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i like these shakers



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Drink me

Okay, I'm mellowing on you, catalogue. (See below.)

Look, it's another 'not-a'! These are not those horrible little plastic cups that are thin and weird and easy to squish.



They're ceramic, natch. Still too small, though.

Pretty colors

Awesome! Makes me want a baby to bottlify.



Also a good idea - people are into glass these days (smart) but the sleeve makes it a tiny bit safer.

Labels I Like: Tchoklit

So TCHO is coming to (my) town. I really like the choc packaging. (Not that I'd eat citrus nibs - keep that fruit out of my chocolate!)

Labels I Like: Or, What I Got at Target - Part II

This is probably not very good coffee. But I had to buy it, just for the tin. Only I liked the color scheme of the decaf, which you can see - blurrily - on my stove. Sideways.

Update

That thing about cups? I meant these.



(Kitt's keeping me honest.)

Mushrooms and elephants

So also I was pretty psyched by this new series at IKEA in the kitchen department. It reminds me of my 1970s childhood. Even the colors call it back.

These are place mats. Pretty small.




This is a tray.



There were also glasses, smallish ones, but there's no picture online.

Hot coffee

We didn't buy anything fun at IKEA today, but I saw some things I liked.







Ten bucks each.

It's all about brunch

My mom sent me this link, and it makes me laugh. I'm actually pastrami myself, which is cool (at least I'm not corned beef!) but I like the bagel look. And of course I really want to be a black and white.

Pancakes, oh pancakes

I think I just found the next present for my hard-to-present-with-presents friend Joe. (Hi, Joe.)



I'm not saying I'd want a whole houseful of Mosser glass, but I do love restaurant ware in the home (hello, Kamei on Clement Street).

Eat and go

I saw these at Whole Foods the other day (prior to my daughter devouring what seemed like seventy dollars worth of freeze-dried strawberries).



The cutlery is nice, the oil-cloth wrapper is nice. I'd certainly forget to take them with me after I washed them, but that's just me.

Listen to my cup

Of course we all know about Wordle now, and I posted about it long ago.

While looking at the Wordle blog I saw these cups.



Love 'em.

By an interesting little UK company called Concentrate.

Butter side up

The other day I got this fantastic ceramic egg tray, to keep eggs in. I just put it in the fridge, but at least when I open my fridge I see it.

I can't find it online, but I did find this "ceramic tupperware" butter dish. No word on if the top has a plastic seal or if if it's all ceramic.

Cold air

My mother has a great old fridge -- but it's old. Rusty, damp and dripping. She needs a new one. One like this:



That's a Pastense fridge.

This is a Big Chill



Not sure about the name of this one.



Northstar has the freezer on the bottom, always a good thing.



Unfortunately, all of these are thousands of dollars...

Another one

Another Sigg-off!

At Paperchase in Border's.

Six glasses a day

I can't remember if they found me or I found them, but another company -- small, this time -- is jumping on the wagon of nice water bottles.

Earthlust is a small company that makes these stainless steel bottles -- I asked the owner (a mother, yay) what made her bottles different and she said Siggs are aluminum and that everyone should have a bottle that they like and think is nice looking, and that's such in line with the philosophy of this blog...

Drink

OK, so the popularity of Sigg bottles and other such has finally penetrated to the mainstream.

I didn't take a photo at the store, and now I'm sorry because I can't find them online, but Old Navy was totally selling a Sigg-style water bottle in some stripy colors.

And then I just got an LL Bean catalog and saw this.


And it's even called "Bean Canteen" so you know where they're getting their inspiration. Or maybe their actual product -- which I would prefer.

Kids do eat lunch

This is a great-looking lunchbox, but I can't get my hands on one! They only ship in October, plus I probably can't afford one. But I can covet!

Anyway, it comes with boxes for food that fit perfectly inside (good idea -- I'm always cramming stuff into my daughter's lunchbox, running around the kitchen swearing under my breath and looking for lids...). And you can strap a water bottle on top, like so:



The designers are US-based but Dutch, from the land of so much good design (and pretty hot guys).

Zoom

Via Gizmodo and whole bunch of other blogs comes this pretty awesome espresso machine. It puts my Saeco Aroma to shame, that's for sure. Judging from the picture it takes pods, however, and I'm not a pod person (so to speak). But FrancisFrancis! has some competition...

Bozo

I really like to drink wine, but I am not in any way an expert. And, of course, I really pick wine by the label. (I mean, come on, admit it...you do too.)

Anyway, I love this label for Beauzeaux (ha). It looks like an old New Yorker cartoon.

Haven't tasted the wine, though.