Not a fan of traveling with all kinds of liquids in your toiletry bag? Eliminate a few of those bottles with these travel toiletry sheets ($5, ThinkGeek). Available in hand soap, body wash and shampoo sheets. Pick up just one or buy a set of all three.

You can only eat so many sandwiches made with leftovers. Reinvent some of your holiday feast with recipes that will taste like a completely new dish. Use bits of ham in ham-stuffed manicotti or wild rice chowder with ham. Or use turkey in a modernized version of turkey mornay.

This calendar ($20, Perpetual Kid) will bring you fun and stress release for the entirety of 2010. It lets you pop a bubble wrap bubble to mark each day. You’ll feel very accomplished.

For wintertime lunches there’s little that beats a good soup and sandwich combination, with grilled cheese and tomato soup as the frontrunner. Finally, there’s a vessel that allows you to serve it properly—the soup and sandwich tray ($30 for set of two, Uncommon Goods). It’s the perfect accompaniment for the perfect lunch.

Amaze your friends and family with a magic trick for their taste buds: Miracle Frooties are a freeze-dried tablets that make sour and bitter foods taste sweet. You’ll have a whole new appreciation for grapefruit season.

Check out this winter wonderland at the Arboretum (3675 Arboretum Dr., Chaska, 952-443-1413). The gingerbread village was created by Gary Robertson of the Wedge in Minneapolis. Don’t forget to see what’s happening behind the buildings.

Finally, a way to keep memories of some of your favorite concerts, sporting events, and plays organized.

Why settle for the same old card when you can send a card with a personalized talking or singing message. These recordable greeting cards ($7, Vocal Greetings) let you say it instead of just writing it. That’s a sentiment that’s worth its postage.

Hanukkah starts on Friday night. Everyone can celebrate the eight-day Jewish holiday with Martha Stewart’s recipes for potato latkes and delicious (and pretty) pink applesauce.

Fans of Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones will be able to watch the book come to life on the big screen. The movie adaptation stars Susan Sarandon, Rachel Weisz, and 15-year-old Saoirse Ronan.