• Find yourself a perfect red lipstick
• Decorate your bedroom with fairy lights
• ✔ Buy yourself an amazing bathrobe to lounge in
• ✔ Start wearing multiple pairs of (ripped) stockings layered over each other
• Bundle up & go for long night-time walks with someone cute
• ✔ Drink more juice
• Learn how to knit & make yourself an assortment of fabulous hats & scarves
• Cultivate armpit hair (I think it’s kind of cute) I think I'll pass on this one
• Stick jewels all over your library card
• Prepare an enormous feast for your closest friends
• Spend an entire weekend watching a box set of your favourite show
• Make an effort to get out of the house every Sunday & go for a big breakfast
• Hold hands with someone while you sleep
• Wear a coat with a huge collar & pretend you’re a superhero in disguise
• Guard against the dreaded lizard-skin by moisturizing regularly!
• ✔ Perfect a hot chocolate recipe
• Tell ghost stories around a crackling fire
• Buy a pair of hilarious slippers (preferably with a face on!)
• Smile all the way to work — people will either smile back or think you’re mental. Either way, what bliss!
• ✔ Cultivate a fabulous stocking collection & use them to dress up simple outfits
• Go to the ballet
• ✔ Yawn as often as you like
• Give up smoking (huddling in the rain is no fun)
• Procure a pair of ultra-cute mittens on a string
• ✔ Allow yourself lots of quiet, dimly-lit alone time
• Buy watercolours & a Moleskine notebook & go wild
• ✔ Eat mashed potatoes
• Carry a hot water bottle everywhere (I have a turquoise one which matches a lot of my clothing…)
• Fall asleep to The Beatles
• Dress up like a Eurotrash snow bunny
• Make a fort
• Read trashy novels in bed
• Write long letters to your favourite people (even if they live nearby)
• Buy an incredible umbrella
• ✔ Choreograph dances in your living room to stay warm!
• ✔ Wear ruffle-butt panties
• Book a session in an isolation tank
• Fill a huge glass jar in your living room with sweets
• ✔ Wear a hoodie (with the hood pulled up) to sleep in
• Buy an enormous fluffy rug
• Imagine yourself sleeping on a big cloud
• ✔ Reclaim old personality traits which have been trampled into oblivion
• Find yourself a magical talisman
• Listen to Fiona Apple & Elliott Smith over & over until you know all the words
• Make a huge bowl of vegetarian chili
• Go ski-ing, stay in a chalet & wear an elaborate knitted jersey!
• ✔ Watch Charlie Chaplin movies
• Pick a new hero
• ✔ Wear leg-warmers
• Think about where you would like to spend your next winter!

From Gala Darling

• Go to the beach. Go to the beach a lot
• Watch sunrises
• Make frost-footprint patterns on the grass.
• Take lots of photos in the gorgeous low-angled sunlight
• Light candles on the dinner-table
• ✔ Make your own soup