‘Tis the season: Gift Guides are back (!)

This is my favorite time of year. And no, it's not because of the heaps of turkey and dressing coming down the pike. It's not the white lights starting to go up everywhere. It's not "Winter Wonderland" playing in stores or even the promise of my mom's red-velvet cake on the afternoon of December 25 (although, that one's a pretty close call).

This is the time when alllllll the magazines everywhere bust out their gift guides for the holidays--and ya'll, I LOVE a gift guide like nothin' else. Here are some quick ooh-I-want/need/covet-this picks from some of the best I've seen thus far:

New York Magazine

Bookshelf Book Cover Set, $9

Cardi-Vest with Mitten Pockets by Kico Kids, $98

Twill Briefcase by Jack Spade, $445

Travel + Leisure

Nudo extra virgin olive oil, $13.99

The Time Teller watch from Nixon, $55

The classic French cookbook I Know How to Cook by Ginette Mathiot, $29.70

Bon Appetit

Ice Bucket, $135, Available at Zinc Cafe & Market

American Modern sugar bowl, $30

Lolo Brushed Salad Set, $70

Real Simple

Salt Sampler, $20

Lego Museum Building Set, $40

Pantone baggage tags, $15 each

In Style

Tea towels, $16 each (get 20% off with code INSTYLE09)

Bicycle clips for pants with "wing" design, $18 (get 20% off with code INSTYLE09)

Diamond Rectangle Pillows, $140 each

Lucky

Custom canvas bag with racer stripe, $78

Twine silk-screened LOVE print, $30

Flensted Mobiles Future Mobile, $64

Repeat Offenders (gifts listed by more than one mag)

Headphones by WeSC, $60 (In Style and New York)

Reissued Penguin Hardcover Classics, $20 each (Real Simple and Lucky)

The Onion: Our Front Pages, $28 (Real Simple and, even though their guides aren't out yet, I bet Entertainment Weekly and People will list it...it's a total no-brainer)

Did I miss anything good? If so, clue me in...

Comments

[nichole]

I LOVE gift guides. Can't figure out why, but I also look forward to them.

[Molly Schoneveld]

Amy! I love your blog. Anna--your sister-in-law is an old dear friend (we go back to like 3rd grade!) and she sent me your site :). I love that you did your gift guides this way...wish I had...would have been so much less painful. I'll never do 12 days of holiday gifting again! lol

[mdashing]

I don't know why either. Especially because I tend to use them to shop for MYSELF more than anyone else...

[mdashing]

Thanks, Molly--I love yours, too! Anna also sent me your site, and it's adorable...

I do NOT envy your gift-guidance--that's a lot of work. But I'm diggin' what you've found thus far! Looking forward to reading more.