Cafe Style Tea for One.

Any Design Crush regular should have picked up on the fact that I love mugs and teapots. I love them even more when they’re stacked together as a unit like the Cafe Style Tea for One. It even features a built-in stainless steel strainer for brewing loose leaf tea. Most tea paraphernalia that I’m attracted to is simple white, but I’m loving the vibrant colors in this case.

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pata-pata.

Posting is going to be on the light side today due to the fact that I’m working on a sizable web update for a client.

But I couldn’t resist sharing the pata-pata folding pot mat. It’s so sleek and simple and folds up for easy storage which you gotta love. Can I just tell you how difficult it is to find a decent pot mat (aka trivet) these days? They’re all horrible looking. I actually received a ceramic one for Christmas that’s a cat. Needless to say, it’s headed to Goodwill. I sure wish Santa would have brought me one of these instead . . .

:: via Design Milk

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Bluebird & Trees Carafe.

The Bluebird & Trees carafe by Shinzi Katoh is covered with beautiful, simple illustrations of, you guessed it, bluebirds and trees. It’s made from heat-resistant glass so you can fill it to the brim with either hot or cold beverages. All I know is that it makes me crave orange juice real bad …

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Oblique Magazine Rack.

I love the simple, structurally clean design of the oblique magazine rack by designer Marcel Wanders. I’ve always hated stacking up magazines and great little books just because things start to feel cluttered. Although this is waaay out of my price range it’s a great alternative to the Magazine Pile and a nice way to show a particularly awesome spread in your favorite mag.

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Sugar Lump.

I can’t recall ever having used a sugar lump myself, but that’s not stopping me. I love the design and grid structure of the Sugar Lump by Kathleen Hills so much that it just might make me start asking “One lump or two?”

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I Heart Cereal.

A lot. It’s perfect and I could probably eat it three times a day, every day, for a few years before I ever tired of it. These accessories available through Vincon would only serve to feed my cereal addiction in a more attractive way. So long ugly cardboard boxes and soggy spoonfuls. The stainless steel cereal dispenser is attractive enough to leave on the counter and the cereal spoon lets you eat first, drink second. (The spoons would also be fantastic to use with soup.)

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