If you live in the US of A, you will well know that April 15th was the deadline to mail in one's taxes. It's such a laborious, painful event that feels like the mother of all gambles. Will I get a return? Will I owe? I have friends who handsomely and poorly fall into both categories this year.

So then I got to thinking, after seeing a post...somewhere in this interweb..about tax time wishlists where a guy scored the most gorgeous tulip chair as a 'gift to himself' at tax time. What an idea! So...here below, please find my 'wishlist' from which I would choose to splurge on!

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<strong>Digsmed Spice Rack</strong>

I think these bad boys are gooooorgeous! The beautiful teak wood, the subtle curves of the spice jars..and it rotates?! Ahhh, a statement piece in of itself. Though these can be tough to get ahold of, if you keep a diligent eye on ebay and from time to time google search it - they do pop up. Most recently I found one in a <a href="http://www.thefabulousfind.ca/find-of-the-week-feb-11-2010">Canadian Retro Modern store</a> for $120CAD. A lot for a spice rack? Well, this is a <em>wishlist</em>, and for something so rare and sculptural, totally worth it imo.

<img src="http://houseandfig.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/lecreugrey.jpg" alt="Le Creuset Grey" width="400/">
<strong>Le Creuset Dutch Pot - Slate Gray</strong>

Collecting Le Creuset is like collecting art, or baseball cards. It's a pretty fierce market and when 'pieces' pop up on ebay there is a mad bun fight to get one. I have items in carribbean blue but would love to accent it with a couple of slate gray items. I hear that some of the Le Creuset outlets have slate gray bits n bobs..in the meantime, i drool at whatever pops up on the 'bay that I just can't afford!

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<strong>Modern Botanicals Egg Cups</strong>

Available from <a href="http://www.paleandinteresting.com/products/modern-botanicals-large-blue-butterfly-egg-cup">Pale and Interesting </a> in the UK. The cups are so adorable. I have a thing for butterflies and insects on stuff, the images not the real things, and these cups are so twee that I know it would encourage me to have a boiled egg and soldiers for brekkie.

<img src="http://www.hickorees.com/images/MasonBagLeather16_L1.jpg" alt="Hickorees bag" width="400/">

<strong>Mason Bag</strong>

I know what you are thinking..this bag has been getting some serious blog lovin' the last few weeks/months, and for good reason. It is so versatile! You see the <a href="http://coquetteanddove.blogspot.com/2010/03/notes-on-style-smokin-hickoree.html">fashion savvy</a> posting about it being a great accessory, <a href="http://www.somethingshidinginhere.com/my_weblog/2010/03/heritage-tool-bag.html">artists</a> claiming it will lug their wares stylishly from one place to another and me. I see this as the ultimate picnic 'basket' for 2010. I can just see it now, at an outdoor movie screening, on a checkered throw, opening said bag only to produce, an array of tiffin's and brightly coloured mugs and plasticware. Oh I wish, I wish..available at <a href="http://www.hickorees.com/BRANDS/Heritage-Leather-Co/PRODUCTS/16-Canvas-Mason-Bag-with-Leather-Bottom-No-312">Hickorees</a>..but of course you already knew that.

<img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-CCcc87AqY/S55anrptsTI/AAAAAAAABQo/_Nvzluc9j6o/s800/gratedbeets_001.jpg" alt="Golden Beet Hazelnut Salad" width="400/">
                                                                                                                                                           <em>photo by Karen Mordechai</em>
<strong>An entire summer of classes at Sunday Suppers</strong>

Where I would learn to make such yumminess as the <a href="http://sunday-suppers.blogspot.com/2010/03/golden-beet-and-hazulnut-salad.html">Golden Beet and Hazelnut salad</a> shown above. I am constantly wowed by the wonderful dishes the folks at <a href="http://sunday-suppers.blogspot.com/">Sunday Suppers </a>churn out week after week and can only dream of going to class, creating something wonderful, then swinging home via the local farmers market to replicate the goodness at home.

<i>all images courtesy of the vendors listed</i>