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Via 7 Gadgets:   an Uncomb that will make you weep big emo tears.

From Shelteriffic, a teddy with no heady.  Not for your sensitive three-year-old.

Photojojo turns empty glass jars into picture frames.  Can you say genius summer project?

Over at the b-line, Amy assembles lovely things that begin with the letter “u.”  It’s windowshopping, Sesame Street style!

The comments on this Apartment Therapy post are more entertaining than the artwork, which leads the AT folks to defiantly round up more typographic artwork.

And hey!  Speaking of artwork, have you entered to win our enormouschampion giveaway?  Go do that, and we’ll see you back here on Monday.

Wondering what to do with all those foolish pictures of you and your drunken friends/mother/cubiclemate decked in Santa hats that are left over from this year’s holiday festivities?  You could just press delete on your digi cam, and let the evidence of your asshattery disappear into the ether; or, you could print them out, snap them in this faux Polaroid frame, and call them art.

And speaking of asshattery, there were over 100 ridiculously funny entries in last week’s Sin in Linen giveaway, which we narrowed down to one eloquent winner.  Congrats to Erica, whose comment is here;  for having the moxie to use the word “starch,” she gets to sleep on new sheets.  (Oh, don’t be sad.  I told you witty, not pity.)

Check back tomorrow for this week’s giveaway, from the fantastic Madras 641; you won’t be disappointed.

The best gifts to please screeching, barking, tired households like mine, short of free babysitting and maid service.

Sweet felt frames for all the birds in your flock.

Because as long as you’re bribing the kids with hot chocolate, you might as well take that Carnation instant cocoa to the next level.

A trick from my beloved grandmother, who hails from the pre-germ era:  kids love counting and rolling coins.   These colorful metallic trays are also perfect for making change when they play store.

Put your foot down once and for all.

Be the goose that lays this golden egg in their backyard.

The only foreseeable issue with these Lego-handled utensils is that the kids will insist on eating with them stacked in an awkward fork-spoon-knife combination. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

Made from densely packed magazines, this bulletin board (no push pins necessary!) is the sharpest I’ve ever seen.

The ultimate rainy day entertainment: a 500 piece “impossible” puzzle based on an abstract illustration by Alex Beard.

These cards make traveling sew much fun.

Why freeze ice when you can freeze the cup instead?

This gigantic digital photo frame (15″!) makes that newborn baby almost lifesized.

While they’re not quite Anarchy in the UK, these punky monkeys are so much cuter than letting them stick a safety pin through their ear.

Bedtime battles be gone:  turn on this constellation maker and snuggle under the Milky Way tonight.

Memorialize the whole family on a stick-figure pillow that Mom and Dad will keep on their bed forever.

Yes, these are bugs encased in Lucite.  Is that creepy?

Feed their Bob Ross addiction with a paint-by-numbers set.  Just make sure it doesn’t end up in the garage sale by “accident.”

Use these spy sunglasses to confirm your long-standing conviction that they are indeed following you.  Even if “they” just happen to be, um, your parents.

Because after all this fun, mom and dad are tired.  Guaranteed.

Forget the safety of those overpriced crystal picture frames that plague many a wedding registry.   I’m putting my nuptial black-and-whites in this handmade mosaic frame, inlaid with tiny pieces of ostrich shell (the eggs are harvested after the chick hatches), which will be a timeless artifact that transcends purple paper napkins and porcelain keepsake doves.