Joe the Mouse!

This week has been a crazy week. Miss A has had some fall activities at school including parent teacher conferences and a visit to a pumpkin patch that fell through because of all the rain we had here in North Texas. So I only have one bento to post from Tuesday and nothing from Monday or Wednesday...:( This is a sloppy Joe mouse!! So we named him Joe of course. For those non American blog readers a sloppy joe is kind of like a barbecue sandwich but with hamburger meat. Or like a meatloaf sandwich but more saucier!! Hope that makes sense! The mouse has macaroni cheese ears, a yellow tomato nose, black olive eyes, and green picks to hold it all together in the center. We added in some cheese whiskers and filled in the negative space with yummy blackberries!!

Space the Friday Frontier...

Hee hee...Space the Friday Frontier...get it? hahahaha! That is too crafty and funny! hee hee. So why space Miss A asked this morning...honestly. I don't know! ha! We had such a beautiful moon last night, perhaps that is what inspired this pizza moon with cheese rocket ship. Also I am still on the lookout for intelligent life on earth so I thought a little alien ship would be cute as well. We have some tomato asteroids among the blueberry space. The cheerios are the asteroid belt and the string cheese...ummm..well...Miss A wanted string cheese. HA! Have a great weekend everyone!!!

MOM....

Well today was a great day because it was my birthday...I am about to get out there and enjoy the last 3 hours!! This was the fabulous bento today!! 3 little square sandwiches with the letters..M-O-M and a heart!! Also a blueberry heart in a sea of corn!! Too fabulous!! Hope everyone has a great day! See you tomorrow!!!

Soccer baby!!!

Well Miss A had her first soccer practice today and it was fabulous! She loved every minute of it. We just hope she enjoys her first game on Saturday! So todays bento was a soccer ball sandwich...I am not going to lie...this was a tough one! Soccer balls are hard to represent with cheese!! Sooo ummm squint really hard when you look at it and it looks perfect! ha! Soccer ball sandwich, green beans, strawberry soccer field, and some fig newtons. Tomorrow is a big day....It's MY BIRTHDAY!! WOO HOO!!!

Bento Binky Babybel Baby....

Tuesday was a leftover day already!! Ha! We had some fettuccine alfredo leftover which is always great for hair! We did a ham face baby with a red bow in her hair, blueberry eyes, tomato nose, and a red babybel binky (pacifier) in her mouth!!! Haha! This week Miss A starts soccer!! It took us almost a full year to get her to play soccer!! She is super excited...so tomorrow may have to be a soccer theme...we will see!

Ka-Chow!

So this weekend I had the honor of making a bday cake for my little cousin, Kaiden. In this cake adventure of mine I have many firsts and this was definitely a first. A car cake that is to resemble the infamous Lightning McQueen. Thank goodness this smiling amazing little two year old was so excited about his big day he was not critical of my mistakes!! haha! Baked the cakes on Saturday and the big 12inch chocolate decided to crack in 3 places...oy vey! Thank goodness I had some positive thoughts from facebook (thanks Tennille) that icing is glue. So after that and a glass of wine I was golden! So golden in fact I stayed up and iced and painted the car!!! Looks like I had my own paint and body shop!! I used an air brush tool and special liquid paint to spray the car. Great because you can mix colors, use less dye which is better for taste, and if you don't wear a mask you get the same color boogers in your nose as the paint!!! Great at dinner parties the next day!! haha!

I made the bottom round in buttercream and then smoothed with the viva paper towel. A professional at a cake store in Dallas suggested royal icing for the car. They said to get the look of fondant but still have icing, royal would be perfect. Yeah....let's just say I thumped this puppy with my thumb and it made a nice hard THUMP! Not to mention it cracked like humpty dumpty after he fell off the wall when we tried to cut into it!! haha! SOOOO live and learn! The decals were fondant and the wheels were chocolate donuts!!!

The logo with Kaiden's name had some issues and never dried properly. So on the spot at the party I cut another logo and affixed it to MULTIPLE other edible items in my nephews house and finally found a Ritz cracker to keep it stiff!! hahaha. Always an adventure!!!

Hopefully a forgetful elephant....

They say elephants never forget...well this little quick elephant sandwich had good intentions but just didn't make the grade so let's try to forget! haha. Just a little elephant turkey sandwich on wheat, with provolone trunk, ears, and eyes. We threw in some grapes and cheetos and were on our way!! Let's just say we all got up late today!!! haha! Wish it were Sunday...that's my fun day!! Gotta love the Bangles!!