Cuteness for the Day: PANDAMANIA Bento Box

I'm shopping for bentos for the daughter and I. I originally bought one for her while in San Francisco but I accidentally dropped it and broke off the latch. That is why I loved this bento with its cute strap. He looks like he's working out...ack so cute!

I know I want a 2 tiered bento for both of us and I wan't mine to be cute but not overly kiddish. I work with a lady who brings her lunch in a Hello Kitty lunchbox, complete with thermos and such. Don't get me wrong I love HK but I only eat with her utensils. I don't want to advertise the fact that I like HK too much at work; it might cause some concern haha.

tweet tweet!

All this social networking is getting confusing. Either way I added to the madness by creating a Twitter account for the crazy things my 5 year old says. I started posting them on my FB and my friends and family urged me to create a site to house all of them. Wonderfully enough Twitter already exists, so I post all her zaniness there. Feel free to follow and "LOL."

www.twitter.com/randomcarmen

Chronicle Books

Another must-see of mine was to visit on zee Honeymoon was Chronicle Books; they publish all of my favorite crafty books. I love Chronicle Books for the types of books they publish, not only the crafty ones. They carry authors with like-minded quirkiness as myself. I picked up these while there: Softies, My Quotable Kid, Listography, and Bear in Underwear for the lil one. She loves that book! The illustrations are adorable and it is such a funny book. A bear in tightie whities = genius! I recommend My Quotable Kid to any parents out there. My child says the most random things so I like to jot them down in the My Quotable Kid journal, as well as on Twitter so I can share her craziness with everybody. Feel free to follow me here.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Belated Baby with Bow & Arrow and Wings Day! I signed up to bring the cupcakes for my daughter's class party for Valentine's Day. I had so much fun making them for the Halloween party, I figured why not? I've been bad and haven't been posting as often as I should. But these were the cupcakes I made for her Halloween Party. My daughter loves Candy Corn, so they were quite perfect and easy to make too.

We had a cupcake making party at the bestie's. She's more than awesome at specialty cakes so I knew she'd have everything necessary to make awesome cupcakes. That and its always a good excuse so we can get together. Her sis, who is a teacher, came by to make cupcakes for her class too. There were cupcakes everywhere :)

For the Valentine's cupcakes I didn't do anything fancy per se for the actual cakes but I dressed up the presentation a bit. My family and I recently watched The Legend of the Guardians: Owls of Ga'Hoole via Netflix (we are avid promoters of Netflix; if you don't have Netflix you are missing out!) Whilst watching the Tyto Owls I fell in love with their cute heart shaped faces and decided to use them as the inspiration for my daughter's valentines for her classmates. I'm big on themes so I made coordinating cupcake wrappers and cupcake toppers as well. I may post printables in the near future, or sooner if there is a demand for them :P

It's only been 8 months...

I'm only almost a year late on posting this but whatevs. For our honeymoon back in June the hubby and I went to San Fran. There were a couple stops on our agenda that we wanted to visit. One of mine was the Britex fabric store. Being a fan of both sewing and Project Runway I became educated on wonderful places like Britex. Four wonderful floors of fabrics and notions. I was particularly smitten by their collection of Liberty fabrics. The 3rd floor was particularly my fave since it consisted all of notions; trimmings, buttons, and anything else fun.I ended up walking away with some lovely oilcloth and ribbon trims.