Hearts galore!

This was a fun bento box to arrange. The blue heart is much easier to see in person than it is in this picture. The sandwiches are bologna, white cheese, and Colby jack. I wonder if they were any good? There's a pancake and apple sandwich as well. I thought that was a really neat idea! I also added some cabbage and lettuce to fill in the gaps of the bento. There's also some furikake and hot dumpling sauce for Roope to choose from depending on what his stomach tells him to eat.

Classes this year are going to be a bitch. I'm a fairly good writer when I try, but my English class seems pretty fast-paced. Meh. I have to get back to a koi picture I've been working on lately, so I have to cut this post short! Bye for now fellow bento-ers!

Underwater bento fun!

This bento was fairly simple to make. The only thing that really gave me a problem was carving the crab out of the fake crab meat! I didn't get a close-up of the details, but he's got little legs hidden under the lettuce kelp. Pretty cute, huh?

The sandwich got a little squished before I could get a picture of it. I took this on Roope's floor, so by the time it made it to the house, the tips of the sandwich were flat. No worries! I'm finding that making sure everything fits properly in a bento is one of the most difficult parts of creating them. All the other tedious stuff is fine with me. Once it comes to putting everything into the compartments, I take forever.

School for me starts back up this week. I'm starting to wonder if I'll have enough time to at least continue making bentos. Not a whole lot has been going right, so I won't be surprised if I'm too stressed to write here! I hate Alltel with a burning passion. My old photography teacher is being completely negligent of me. Did I mention Alltel can go lick my butt? Anyway, happy bentoing!

Bento with a twist

Okay, so I really felt like making some sushi again. I used to make sushi about once every week or two, but now I'll just make some inari zushi and call it a day. I'm a little proud of this bento other than the fact that one of the carrot rolls has the swirl going the wrong way than the other two. Damn me and my constant perfectionist nature!

I gave Roope half of a kiwi and half of a strawberry that had been sitting with some cut pinapples. I'm sure that strawberry was delicious! I laid the cranberries and blueberries atop of the inari zushi simply for decoration, but Roope ended up eating them as they were for the sake of experimentation. Apparently it wasn't bad! I have to wonder, because he's like a human disposal despite his slim structure...

It's getting easier and easier to make bento boxes look nice even though I do something new and different almost every day. I'm about to start my classes again so I might not be making them as often. We'll just have to see what happens. In the meantime... I don't know. Keep enjoying the pictures I post!

Full of lazy and tasty.

Okay, so I got back from MAG Fest 6 on the 6th, but didn't fully recover until the 8th. I've still been making bento boxes, but I've been really tired. I don't have a lot of drive to hype this bento box. There's a lot of neat stuff in here, though!

I've got the regular stuff such as the apple bunny, tamago with crab meat, soy sauce, and furkikake in a bottle. I've also got a new heart-shaped sandwich, some lettuce and carrot on rice, walnuts, and strawberry. The cheese and carrot sun looked a lot more appetizing before it was put in such a humid room and got sweaty. I was told the sandwich was delicious! I only added swiss, sharp cheddar, and some meat to it. I feel great to be able to make a tasty sandwich without the aid of sauces.

You can't really see it, but there's a candy strawberry hidden near the heart sandwich. Adding that into the meal brought back old memories of those things. Does anyone else remember eating those as a kid?

I still haven't gotten a good enough technique down to cover all of the bottom of the bento yet. Adding small things such as walnuts, carrots, and lettuce seems to help. I'll have to work on that...

I'm still doing a lot of recovery from that con. I don't know if I'll want to go again. It's so expensive to stay at a hotel and it's stressful to figure out my ride situation. I can't exactly drive a Vespa on the Washington D.C. beltway, nor would I want to. Whatever.

Bye for now everyone!