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Thursday, April 10, 2008

  • Bento #13 and #14; UNAGI (EEL)!

    Boring food - Left to Right - Cheese and Broccoli rice topped with cucumber slices and cherry tomatoes; Carrot broccoli mix; 2 Shrimp/pork dumplings; Half a hard boiled egg; Cheese round
    Unagi nigiri with spicy mayo imitation crab mix under the unagi; wrapped with nori band
    Sushi lunch (gahhh): Left has sushi with unagi,cucumber, and spicy mayo crab mix, Right has unagi nori with cherry tomatoes to fill in empty space.

Sunday, April 06, 2008

  • Bento #11 and #12; Journal Entry on Shoes! :D

    Pesto (parsley, basil, Parmesan cheese, garlic, cream cheese, heavy cream, almonds) chicken, imitation crab and spicy mayo, carrots, rice, broccoli, Babybel cheese, mini bagel half, hummus sprinkled with lemon pepper
    Top row: Japanese seaweed salad, beef teriyaki (both leftover from Mori Sushi lunch) with some imitation crab mix on top - both sprinkled with some furikake - on bed of white rice; bottom right: 3 nigiri sushi (leftover from Mori Sushi lunch); bottom left: cherry tomatoes and weird orange Chinese fruit (you eat the skin only, not the insides...) on top of cucumber sticks.

    Sorry for the delay (if you even noticed)...got distracted by journaling! :)
    Click to see larger image (it's all gross and distorted here!) Hehe, I really liked this entry. So far I've done 5 entries in the span of 2 days..yikes. I started the sketch at high school fellowship and finished it when I got home.

Friday, April 04, 2008

  • Journaling - The Beginning

    So I was browing Flickr and came across this AMAZING site where a freelance artist/designer took pictures of her journal pages...and I simply fell in love! These pages had beautiful artwork on them in addition to being written records of her everyday life! It's something I've always done on my own anyway, but am never organized enough to keep up with it...so I figured that getting a nice journal was a good way to keep track of my life without having everything reduced to boring type and pixels (like right...now...oops). Anyway, I went to Barnes and picked up some Moleskine journals! Yay!
    Moleskine Cahiers (French for notebook)! They make me super happy! They're light and portable and plain...it leaves me free to decorate it. The original Moleskine notebooks were used apparently by Hemingway, Picasso, and other important literary and artistic figures...neat. The original producers were from Paris and discontinued these notebooks in 1989. The Moleskines created today are actually just based off descriptions of the last famous guy (Chatwick) that was obsessed with them. It's not actually moleskin bound, but cardboard bound, and it the binding is actually thread, so you can lie the journal FLAT very easily, which is perfect for drawing/writing. PS: I like how the label reads "for all occasions"...like I'm going to wear it to a wedding or something...
    CLICK TO SEE LARGER IMAGE! This is the cover I created for my first journal. It is based off a picture of a Japanese cherry blossom (which I am also obsessed with). The black branches are colored in with fine pen and the leaves are actually text from my favorite passage in Jane Eyre (the part when Jane throws down with Mr. Rochester in the garden). The quote is by my superhero, Abraham Lincoln.
    CLICK TO SEE LARGER IMAGE! The inside cover page. The verse is Proverbs16:9 and is really applicable for me, the super perfectionist freak out type who loves to plan ahead and put alarms on her phone for every possible imaginable event (ie: i have alarms everyday for feeding my dog, lizard, and basil plant). The pattern was inspired by a pencil bag that Seher gave me! :) It took a lot of time...these patterns are so tedious but totally worth it in the end.

Thursday, April 03, 2008

  • Attempt at cuteness #2...still not enough for Kai...! =( Maybe it's enough for Benny?
    From L to R: Steamed chicken, steamed fish, pork ribs, broccoli and carrot mix on a bed of rice (I added in some yummy imitation crab spicy mayo mix before school...couldn't resist!), almonds, egg decorated like a chick with black sesame seeds and a carrot, cheese stick underneath.
    Chicken egg! :) HAHA GET IT.
    Heart strawberries are fun! I couldn't make ALL the strawberries into hearts though...some strawberries are simply not cut out to be hearts. HAAAAAAAAAA!
    Breakfast: MMM! Vanilla/almond oatmeal with strawberries!
    My new basil plant! Individual basil leaves at Walmart are simply a rip off! You get 2/3 of an ounce for $2.88!!! RIP OFF. So I decided to be super Asian and get the leaves at their source...heck yes. Large Sweet Basil plant - $4.64. For my pesto!

  • Bento #9 - A Heart-y Meal

    My attempt at cuteness was not enough for Kai. What a jerk!! #1 Jerk!!!
    My attempt at cuteness to satisfy Kai and Benny, the ever criticizing food nazis! Aren't these cute?!?! HMPH.
    Simple lunch...3 rice balls covered with black and white sesame seeds, celery and cucumber sticks, imitation crab with spicy mayo mix, pineapple cake, and Babybel Light Swiss Cheese round. Yum.
    Perfection! I love the color contrasts here. Yum...sushi...

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