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We Covet Madge

This is Madge. She is a sock monkey. I love her.

That is all.

Madge the Sock Monkey, $40.00 @ planetmonkey (Etsy!)

Covet-a-long: You Covet

Our weekly look at what We Covet readers are feeling covetous about... And don't forget to submit your finds to us at wecovet@gmail.com!

Our friend Faith writes:

Okay so maybe I don't COVET it because I have it...but I totally would die if I ever loose it. It is the Hydracoach waterbottle. It is similar to the camelback one, but it KEEPS TRACK OF HOW MUCH WATER YOU ARE DRINKING. Plus it also helps with how much you should drink. It is awesome, because it is dishwasher safe, and I find myself competing with the bottle to see if I can make it to my goal before the day is up. And it really isn't all that expensive considering how nifty it is.

My other coveted item is not yet available. But is SO AWESOME I have wet my pants every time I think about it. It is the new I AM NOT A PAPER CUP!!! I can't wait until it comes out. I think that maybe it might slow down my drive thru Starbucks habit. (You know because that cup feels so good in my hand and LOOKS AWESOME!) I love the fake out factor too.

Hydracoach Water Bottle, $27.95 @ Amazon.com

 Our friend Dawn writes:

I want it, gotta have it, bad. Lots of love, ladies!

[Ed note: This translates to "Sh*t, it's raining"]

Merde Il Pleut Umbrella, $45.00 @ Raindrops

Thanks this week's awesome participants, and please keep your personal coveting picks coming! 

 

Tea Towels We Covet

There's only one problem that I can see with these vintage-print tea-towels - I would never want to use them as tea-towels. I would never want to mess up the image with spilled wine and crumbs of dried cheese (what? what do YOU spill in YOUR kitchen?). I would probably get myself some kind of cool tea-towel rack and hang them in such a way that the picture showed and then smack my husband's hand every time he reached for one. Which might deter him further from doing dishes, but it's not like he's particularly good at that to begin with, so. Better to preserve funky tea-towels than to worry to much about spousal household maintenance training.

Vintage Tea Towels, 4 in a box, $20.00 @ Give Simple

Windchimes We Covet

I've been on the lookout for a good wind chime -- nothing that looks like a freakin' sandcastle or Precious Moments figurine, mind you -- and came across this cute, almost architectural tree-shaped wind chime. Perfecto!

With summer almost here, you know you need this hanging on the back porch, gently tinkling in the breeze. Ahh...

Tree Wind Chime, $59.95 @ Signals

We Covet Awesome Man Bags

Guys have difficulties with bags. Laptop bags, diaper bags, whatever - they have trouble finding bags that are suitably manly without being unmanageable, and even when they do find one, they constantly worry that their bag is somehow girly. Every man fears the murse (man-purse). It's like a law of nature.

Defy Bags, however, defy that law. There are no murses here, nor anything that could possibly be mistaken for a murse. These are hand-crafted, hand-sewn, manly-man rugged duffle bags that could carry anything from laptops to diapers to tranny heels without looking the slightest bit girly (I mean, dudes. A bag with a big image of Johnny Cash flipping the bird? Diametric opposition to anything remotely feminine in form or spirit. In the awesomest way.) So what if I would buy the Skullbury Bag for myself? Like the old Irish Spring commercials said, we like it too.

Defy Bags, from around $150.00 @ Defy Bags 

We Covet Lego-shaped Speakers

How cute are these? Tiny, lego-shaped speakers for your iPod! No batteries needed -- just plug directly into your iPod and crank the volume. Works with all iPod Classic, iPod Nano, iPod touch and iPod Mini. AWESOME!

iPod Building Block Speakers, $24.99 each @ Perpetual Kid

We Covet Giant Microbes

We're all coated in them -- no matter how much antibacterial gel we slather ourselves in -- so why not embrace our microbe friends?

These cuddly plush versions of their microscopic real-life counterparts are almost cute enough to make you forget that their single-minded goal in life is to infect, sicken and/or kill you.

Choose from any number of infectious friends: the flu, E. coli, the plague, herpes, mad cow disease and many more!

Giant Microbes, $7.99 each @ ThinkGeek

We Love Care Bears Gone Grizzly

My husband likes to say shit like don't poke the bear when I'm particularly cranky. Which, you know, just makes me crankier, but that's his problem, not yours. Anyhoo. That's just to say that he'd probably appreciate this t-shirt on me. I'd also like to see it in toddler-size, though, because it pretty much sums up ages two to whenever: adorable cuddly with rainbows on the outside, raging grizzly on the inside. Which is part of why I'm so often cranky, but that's another story.

It's awesome when a t-shirt just sums it all up, isn't it? Cuts down on useless talking.

ScareBear Tee, $16.95 @ SnorgTees.com

We Covet Friendly Reminders

Just a wee reminder that our fabulous weekly giveaways are in full effect *all this month*, with a new winner each and every Friday during May!

Get the full details on yonder giveaway page, and don't forget to comment and win!

We Covet Art That Sums It All Up, Sort Of

This? I'd love for this to be a notecard print, so that I could send it around to let everybody know that I AM YES STILL WITH CHILD. But it's not, so I might just get it and hang it on my wall and meditate upon it in an effort to convince myself that my fetal tweety-bird is just nesting and it's all well and good and in accordance with the universe blah blah blah.

And if I manage to avoid defacing it by scrawling GET OUT FETUS across it with a Sharpie, then so much the better, because I know that I'll love it in the post-childbirth frenzy of swaddling and diapering and I've forgotten the stress of a prolonged early labor and am busy nostalgizing (?) the sweet, lost days of babynesting.

"A Nest To Simply Be In," original print by Flyk, $19.95 @  BlueFlipArt (partial proceeds to Kalamazoo Loaves and Fishes)