Violet Jelly from Blue Gate Farm

Oh my gosh. Remember that violet jelly your grandma used to make for the county fair? No, you don't cuz your grandma never made something this awesome like Blue Gate Farm does! Lightly flora, sweet, and GREAT on an english muffin. Blue Gate Farm makes the best!!! Special thanks to Jag's Photo Blog for the image I'm using without permission here.

Cyber Clean

This stuff really works. Gets gunk out of tiny cracks. If it's a flexible surface you're pushing it into, it will sometimes leave pieces of gel in the cracks which can be removed with light dabbing with the larger chunk of gel, so be careful in those cases not to squish it in too hard. Can sometimes leave an oily film on glass, but i've had good luck with glossy plastic and enamels coming away clean. I'm not sure i buy into it killing germs. I have no way of knowing.

Millstream German Pilsner

Lager lovers who like a clean, clear, and very brightly hoppy brew will enjoy Millstream's German Pilsner. They lightly hop it while the wort is boiled and then hop it again at the end while the wort cools resulting in a beer that is mildly bitter and brightly floral in its hoppy smell. Yum!

DR Handmade Guitar Strings

These handmade strings need to be wound slowly when you restring with them or they'll break (so the package says), but they play and bend very nicely. The most impressive thing about them is they stay in tune extremely well. Even after the first stringing of them, they stay in tune where a regular guitar string would continue to stretch requiring retunings almost daily for the first week or so.

Gundlach Bundshu Chardonnay

Red wine lovers can pass on this if they like, but I really like looking for flavors in chardonnay and you won't find better than in Gundlach Bundschu's. A lovely pear flavor to start and a brown sugar smell. The aftertaste is what really sells it though: marzipan.

Small-town Pizza Huts

If you're a person of a certain age, you remember the hey-day of pizza hut when it was actually really really tasty and not a disgusting hole where screaming kids dripping mucus have birthday parties. Want that experience of Pizza Hut being a fun, yummy place from the past? Go to a small town Pizza Hut - a town with less than 5000 people. The people working there are adults, it's clean, it's friendly, and they take their job seriously because running a Pizza Hut is a decent job to have in a small town. That chewy-crunchy-lightly greasy crust and tangy sauce you remember are waiting for you at a small town Pizza Hut.

Maple Butter

If you're a maple fiend like me, this is your crack. It's just maple syrup that's further reduced to the point it starts to make very small crystals of sugar - there's no actual butter in it. Maple butter isn't cheap, like most real maple products, but the impact of the deep maple flavor is intense and great on toast or ice cream. Tastes delicious served on a spoon too.

Sweet Autumn Clematis

Gardeners looking for something low-maintenance to cover a sunny wall or fence will love sweet autumn clematis. It grows fast, comes back strong most years, and requires no care at all once it's established. Awesome clouds of white, fragrant flowers in early September. Sometimes can spread nearby by seed, but it's easily controlled.

No Plot No Problem

Want to write a novel but never knew how to get started? No Plot No Problem will get you to your first draft in just 28 days. Easy and fun to read, this book coaches you through getting the first draft of 50,000 words created. Even if you just wondered what it would be like, it's a great experience to ride the roller coaster of following his method.

5 Hour Energy

Yup, it really does work. It feels a bit pricey, but it's long lasting and really doesn't give you that fluttery, vibrating feeling of having way too much caffeine. Tastes like baby aspirin.

Things for iPhone

Looking for that missing To-Do application for your iPhone? Things is it. Create custom groupings by project or subject, and even group those within each other if you like. Nice pop up alert features if you choose to turn them on, and you can purchase a desktop app to sync it with wirelessly if you like.

Epiphone Les Paul Ultra II

Gibson purists will be reluctant to pick up this axe because of the reputation Epiphone has sometimes for producing sub-standard guitars. This guitar has a slim neck with a fast flat finish on the back and a solid playing feel. The reason this guitar is awesome is the nanomag pickup in the base of the neck. When it's the only pick up on, there's a warm, acoustic sound to your playing. When it's paired with the neck or bridge pickups, it rounds out a full sound that can be either rich or chimey depending on how you set the tone. Cons: the gold hardware which always seems to wear off and corrode quickly.