sugar bats, heirloom sewing and bento

[aimeekitty]

I am wearing my sparkly converse. I've been very bad lately (due to my super crappy cold) and have been not working out and eating sugar bats.

VERY BAD.

BENTO - So in the interest of eating better, point me towards your favorite bento sites! Said sites must be either
(a) CUTE or
(b) show a way of using not so exotic things to make good bentos. (ie spagetti bento or turkey sandwich bento.)

MOCHI - has anyone had success in making Sakura Mochi before? Any particular recipes you would recommend? :)

HEIRLOOM - Today is the first day of the heirloom party dress sewing class! I hope it goes well! I've always wanted to learn this. (the dress is not for me, though I'm sure I'll use the techniques on all sorts of things)

Comments

[dramaminequeen.livejournal.com]

My friend Kim's site and blog--she's a sakura mochi wiz!!!

http://mylunch.livejournal.com/

http://www.c4vct.com/kym/bento/index.htm

[applcheeks.livejournal.com]

Yukiko Mama! --> http://ameblo.jp/yukiko4-2/
It's in Japanese but she has some easy to understand tutorials. =D Her gallery kills me --> http://www.geocities.jp/d_n_m_yukko/obento1.html

Lucky Sundae on Flickr is also great -->http://www.flickr.com/photos/cuteobento/
She speaks english and will answer you questions. ^_^

[bluejeans07.livejournal.com]

My favorite bento resource is www.cookingcute.com, which I might have given to you before. :D I love your outfit, you look so cute! And what's heirloom sewing? :O

[maryssa.livejournal.com]

seconding cookingcute.com

[kemica.livejournal.com]

You probably know about this one but: http://www.bentocorner.com/

[sakurae.livejournal.com]

Ooh speaking of spagetti bentos, someone on the bento comm put little swirls of spagetti into muffin cups and froze them so you'd be able to get them out and just pop one in your bento box for lunch :D I haven't tried it yet but I thought it was a simple but fun idea!

[taeha.livejournal.com]

There's a really good community on LJ: bentolunch !

[dollykat.livejournal.com]

http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0oGkyh2ATFHvUYAqBBXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTExY281YmEwBHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDMQRjb2xvA3NrMQR2dGlkAwRsA1dTMQ--/SIG=11ffkm7nl/EXP=1194480374/**http%3a//www.cookingcute.com/

[minses.livejournal.com]

Here's one from me! http://www.cookingcute.com
Hope that helps! :DD

[kittytreats.livejournal.com]

Oh man..that bat makes my teeth hurt!

[supinternets.livejournal.com]

Aside from all the sites listed above, I really like this one:

http://www.airandangels.com/bentobox/

[ruratai.livejournal.com]

Everyone else covered the English sites I like already. ^^ All I have otherwise are a few cute Japanese childrens bento blogs that I like to visit when I need cheering up:

http://aichigo.blog109.fc2.com/

http://yaplog.jp/momoprin/

http://mitunatu.blog111.fc2.com/

Not much practical help maybe, but they have to be the cutest lunches ever. ^^

Also, whilst I remember, not bento but...
J fashion magazine scans~ - http://community.livejournal.com/jmagazinescans/