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Almost every weekend this past summer our family ate corn on the cob. My toddler daughter loves corn and gets a kick out of eating it typewriter style. I found these adorable Butter Baby Corn Picks that make eating corn easy and fun for little hands. I love that my daughter’s hands don’t get buttery and sticky and that she no longer drops her corn onto the floor. The picks come in sets of four including a pair of yellow, pink, green and blue.

These corn picks also interlock for easy and safe storage and I just put them in the top utensil rack of my Miele dishwasher for easy clean up.

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A heavy stone nestled in a bed of fluffy, hand-crocheted gold wire.  Could this ring be a more beautiful juxtaposition of light and dark?

This bag, handmade by Miami-based Lucha Workshop, is :

a) huge.  Which means I can stuff my traveling nursery in it with room to spare.

b) denim.  Which means it will be virtually indestructible.

c) screenprinted with a charming yet terrifying mishmash of gun toting zombies, sea monsters and eyeballs.  Which means it will probably bite you if provoked.

Blik has a revamped website, and I’m transfixed by some of their new decal offerings.  The designs from art collective Upper Playground are particularly good at balancing edgy and sweet:  Cat Moonlight reads so Aristocats art nouveau, and Costumes is just grown-up fun.  But for real bang on your wall, go for the eerie, exploding Butterfly Gun.

Inspired by my best friend, who just received a beautiful custom-made birthstone necklace celebrating the impending birth of her son, I’ve found a few delicate pieces that I wouldn’t mind gracing my own neckline.  (Confidential to R:  this is not a selfish, public attempt to goad you into buying me a gift.  Not at all.)

1.  Inscribed with the Socrates quote “Wisdom begins with wonder“  And with new babies, could any sentiment be closer to the truth?  2.  Symmetry in oxidization and diamonds;  3.  Hearts and swords:  you will go to battle for them;  4.  This proper Victorian will showcase your tiny photos on both sides;  5.  A stunner of a locket;  6.  Make your message secret and sweet.