This Stinky cheese spreader made me smile. It’s a vintage butter knife that has been stamped with the word “stinky.”

This is a great way to joke with your guests who are picky about cheese. (I like it all.) [Rare Bird Finds]

I use a magnetic knife holder in my kitchen and love it, and I can’t believe no one has thought to make a wooden version before (that I know of, anyway). From the site:

Strong magnets hide inside a striking piece of reclaimed, old-growth Cypress. The wood selected for our knife holder was milled from early 20th Century water towers built in Chicago.

Very handsome. A little pricey at $125, but a good idea nonetheless. [Design Milk]

Love this! It’s a robot that divides into four measuring cups: 1/4, 1/3, 1/2, 1 cup.

$10 at Kikkerland Design. (swissmiss)

These Escaping Metal Bookends are pretty funny.

Also amusing are the Falling Metal Bookends:

$44 each. [Rare Bird Finds]

I am lusting after this tent from Sea to Summit. It weighs 22-29 ounces and is about the size of a water bottle.

The worst part of camping for me is dragging all the gear around, so this tent is appealing. It uses ultralight aluminum poles and comes in two sizes, both of which fold up to the size of a Nalgene water bottle.

The downside is that the tent costs $429. My current tent cost about $30, which is about as much money as I’m willing to invest in camping equipment, but if I were about to take a serious backpacking trip, I’d definitely consider this tent. [Gizmodo]

These Piranha Plant Earrings from Etsy are pretty awesome. The Piranha Plants are, of course, from the Nintendo video game Super Mario Bros.

Unfortunately, it looks like the earrings are out of stock for the moment, but more will be up next month. [Neatorama]

Check out this Vampire Killing Kit from the 1800s. It has a Bible, holy water, a cross, silver bullets, a gun, candles, knives, garlic, and of course wooden stakes.

This particular kit sold for $15,000 in an antique auction, and for good reason–it’s awesome. And these vampire killing kits were apparently a thing in the 1800s. Check out more of them here and here and here.

The question remains, were these kits serious or a novelty? Since most of the kits are high quality and date from around the 1840s (the novel Dracula came out in 1897), it seems that these were intended to really protect people from vampires.

And since vampires don’t exist, let’s hope these kits were never used!

I love the Thomas Paul Bedding Preview on Design Sponge this morning. It gives us a peek into Thomas Paul’s fall bedding line.

Very cool.

I like his pillows too.

Normally I’m not one to put clothes on dogs, but this “dogeater” coat inspired by the children’s book Where The Wild Things Are is pretty cute.

I’m not sure how much that dog likes wearing the coat, but it makes me chuckle nevertheless. $65 on Fairly Enchanted Designs. [Rare Bird Finds]

I was quite taken with this Frog Dissection Diagram Pillow over on Shopdirtsa’s Etsy site. It reminded me of this post on science project pillows.

The price of $65 seems reasonable considering that this pillow is 16 X 16, wool, and hand sewn. I might have to splurge on this one.