What I call the Holiday Hex is nothing more than annual Holiday shopping. Elbowing your way down an aisle in an over crowded shop to only emerge sweaty, irate and dishevelled.

Ugh, it's horrible. Thank God for online shopping!!

But, these windows at Holt Renfrew's flagship on Bloor West here in Toronto truly make for a beautiful distraction. I look forward to the window dressings every year, but, this year they are particularly exquisite. Enough to sooth the rage in my soul roused from an hour in the same mall as thousands of stunned migrating cattle with credit cards.

If you haven't checked the windows out, you really must. Mannequins luxuriously posed in thousand dollar gowns and celebrating the season in a frosted Gothic fantasy world.

The artistry is all so very very beautiful.