My boyfriend bought me these, and they're awesome. Mine are smokey quartz with a maroon pearl, but I also like the citrine and garnet variety (seen here). They're fairly small, little more than an inch long, but they really gussy up an outfit.

$44.00, Agapantha

This is probably more than I would spend on a necklace, but I really like this gorgeous brass and enamel butterfly pendant. It's so nicely made, you'd almost think you were wearing a real bug, only prettier. I also like how the 18-inch chain is covered in a few black beads.

$178.00, Anthropologie

If you must wash dishes, shouldn't you at least try to have a little fun? This scrubber has a hole in the end, so you can scrub a dish, blow a few bubbles, scrub another dish, and blow a few more. Or just scrap the whole dishes thing and wave your scrubber out the window.

$5.00, Urban Outfitters

This coin purse is shaped like the paper coffee cups you can get at pretty much any breakfast stand or deli in New York City. Yeah, it’s kind of a riff on the way homeless people shake the cups when they ask for change, but not in a mean way. A portion of the sale goes to Help USA, which assists the homeless.

$28.00, Mxyplyzyk (click on “odds and ends”)

Someone putting you in a corner? Let Patrick Swayze tell 'em off for you. Also, sometimes you've just got to let someone know that, "I'm scared of everything. Most of all I'm scared of walking out of this room and never feeling the rest of my whole life, the way I feel when I'm with you." Okay, Johnny, I'm ready to do the lift!

$8.00, Fred Flare

This loud red flower ring has Polynesian flair, but it may creep some people out when you tell them it's carved out of bone. If you really want to freak them out, lie and tell them you carved it yourself out of your ex-boyfriend's bones.

$28.00, Anthropologie

When I wear a flip-flop dress shoe, like this one, I feel like I'm getting away with something. With sparkly straps, these are both comfortable and super fabulous. (Just ignore the stupid name.) You can also buy these in gold, black, or hot pink.

$82.95, Zappos.com

This bracelet can gussy up your outfit for evening. It's about an inch and a half thick, and it's elastic-y. The whole thing is made of these shiny silver chunks. You can also buy it in gold.

On sale for $64.90 (until August 6), Nordstrom

What I dig about this stoneware bird bowl is that, in some ways, it seems so organic that I expect it to tweet. In other ways it seems very geometric, and almost two-dimentional. But no matter how you look at it, it's very pretty. The whole thing is about 10 inches tall and a little more than a foot wide.

$110.00, Jonathan Adler

This cute little throw pillow, which depicts a group of six birds, was designed by Eleanor Grosch, an illustrator from Philadelphia. I like how each bird is a different color or pattern, and that the pillow is sewn in the shape of the birds instead of a typical square.

$26.00, Urban Outfitters