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If you've gotta do the dishes, you might as well try to make it a little more cheerful. I love kitschy plastic flowers of any kind so these are definitely on my radar next time I need new dish scrubbers! You can find them on Amazon or eBay and lots of other places that sell Boston Warehouse brand products.

Cute little old school Windows Notepad business card. Now if only Notepad really did syntax highlighting. You can get these little cuties printed up at graphicriver.com.

I didn't think it was possible for nesting dolls to get any cuter but I was wrong! Check out these nesting food storage containers at ModCloth called Bubby's Matryoshki Food Containers.

And while you're at it, there are these clever measuring cups to match! You can find these Bubby's Matryoshkas Measuring Cups at ModCloth as well.

A monster-themed suitcase that's both adorable, practical and an actually fun way to get your kids through the harrowing airport process. Brilliant! You can find these lots of places including Amazon.

Should you want to draw some attention to the act of wiping of your backside (don't we all?!), you can find this in the following rainbow of colors: Black, Magenta, Cyan, Red, Yellow, Orange, and Apple Green at shop.renovaonline.net.

OK. While I hesitate to actually call this adorable, there is just something to be said about taking an unexpected item like toilet paper and making it all brightly colorful and cheerful, right?

Meet Butter Boy. An adorable tool for specially made for buttering your corn for only $9.50.

But wait, there's more! Don't settle for any less cute way of holding your corn. Butter Baby to the rescue.

P.S. If you like these, check out my post on the Cherry Chomper by the same company.

A tool that pits your cherries? Awesome. Shaped like an adorable cartoon character that you feed the cherries too? Priceless. You can find this at places like Bed Bath & Beyond and Amazon.

Peel and stick iPhone skin depicting the adorable Mr. Phantom X (a FriendsWithYou character). You can buy it at karmakiss.net.

I love this tableware which looks like an artists palette. Perfect for dishing out a bunch of diverse sampling of foods at meal time.

And because it's made by Skip Hop, who make really quality (and cute!) products, it's skid proof (to help it stay on the table), BPA-free, and dishwasher safe.

Find this at Land of Nod.

Of course the Japanese version of a citrus peeler is an adorable little bird eager to lend his little plastic beak to your cause. Of course.

You can find this at Amazon.