It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year

Naty Chabanenko by Pierre Dal Corso for LoveCat Magazine #3 

Guess who's finally done with her exams?! Tonight marks my last night in the US for this year before I catch my flight tomorrow morning to Vancouver. I will only be in Van till Jan 7th before I catch another flight to HK to spend J-Term in someplace warm, but I would love to meet up with any blogger friends in Van :) Like the November post, these are some of things I like from the world wide web this month:

• The gift guide The Holly and The Ivy from Tomboy Style
• Congrats to Giambattista Valli, who is officially a couturier now!!! 
• An unexpectedly raw essay on the Thought Catalog
• Even though I'm not a dude, I wouldn't mind receiving these minus the cuff links and the pomade 
• A sumptuous Christmas feast for the belly (and the eyes) from Katie 
• A Menswear Blogger roundtable from GQ 
• Vanity Fair's hilariously awesome response to the roundtable 
• Michael Pitt in Prada's S/S '12 Menswear campaign, which reminds me that I should catch up on Boardwalk Empire
• Olivier Theysken's fantastic Q&A on Into the Gloss
• Elle Fanning in Rodarte––always a good combo
• Prada's pretty new S/S campaign
• The new Bane is so much than better than the pathetic one circa 1997
• Dr Watson is now Bilbo Baggins = OMFGGGGGG
• I'm still on the fence on whether to watch the US version of The Girl with A Dragon Tattoo or not, but I've heard it's good and not just a remake. I have read all the books and watched all the Swedish versions already so I'm just kinda done with the story, however I do like Rooney Mara and David Finch. Has anyone here watched it yet?
• A cool neckwear tutorial
• #HKProblems
• I know I shouldn't be liking this but I can't stop watching Shit That Girl Says, because it's just SO TRUE
• Typing 'let it snow' in the Google search bar 
• The advent calendar at Love Magazine 

This was unexpectedly long, but I have to go reply to everybody's comments and then pack. The next post will be from Vancouver!