I live in Boston where we just had our first snowfall. Which pretty much means I'm now in the wear-a-hat-scarf-gloves-every-single-day-for-4-months portion of my year. I'm in the market for a new beanie and scarf.

My beanie (oatmeal with olive/brown/gray/gold flecks) from last winter is still serviceable. I'm just kinda sick of it--wearing something every day for 4 months will do that. It's also an acrylic-wool blend and since I'm really into wool these days, I thought maybe I want a 100% wool hat this year. I saw a wool beanie with a fake fur pompom on the Lululemon website that I really liked and had convinced myself wasn't *too* outrageously expensive--$50 for something you wear 7 days a week for 4 months is like 40 cents a day, haha--but when I saw it in-store all the pompoms were flat and misshapen. I mean, the one on the dummy was perfect, so you could apparently steam it back to life or something but if I'm paying 50 bucks for a hat, I don't want to have to do the work myself. So, suggestions for 100% wool beanies, preferably with a pompom, preferably solid black or winter white, $50 max? Or is there some reason I don't want 100% wool that I'm missing?

Now, the scarf situation is this. My main/most used winter scarf is a pea green multi-flecked one that I made myself in 2003 during a brief attempt to learn to knit. It's the only thing that's survived from that period and I am surprisingly *not* sick of it. The yarn is just so unique and pretty and I still get compliments on it all the time. Also, 3 of my winter coats are (I dunno how this happened) some shade of olive so it goes great. However, it's starting to unravel and I don't have the skills to fix the big hole in it. So I probably need a Plan B. Can I see all your current favorite scarfs? Totally open on this because I don't know what I want. Thanks for reading if you made it this far, and thanks for your help.