Another item to add to the rush of Pac-Man products that currently seems to be hitting the high street, this time a Pac-Man ice tray.
For a now just-about grown up generation of gamers, this suitably bright yellow plastic tray allows you to make ice cubes in the shape of Pac-Man and the ghosts (complete with their blank eyes). You could could even get creative with your food colourings and colour the ice to match the game characters.
The ice tray costs £9.
Buy it from Urban Outfitters
This apple-patterned notebook from the V&A Shop is a pretty piece of stationery as it stands and is made more remarkable once you've realised it's adapted from a dress fabric design from the 1950s.
The pattern is part of the vast archives of the V&A Museum and, in this case, it's drawn from the work of Joyce Badrocke. She was one of the textile designers for Horrockses Fashions, who inspired a range at the V&A shop earlier this year. This design is every bit as fresh and colourful as you'd expect from their dresses and works well on this A5 notebook.
There's also a smaller notebook available that uses a pattern featuring rabbits, based on one of Badrocke's designs for children.
The notebook costs £3.25.
Buy it from the V&A Shop
Somehow chips always taste better when scooped out of yesterday's newspaper. However, it's getting rarer to find places that still wrap up their fries in that way. You can now recreate the experience at home, without getting your fingers covered with newsprint, with this chips and sauce porcelain newspaper set.
There's no doubt that this Watermelon tea towel by Vera would brighten up a kitchen. 'Vera' stands for the American designer Vera Neumann who was famous for her designs for silks and textiles, starting from the 1940s.
Her designs are being reissued on new materials, first with the Teacup alley wallpaper and now with this range of tea towels. Look closely at the image and you'll see the design features her trademark 'Vera' signature and ladybird. This vibrant watermelon print is just one of several food related designs available – the other designs include images of kebabs and buffets, both being much more stylish than they sound and definitely worth investigating.
The tea towel costs £9.
Buy it from the Lollipop shoppe
Cath Kidston, Lisa Stickley: we seem to have featured a lot of cake tins recently. But if you like cake, these stacking cake tins have a great advantage – you can store three tiers worth!
Apart from the joy of holding a lot of cake, these tins have got the benefit of some good vintage style. They come in cream covered metal, with either green or red lids. The look is topped off with some matching, not-too-twee, retro typography. For those who are slightly less greedy, they're available as single tins too.
The set of three stacking tins is available for £35.
Buy it from the Dotcomgiftshop
Since its creation in the mid-sixties, Robert Indiana's Love artwork has appeared in many forms and inspired countless others. This could be the most popular yet – 'Chocolate Love', a recreation of the work in cocoa.
Taking the form of the instantly recognisable stacked letters with slanting 'O', this miniature work of art measures 10cm square and is made from solid dark chocolate, covered in edible gold dust.
At £7.50, it's probably the most affordable version of the artwork too – though is probably too tasty to be around for long.
Buy it from Heal's
