Click It. BEAT picks of the week.

Etsy's March Meet & Make in California is taking place tonight in Los Angeles and San Francisco. More details here.

How cool is Stella McCartney?

If you have some awards-season catching up to do, Hugo and J. Edgar are out on DVD this week.

Have you tried Starbucks' Blonde Roast? It was the hot item during my morning stop today.

I've been loving slathering on Aveeno's Positively Ageless Reconditioning Night Cream. It smells fresh and is a great creamy but not too heavy consistency.

This Pomelo Blossom candle from Catbird in Williamsburg, Brooklyn smells SO good. They also make great tin travel candles.

Extremely simple Thai curry to make at home.

-- Leslie Anne Wiggins

Photo credit: dropcloth / Etsy shop

Check It. Cowls.

In my search for appropriate clothes for Los Angeles' unseasonably cold winter, I came across the cowl -- a very cute loop scarf that can be wrapped around the neck several times and wore a variety of ways.

Above is the Amelia XXL cowl found on Etsy.com, where vendors can sell their homemade goods. I love this scarf's chunky knit and color and it looks perfectly cozy for cold winter mornings.

Cowl's can wrap around to create a hood to protect your ears from any biting wind.

I recently found a finely knit embroidered pea green cowl which I'm very excited about. Check out more designs on Etsy, and if you're have any talent with crocheting, you can buy cowl knitting patterns on Etsy, too.

-- Lauren Williams

Check It. The Walkmen x Etsy.

Call me shallow, but it's really disappointing to me when a cool band has awful t-shirt or album designs. Yeah, I judge books by their covers.

The Walkmen, an indie rock band known for its scratchy, careening vocals and jangly guitars, aren't one of those bands. Their cover for their 2008 album You & Me is one of my favorites of all-time, and I honestly couldn't even tell you why. There's something so aesthetically beautiful about it--the text, the image. And it helped that the music was great too; it's a great dark and seductive fall album.

But The Walkmen are on to the next, and although I haven't given it a good listen yet (stream here now on NPR!), Lisbon's album cover, at least, is promising. What I'm also digging is their new collaboration with online craft website Etsy, in which the band called upon three Etsy artists to help create limited edition items to go along with Lisbon's release. The exclusive items include a silkscreen print insert for 7", a T-shirt and silk-screened poster, and all were inspired by Lisbon, Portugal (which in turn, was The Walkmen's inspiration on the album). Definite must-have for any fan, but still nice and creative enough for anyone who likes cool art.

Be sure to order your Walkmen x Etsy items soon, though: you'll want to do it before Sept. 10 to ensure delivery by Sept. 14, when Lisbon is officially released, and it's all limited-edition.

Check out the items here.

-- Chau Tu

Check It. 'The Life of a Plastic Bag.'

Do you ever wonder what becomes of that plastic bag from the grocery store after it gets thrown away? Or even ... how it feels?

This video shows the life of a plastic bag after it's bitten the dust and moved into a landfill. Props to the person in the video who uses the bag nearly 87 times before tossing it, though. Most of my plastic bags only go through one or two uses before getting thrown away.

The personification of the bag (and spooky voice) in the video I find a bit unnerving, but it's definitely gotten me to think twice about leaving my reusable bags at home before heading out to the market.

-- Lauren Williams