Awesome Living

Open your wine bottles Kraken-style with this creepy squid corkscrew from Dellamorte. Made from cast resin with a stainless steel cork remover. Would be cooler if the tentacles pulled the cork out.

The Kale Factory’s healthy dried kale chips taste as good as junk food, in flavors like vegan cheese, sea salt & vinegar, bombay ranch and spicy miso. Once you’ve devoured them, reuse the wood gift box.

A surprisingly versatile and complex blended Scotch Whisky, with notes of honey and marzipan. Works great straight up, or in something as wonderfully-sublime as Sam Ross’ Penicillin cocktail.

The C’UP is exactly like the Beer/Shot Glass and Beer Shot Stein, except it’s geared towards coffee drinkers. The smaller side is great for a shot of espresso. Available in two designs.

One step closer to the Foodarackacycle, Kenwood’s Cooking Chef Kitchen Machine is a 4-in-1 appliance that combines stand mixer, food processor, blender and induction heat to cook food in the work bowl.

When you’re done downing shots at your holiday party, it’s time to move on and have some dessert. These edible candy cane shot glasses are perfect with spiked hot cocoa or some Baileys.

LEGO Certified Professional Sean Kenney has created a unique series of sculptural modern lamps built out of LEGO bricks – mimicking the shape of lathed wood. Available in 5 styles and 10 colors.

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1.5oz jars with magnetic lids. Easy to stack and peruse. You can even order them with spices included plus labeled lids. Or get just the jars and use them to store nuts, bolts and other small items.

Make your luggage easy to spot with these large and distinctive retro tags made by Two Arms Inc. for Herb Lester. The tags are made from Tyvek, making them resistant to rips, tears and water.

Store your bike in style with these handmade architectural wall racks, crafted from durable hardwoods such as black oak, chestnut burl and birch by the artisans at Latvia’s Woodstick Ltd.

onefortythree’s handmade chair has a curvy seat and back molded from walnut-veneered ply, mounted to a welded steel frame with solid walnut rockers. Choose from leather or tweed cushions.

Similar to the Impress, the Minibru lets you make French press coffee then drink it right from the same container. The 12 oz. mug comes with a plastic plunger and a silicone gasket.

Not to be confused with this product, Chiasso’s Urban Shelf evokes the atmosphere of city dwellings by mimicking the appearance of fire escape ladders. Tiny vandalized walls not included.

The Awesomer picks its top gift ideas of 2012, sifting through our thousands of items so you don’t have to – though if you want to spend the next 3 hours on the site, we won’t complain.

The GoToob reusable silicone tube for storing small amounts of fluid like shampoo, lotion or condiments. You can write on the ID ring to identify the contents or select one from the preset labels.

Behold, the most brutal frying pan ever made. It’s a teflon pan with a badass sword hilt made from aluminum and silicone. You can also just get the handle to weaponize your existing pans.

The Conceal is a small wall-mounted bookshelf that practically disappears when it’s stacked with books. It can hold up to 15lbs. of small to medium books. Also available in a double version.

Kikkerland Design just put the bottle opener industry in a chokehold. Crowns will immediately tap out once these tough wrestlers get to them. Available in three different poses and colors.

An innovative ceiling fan which not only does away with the classic bladed design, but improves airflow by producing a quiet, recirculating vortex of air through laminar flow between spinning flat discs.

Simon Storey’s, deconstructed speakers can be rearranged into a wide variety of shapes and configurations. Handmade from MDF, they include left and right woofers, tweeters and midranges.

Designed by Kreafunk, the aShelf is an iPhone dock that will be useful for practically all of your life, even when Apple changes its dock connector again. It has two 20W amps and two 40W speakers.

Why have a bookshelf lead to a secret chamber when Q-Line can design you one made up of hidden compartments. Just remember that it’s ok to conceal things other than guns and knives.