Cool Stuff: Hammocks & High Tea

There's nothing like a crisp new tea towel or two to freshen up your kitchen, and I'm absolutely loving these pretty ones from Hammocks & High Tea. Printed with non-toxic, water-based ink on a blend of organic hemp and soy, the handmade, silkscreened 17-by-26-inch towels are just $13 each. (I might even grab a couple of extras to sew into a summery cushion cover.)

My faves: Parrot Cove, above.

Ikat Chevron

Indian Summer

Wild Ginger

Hammocks and High Tea also offers pretty French lavender- and rose tea-scented rice paper drawer liners. Above: Indian Summer, $25 for a set of six.

See all of the offerings at Hammocks & High Tea -- owner Karen Young makes gorgeous stationery as well -- right here. (Pssst -- if you're a Daily Candy reader, you get 25 percent off your order right now.)

Cool Stuff: Scented Wrapping Papers

Not too long ago, I was browsing in Rockridge's divine Maison d'Etre when I came across several boxed sets of really beautiful paper. And not only was the paper lovely to look at, it was imbued with a subtle but heavenly natural fragrance as well.

Produced in collaboration by Brickhouse Soap and Dewey Howard, the recycled paper measures a generous 19 1/2 by 27 inches, and can be used to line your drawers, to wrap gifts, or to give as a gift itself. The scents include green tea, fig, orange blossom, verbena, cinnamon clove, and rosewood.

The paper is $30 for a box of six (the recycled boxes are beautiful, too) from Figments Design, at Anthropologie stores, and, of course, at Oakland's Maison d'Etre.