Add a little glow to your evening wear with the SMOON Bijou necklace - its made from a silicon coated capsule that is connected to a silver cord and replaceable battery. The one inch diameter orb softly glows as long as the necklace is connect to its battery/latch. Available online for $99.

The watch part cufflinks are making the rounds this week - and they are an AWESOME gift for men this season. But the overlooked collection from this designer include the recycling of subway tokens from major cities as well as scrabble tiles. The full collection of mens items are coming available this spring so keep an eye out for them.

I saw this last night and couldn’t help but add it to the blog - it’s and interactive Mood Alert system using the common Emoticon symbols to tell your spouse, partner or coworkers just what you’re feeling. It’s attached to an ethernet network jack and reachable via a dedicated IP address from a webpage or cellphone… So if you’re having a bad day at work or on the drive home just log in and telegraph you’re own little personal terror alert to the family before you get there! How’s that for preparedness. Check out other concepts from the designer at his homepage

I’ve never been a fan of the garden gnome.  They creep me out and remind me of the WalMart garden center.  UNTIL TODAY, that is!

While digging through vendor catalogs from our last trade show, I came across Vitamin Living , a really obscure British company that creates things that make you go “WTF!”.  Just my kind of company!  Among their cool accoutrements are the little gnomes made of bone china with VERY cool patterns… from faces to skulls and my personal favorite, angel wings.  Suitable for indoors or outdoors—each gnome is about 8 1/4” tall.

Don’t settle for boring old beige rubberbands in your office - step up to something cooler with the HandyBands - in either Ducks or People they pop back into shape when not in use

Actually calling these ‘stickers’; doesn’t do justice to the quality, imagery or scale of these “decorative wall adhesives”; Manufactured by French company Plage they began selling wall paper in large european supermarkets in the late 1980’s but have expanded the line to images for kids rooms and now to garden imagery. While in a small apartment in France the idea of bring the outdoors into the living room is great, but I see this product mainly used in U.S. sunrooms and baths where large plates of clear glass are available who wouldn’t want to have an enormous daisy on their glass shower door! (well maybe the grass image is better.) As you can see in the product pictures, these adhesives range from 3 to 6 ft in height and varying widths based on the image - you can see the full line at http://www.plage.fr - just be aware the site is in FRENCH (one benefit of a french speaking employee on staff here); I recently spoke with their export manager while in New York and these are not yet available in the U.S. until later this year once a distribution agreement is in place. So check back if you are interested