Simple Monday Bento

It's Monday and a simple bento was so in order!

1/30: Happy Dumplings- dumplings w/ face picks, strawberries, green beans

linked to the following bento meme: What's For Lunch

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Bento Beginner Set Giveaway Winner

The Bento Beginner Set Giveaway has ended and a random number generator has been run. Comment #50 was chosen.

The winner is a long-time follower of mine! Congrats to mverno! I will email you and you have 48 hours to claim your prize!

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Chinese Lanterns Bento

While Chinese New Year lasts two weeks, this is the end of my CNY bentos. I've really challenged myself this week and am pleased with the different bentos I've created. Tonight is the big Chinese New Year performance at my daughter's school. The school is decked out with lanterns, so I decided to make lanterns for today's lunch. I made up the red egg sheets last night. I love how easy egg sheet is to make and work with.

1/27: Chinese Lanterns- lantern made with egg sheet decorated with yellow icing & red crystals, strawberries, blueberries, turkey & cheese, edamame
linked to the following bento memes: Bento of the Week, What's For Lunch

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Thematic Thursday 3: Super Bowl Football

Thank you to everyone who participated in the first 2 weeks of Thematic Thursday. We had over 60 entries in the Winter/Snow Link-Up.

The link with the most views this past week was Snowflake Doughnuts from Hungry Happenings. Beth has lots of fun food ideas on her blog.

Here are 2 other submissions that I want to try out!

March of the Pingus from Biting The Hand That Feeds You. Perfect for a party!

Making Slipper Socks from Sew Can Do. Warm & cute!

Week 3 Theme: Super Bowl Party The new link-up is Super Bowl or Tailgate Parties. Please post the direct link to anything you've created, done, or posted about that is related to football or tailgates. It doesn't specifically have to be NFL stuff. Anything that can be adapted for different teams is OK. Football draft party ideas would be great too! You can post more than one, but it needs to be your content/from your blog. Older posts are OK! No giveaways please. Please grab one of the Thematic Thursday buttons and visit/comment on at least 3 other participants! Full guidelines on this meme can be found here.
Upcoming Schedule:  2/2 & 2/9 Valentines

Find other great memes to participate in at Link Rink!

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Tortilla Dragon

I was running out of ideas for Chinese New Year bentos, so I went to see what others have done this week. I came across this dragon by JDaniel4's mom and decide to copy it. I think it turned out better than the photo did!

1/26: Tortilla Dragon- dragon made with red dyed tortilla circles with nori for accents and face from candy eyes & blueberries w/ carrot in the mouth, beef stick, green beans, strawberries
linked to the following bento memes: Bento of the Week, What's For Lunch I link to food memes listed here. I link to creative memes listed here.

Tomorrow is the last day to enter to win my Bento Beginner Lunch Set.

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