The trinkets on fredflare.com are always quirky and sometimes pointless. Naturally, I want it all. Here’s a short list of the crap I want at my next party… along with a few party guests. Preferably human.

Mini Cocktails Set of Shot Glasses

Graffiti Cocktail Shaker

Ion Audio Vertical Vinyl Wall Mounted Turntable

Wine Glass Name Tags

Kit Kat Clock

Cupcake Floss

As independent women, we tend to believe we are invincible and leave ourselves vulnerable in dangerous situations. It’s important to have a plan to defend yourself in case of an attack.

After coming across a tumblr post by LettersInTheAmpersand of these self defense cat key chains, we decided to find our favorite, concealable ways to protect yourself every day. Being prepared with a plan, a defense weapon and a self defense class could save your life.

Metal Cat Key Chain Found Here: DefenseDevices.com

This unique Black Cat Defensive keychain packs a sharp punch! Can be used for punching, slashing and tearing.

1,000,000 Volt Cell Phone Stun Gun Found Here: SafetyGirl.com

Features a safety button to prevent accidental discharge, extra-bright LED flashlight and red LED on/off indicator.

Lipstick Pepper Spray Found Here: SafetyGirl.com

This 3/4 oz. canister contains 20 half-second sprays with a range of 10 ft.

ila Sport Pedometer and Personal Alarm Found Here:

The super-small ila Pebble sounds a piercing 130-decibel alarm when it’s activated.

Featured Photo Found: phlmetropolis.com

If Marry Poppins had a laptop bag, this would be it. She wouldn’t fuss with a purse, she would get it all done in one. Case Logic is known for it’s sleek design and well made products and luckily they’re having a winter sale. Find this bag and others for 20% off at caselogic.com.

Have fancy pants trash cans at your fancy pants party. These pop-up, 30 gallon cans look so much better than big black trash bins, plus they are cardboard, made from recycled content, and are 100% recyclable. They can be a little pricey, but worth it for showers, engagement parties, or any fancy pants party you throw together. Find them here.

Modern trash and recycle bins for parties and gatherings.
Swap out your kitchen step can with Hobnob Pop-up Party Bins during your next get-together. Hobnob’s large capacity bins mean fewer trash bag changes, leaving you with more time to actually enjoy your own get-together. Isn’t it time the hostess had some fun too?

If your gifts are lame, you can always wow them with the presentation. Gift Couture has this cute idea that will soon be available: wrapping paper that coordinates with itself in a creative way.

There are about two days left to back the Gift Couture project on KickStarter. The funding goal has already been reached, but donating to the project secures your place at the top of the distribution list.

Once produced, we will begin the process of distributing to everyone who supported us, sending promotional sets to retailers and opening our online store at giftcouture.com. Funding will also encourage and enable us to release additional coordinated sets, which will be available online and through retail partners.

Each complete set of Cheeseburger wrapping paper will be packaged and include the following:

2 – 27″ x 40″ Sheets of Bun

1 – 27″ x 40″ Sheet of Hamburger

1 – 27″ x 40″ Sheet of Cheese

1 – 27″ x 40″ Sheet of Lettuce

1 – 27″ x 40″ Sheet of Tomatoes

Thank you to all of our supporters! Everyone who contributes to our project will be featured on a special contributors section of the upcoming official Gift Couture website. We are also offering individual wrapping paper sheets and complete sets, and our highest backers will each receive one of our hand-made golden cheeseburger trophies as a sign of our appreciation!

Found on thisisn’thappiness and DesignMilk.com

I’m all about surfing the web more efficiently. With Instapaper, save all the pages you want to go back with one click. The queue will wait patiently until you have the time to catch up on all those gems you didn’t have the time to delve into. They have a bookmarlet and iphone/ipad app. You can send text versions of pages to your kindle or ipod touch and read even when you’re offline (read: stuck in a subway tunnel).

No pressure, just read. The best part of Instapaper is that there are no social networking gimmicks involved. No friending, following or tweeting. You save your pages and read them later, undisturbed from all of those vices that stop us from reading.

They break it down pretty simply: