Rainbow Spaghetti

Beautiful Rainbow Spaghetti...Yes, food coloring is bad for you. I get that. Obviously, I wouldn’t eat these daily.

Lid Sid will keep the covers of your pots and pans open when they need some air‭, ‬and will raise smiles whenever you use him‭.‬ What a fun gift for friends that love to cook but have everything.

Laser Cut Seaweed Sushi!

Laser Cut Seaweed Sushi. Stunning, right? 

Split Decision Pie Pan

If dessert time at your house sounds like this, “I want apple pie”. “No’ let’s have pecan pie!” … then you’ll need the Split Decision Pie Pan. Why bake one, when you can do two at the same time. The ingenious Split Decision Pie Pan includes two inserts for creating either a traditional full size pie, or two halves.

Home Made Cookie Stamp

This Home Made Cookie Stamp made me laugh!

Puukkoo - Knife Horlder

I like the magnetic knife holders that IKEA makes, but this knife rack called Puukko from Uusi is just so sophisticated looking.

Kitchenware

I couldn’t help but chuckle at the sight of these Kitchen Utensils over at Fab.comdesigned by Raia Studio. From left to right: Sud Green Dish Brush, Gaby Green Cheese Grater and Marshall Green Potato Masher. Really cute, mostly since I don´t have to worry about kids playing with them. 

Tianmen Mountain Restaurant by Liu Chongxiao

A triangulated glass and steel restaurant sits beside a river in a remote forested gorge in southern China. Designed by Liu Chongxiao, the Tianmen Mountain Restaurant is located at the foot of a ravine leading down from the top of a mountain popular with sightseers. The restaurant is constructed from triangular panels of alternating timber and glass strips that allows diners a view of the surrounding landscape. The building is raised off the ground on steel feet to prevent flooding and gives access to the river via an external staircase. Tianmen Mountain forms a national forest park near the town of Guilin and also contains a historic temple.

Architect: Liu Chongxiao

Client: Guilin Zijiang Danxia Tourism Co. LTD
Location: Guilin, China
Planning team: Jiang bo, Mo Keli, Wang Chao
Design team: Liu Chongxiao, Li When, He Rong, Fan Yi, Zhang Yue, Wu Xi, Ren Sijie
Project area: 627 square meters
Project Year: 2011

Edible Parmesan Pencils

This box of pencils packs a cheesy punch! Leave it to a German ad agency to think up this cute — and practical! — way to transport and serve Parmesan cheese. But are they coming to Rio anytime soon?

Disguised as run-of-the-mill over-sized pencils, the "leads" of these pencils are actually flavored Parmesan cheese. Each set comes with a sharpener, allowing one to shave truffle, chili, and pesto flavored Parmesan right from the pencils. Too bad there were only 500 made.....

Green Berry Tea

This tea packaging and origami bird tea bag by Green Berry Tea are so clever. I love it when designers make something ordinary (like a tea bag) look extraordinary. 

Cup handbags

I spotted these cute little cup handbags over on HolyCool. They’re made by Koziol and fit snugly on the side of your favorite cup or mug and hold a special little treat until you’re ready to dunk.

Available through Design3000.

Upside Down Apron with Cooking Guide

Fed up of frantically thumbing through cookbooks or coating your keyboard in baked mac and cheese while looking up cooking times and measurements on Google? Fear not! There’s the Upside Down Apron that puts all of that useful info right at your fingertips.

Pixel Oven Mitt

Pixel Oven Mitts! Really Cute!!

Buddha dish

Keep your butter fresh and in a total state of zen thanks to this playful porcelain dish in the guise of a joyful Siddhartha. 

Amazing Pantone Cookies

Freelance designer and illustrator Kim Neill was inspired to turn Pantone color chips into edible cookies after finding the Pantone color tins by Seletti at a nearby art supply store. As a holiday gift for her clients, she filled the tins with rectangular sugar cookies topped with colored icing and used an edible marker to indicate the PMS colors. Kim even made METALLIC pantone chips. Using bottles of silver and gold edible luster dust to rush atop the icing, she created cookies in PMS Metallic Silver 877, Gold 871 and Pink 8062. The cookies in the tins were a huge hit with her clients. The faves? Seems that the PMS 485, PMS 183 and Silver 877 were the most popular.

Living Kitchen Show

There are people out there who know kitchens, but not like Susan Serra, CKD, CAPS, author of thekitchendesigner.org and scandinaviankitchens.com. She curated this lovely kitchen design trends roundup for us from the 2011 LivingKitchen Show in Cologne, Germany.

The intricate and modern lace work of the Gutmann Arte hood is functional beauty with a sculptural quality.

By Blanco — Foreground: Stunning integrated stainless steel countertop and sink. Note the thin (great new look) countertop, chic drain cover and seamless design. Background: Cutting board in slotted section at right of sink slides into sink section to a) conceal sink mess when entertaining b) serve as extra counter space c) serve as cutting board over the sink (it is in two pieces).

Trend Alert: Thick countertop sections, a mix of natural materials with greige and/or strongly textured laminates (faux wood) as seen in the oven section. Greige is the neutral color story from lights to darks.

New technology by Hettich — MOVE THE BURNER LOCATION WHERE YOU WANT IT! It’s developed for appliance manufacturers and changes cooking forever!

Happy Holidays

Pictured above is a Fallingwater gingerbread house by Melodie of Garden Melodies.

Tableware from Seletti

Fun and functional, this porcelain tableware is a collaboration between Seletti's Selab and Allessandro Zambelli.

When not in use the modular dinner plates, salad plates, soup bowls and smaller bowls stack up to create buildings, complete with roofs. Take them apart and they are six table settings of square dishes perfectly suited for eating upon.

Evian by Issey Miyake

Each year evian introduces a new limited edition collector series of bottles. Last year was the Paul Smith collection and prior to that Baccarat and Jean Paul Gaultier, preceded by Christian Lacroix. This years' bottle has been decorated by Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake, with a flower inspired by his innovative pleated clothes.

This year, evian® and MIYAKE DESIGN STUDIO signed a pure bottle, glowing with both optimism and freshness.
Sprung from ISSEY MIYAKE, the innovative pleated clothes of the designer, an imaginary shimmering flower decorates the most essential source of life, symbol of youth, the natural mineral water evian®. Thanks to this new design, evian® and MIYAKE DESIGN STUDIO turn the end of the year tables into a flower field, full of poetry and humor. This bottle will exist in two versions, one of them sold exclusively at ISSEY MIYAKE shops.

Wall-mounted BBQs

I wanted to share the idea of wall-mounted BBQs.... They are great for small spaces because they leave precious space available for you to enjoy. They also have a second benefit: as they are wall mounted, they are stable. That is a key attribute and crucial to safety in any busy, small space. My favorite is this wall barbecue made by Focus:

It consists of a steel firebowl that folds up, so that when it is closed it takes up limited space. Attractive in both its open and closed positions, the barbecue is also practical, offering a range of cooking heights. It is easy to mount on any wall. The generous firebowl allows the barbecue to be used a number of times without having to empty out the ash. When you shop for wall-mounted, check they have a back panel to protect the wall from grease and fumes.