October 2008
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Circle Tealight Holder
A triple purpose votive holder. Use the two halves to serve nuts and olives, put them together to hold a tea light, and store extra tea lights inside.
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Tin Family Stainless Container
$127 at Retromodern | Buy
(For a 9" wide by 3" deep container.)
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Handfull Of Plates
Lets you hold a plate in your hand while eating or wildly gesticulating with the other.
$179 at Generate Design | Buy
(For a set of three.)
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Jumbo Binder Clip
Use this enormous binder clip to hang prints or to hold your entire 300 page manuscript. Clip is six inches tall and two inches wide.
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Origami Pet Travel Bowls
MacGyver would create a bowl for your dog out of paper clips and gum. You’ll have to fold one.
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Jigger Cube
Most jiggers give you two liquor choices: Less or More. This one gives you six quantities and looks nothing like the one your parents had.
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Candlestick Maker
Why buy candle holders, when you’ve got all those glasses sitting around.
$30 at Cooper Hewitt | Buy
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Ben Franklin Dish
A small glass dish to hold your change. Ben will be silently proud of your thriftiness.
$30 at Mighty Goods Finds | Buy
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White Orba Adhesive Film
Dress your windows without sewing or collecting dust.
$76 at Design Public | Buy
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Set of Two Green Trays
Two green plastic divided dinner trays, like you’d find in middle school….or prison. You didn’t know you needed them but you do. They’ll go on your desk to hold various odds and ends, they’ll go on your dresser to hold your jewelry, or you’ll serve up your own TV dinners.
$30 at Mighty Goods Finds | Buy
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Newton Milk and Sugar Set
Cream and sugar in one sleek container.
$69 at Greener Grass Design | Buy
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Air Mail Postal Scale
Post-1958 Triner Air Mail Accuracy postal scale, with rate card.
Great place to set your outgoing mail, good book end or door stop. Or use it to weigh your drugs.
$70 at Mighty Goods Finds | Buy
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Cord and Coil Throw
You know that needlework throw you’ve been working on for three years? This one’s done.
$148 at Anthropologie | Buy
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Louisiana Travel Plate
Featuring The Superdome. Enough said.
$40 at Mighty Goods Finds | Buy
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Petite Vases
A place to display kid-plucked dandelions, or a big, welcoming bloom.
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Mushroom Cookie Jar
I’m feeling nostalgic for cookie jars. This petite, toadstool version is a perfect home for your treats.
$45 at Mighty Goods Finds | Buy
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Redding Travel Tray
Redding, California – vacation wonderland.
$20 at Mighty Goods Finds | Buy
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Therapeutic Pillow Mist
It can be disconcerting to sleep on a pillow that smells like someone else’s house. This fun spray gives guests a pillow-smell option.
$12 at Basic French | Buy
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Smart Ass Plate
Oh, contraire … I rather do like a Smart Ass.
$40 at Mighty Goods Finds | Buy
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Unicorn Plaque
You know someone spent all night at the carnival trying to win this. And all you have to do is click. Sometimes, the world isn’t fair.
$30 at Mighty Goods Finds | Buy
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Kimono Flower Note Cards
Leave these out so your guests can write home about your impeccable hosting skills.
$12 at Give Simple | Buy
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Complete Hotel Amenity Set
The same set you’d find in a luxury hotel. Perhaps this will make up for the lack of doorman, room service, and spa treatments.
$36 at L' Occitane | Buy
























