Awesome Living

The Blackmail Postcards pack contains two blank cards as well as over 250 assorted self-adhesive letters, so you can easily create your own ransom note-style messages. Or actual ransom notes.

Want to get your entire Thanksgiving meal over with in a single course? Look no further than chow’s turkey cake, layered with sausage stuffing, cranberries, mashed and sweet potato “frosting.”

We’ve seen scoop shaped tortilla chips that help you get more salsa on the chip, but this spoon-shaped corn chip concept by Denis Bostandzic is brilliant. Frito-Lay, you’d better get on it now.

Tokyo’s Daisuke Motogi created this comfy chair that can hold all your books, remotes, gadgets and other small objects in the cracks between its soft blocks. Just don’t lose your pocket change in it.

To make this coffee shop fit in, Nemaworkshop used the nearby Bryant Park Library for inspiration – and came up with a library turned on its side. The “books” are actually pictures on custom tiles.

Sure, your watch, phone and computer already have one built-in, but you’ll have fun forming and arranging digits on this old school calendar. Made using laser-cut acrylic and wood veneer.

An elegant tool for opening bottles of bubbly, it has a square end that won’t cut. A bottle of G.H. Mumm’s Cordon Rouge is included, so you can test your bottle slashing skills out of the box.

It doesn’t get simpler than this. Actually, it could get simpler – the bottle opener has a magnet right where the bottle crown fits so it won’t drop after it’s popped off. Clever.

Artists Mike and Matt of Wonder Bros offer these Picasso-esque superhero prints over at their Etsy shop. While we kinda like scrambled Spider-Man, The Man of Steel is going to give us nightmares.

Classy yet geeky, Etsy seller pixelthis made this awesome turntable clock from a recycled Sanyo platter and a vinyl album. It’s no surprise that it’s already been sold. So why not make your own?

Unlike other automated trash cans, Simplehuman’s Sensor Can is smart enough to avoid accidentally opening, and it also recognizes continued use (>3 secs) to prevent it from closing unexpectedly.

Need a place to take a nap while stuck at the airport? Sleepbox would offer a climate- and light- controlled private sleeping chamber, with luggage storage, Wi-Fi, gadget charging and an LCD TV.

The idea for Jonas Hakaniemi’s aluminum and plastic Box Light was derived from a matchbox. Offered in 2 colors, the lamp can be hidden or exposed as you like by adjusting it with your hand.

Grinding never looked so good in the kitchen until now, thanks to these strikingly and sturdy salt and pepper mills from Vipp, made of a combination of aluminum, stainless steel, and matte rubber.

Made from a combination of MoonSilver – an alloy of moon dust and silver – and fragments of the Apollo II, the Moon Fighter boasts 48 hand-fixed rivets, a titanium point, and a wing-shaped dock.

Malagana Design’s Equilibrium Bookcase consists of 5 separate cantilevered modules that can be configured at single angled points. It holds more than 120 lbs and disassembles without tools.

We always figured the guys at Sears were pretty uptight. Apparently we were wrong. They even have an entire section of their website for zombie shoppers. Be sure to read the Zombian translation.

Designer Riccardo Bovo uses a computer algorithm to generate unique stools from 100 random laser-cut wood triangles, tied together with zip-ties to create a lightweight, rigid, portable seat.

It’s getting cold out. These firestarters from Natural Light Candle Co. will let you use even damp wood to start a fire. Made from shaved hardwood chips and food-grade wax set into a 3oz paper cup.

We don’t think we have to wait till Halloween to put these fun handmade stuffed monster pillows from Johnny Cupcakes on our couch. Each monster is marked in a numbered limited edition.

You may have seen Avion if you watch Entourage. Well it’s a real thing, ’cause we’ve tasted it. Perfect in a tequila sunrise, a red dawn, or straight up, we quite enjoyed its silky smooth finish.

When departing in the ’90s, the Soviet army burned the explosives out of the mines stored in Mädasadam, leaving multitudes of cases as scrap iron. Mati Karmin repurposes these relics as art.

Lutz Pankow’s Rockkit is a pair of aluminum skids that can transform nearly every 4 legged chair into a rocking chair. The skids are screwed onto the legs with rubber mountings and are removable.