Thankful 30-Day 23

Hello Tuesday!

Here we go with day 23.  I stayed pretty simple with this one.

Simple but lovely <3

I wanted to show my love for prayer and "The Word" so I used these verses from Ephesians since it's one of my most favorite prayers.

Day 23- I am thankful for prayer.

I will be back later today to post some bento lunch pics.  I realized that I have been forgetting to share them over here on the blog.  Rest assured, they are always posted on my Flickr :)  I love that I have heard from so many people who have decided to give bento lunches a try as well.

Thanks to my sweet friend, Lehua, my lunches have been looking much much cuter!

I love it!

They are so fun!

xo

janel

a little bento

Day light savings has actually been working so good for me in the mornings!! I have been waking up an hour earlier every morning and it is giving me so much extra time to work on crafty projects in the morning and make sure I can not only make my lunch, but photograph it and upload it.

So, here is another sneak peek into my adorable little lunch today :)

My favorite is the adorable bee shaped silicone cup!!  My sweet sweet friend Christine sent me a little surprise package in the mail with a set of the bees and a set of butterfly ones!! Love love love them.  This whole lunch took me less than 5 minutes to put together this morning and again it is way healthier than what I would normally choose.  This morning I even found myself saying "Ok, I have my fruit and vegetable group, my dairy, my whole grains, snap I need some protein."  And that is when I added the pistachios!  I have been eating oatmeal for breakfast as opposed to pop tarts and then these healthy bento lunches for lunch.  This week is the start of something good :)

Thanks for reading my silly food adventures :)

xo

janel

P.S.  check out the amazing giveaway two posts down!!

Thankful 30-Day 8 and a bento

Good Morning to you!  Welcome to week 2 of this Thankful 30 journal challenge :)

I am sooo excited for this week.  There is so much happening and most of it is really fun.

1.  Parent Teacher Conferences

2.  My Mom's birthday

3. Half day on Thursday.

4.  Adam and I are hosting some children at our home this week (I'll share more on that later)

5.  No School Friday

6.  Our annual women's retreat

7.  Adam's birthday!!

Busy and fun!

Ok, on to my journal page:

Day 8:  I am very thankful for my cell phone :)

Also, I never did upload my pics of my bento lunch from the other day but here is the bento that I made for today!! 

I think Im doing pretty good for not having hardly any cute supplies!  I found some cookie cutters in a cabinet to help me with my star shaped sandwiches :)  Im loving this healthier, and cuter style.

xo 

janel

thursday.

So far, this Thursday...

 I forgot to put on my ring.

I forgot to pack breakfast.

I forgot to pack anything for me to drink all day.

I forgot to grab my make up.

So, instead....

I am wearing my recycled skateboard ring that I had in my desk at school.

I ate a piece of cake that was in the teacher's lounge from a baby shower yesterday for breakfast.

I found a clean paper cup that I can continually walk to the drinking fountain to fill up.

and Im rocking the natural look.

Blah, it's already one of those days!!

Not to mention it's my no break day at school and I have a doctor's appointment right after school.

Yay Thursday!!

But seriously, none of that even matters because yesterday I got my Bento Box for my lunch...

and I made my very first bento style lunch this morning!! 

It is so cute!

Like sooooo cute.

right?!

I don't have much supplies to do all of the cute stuff but I worked with what I had and I love it.

My lunch is so much healthier then normal too!

Which will be good, since I had baby shower cake for breakfast :)

xo

janel

bento box lunches

I already know that I will definitely be the mom who writes little notes in my child's lunchbox. I still slip notes into my dad's lunchbox sometimes when Im over there :)

So, speaking of cute lunch ideas...welcome to my newest obsession!

I have actually been a tad bit obsessed with bento box lunches for awhile now and I have since, purchased some supplies to start creating my own.  I figure I will practice with my own lunches until I can start making cute lunches for my someday child (I mean there has to be some perks to having an art teacher for a mom right?)

First, let's take a look at some of the amazing bento box lunches that I have found online...

(all images found here)

(source)

(and these three are by Wendy Copely, see her entire stream of bento lunches here)

And now for my supplies....

I scored this adorable bento box, strap, and lunch bag right here.

Some tiny shape cutters for cheese and sandwiches and apple slices and other things :)

(from here)

and some adorable rice molds/containers from there as well!

I'm pretty sure I can score some adorable silicon cupcake holders and other cute containers at Target in the dollar spot :)

There are tons of adorable etsy shops and websites strictly dedicated to bento box's and accessories for cute lunches.

Such as...

little pics to use as mini forks

food partitions

and

and decorations! 

(all found here)

I honestly think this is going to help me look for more healthy things to add to my lunches as well!

There are tons of sites with recipes and ideas out there, all you have to do is google it!!

I can't wait to start making these!!

eeeek!

What do you think??

xo

janel