so, just before school started again, i made a lunch bag for tommy. i meant to make it for hiro (as it would match his bento really well) but i never got around to it! tommy picked out a yellow bento (with yellow and orange chopsticks that look like colored pencils) so it's not a perfect match, but i do like the way the elephants turned out!

isn't it cute? i couldn't find any elephant fabric that i liked (but, i didn't expect to) and first i got some super-cute stitch fabric (from disney's lilo & stitch) but after racing off to the restroom so hiro could use the toilet, i saw this (mushroom & ladybug) fabric in the discount bin. i thought i would use this first just in case.

it's a bit smaller than the sample, which surprised me a bit, but since hiro's bento is small it's fine. i can also put a spoon and fork set in, as well as the lunch mat (which is almost finished, i need to do a little whip stitching). i measured the finished product and it seemed like the sewing allowances were included in the pattern, but now i don't think so. but no worries, it still came out great, and cute, and wasn't that difficult to make.



and hiro's new bento:

a little while ago, tigermama wrote about some cute mayonnaise case she found for bentos. unfortunately, she didn't have her camera for taking pictures, so described them instead. sounded really cute, so, even though i don't have to prepare bentos on a regular basis, i went looking for them. and this is what i found:



cute, right?

see the banana at the bottom?



it's a spoon!



how handy!

i also found some plain mayonnaise cases, which i thought were cute.


i will use these someday, maybe even this weekend. thanks tigermama!