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After preparing this year’s Thanksgiving feast, I realized that I needed an apron upgrade; my husband’s tattered “Grill Daddy!”  apron was cute at the Father’s Day barbeque, but my holiday outfit of silk dress and black patent pumps begged to differ.  Enter the adorable aprons from WiniesterStudios:  they’ll keep you saucy, while making sure that you’re not covered in sauce.

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And speaking of the sauce, don’t forget to enter this week’s giveaway from popptags!

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First things first:  congrats to the winner of last week’s Vivabox giveaway, Helen L., who charmed us with a ten word entry about her tree-climbing toenails.

And now for this week’s giveaway:  six gorgeous letterpressed popptags, perfect for gifting with a bottle of holiday wine.  While the tags’ designs are classic, the messages are decidedly not; why stick a floppy bow on the bottle when you can adorn it with an elegant “From one wino to another” tag?  (That one’s going to an 85-year-old friend.  Everyone has a wino in their life, and she just happens to be mine.)

To enter, you need to subscribe to misosouper’s feed, which you can find here, and also on the home page (look for the pretty blue button in the right hand column).  When you have successfully subscribed, please leave a comment that you have done so.  Current subscribers can also enter the contest; just leave a note in the comments below.

As the popptags say, ’tis the season to get tipsy, so get to getting.

the fine print:

Comments will be closed and entries will not be accepted after 11:59 pm on Saturday, December 6, 2008.  The winner will be selected on Sunday, December 7, 2008, and notified by e-mail.  Results of the giveaway will be announced on Monday, December 8, 2008.  Multiple entries are not accepted.  Misosouper, a shopping blog reserves the right to disqualify entries that are considered spam.

Now to blogroll the second half of my fellow shoppers’ gift guides, from M-Z.  They’ve found good stuff too.

@ Not Martha

@ NOTCOT, so far here, here, here, here, here, and here, here, here (Total overachievers!  How I admire them.)

@ NY Mag

@ Oh Joy! (for the Metro Paper in NY, Boston, and Philly)

@ Oh How Lovely Shops

@ PoppyTalk

@ Purple Pink and Orange

@ SheFinds

@ StyleBakery

@ The Daily Obsession

If you’ve already made it through my picks and aren’t quite ready to put back on your robe, here are more gift guides from the first half of my blogroll.  They’ve found good stuff too.

@ Apartment Therapy (who is going one better, and actually giving away 101 fabulous things)

@ Bobbie Pen

@ Better Living Through Design

@ Cool Mom Picks

@ Creature Comforts, and another here

@ Domino Mag

@ Greedy Girl

@ I Heart Luxe

@ Indie Shopping

@ Lucky Mag

@ Mighty Goods, so far here, here, here, and here

@ Mixed Plate

This cast iron bacon press will keep everything plump and flat, which is just how we’ll all feel the day after Thanksgiving.

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And speaking of the day after Thanksgiving:  don’t forget to enter our giveaway for a spa manicure & pedicure from Vivabox, and be sure to check out Misosouper’s Thursday and Friday gift guide roundup from around the interweb.