Take Your Happy Pills

Take them with you wherever you go, that is, with these bright and cheery enamel pill keychains from Jonathan Adler. If you must drag dosages around (and frankly, whether from lactose intolerance to swine flu, we're bound to be popping pills for different reasons at all points of the year) why not make it convenient and pretty? So portable, and you'll hardly forget them since they're stuck to your keys. And since they're shaped like big ol' pill capsules too, you'll be reminded that you need to take your medicine (recreational or otherwise) just by looking at them. Get them for $19.50 at Jonathan Adler, in four color combinations that are so high-spirited, they're bound to make you feel better.

Mirror, Mirror, On The Walls.

Usually you just have to deal with one wall for mounting a mirror, right?

The corner possibilities for this piece are intriguing - the design adds a completely different dimension to decorating, and I'm really curious about what the views are like when you put multiples of them on one corner. I'm definitely getting at least one of these. The websites also tout it for use as a mirror and a shelf (and a little more improbably, as a shaving mirror so you can see underneath your chin at the same time. Personally, I think they're reaching with that one). It certainly has a similar appeal to the mirrored dish shelf I posted a while back, and I liked that one enough to buy it and mount in my foyer. Not shipping til the end of November, but you can pre-order it from Mollaspace. Via BLTD.

Bed Bugs

When you get ready for the new Fall season, the last thing you want to find is moths in your abode (as I recently discovered with my Rick Owens pants that are now Swiss cheese) but in this case you may want to make an exception.

Every time I walk through the West Elm store in Chelsea (I use it as a path to get home when I'm in Flatiron), there's always something I find myself wanting. This is a good thing for West Elm, as their design team is amazing at always creating consumer desire for new stuff. These new vintage butterfly duvet covers and shams have a very John Derian look and passed muster even upon closer inspection. Never mind the fact that they call them butterflies when they're actually mostly moths (and the big one looks like it might be a Cecropia Moth that they left out the antenna feathers on, but I can't be sure if it's a totally different species from what I'm thinking or just the female. Sue me - I love biology). Sadly, the material isn't the softest at the touted 250 thread count, but if you know your sheets you'll know that thread count isn't the way to go when determining fabric softness anyhow. Still, these are a snoozefest in the most ironically positive sense of the phrase, because as decorative items go, they're pretty spry. There's something about making a statement with your sheets, and this one has great big honking graphics.

If they don't go with your bedroom scheme, you could consider them as throw pillows for your couch too. West Elm likes to blow out a good design into different categories, so you could literally buy into a look quite heavily and your apartment could look very matchy-matchy (don't do that). Check them out on West Elm's site.

Hogg Wild

I'm wild about these prints from from British illustrator Richard Hogg. There's such a joy in his Brick-O-Fly print that it makes me smile soOOoo much! (I can hear that brick giggling in my head as it flaps away) And his Flatpack Sexbot is both sexual deviance and childlike innocence all at once. At £40 -£45 they're not exactly cheap prints when you factor in the dollar exchange, but for original art it can be considered a bargain for so much Superflat exuberance. Besides, when was the last time something made you smile just by looking at it? It's like visual Prozac. All art should be so effective. Get them direct from the (oh-so-talented) artist, on his website www.h099.com.

Safari, So Good

The taxidermy trend is definitely yesterday's news (although still a valid goth-y accent to an eclectic home, I'll concede) but you can still indulge your inner huntsman in a more modern, Peta-friendly way. Argentinean illustrator Nacho Gil's wild animal portraits series, The Animals look like a cross between origami and wall trophies, making them especially trendy. The whole paper geometries thing lives in these very glossy, CAD-looking illustrations, but the way Gil renders his subject matter still makes them appealing - despite the glossy finish of his illustrations, the animals show loads of personality...ahem... head on. Frankly, I want to buy the whole series and frame them, but there isn't much information on acquiring these as prints on Nacho Gil's website. There are 8 'portraits' all in all, and you can check them (and not much else) out on nacho-gil.com.

Morning Splash

Hello, Kitty

USB Flash drives are the adult toys of the personal computing age. From Mimobots to Legos, their easy functionality allow product manufacturers to play (pun intended) with exactly how they would look. In the case of this Ravage Transformer Flash Drive, it's quite literally an adult toy. So perfectly true to the original cartoon character it emulates, it starts off disguised as one thing but transforms into another. And okay, so it's a paltry 2 GB by today's standards, but how many other flash drives have articulated legs and a tail? The only thing missing is a way to attach it to a keychain or some other carrying convenience, but I suppose you can't have everything. Get it for just under $43 from Yahobby.com.