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Happy New Year, Jiffy reader! We had a wonderful time on New Year's Eve celebrating with friends, until I came home and stared into that Desolate Corner of my house. The Vibe Desert.

It’s haunted me all of 2024. And now, into the new year. Not a good way to start. Thankfully, I had “Sean Scherer’s Vignettes” on the bookshelf behind me. As you can hear from my podcast, this magical book guided me through successfully setting up a vignette with patience and style.

In fact, if you click on the New Vignette below, it will take you to the podcast episode:

There are items in this vignette that I procured from Bottle Shop Antiques, The Old Mill of Irondale, Lou’s Relics and a bunch of other shops while I was charting my Map of Mysterious and Magical Places, which you can see, because you subscribe to this newsletter! Thank you for subscribing.

And now that we’re entering Deep Winter, I’m at it again: I’m finding the coziest bookstores, bars, or hotel lobbies of upstate New York and putting them on a Cozy Map of Comfy Places. I’ll send it out to you in a few weeks, just in time for Endless Winter. If you have any recommendations, reply to this email and let me know.

The Jiffy Has A New Website

I’m also excited to finally have a website home for The Jiffy. You can find a hub of all my old series, such as “We’re Cheesing,” about making the World’s Most Ultimate Cheese Board, and “A Wine Year,” looking at a year in the life of Hudson Chatham Winery. Speaking of HWC, we’re due for a check-in soon.

And next week, I have a feeling we’ll be seeing our first travel post from our new travel blogger: The Travel Log. You can read her intro here.

There is a lot going on here at Jiffy HQ. I’m excited for the year ahead, and even more thankful that you’ve subscribed and followed along.

Bonus First: This is the first issue that has a sponsor! We made it!! In fact, if you click the message below, it will financially support me. Isn’t that something??

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