Alternate titles:
We Covet Getting Sauced, Spanish Style?
We Covet España Estupification?
We Covet Sodden Spanish Selebrations?
Anyways, I like how you can pour sangria from this pretty painted pitcher and not end up with too much fruit or ice. They that take up too much precious real estate in the cup. The word "SANGRIA" is also painted on it, which makes it easy on guests if their hostess is too smashed to serve.
Sangria pitcher $42 @ Prevailing Winds
Thermos® has created a line of products call "foogo". Food to go? They are hygienic stainless steel sippy cups, food jars and straw bottles. They are lightweight and unbreakable! They are FDA approved, made with some high falutin' patented insulation technology and are made with BPA free Materials. Here is a scary study on the evils of other sippy cups from Cornell University.
foogo products, starting at $14.50 @ thermos - where to buy
Actually, I'd probably be more inclined to keep this plate - with its little BPA-free containers and cool palette look - for myself than give to my kid who, let's face it, is just going to throw it on the floor anyway. I'll use it for serving hors-d'oeuvres outside - coupla dips, maybe some olives and some pita chips (and because it comes with lids for the removable bowls/containers, I can just stick it all back in the fridge when I'm done) - and stick my mojito in the skid-resistant cup holder. COOL.
Palette Plate, $34.95 (CAD), @ StyleKid
I can't think of a better receptacle for soup, can you? Or ice cream, or cereal, or any other liquidy foodstuff that one might be tempted to swat with one's spoon in order to make a splash. With these bowls, you can just imagine the splash, and resist the temptation.
Or maybe you don't get those kind of mess-making urges. That's fine. You can just enjoy these bowls for the pretty pretty pieces of table decor that they are.
Splatter Bowls, $24 - $74 @ Give Simple
I don't know how you encourage the little ones to keep up with their ABC's in your household, but you might consider incorporating it into cocktail hour. Just get a hold of these ABC highball glasses - okay, fine, they're actually custom monogrammed glasses, but whatever - and that way, when drinky-time rolls around you can get your drink on while teaching the kiddies the alphabet. What letter is Mommy drinking? A! That's right! And what words start with 'A'? Aperitif! Good!
Or, you could just order these with the letters of your initials. But what fun is that? Get the whole alphabet! If you're not up for the whole drunk homeschooling thing, you could always use them for drunk Scrabble. Good times!
Crystal Monogrammed Drinking Glasses, $90.00 @ GiveSimple
These awesome mugs will keep your afternoon alive with caffeine (or herbal tea if you are a dirty hippy). Not only are they stylie, they are HUGE (holding 15 fl. oz), and microwave and dishwasher safe. In other words, everything I need in a mug! WOOT!
Available in three awesome colors. Don't let your coworkers bogart this monster mug, dude.
Artist Series Uber Mugs by MiamMiam, $21.50 @ delight
These durable, 100% recycled melamine bowls from Zac Designs would be perfect for serving foodstuffs at your next cookout, or chips n' dips during a gathering of friends, doncha think?
We're down with the recycling, clearly, but flexibility of use and easy-care also top our list of requirements of housewares, and these certainly fit the bill. Plus, they have a whole line of recycled melamine dishware, including plates and cups, which would be perfect for every day use with the kidlets (if you got em', yo).
Melamine 4-Bowl Set, $29.99 @ amazon.com
Okay, so I know that this product sends an environmentally mixed message. The eco-friendly way to take your latte is in your own mug, not in a take-away cup, even if it is made from recycled whatever and cozied in one of these cool handmade cup wrap cozie thingies. That said, sometimes you just don't remember to bring your own mug, yanno? And then you have to use one of those cardboard cup wrap things that prevents you from burning your hands, which is important, but which also contributes to waste, yadda yadda.
SO. Why not just have one of these handmade, re-usable merino wool cup cozies on hand in your bag at all times, so that whenever you forget your travel mug - which I know you always, always strive not to do - you can use it instead of the cardboard disposable one and feel good about the fact that you've at least minimized your waste a little bit.
Oh, and if it reminds you to ride your bicycle a little more often, all the better.
Cruiser Coffee Cozy, $6.00 @ Stitchella (@ Etsy) (Did you know? We luuurve Etsy)
You'll feel a lot less guilty stocking up on cheap Marimekko for yourself at H&M if you draw your kids into your obsession with retro Finnish design. Being a pretentious hipster isn't just for grown-ups anymore: you can set the kiddie table with one of these Marimekko porcelain dish sets - you'll be wearing a Marimekko-print housedress, of course - and feel perfectly secure in the knowledge that you are raising children with perfectly appropriate superiority complexes.
Until the Marimekko plate gets chipped after being bashed by a grape-juice stained Marimekko cup, at which point you'll probably just wish that you'd saved these for yourself and let the little monsters use the cheap plastic Dora ware instead.
Marimekko tableware for kids, about $55.00 per set @ ModernKid
My daughter's history with plastic cups is a bit, erm, troubled (she prefers peeing in them to drinking out of them. Cocktail tumblers are for orange juice. Kid cups are for urine samples.) But that doesn't mean that I'm not determined to persevere. I don't like my bar supplies getting all chipped on her wooden kitchen set, and besides, brightly colored plastic cups are just more appropriate for two-year olds, yanno? We get weird looks from the neighbors when we sit, the two of us, on the front steps with our ice-and-OJ-filled cocktail glasses, garnished with little stir sticks and paper umbrellas.
So, these super awesome plastic training cups with giant elephant-eared handles? PERFECT. Because, a) even with the little umbrellas, the neighbors won't peg it as containing a cocktail, and b) the child can't get it between her legs to piss in. And it looks cool, too. Win-win-win.
Dumbo Cups, $14.00 @ HipBaby
This is, I think, very possibly the most useful item ever invented: a double-walled liquor bottle that keeps liquids perfectly cold (or hot. I, as a rule, don't drink hot liquor, but that's just me.) Which, as a vodka freak aficionado, strikes me as the perfect liquor cabinet accessory.
I'm ordering this now. So that the minute I am able to get back on the drinking train (pump and dump, betches, pump and dump), I will be ready.
Double-walled bottle, $99.00 @ The MoMA Store
(Try saying that five times fast, har.)
You know what you need? Cups with awesome number handles that are also -- BONUS! -- stackable. Not for any particular reason -- though you could give these to yourself and/or others to mark an anniversary or birthday or some other numerical-type occasion -- but mostly just because I said so.
And really, I know best, don't I?
Each 5.4oz cup is made of plain white china, no color options, and you'll like it that way, dammit.
Stackable Number Cups, $16.00 @ Fly-Bird
Because besides being made of 100% biodegradable corn plastic, hot damn, it speaks the truth.
Reading Is Sexy 100% corn mug, $12.00 @ buyolympia.com
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