Winter Wish Cottage Cardigan

Whether you’re dashing through the snow — or dashing through your daily errands — this adorable & cozy cardi is the perfect piece. Pop it on with jeans & boots for an adorable everyday look, or layer it up with a turtleneck and knit leggings on chilly mornings while you’re making coffee. And don’t be afraid to mix in more prints & textures! We’ll be wearing ours over a button-up shirt in contrasting red plaid, and adding the matching scarf for an eclectic, super cute look for holiday shopping adventures with friends :)

The warmhearted, the joyful. Women who delight in the magic and wonder of the season, who sing carols in the car and check their lists twice. Women who let their hearts be light.

For almost 200 years, the tradition of sending greeting cards for the holidays has been part of the way we celebrate the season with our loved ones near and far. Handmade Christmas cards were popularized during the Victorian era in the the mid-1800’s, with the very first card being commercially printed on a printing press in 1843 (the very same year Charles Dickens published “A Christmas Carol”). That card — of which around a thousand copies were printed — was a hand-coloured lithograph that sold for one shilling. (Very few copies remain, and if you could find one today, it would be worth several thousand dollars!) By the 1880’s, holiday cards had become a popular and beloved tradition, and cards of all kinds were being printed, sent, and treasured. We absolutely adore the vintage, hand-coloured lithograph cards from this era — several of which we used to create our Winter Wish design.

Whether you still send traditional cards at the holidays, or send emails & texts instead, letting the people we most care about in our lives know that we’re thinking of them is one of the most wonderful things we can do to celebrate the season. If you’re reading this and there’s someone in your life you haven’t reached out to in a while, go ahead and let them know how important they are to you! Wishing you much joy, love, abundance, and good cheer this holiday season from all of us at Market of Stars :) xoxo

On the Eve

Tonight the woods are white
as dresses, trees kneeling
in their skirts. The deer
have left their pockets to watch
the world be crowned again
in sequins of snow. Inside the house

we have slipped off
our good shoes
and wear the firelight
like fineness, faces haloed,
aglow with supper
and wine. The glasses
we raised now washed
and put to bed, the sound
of their merry clink fading
like far off bells. The gifts

are given. Our windows frost
like a filling hourglass,
while you and I nestle
between what was
and what will be. The children
inside us are put to bed, tucked in
to the folds of our robes
and dreaming. Their wishes

rise up the chimney
before drifting back down
to rest like jewels
at the hem
of the woods.