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December 2012 - Houston

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GIVE: Dinner for six with Mika, the young British pop singer who is not only talented but so smart and charming. Christian Louboutin GET: A great pair of cuff links from Hanut Singh. Christian Louboutin GET: GIVE: Substitute traditional desserts with an ensemble of vibrant macarons handmade in house (custom colors available) at Petite Sweets, created from high priestess of confections Susan Molzan. $1.75 each, at Petite Sweets. Gabrielle Sauls I love this modern interpretation of the 1880s English board game Reversi. Handcrafted and intricately detailed by Fredericks and Mae. $140, at Settlement Goods. Michelle Avi��a GIVE: A piece of my favorite city for my friends. New York: Portrait of a City (Taschen, 560 pages). $69.99, at bookstores. Ceron GET: GIVE: The pages of Grace: A Memoir (Random House) are ���lled with the most delectable inner thoughts of Vogue���s preeminent creative director Grace Coddington ��� perfect for the fashionlover on your list. $35, at bookstores. Megan Pruitt Winder Anyone in my life is welcome to give me this amazing Ralph Lauren Safari RL67 45mm chronograph watch with gunmetal ���nish. Price upon request, to order at Ralph Lauren. Billy Fong GIVE: Here���s a smart twist on the classic pocket square: in leather, by Grei. This handsome accessory even ages gracefully ��� the more you use it, the better it looks. $165, at Sloan/ Hall. Michelle Avi��a GET: Fendi is celebrating 15 years of its iconic baguette bag, with a book aptly titled Baguette ��� and is reissuing six of the label���s favorite styles. Prices and styles upon request, at the Fendi boutique. Michelle Avi��a Oscar Niemeyer GET: Dangly Swarovski crystals on dusky purpleheeled booties from Chanel. $1,995, at the Chanel boutique, Neiman Marcus. GET: Audubon���s Aviary: The Original Watercolors Holly Moore for The Birds of America by GET: To ���nish out the folly, Marjorie Skouras Sultana mirror Chippendaled-out in rock crystal. Price on request, to the trade at Ellouise Abbott. Holly Moore GET: Roberta J.M. Olson (Skira/Rizzoli, $85; limited edition $299). If they���re good enough for Jackie K. Onassis (who had Audubon prints in her living room on Fifth Avenue), I will love it. Achingly beautiful ��� and best of all, not at all trendy. Diane Dorrans Saeks A house built by architect Oscar Niemeyer ��� or, at the least, a two-week internship with him. Christian Louboutin GIVE: Paris-based label Exemplaire���s cashmere knits are just that ��� exemplary. Luscious, well-made and sturdy, these will serve you for the next 20 years. Four-ply cashmere cable-knit turtleneck sweater $1,990, at barneysnewyork.com. Seth Vaughan GET: The Impossible Cool is a blog dedicated to phenomenal imagery of cultural icons. Sonic Editions has brought some of the best to high-quality print. $499, at soniceditions.com. Matt Alexander TO GET AND TO GIVE: GIVE: Gift the tiniest control freak in your life with the chance to drive the classic train in Hermann Park that we all grew up with but never got to drive. As Hermann Park Railroad staff, the little engineer will help get the train ready in the maintenance barn, take tickets in Kinder Station, greet guests and help them to their seats, then, ���nally, sit on the locomotive and help drive the train around the park. For all that labor, the tyke (ages seven to 107) receives an engineer���s cap, bandana, train whistle, name badge and certi���cate $150, through 713.528.0827; visitorservices@hermannpark.org. Holly Moore The equestrian in your life will fall head over hoof for antique English horse hooves, which immortalize the actual hooves of trusty stead Moonise (1880-1899) as inkwells. $595 each, at Cathy Crow at the Antiques and Interiors Pavilion. Seth Vaughan GET: Baratza is, in short, the coffee grinder equivalent of a Rolls Royce. And, being the hopeless fanatic I am, I���m desperate to add one to my kitchen���s coffee-related arsenal. $469, at baratza.com. Matt Alexander GIVE: Artist Henri Gadbois is known across the museum world as the go-to-artist for faux foods for use in exhibitions. Here, realistic resin oysters hand-painted inside real oyster shells $35 each, and mushrooms $15 each, at Curate in Uptown Park. Holly Moore

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