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After lengthy years of experiments, the breeders have finally developed these rainbow roses, offering you a clever alternative to the red roses for Valentines’ Day. These colorful roses have been developed through a unique coloring process, during which the rose-branch absorbs all the different dyes as they grow. Though they are real flowers, these rainbow roses can only be purchased as cut or dried flowers, rather than a rose bush. Such flowers can be ordered by visiting the website below. [Read the rest of this entry...]

The Piggy Ball is a piggy bank that features three ‘NEVER’.

A. It NEVER let any coins drop out of it, though cut with several slots all around;

B. The ball would NEVER roll away automatically, due to the weight of coins inside it.

C. You’ll NEVER get the coins again unless you hit the ball open with a hammer.

You don’t believe that? Have a try then. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Still feel excited about the movie ‘Avatar’? Well, here’s something may make you feel more excited. It is the ‘I Am Stuffed Animal’, which aims to turn your images into cute stuffed dolls. Look at the two pictures, isn’t that interesting to see another ‘you’ in the room? At least your girlfriends will be rather glad to be accompanied by so cute a ‘you’! [Read the rest of this entry...]

I didn’t even really think about how boring the postcards I sent to my buddies were until I saw the Lovi Postcards designed by Anne Paso of Finland recently. Apart from seeing your regards or congratulations, your friends could also create a heart, a bird or a pig with the flat-packed pieces. Isn’t that interesting? I’d like to send them to my friends for the coming Spring Festival. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Create an edible calendar with that rolling pin! Designed by Futura 2/2, the interesting Bakery Calendar might be a good gift for your buddies. Just for fun! [Read the rest of this entry...]

What could present your love better than your heart and roses? In combination of thousands of mesmerizing roses, the heart-shaped pillow is definitely the best gift for Valentine’s Day. The gadget is powered by AA rechargeable batteries, which will be automatically recharged by the built-in battery charger when wore out. Commissioned especially for Valentine’s Day, only 50 pieces (35 pieces in pink and 15 pieces in Ivory) are available and you are recommended to pre-order for it if you love the idea a lot. [Read the rest of this entry...]

They’re the best wine racks for music lovers! They’re two cute wine racks that are shaped like two guitarists. All made from recycled steel, the left one is the Elvis Impersonator Wine Caddy and on the right side is the Country Western Wine Caddy. So which one is your favorite? [Read the rest of this entry...]

Had not been told that the black/white/yellow stuff set into the 10 carat white gold ring is an uncut rough diamond, possibly nobody would recognize its true value. And that seems more or less the same as the process we look for the true love—we met somebody, came to know him/her, took him/her as our best friend, and years later we realized he/she was rightly the person we’d been looking for. So in my mind, no rings would present love better than the one designed by Sruli Recht.

Each ring comes in a hand-painted box. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Google wishes you a happy new year with the specially-designed calendar. Nothing is really new about the Google Calendar, except that it is designed with a ‘Google’ logo. Yes, Google has stepped down from the screen and into your real life. It is as large as ordinary calendars, measuring 30cm long and 21cm high. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Yes, I know most telescopes on the market are much more elegant than the one presented here, but you know why we decided to introduce it to you guys?

It is because the story of making the telescope has deeply moved us. A man who had never attempted wood-working before made the telescope all by hands for his wife and it is the deep love for her that drove him on to complete the project. So it must have been very difficult for him to DIY such a special gift and his wife is really lucky to have so nice a husband.

If you’re planning to give your wife a big surprise, you may also try to DIY something, though not that large or complicated.

Water Globe, United Water of Earth, Unbottled Water and Water Egret, those attractive names did have gripped our imagination before we exactly knew what they were given to. You may hazard a guess from the key word ‘water’ in every name.
Actually, those interesting names separately presents the blue, orchid pink, sunrise orange and saw-grass green water bottle of the KOR ONE set. Each coming with an artistic vision of the nature, these bottles are designed to call for our attention to keeping a healthy planet and a beautiful nature. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Happy Christmas’ Eve! Possibly you’re still looking for an unusual Christmas tree, and I bet you would love this innovative tree by Peter Terren. Using a Tesla coil, the 30-foot tree looks brilliant in the open air, with much electricity going around. If you’d like to construct one such tree by yourselves, please check out Peter Terren’s blog for more information. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Well, well, obviously Christmas gatherings with families are important to us all, and the designers are busy presenting interesting Christmas decorations to bring us with more fun. In their opinion, a Christmas tree will give us more, apart from gifts. Look at the Cable Cars Christmas Tree here, the animated cable cars that are moving around do add more fun to traditional trees. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Wouldn’t you love to greet your friends who have recently moved into his/her new house with something cute and funny? This ceramic tile, dubbed as Teeny Tile, will surely surprise your buddies a lot. Each coming with an adhesive magnet, these ceramic tiles printed with valuable images, such as a celebration in high school, an unforgettable birthday, is obviously the most eye-catching items on the wall. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Allow me to introduce Mr. Mouse and Miss Cow to you guys. Yea they’re two members of the animal family, and this time, they have a new job— acting as mini sliding wheels and moving your furniture around. Just connect them to any tables and chairs, Mr. Mouse will always convey them to your needed place. Cute! [Read the rest of this entry...]