Visit Button-Street for those cool little mini-buttons that you see on peoples hats and T-shirts. The designs change monthly and they’re featuring some Hellish Halloween buttons for the October. Here are a few examples:

Get them at Button-Street.

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Here’s a nicely designed lamp inspired by all things Japanese. It would look great on a nightstand (that’s where I have mine) or on the floor if you’re after an Asian look and style. It’s about 10 1/4″ tall by 9 1/2″ wide. The lamp is crafted from solid black walnut with sandblasted plexi for the shade. The base piece is a solid 2″ thick and gives the lamp a nice bottom heavy feel. It’s finished with 3 coats of a poly/tung oil/beeswax combination. It comes with a bulb and casts a nice zen-like moody light.

Get it from Turtlebones Shop at Etsy 

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If you’re the type who worries about the little things, like bombs exploding on your watch, then this may be the multi tool you’ve been looking for. The Bomb Defuser has everything you’ll need to disarm any bombs that might be around, plus, as they say, it’s good for hiking, fishing, and camping. It would make a cool gift for the bomb defusing types you know.

Get one at BombDefuser.com

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Here’s a pop-up book featuring some of the common phobias that plague people. The illustrations are pretty incredible and the engineering of the pop-ups is pretty intricate and witty. It covers plenty of phobias in a short time with definitions of each phobia including the scientific name followed by a toung-in-cheek write-up of  each one. The Phobia pop-up book is 1/3 Part academic, 1/3 part humor, and 1/3 part art which adds up to a 100% great gift. Among the phobias covered are: fear of flying, fear of spiders, fear of public speaking, fear of heights, fear of the dentist, and in case your free of all those… fear of death. As of this writing you can pick one up for $19.77 at Amazon.

Get it at Amazon: The Pop-Up Book of Phobias

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If you’re in the mood for handmade check out these bookmarks at etsy. They’re solid rosewood with a tung oil finish. They have a couple of beads made of natural bone on a black cord that are meant to hang outside your book. Mark your books in style for just $4.

Get one at Etsy

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These hot cinnamon toothpicks rule! When they say “lip melting” they aren’t pulling your leg, believe me. They come 15 to a pack in a “super-glide” dispenser that lets you pop them up like toast when you want one. We used these when I was a kid and these are the closest I’ve come to a real cinnamon toothpick since then. They’re American made solid birch toothpicks soaked in screaming hot cinnamon oil for a “good long time” and shipped to you fresh. I love ‘em.

Get some here.

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Forever is a damn long time, but this flashlight will be there. I Guess? Anyway it’ll last at least until I break it, or lose it, whichever comes first. It won’t run out of light, so that’s good. You just shake it for a couple of seconds and it’s charged for the next ten minutes or so. I think the Ten Minute Flashlight would be a better name, that way I don’t go down the road of pondering a flashlight that may possibly outlast me. But hey, shake me for a couple of seconds and I just get dizzy. You can get one at Amazon for $12.99.

Excalibur Forever Flashlight

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