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Everything a Cold Night In Asks For
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items Light a candle first. Then pull on something soft, put the kettle on, and let the evening slow down on its own. Everything here is for the hours between dinner and sleep: warm light, warm layers, warm drinks, and one good reason to stay on the sofa a...
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Warm Light and Warm Smells
Warm Layers
Warm Sips and Slow Hours
Warm Light and Warm Smells
Candles, wax melts, and fairy lights: the glow that tells the evening it has started.
The first candle I light when the evenings turn cool. A big 22 oz jar with up to 150 hours of burn time, and the scent is all orchard and harvest. It makes the whole room smell like October, even in November.
Yankee Candle Harvest Scented Candle 22oz
This one goes on the moment the tree is up, or honestly the week before. A 22 oz jar with the same long burn time, a premium plant wax blend and a natural fiber wick, and a scent that smells like a house on Christmas Eve should. Red wax, Santa on the...
Yankee Candle Christmas Eve Scented 22oz
Lavender and thyme, in a soft blue frosted jar that looks calm before you even light it. Soy wax with essential oils, about 50 hours of burn, and the kind of scent that belongs in the last hour before bed. My pick for the nightstand, not the living r...
Chesapeake Bay Candle Serenity + Calm Medium
For the nights when a flame feels like too much. Eighteen melts in three packs of six, balsam and cedar wood with juniper berry, and they go in any wax warmer. Flameless, so the scent is there and the worry is not.
Yankee Candle Balsam & Cedar Wax Melts, 18 Count
Thirty-three feet of warm white globe lights, a hundred of them, with eight modes and a remote. Plug them in, drape them over a shelf or a headboard, and the whole room changes. Waterproof too, so the porch is fair game.
JMEXSUSS 33ft 100 LED Warm White Fairy Lights
Warm Layers
Blankets, slippers, socks, and a robe: the soft things you reach for the moment the sun goes down.
Fifty by sixty inches of sherpa fleece in a herringbone pattern, grey on one side and plush white on the other. Light enough to drag from sofa to bed, warm enough to stay put. Machine washable, which matters when it lives on the sofa all winter.
Bedsure Sherpa Fleece Throw Blanket Grey 50x60
The slipper that ends the barefoot-on-cold-floor season. Sheepskin and UGGpure wool lining, chestnut suede outside, and the kind of slip-on you reach for without thinking.
UGG Women's Scuffette II Slipper, Chestnut
Seven pairs of fleece-lined slipper socks in candy colors, sized for shoe sizes six to ten. Thick, fluffy, and the sort of thing you buy once and then buy again as a gift. One pair by the bed, one pair by the sofa, the rest wherever feet get cold.
Clothirily Fuzzy Fleece-Lined Socks, 7 Pairs
A queen-size heated blanket, ninety by eighty-four inches, with twelve heat settings and a twelve-hour auto shut-off. It heats fast, it washes in the machine, and it turns a cold bed into the warmest spot in the house before you even get in.
Sunbeam Royal Ultra Fleece Heated Blanket Queen
The wearable one. A double-layer blanket hoodie, plush sherpa inside and smooth microfiber outside, with a giant front pocket and a hood that actually stays up. One oversized size, machine washable, and it covers everything the throw on the sofa cann...
THE COMFY Original Sherpa Wearable Blanket Hoodie
Warm Sips and Slow Hours
Cocoa, tea, a tumbler that keeps it warm, a puzzle, and a bath: the slow end of the day.
Fifty little envelopes of milk chocolate cocoa, one point three eight ounces each, and all they need is hot water. No fuss, no pan to wash, just a proper mug of chocolate in two minutes. The box to keep by the kettle all winter.
Swiss Miss Milk Chocolate Hot Cocoa Mix, 50-Count
A hundred and twenty individually wrapped bags across six flavors: Classic Green, Lemon, Pomegranate, Mint, Peach, and Constant Comment Green. Enough variety that nobody gets bored, and enough bags that the box lasts past the coldest weeks. Green tea...
Bigelow Green Tea Variety Pack, 120 Bags
A twenty ounce stainless steel tumbler, vacuum insulated, with a MagSlider lid and a stackable shape. It keeps cocoa hot from the kitchen to the sofa and halfway through a puzzle. The kind of cup that survives being knocked over by a blanket.
YETI Rambler 20oz Stackable Tumbler Stainless
A thousand pieces of a Charles Wysocki Christmas scene, finished size about twenty-six by twenty inches. Precision cut, holiday collection, and the sort of puzzle that takes over the coffee table for a week. Best with cocoa in the tumbler and the lig...
Buffalo Games Christmas Greeting 1000pc Puzzle
Sixty-two and a half ounces of foaming bath with Pure Epsom Salt, lavender for Soothe and Sleep. Long-lasting bubbles, paraben-free and phthalate-free, cruelty-free and vegan. Pour it in, lock the door, and let the day wash off.
Dr Teal's Foaming Bath Epsom Salt Lavender 62.5oz