With our friends on the East Coast burrowed in during what could be the biggest blizzard of the past century, a weekend of tea drinking and reading lies ahead. Keep company with a few of our favorites from the past week:
Photograph by childishToy via Flickr.
Getting our attention this week: how to soothe a cranky neighbor with your garden.
Remember your favorite book from childhood, except you forgot the title (and most of the plot) and now you're trying to track it down? Here's help.
It's feels a little drafty in here, doesn't it? No need to put up with that; 5 Tricks to Stay Toasty (while saving money). Photograph via Bag of Plenty.
Captivating as an uber-DIY, but definitely not your grandmother's crochet. (Well, at least not ours; your grandmother may have been rather taken with wire sculpture for all we know.)
Some people are unfazed by snow, except they aren't really people per se. Photograph by Kendra Wilson.
World's best snow brush for your car (in case you missed it earlier this week).
Above: Our Brooklyn correspondent Erin Boyle is hunkered down (in style). Money-saving tip of the week: put the scented candle on the radiator but don't light it.
Above: Does pinning count as reading? There are captions. Sometimes.
OK, Roots cookbook, 225 recipes. Our friend Sarah Horowitz swears by the Beet and Avocado Salsa with Blood Oranges but we're thinking it's turnip season.
What gave Facebook the idea that I am obsessed with these boots?
I think a 27-inch high sofa is perfectly comfortable to curl up on with a book and a cup of tea. Or am I kidding myself? Photograph by Mimi Giboin.
Seeded popovers. Preheating oven to 425.