifts Kids Can Make – Special Replay Are you ready for the just for kids series? Here are some great gifts kids can make! And for cheap. The holidays are coming soon and you may be thinking about what to buy people in your family. Well, it is time to think about this and to be on the lookout for the things people really need. Here are some more great podcasts for gifts kids can make! Gifts Kids Make DIY Christmas Gifts Thanksgiving Crafts Gifts Especially for Mom I’m going to give you some great ideas about the things...

For eco-minded cooks and kitchen accessory lovers, here’s a shortlist of our current favorite designs: useful, well-made and good-looking items that we predict will instantly be put to use. Above: One of the most coveted items in our just-published book,  Remodelista: The Low-Impact Home, is this Wool Dish Drying Mat by the Sonoma Wool Company. It’s shown here in our cover kitchen, a passive house conversion by CO Adaptive Architecture. The mat is handmade in the US from American wool supplied by family ranches. It absorbs up to 30 percent of its weight in moisture, is naturally mildew and mold...

Our editors independently select the products we recommend. We may earn a commission on items bought through our links. Holidays have a way of creeping up on you. One minute it’s Halloween, and the next, it’s Christmas. Before you know it, your post-Christmas White Elephant Party has come and gone and you’re buying flowers for Valentine’s Day. But no matter the occasion, the SPY team is here doing our best to help you get ahead in the gift-giving game.  We’re always hard at work creating gift guides for everyone on your shopping list. We’ve got everything from a luxury gift...

  1. Lucalda Stainless Steel Bento Box, Set of 2 Small Metal Lunch Containers with Bamboo Lid Japanese Bento Box for Kids Stainless Steel Snack Food Containers for School/ Work Lunch Packing Metal Bento box 450ml Keep your food freshthe small kids metal lunch box with bamboo lid can be turned over and used as a tray The smooth and environmentally friendly bamboo cover and elastic band with silicone ring provide double protection for the food and the sealing is good keeping your food fresh Practical and compact small space152oz450ml small metal lunch containers easy to clean can be used...

Over the course of Villa Albertine’s Proust Weekend, a series of talks, workshops, and readings celebrating the forthcoming English translation of the last volume of the Recherche and the centenary of Proust’s death, I ate more cakes per diem than usual: on Sunday afternoon, a miniature pistachio financier, a Lego-shaped and moss-textured cake that reminded me of the enormous chartreuse muffins at my college cafeteria; on Saturday morning, a crisp, disc-like, almond-sliver-sprinkled shortbread cookie with a hole, which reminded me of a Chinese coin; and, on Friday night, at a holiday party, a dish of Reddi-wip and sour cream studded...