Sunami BowlsYou can't go wrong with speckled tan and shiny robin's egg blue bowls. I love the colors. And these five melamine nesting bowls have a funky egg shape to boot. They'd be great for serving party snacks.
$48.00, Urban Outfitters
Sagaform Mangold Vacuum Flask
You can tote about a liter of your favorite hot or cold beverage around in this lovely stainless steel thermos. Now you can drop the Starbucks habit and use the $10,000 or so you save to buy something nice.
$26.95, Wrapables
Spice Boys Salt & Pepper Set
These salt and pepper shakers are so cute! Too much salt might be a temptation, but I wouldn't say pepper is blameless. Maybe you could fill the angelic shaker with Mrs. Dash.
$14.00, Wexner Center Store
Black Floral Coffee Cup & Saucer
This is much more elegant than my collection of tacky mismatched coffee mugs. I could even see taking this hand-painted stoneware cup into the office. It would look nice on my desk and save a few thousand paper cups.
$24.95 for two, Wrapables
Black and White Stripe Bowls
These earthenware mixing bowls are fun. The smaller bowl is 9 inches in diameter, the larger is 12 inches. Serve up your trademark dish (or even a helping of mac and cheese) in one of these for the attention it deserves.
$29.95 and $36.95, Crate & Barrel
Thomas Paul Gothic Tray
I heart the design on this melamine platter by Thomas Paul. I like imagining that I am the woman in the serene garden. This would be nice as wall decoration too. It measures 14 inches in diameter.
$18.00, Elsewares
Night Forest Glasses
These tumblers are fun to look at. Each one looks like a dense forest with little green leaves poking out here and there. I almost expect to see a deer wander by.
$32.00 for four, Anthropologie
Floral Square Salad Plates
Ooh, these ceramic salad plates are so pretty. I love the pattern. Each one's a little more than seven inches across. The color is making me hungry for a beet salad. With goat cheese. And walnuts.
$26.00 for a set of four, West Elm
Wood-Covered Decorative Balls
These are so cool looking. They're actually styrofoam balls covered in wood to look like wooden apples. They come in various sizes. They'd look nifty in a bowl on your kitchen table.
$19.99, Bed Bath & Beyond
Spice Tower Carousel
Right now the only spices I own are salt, pepper, and cinnamon, but I still like the idea of having lots of spices in this contraption. It can hold 12 kinds of spices in these clear stacking acrylic containers that sit on a rotating lazy Susan type base.
$32.95, Wrapables
Magnet Birds
I want to cover my fridge with birds! This set comes with eight bird magnets, including a cardinal, a bluebird, a robin, and several other birds that I can't identify. Each one is about two inches tall and four inches across. They're made out of foam and feathers.
$13.95, ShiptheWeb.com
Double Happiness Teapot
Despite the name, this has nothing to do with Chinese weddings that I can ascertain. But this little porcelain teapot, which is only a little more than six inches tall, is such a great color, and I like the decorative shape of the handles. It would look nice on display in your kitchen, and it's even safe to use in the microwave.
$24.00, Anthropologie
White Ant Napkin Rings
I'm not the type to use napkins that you actually have to wash (unless I'm sure that I won't have to be doing any of the washing), but these napkin rings are too adorable. Maybe I could use them with some brightly colored paper napkins. I've also seen these napkin rings at Target for the same price.
$24.00 for four, Bunny Maxwell
Wilton Giant Cupcake Cake Pan
This is amazing. Use this cake pan and you'll be able to make a giant cupcake that's about eight inches in diameter. Of course, to get the full effect, you have to cover the entire thing in frosting. The best part? It's still only one serving (in my book, anyway)!
$27.95, Sur La Table
Large Jade Bird Bowl
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
