[GIFTED] Seamless & Steadfast Steel Enamel Plates

Do you live in a goddamned cabin?  OR, are you one of those city dbags who longs to live in a goddamned cabin but you could never leave behind your "I can get pancakes delivered at 3am if I want to" city life? 

These Seamless & Steadfast Steel Enamel Plates ($35 for set of 2, Best Made Co.) are for you!  They will look great while you're eating a rare Elk steak you hunted yourself or a filet mignon that you bought in the gourmet market across the street from your apartment.

[GIFTED] Mo's Bow's

If you're like most people, you have a fantasy career you daydream about when you've have a particularly bad day.  Whether you'd be a personal trainer, a brewmaster, or the owner of a fancy cheese shop, the scenario is the same.  You picture yourself, and you're happy.  You're living your PASSION.   

Of course, you completely gloss over the fact that starting your own business is H-A-R-D.  No matter how soul-crushing the company you work for is, you still get paid when you're supposed to.  When you own your own business, you get paid approximately NEVER.  That's why you SHOULD'VE started your dream company when you were younger; when you didn't have bills to pay, or the expectation of a paycheck in any form.  

That's what Moziah Bridges did.  Bridges—the “Mo” behind “Mo’s Bows”—ditched video games in favor of hanging out with his grandmother to learn the art of making bow ties from scrap material by hand. Now eleven years old (do you feel bad about yourself, or what?) Mo has turned sewing hobby into a bona fide business. The bow ties (starting at $30, Bourbon & Boots) are available in a variety of colors, patterns, and sizes (even for infants!), so everyone can be just as dapper as the ties’ namesakes.      

[GIFTED] Power Mate Plus Back-Up Battery

Since you’re completely dependent on your smartphone, a panic sets in whenever its battery life dips below 50%. If your phone dies, how will you get in contact with someone? How will you find your way to your next destination? How will you settle an argument about which child actor starred in Corrina, Corrina? You are essentially useless without your phone, and we all know it.

So, how do you ensure that you’ll have enough battery juice for all of these things after a long day at work and an evening of dinner and drinks? The last thing you want to do is spend time camped out next to an outlet, waiting for your phone to charge. Here’s your solution: throw the Power Mate Plus Back-Up Battery ($39.50, J. Crew) into your bag—it’s lightweight, portable, and will charge your phone while you’re on-the-go.

Originally posted on Parade.

[GIFTED] Chris Jarratt Slingshot

Kids these days are perennially attached to electronics.  The other day, I saw two 4-year-old twins, each with their own iPads.  We've got six-year-olds with Blackberries.  Enough already.  

It's time to introduced these kids to the original video game: a goddamned slingshot.  The Chris Jarratt Slingshot ($27, Not Another Bill) is a reimagined design of the old standby favored by Dennis the Menace and Bart Simpson.  Available in 5 neon colors, it'll get kids unplugged and will also give them a weapon, which is great for all of the bullying that happens in school nowadays, right?  LOL I'M JOKING.         

[GIFTED] PieBox

All right, picture it: it's Saturday.  You're going to a friend's dinner party.  You are making dessert because that is the only thing she will allow you to bring/it's the only thing you can manage to make.  How do you carry your precious, fragile pie on the subway, on your bike, or in the back of your Chevy Nova without it getting damaged somehow?

You can't very well show up to the dinner party with a half-smashed pie (that would be a great name for a band—someone tell Andy Dwyer)—you want impress all of the women you hate.  You want them to love what you baked so much they choke on it, and presentation is EVERYTHING.  

Protect your pie with PieBox ($35, PieBox), a handcrafted pine box made to transport pie and other flat food items (a quiche, perhaps?).  It's the classier, more twee version of those plastic cake boxes with the handle that you can buy at Bed, Bath, and Beyond.