THINGS I LOVE | january 2010

I have a thing for thin glasses, BUT I’m kind of a klutz because I move way too fast. So you can see how thin, delicate, graceful glass and Carla do not mesh. Until now. Kuhl-Linscomb has the most beautifully simple glasses. I use them for milk to dunk my cookies in, for my morning OJ and my glass of wine…OK, the occasional water works well in them too!

Piranha pizza cutter – it doesn’t get much better than cutting a homemade pizza with this bad boy! Available at Target.

I seriously love this case for my iPhone. Chilewich has long been known in the design world as the design innovator of modern vinyl textiles and through this collaboration with Griffin, my case is, dare I say, fashionable! Elan Form Chilewich case available in gravel and light grey at the Apple Store or MoMA Design Store.

Wooden baguette holder guarantees the OCD side of my personality can rest easy with the perfect cut every time. Le Creuset store at the Spring Outlets.

I try to be as green as possible every day, but I can’t quit the dry cleaners. Green Garmento Bag™ helps cut down on the plastic bags which accumulate in just one year – to an estimated 300 million pounds clogging our landfills. It’s easy to use: I simply fill the bag with my dry cleaning and take it to my cleaners who then attach it to one of my garments and reuse my bag for pickup. Available in multiple sizes ranging from 40 inch to 72 inch in black night, blue water and green grass. $9.99 at www.thegreengarmento.com.

Houston-based handbag designer Mary Nichols has revamped her collection, and the Spring 2010 line is her first complete collection. The prices aren’t over the top and the leather is divine plus the construction is impeccable. www.shopmarynichols.com

Although I will admit that this germ thing with the hand sanitizers, the Clorox® wipees, the foamy soap things, etc., is getting a little out of hand, I have to believe that since my grocery store has them to wipe down my cart as does my yoga studio – that I must need it. But I HATE the cold, alcohol liquid stuff. Frais hand sanitizer kills 99% of germs and smells like a spa. So all you germaphobes (you know who you are!), relax with this self-inducing aromatherapy germ killer! www.frais.com.au

Ever the mascara junkie that I am, my latest find is L’Oreal’s Telescopic Explosion. A barbaric club thing gets the mascara defying inner and outer lashes. Plus I kinda like the club thing…

By Carla Valencia de Martinez
Photography by Gabriella Nissen