Pom Pom and Rainy Day Bento

My computer and I are fighting right now. Who knew it would be so hard to install Lion OSX and backup to timeline!? Seriously it's been a three day battle! So that is why I have a backlog of TWO bento to show you!


Okay so I've had a major headache for three days and threw this together, stepped back and said "I guess it's cheerleaders?" so that's what we're going with! The cheerleaders are made of meatball, nori faces, cheese collars, and of course hotdog pompoms. Beside that is some alphagetti with peas and cheese. Top tier is a medley of strawberries, kiwis, and


blueberries beside some cheese sandwiches.

Tonight's bento is more of a rainy day theme. The bottom tier is spread with alphagetti (boy likes his pasta!), meatballs, spinach, peas, and a cloud and rain made from cheese with a nori and tomato face.


Top tier is a kiwi, mandarin, and blueberry mix alongside chicken and cheese sandwiches shaped into cars!



Phewph! Now if my computer will stop fighting me I'll get up a nail post next!!

Who Lives in a Pineapple Bento

I don't think Ben watched an episode of Spongebob Squarepants in his life but he really wanted to do this bento today featuring the characters so we whipped this up together.

Spongebob is made out of an omelette with cheese eyes and shorts, tomato mouth and seaweed accents. Patrick is made from a folded slice of deli turkey with egg pants, cheese eyes, and a tomato mouth resting on some peas with a jelly fish made out of a cheese slice. To keep within the underwater theme, Spongebob is on a bed of pasta with tilapia tomato sauce!

In the top tier we have some cheese flowers (yes we ran out of bread lol) and a fruit medley with strawberries, raspberries, and mango! 

Do you know about Julep?

I was looking around for some new nail polish brands that I have yet to try when I came across Julep Polish and nail care collection. Has anyone used this yet?

Some of the colours look SO amazingly rich! Here are the one's I'm lemming over:

 

A Forest Green called Emelie

A really saturated violet called Anne

Taylor, a sky blue

 

Leah, a grass green

I'm really loving the greens!!!
And what makes it even more appealing is that they have this thing called Julep Maven Service which is a nail polish subscription service, which I'm totally new to, which sends you different polishes selected for you each month. And $1 from every purchase goes towards Julep's charitable service that helps to empower women. You can read more in this Julep Maven Review.

Now each polish is $14 which is why I kind of like the idea of the subscription service, AND really the Sephora by OPI line isnt much cheaper by comparison.

Plus I'm a sucker for deep hues. I may just have to get a few of these for some landscape nail art!

What do you guys think??

Into the Wild Bento

 We missed yesterday's bento becase Kai didnt actually end up going to daycare. He had a pretty big fever so I just kept him home where he proceeded to throw food all on the floor...probably because they weren't in cool shapes like usual :P

So today we have the ground made of barley/mushroom soup mixture, flowers and deer cut from sweet potato, quail eggs and hotdog leaves!

Top tier is tuna sandwich stars (a big thank you to the lovely Meghan, Shelby and Simone for gifting us a set of cutters that included this star!) and a medley of strawberries, raspberries, and honey mandarins!

Goin' Ape Bento

Ben is off watching the Giant's play SF or something football-like, so I'm flying solo on Kai's bento tonight!

On the bottom tier I laid a sky barley tinted blue with 1/2 a drop of food colouring. I used soba noodles for the ground with a sprinkle of sesame seeds. The trees are brocolli and the swinging monkeys are made from yams. The vines are plain spaghetti. Lastly, the sun is made from a sliced and hard boiled quail egg.





On the top tier we have a berry medley and tempura chicken with cheese flowers!

Showing Some Blog lovin'

Its been a long while since I've sent out some blog love! Here are a couple of links to some sites you should check out :)

WOW Nails - she likes to blog about local polish finds and I'm ALL about that. Check out some of these very cool swatches!

Toronto West Enders - blogging from my hometown, this couple is crafty and pretty funny. Check it out!

My Yelp - You know what I've been doing when I obviously haven't been polishing my nails? That;s right! Eating! Well I eat and then I ridicule it on the internet. Check out my reviews on Yelp! Okay its not a blog...but I'm pretty funny LOL

If you'd like me to check out your blog - post a comment or write me at my email!

Niki*

Birds of a Feather Bento

One complete week of bentoing! Its all downhill from here people! LOL.


















Since Kai LOVED the barley in mushroom soup we laid that down as a nest for birds made of omelette with blackberry eyes, cheese wings and nori feet. Then the penguin bodies are made from shrimp balls with nori faces, cheese cheeks and carrot beaks.

On the top tier we have a blackberry and blueberry medley with cheese and turkey rolls!