Monday, November 29, 2010

Bento Stuff

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I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving
(if you are in the US) and a nice and relaxing
weekend afterwards. I didn't do anything special
for Thanksgiving but I had a quite bit of fun
with Black Friday deals at some local and online
shops. I love bargains. I can't resist anything like
20% off everything PLUS free shipping kinda thing.
I bought lots of necessities at Joann like batting,
threads, and interfacing, and snatched lots of
ecospun felt from Fabric.com.

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Speaking of felt, I have been really crazy about
making things with felt these days. Making felt
food was one of the million things I've wanted to
try out for a while. After sewing the popsicle block,
I was feeling like making more yummy stuff, and
I found myself spending hours browsing felt food
online. Oh my goodness felt has such possibilities!
The food in the picture is some typical stuff for
Japanese bento box: rice balls with seaweed around them,
fried shrimp, meat loaf, and lettuce. I made all these
using this great tutorial by manimani mamagoto.
I will make some eggs, brocolli, and other stuff
to complete my bento set! yay!

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The cool thing about these is this TINY size!
This is such an easy, quick, and
frugal project. You can even do this while
laying down in bed.(I did! lol) I have been
making these using standard acrylic felt
and found that it makes too much mess.
I did some research on felt and found that
ecospun felt might be a better choice, so
I can't wait to experiment with ecospun felt.



I bought this felt sweets last year for Joe's
niece Sarah's Christmas gift and was so pleased
with how happy she was with them. She wants more
now. Maybe I will make some dessert for her this year.
Handmade stuff is always better and they look
so easy to make! I am excited.. hehe!

Thank you for stopping by :)


Edited to add:

Look at Sarah's response to this post :D

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25 comments:

  1. How delightful! We just bought our little girl a play kitchen for Christmas and I want to make her some felt food. Thanks for the eco spun felt tip.

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  2. I've recently started making some simple things with felt--not as delightful as yours, of course. I had stayed away from it before, but it IS delightful :)

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  3. Lol, your hubby is so weird! I love the pic of him with your felt food. They look great! I can't wait to see more!

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  4. Dear Ayumi san, when you are over here, you can visit Daiso & buy many of these felt-kits there. Very good value for money.

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  5. Great job on that bento set.

    That felt set is definitely something to try out.

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  7. Oh so cute! Little girlies love fake pretty food, big girlies love it too!

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  8. Oh soo cute! (:
    I'll link it to my blog, okey?
    My blog: majas-monkey.blogspot.com
    I can't wait to see more!

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  9. Very nice ! I too love working with felt
    I made owls & mushrooms , bought felt from Daiso
    so happy we have Daiso here in U.A.E

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  10. I am with you, I can't resist a nice discount and free shipping (and I also purchased something from Joann). However, I saved even more because I used eBates to make my online purchases. With Joann I had an additional 5% off (not really off, but that 5% will be refunded to me by check), and fabric.com gives you a 4% cash back :o) I have been using eBates for several years now, and every quarter I get a check. I have no affiliation to the site; I just love that I can save some extra $$$ :o)
    To sign up: http://tinyurl.com/3aaacgm

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  11. haha, Sarah is so cute!!! Great job on your bento box items!

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  12. I just would like to grab the red tail of this delicously looking orange prawn, from the gourmet plate and eat it!! It felt so yummy!! Hmmmmmmm....

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  13. so cute ayumi!! Little projects like that are my favorite for sure. I have felt food on my christmas to make list for my girls, but we'll just have to wait and see how far I get. :)

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  15. so sweet ayumi! this has been on my list of to do projects since my kids were little - now they are 10 and 12! will have to make for my little niece now!

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  16. Oh, the cuteness! And the little girl... so sweet!

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  18. Fab looking sweets! I love them!

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