Last weekend I’ve had some fun with polymer clay and made these two cupcake charms. They are not for the shop but just for personal use. I’m gonna use the chocolate orange cupcake for a necklace but I’m not sure what I shall do with the banana cupcake. Any ideas?

Hooray for mail day! My new bento goodies arrived much faster than expected. Always a nice surprise when the postman rings. The package included: two bento boxes, dressing bottles, friends of the sea bento picks (not in the picture), star & heart shape egg molds (not in the picture) and a little treat strawberry pocky! Yum I love pocky.

Some months ago I discovered the art of bento making. A bento (or obento) is a Japanese single-portion takeout lunch packed in a box. The traditional bento consists of rice, fish/meat and vegetables. But I’m a vegetarian therefore I only use veggies, rice and eggs, tofu or nuts for my lunches.

What I like about bento boxes is the combination of creativity and cooking because the main goal of bento making is to make it appealing to the eye. My goal is of course to make mine as cute as possible. And another big plus; these lunches help me to eat healthier.

Below you see the bento I made today. It’s a very simple one but it tasted very good. The contents are: a cute rice ball (onigiri) with soysaus, cucumber and carrot sticks with homemade guacamole and a bunny shaped egg. I used a special egg mold for the bunny and wagame (seaweed) for the face of the rice ball.

Here are some links if you want to know more about bento:

• More of my bento creations on flickr
• How to make a Bento?
• Bento recipes
  
• Online shopping for bento gear

Hip hip hooray! It was my boyfriend’s birthday yesterday. He made brownies and I had some leftovers with green tea this morning. Our kitchen cupboard is full of different kinds of tea but I only drink the green one. So yes you can say I’m addicted to green tea. I think the perfect combination with tea is chocolate. Mmm!

Last week was a girls week. Thursday I went shopping with some girls I’ve just met a while ago at a course. Now we finally had the time to know each other. After shopping we had some drinks and ate a great salad at a restaurant. Saturday I went out with one of the girls again to watch the Euro 2008 soccer game (the Netherlands against Russia) on big screen. We had a great evening even though the Netherlands lost the game.