Okay, more bento stuff!

Again, most of this was bought at Daiso. The bento boxes themselves were purchased other places.

An overview of the whole pile:



Baran (food separators) and soup spoons:



More baran, hashi (chopsticks) straps to secure boxes, and a wet wipe napkin:



Little silicone cups, a furikake shaker, sauce bottles and dropper to fill them:



One of the boxes, the inside of the other, and assorted stuff. The ghost bento was part of an auction lot I got off gothicauctions.com:



More silicone cups. food picks, and rice ball makers:



And finally, the lid of the other box. The small text says, "Time to lunch is happy tickling in your tummy!". It was bought at Archie McPhee.

Kitty fanaticism

I've mentioned that both of us are serious Hello Kitty freaks - I thought I'd prove some portion of this for you today. These photos are of our Hello Kitty bento stuff. In my next post I'll show you some of our other bento things too, mostly bought at Daiso (Hurray for Japanese chain stores opening US branches!).

First, an overview of the set:



Now some closeups of various parts. The insulated bag:



The baran (food dividers):



The two-layer box:



A shot of some of the smaller items:



The curry bento, used for more liquid dishes (note: this may not be legitimate, I can't find the official Sanrio copyright on it):



The hard-boiled egg mold:



A furikake shaker. It's really too big for carrying with lunch, but I couldn't resist putting it in the photos:



Smaller containers, hashi (chopsticks) and a case:



Mayo cups and plastic sheets that can be used as decoration or as furikake stencils:



A shaped rice ball maker:



Rice ball holders, great if you want a snack:



And finally, tiny sauce bottles, with a dropper for filling them:



it's a pretty fine bento set so far, don't you think?

I know I said...

That I was moving all my scrapbooking to my other blog, but this one belongs here more than there.

The past few weeks I've been playing the Hello Kitty Online Founders beta, which ended last night.

Here are a couple of memorable scenes from the game, saved as screenshots then given the scrapbook treatment. The first was taken when a glitch in the game transported me into an odd location:



and the second was taken the final night, when two of our guildmembers got 'married'.



There'll be more of these to follow as I recover the ability to use my mouse hand (....and fertilize, and harvest, and dig up, and plant more, and fertilize and harvest.....)