Making faces

I've been looking at bento boxes a bit too much recently. I really love the idea of opening your lunchbox at work and having something fun look back at you! And, fortunately, kids are a great excuse to play with food anyways.



So, on Monday night, I couldn't sleep, so I got up at one in the morning and made a little teddy bear sandwich for Nils. It's got yeast spread on it, and ears and a snout made of cheese. The eyes and nose are raisins, and the mouth is a little sliver of veggie sausage. The stuff at the top of the pic are little stars cut out of the leftover sandwich.



For tomorrow, I made him a kitty cat. Again it's yeast spread (I'm not a very imaginative sandwich filler... It's always either yeast spread or cheese...), but with tofu ears. Cucumber eyes, apple snout, raisin nose, yay! It also comes with some extra apple stars.

I hope he likes it. He ate all of the other one, according to the nursery. No mention was made of weather he gasped in awe beforehand.

Too orangey for crows

My achievement of the week: A dress! I bought this a few months ago, when my cousin was over. I had no hopes of ever fitting into it, (I had trouble getting it on with the zip wide open, closing it was completely out of the question!), but she was dithering over whether she wanted it, and I thought that if she decides against it, I could always at least stop somebody else from wearing it! Err... and re-use the lace.

So, in my huge trunk of fabric it went and there it stayed until Thursday, when I was looking for some usable fabric (unsuccessfully - I only seem to have crap in there...) and stumbled across it. Oh, did I mention that it was white at that point?

Gripped by sudden madness, I tried it on, and wahey! it fit! And there was space to breathe and everything! And then I thought! White! Messy pigs like me shouldn't be left alone in one room with white dresses, never mind being allowed to wear them. (Quite apart from the fact that me knickers showed through....) So I went to my trusted dye dealer and bought some Dylon Rosewood Red fabric dye. And proceeded to be amazed at the lovely brightness of the colour. The pic, as usual, doesn't really show it like it is. It's kinda too browney to be red, but too orangey to be brown. It's utterly lovely. Waiting to see how it survives the next wash, though...

Plinkyplonk!

Yes, the chair is doing well. The back is still languishing uncovered, because I never look at the back, but the front is done. Pretty much. Oh well.

But! Look at the Minimonster Musical Mobile thingee! It goes plinkyplonk to the tune of 'Somewhere over the Rainbow' when you pull the little star at the bottom. It is made out of beautiful beads, and scratchy sticks, and fluffy fur, and flowery fabric. It's going to go up on etsy as soon as I manage to take some decent pictures of it.