The day after tomorrow I’m leaving for my vacation to the United States. Because we will camp in the Rocky Mountains (Colorado) I have no access to the Internet for two weeks. I’m looking forward to this adventure for months now and I can’t express how exited I am for leaving this Wednesday.

See you next month!!

During my vacation the shop stays open. All items purchased between August 25 and September 14 will ship after Monday, September 15.

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

My Littlest pet shop collection has grown again the last couple of weeks. In Prague I found so much cute pets that I couldn’t decide which one to buy. I brought 8 new friends home with me. A few of them were on my wish list like the seahorse, dragonfly and punky bat and the other ones I simply couldn’t resist. Like this little cute piggy I call Melon. I’ll post more pictures later this week.

I’ve added sad cookie keychains to my etsy and dawanda shop. The chocolate chip cookie is hand sewed and has a key ring so you can attach it to your keys, belt or bag. How cute.

I’m back from vacation. It’s always nice to be in Prague and since I’ve been there many times it feels kind of familiar. The weather was great and we have seen a lot of pretty buildings and churches. But pictures say more then words so see for yourself.