Engineering the perfect sand castle is tricky even in ideal conditions. If you don’t get the sand to water ratio just right, your majestic creation will collapse and wash away. Unless you’re cool with cheating. In that case all you need is a jar of Brookstone’s magical Sand that’s always the perfect consistency.
This wipe away USA chalkboard map reminds me of those pull-down maps you had in grade school. Except you won’t get in trouble for drawing all over this one.
Grilling and patriotic holidays go together like stars and stripes, so New Jersey-based designer Jacob Riley-Wasserman’s Star Spangled Spatula is a perfect fit for your July 4 barbecue.
If, for whatever reason, you’ve decided that simply biting your fingernails isn’t the best way to keep them short, you’ll want to invest in a nice trimmer. But not some giant monstrosity that requires a purse or a murse to keep it on hand. Go for Kershaw’s ultra-thin nail clippers that fold down to an easily pocketable four millimeter package.
Obviously there are flowers you can eat. But be careful about digging around your garden to find some yourself. You could chomp on something poisonous and then—oops! You’re dead! But if you’ve ever wanted to deck a cake out with some beautiful blooms, this Edible Flower Seed Kit from Sarah Rainwater is a safer bet.
You know that phrase "don’t mess with a good thing?" Sometimes you come across a product that’s so simple, and so-self evident about it that it’s perfect. I feel that way about the Unihook by designer Pat Kim.
Your drying dishes look like crap sitting there on the counter waiting to be put away. Why don’t you do something about that? Too lazy? At least now you can dress them up, with Black+Blum’s lime green High & Dry dish rack.
There’s an endless number of distractions that can prevent us from curling up with a good book. So the folks at the London-based design studio, Tilt, created the OpenBook chair. It’s an oversized comfy seat wrapped in an empty library that you can fill with your favorite books and magazines, creating an oasis of reading in a sea of distracting electronics.
Forget bulging muscles or a toned set of abs. If you really want to impress everyone on the beach this summer, a stunning sand castle is the way to go. And if your sculpting skills max out at Play-Doh snakes, these architectural sand castle molds will let you re-build the most stunning structures from past empires, ready to be lost to time once again once the tide rolls in.