With the rhythm of the season underway, invitations to mid-week suppers and long weekend brunches are on the rise. So too is theft amongst friends who will go green with envy when you show off these lovely small things. Invite them at your own peril.
It’s been a long hot summer, and as social calendars fill up again, you can steal a march on the invites by having the rest of your circles to yours first.
But if you’re going to show off some of these tempting new season buys, you can expect some of them to get pinched.
Smear campaign
There is nothing more satisfying than smearing toast or bread with room-temperature butter. This pack of two stainless steel butter knives with wooden handles costs €15.99, excluding delivery, from Mango Home.
Expect someone to like one of the covetable knives and slip it into a coat pocket.
Perfectly pilferable
These everyday wine glasses are a cut above the ordinary. At just 8.5 cm high, they mean you can enjoy a tiny mid-week tipple without feeling too guilty.
With a ridged top and a short stem with textured detailing, they’re also probably temptingly covetable, €19.50 for a set of two at Marks & Spencer.
Sticky finger situation
Halloween and Christmas decorations are already in the shops.
Even those without kids in the household will love these LED-lit ghosts that can be used to add ambient pools of light throughout the house.
They cost just €3 each from Dunnes Stores. At 11 cm high, one is small enough to fit into most bags.
Tinder box
It’s lighting-up time. Through Archivist Gallery, Bath-based screen printer and illustrator Charlotte Farmer has turned a prosaic box of matches into a miniature work of art.
The 11 cm square box costs €10.95 from Article, Dublin. Each box contains about 125 matches.
Imminently liftable
Minimalist fans will love these Georg Jensen-inspired stainless steel coupes, which are perfect for a scoop of something sweet or even affogato, which combines dessert with an after-dinner coffee.
Each 6.5 cm high dish costs €9.99, ex delivery, from H&M Home.
Tempting merch
With the exhibition Snoopy in Style running until September 26th in New York, merch from the beloved Peanuts comic strip is one of the most covetable ways to update your home.
It includes the theme that friends make everything better, something to consider if you happen to notice that this check-print Linus tea towel, about €17.50, excluding delivery, is missing.
Pinch bowls
These stoneware side dishes, 12 cm wide, come in glossy autumnal colours that add the same kind of polish to the supper table as a manicure does to your hands.
A set of four Hostagille bowls costs €6 from Ikea. Use for sweet or savory, from rice to picky bits and poached pears.
