At Christmas I usually receive $$$ that I can spend any way I want. This year I wanted to get something I saw on another site that looked interesting and fun. Something I would never buy because I am pretty frugal. And I like shopping at Amazon because I have free shipping. These items are made of wood and are very colorful. I use the spoon as a coffee scoop and the bowl, which is small sits in my kitchen window to hold my rings when I'm working in the kitchen. There are bigger sizes of bowls which I've put on my wishlist because those are not cheap. But I had fun getting these in the mail, they brighten up my kitchen during the gloomy days of a central New York winter.