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Off to Market Recap: Valentine's Day Kitchen

partysugar — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:50:50 -0800

Valentine's Day is just around the corner and at this time of year I love to decorate my kitchen with hearts. To ensure that we all have more love in our lives, I asked you to search the Internet for festive Valentine's Day themed kitchenware. When you found a fabulous item, you bookmarked it. You saved them in the Off to Market group in the YumSugar Community, and now I'm sharing your fun finds with everyone.

How cute is this 3-piece, heart-shaped bowl set that lauren discovered? They're perfect for seasonal candies like pink-foil wrapped kisses.

Check out the entire selection of heart kitchenware below and don't forget to keep on bookmarking!

Interested in learning more about bookmarking? Check out the complete instructions here.

Yum's December Must Haves

partysugar — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:50:13 -0800

Twinkling Christmas lights. The woody smell of a fresh tree. Beautifully wrapped packages. An endless array of salty appetizers and fizzy cocktails. These are some of my favorite things about December. From baking cookies to sending cards, there's a lot to do around this time of year. Let's not waste a minute more; here you'll find the top five items we can't live without during this busy month.

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Off to Market Recap: Candy Bowl

partysugar — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:50:34 -0700

On Halloween night, no house should be without a special candy bowl. Whether it's a jack-o'-lantern bowl or a simple one you use all year long, a candy bowl is necessary to appease trick-or-treaters. To ensure that we are ready to feed the goblins and ghosts, you headed off to market in search of candy bowls.

You bookmarked everything from festive, themed bowls to practical, durable bowls, then saved them in the Off to Market group tagged with the keyword candy bowl. How fun is this Wool of Bat bowl that steen found? Part glass, part clay, I love its crafty feel! For more Halloween bowls, browse the selection below.

Interested in learning more about bookmarking? Check out the complete instructions here.

Off to Market: Candy Bowl

partysugar — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 06:50:57 -0700

Be sure to save your find in the Off to Market group and tag it with the key words candy bowl. Good luck! Interested in learning more about bookmarking? Check out the complete instructions here. Need some shopping inspiration? See a list of my favorite online stores when you read more.

Bed Bath & Beyond
CB2
Cooking.com
Crate & Barrel
Ikea
Linens and Things
NapaStyle
Pier 1
Plum Party
Pottery Barn
Sur La Table
Target
Restoration Hardware
Williams Sonoma
Wishing Fish
World Market

Pampered Pals: Dogleg Diner

PetSugar — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:00:20 -0700

Well, these dishes have four propped feet so I guess the name Dogleg Diner ($98) is appropriate, but I still imagine a soda fountain with pups on roller skates. OK, that's just me. Anyway, coming in four powder-coated steel colors, these solid stands will hold up to even those vigorously greedy gobblers.

With a small size holding one quart and a medium with two, they'll work for cats and big dogs since the height ranges from about five to 10 inches tall. Surely this would be up to your kitchen's high-design standards - but is the dollar amount too pricey for your recession budget?

Off to Market: Salad Accessories

partysugar — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 06:50:16 -0700

This Summer we've been celebrating in-season produce with a plethora of delicious salad recipes. Thus I thought it was high time we showcase a wide variety of salad accessories. From bowls to spinners to colanders to tongs to platters, a lot of kitchen tools are necessary to prepare and serve a scrumptious salad. This is where you come in. I want you to tell me your favorite salad accessories. Whether it's a tried and trusted wooden bowl you've been making Caesar salad in forever, or a shiny new set of porcelain tongs that you've been contemplating purchasing - bookmark it.

Share it with us by saving it in the Yum Market on TeamSugar with the keyword tag Salad Accessories. Next week I'll highlight your collection of salad essentials!

To learn how bookmarking works, refer to geeksugar's explanation. To get you started, check out a list of my favorite online stores and read more.

Bed Bath & Beyond
CB2
Cooking.com
Crate & Barrel
Ikea
Linens and Things
NapaStyle
Pier 1
Plum Party
Pottery Barn
Sur La Table
Target
Restoration Hardware
Williams Sonoma
Wishing Fish
World Market

Slurp Bowls Are Fantastically Eco-Tastic

PetSugar — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 06:00:12 -0700

Hot day, hot dog, cool drink, cool dog – if you're in a warm climate, I'm betting you take many water breaks on long walks. Now, I've been known to form a makeshift bowl for North with my hands – and showed him how to drink from a sports bottle stream – but these bowls would make his sipping much easier.Slurp Bowls ($13.50 for a six-pack) prevent impromptu drinks from questionable dishes or emergency stops for a to-go container since you'll always find this on hand, strapped to the leash. The recyclable and re-usable bowls fold out to hold two cups of water or food and then snap back up. Perfect for all your outdoor adventures.

Twinsies Gaia & Gino Are Twice as Fashionable Food Options

PetSugar — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:25:01 -0700

Way back when, I confessed that North's two dishes cost more than my entire collection of flatware. I remember feeling pretty remorseful about my choice, but the stainless steel has lived up to that investment nearly seven years later! After spotting these sleek twosomes, I'm not feeling guilty but a bit jealous since this is a splurge-worthy set if I've ever seen one. Ringing in at $90, twins Gaia & Gino come in glossy melamine and seven color choices to be set up together . . . or separately. The design's also practical – with a built-in handle for filling and refilling – so no sloshing here! Could you see this mod design adding style to your household?

Bare Bones: Aqua Bol

PetSugar — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 08:00:05 -0700

With temps still reaching the 70s in SF lately, North and I have been taking advantage of the weather, and going for nice long walks on the weekends. You can pretty much bet that two out of three times, I'll forget to grab his pop-up bowl from my car, leaving me to buy a sports cap bottle in the nearest convenience store and play drinking fountain with it as he laps water mid-air. Although there's nothing wrong with this practice, I've found a solution I will never run out of the house without (unless I forget my wallet . . . and then we're both in trouble): The Aqua Bol ($6).

This simple, yet stylish water bowl comes in three colors, and folds up to the size of a credit card so you can stick it in your wallet when you need it. No more using your hands! Although I'm sure it's the germaphobe in me talking, it feels a little unsanitary for North to drink from my grubby hands after petting other dogs during a walk in the park, and handling his dirty fetching ball. I know I wouldn't want to drink from those hands, so why should he? Either way, this is a genius solution that had me saying, "Why didn't anyone think of this sooner?"

Bare Bones: Jax & Bones Toys and Accessories

PetSugar — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 10:30:54 -0700

While visiting the awesome Heathy Spot pet shop in Santa Monica, I spotted these super cute Rope Toys ($14) from Jax & Bones that I knew North would love to sink his chompers into. Made from 100 percent natural dyed cotton thread, you can be sure that these toys are not only good for hours of chewing fun, but are good for your pooch and the earth. Not only that, but for each toy purchased from Jax & Bones, part of the proceeds will be donated to the Rescue Train Organization, which helps find homes for pets and operates a no-kill rescue program.

But the goodness doesn't stop there - J&B's beds are all eco-friendly and made from 100 percent recycled materials! This brand leaves me with a full shopping cart, as well as good karma. Check out some of my favorite picks from Jax & Bones in the widget below.