Seven and Eight.

Here's my little snowman tart warmer I picked up at JoAnn's on Black Friday. I've always been a candle girl, and am new to the tart warmer, but I think I'm hooked.

And I took a close-up of our little tabletop tree. I got red tartan plaid bows at JoAnn's in the same Black Friday sale, so I decided to do the tree in red and gold. This required picking up some gold ornaments, gold snowflakes, red berry clusters and what not. The tree has red and white lights. And a big dark red bow on top. I don't love it like I did last year's, but it's quite pretty.

Also-rans, non-fiction.

Four-star non-fiction reads are still pretty awesome. Here are some of the ones I still remember and think about.

Catch a Wave: The Rise, Fall and Redemption of Brian Wilson, Peter Ames Carlin

The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio, Terry Ryan

The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls

The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic, Steven Johnson

The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, Bill Bryson

An Autobiography, Agatha Christie

Picasso's War: The Destruction of Guernica and the Masterpiece that Changed the World, Russell Martin

Laurel Canyon: The Inside Story of Rock-and-Roll's Legendary Neighborhood, Michael Walker

The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the End of the First Millennium, Robert Lacey

Never Have Your Dog Stuffed, and Other Things I've Learned, Alan Alda

Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams, Gary Giddons

The Perfect Summer: Dancing Into Shadow in 1911, Juliet Nicolson

Travel As a Political Act, Rick Steves

The Lincolns in the White House: Four Years That Shattered a Family, Jerrold M. Packard

King, Kaiser, Tsar: Three Royal Cousins Who Led the World to War, Catrine Clay

Richmond Burning: The Last Days of the Confederate Capital, Nelson D. Lankford

Anne Frank: The Book, the Life, the Afterlife, Francine Prose

The Day We Found the Universe, Marcia Bartusiak

About Town: The New Yorker and the World It Made, Ben Yagoda

Bossypants, Tina Fey

Little Girl Blue: The Life of Karen Carpenter, Randy L. Schmidt

Philip and Elizabeth: Portrait of a Royal Marriage, Gyles Brandreth

Van Gogh: The Life, Steven Naifeh

Vita and Harold: The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson, 1910-1962, Nigel Nicolson

A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Hope, Deception and Survival at Jonestown, Julia Scheeres

The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend, Glenn Frankel

The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Anne-Marie O'Connor

The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, and the Unlikely Ascent of "Hallelujah," Alan Light

A Sting in the Tale: My Adventures with Bumblebees, Dave Goulson

Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital, Sheri Fink

One Summer: America, 1927, Bill Bryson

The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things, Paula Byrne

Digging for Richard III: The Search for the Lost King, Mike Pitts

Jane's Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World, Claire Harman

The Stranger Beside Me, Ann Rule

Lady Bird and Lyndon: The Hidden Story of a Marriage That Made a President, Betty Caroli

Five and six.

I'm getting behind in my journal because I'm having some snafus with my photo developing place. (Wal-Mart, of which I shall never darken the door again.) Here's the Christmas card we are sending to family and friends this year. (I had to chop it up to fit it on the page.)

And here's yesterday's entry, just a couple lines on the horrible weather and the coziness of having a tidy, dry, warm home. I put some tiny doilies on it to connote coziness!