Gifts from Japan!

Receiving this lovely "small packet" from Japan gave me the opportunity to create a new category: trinkets.  Because I am still a 10 year old girl at heart, I love trinkets.  Never stopped.  Once upon a time, there used to be a Hello Kitty store in the middle of the Worthington Mall.  I can still feel the exhilaration walking into that store when I was little.  The breathless anticipation of what new treasures might await me, the pink, the blue, the silver, the little pens and pencils and gift boxes, the notepads and pencil sharpeners.  I had a frosted silver Hello Kitty mechanical pencil I bought at the Hello Kitty store with my own money, and one day I dropped it on the slate floor of the foyer in our old farmhouse and it rolled into a crack between the wall and the floor (it was a very old farmhouse, these sorts of cracks are to be expected), and I could never retrieve it.  It might be that sense of precious loss that turned me into a (mostly) grown up who can never have enough trinkets.  Nice trinkets, mind you. But!  I have grossly digressed!  Here you are in anticipation of what came in the small packet from Japan!!  if you're still reading.  First of all, check out the fabulous packaging.  Who wouldn't be happy to find this in their mailbox:

And what is it, you ask?  Why, a bento, of course, or bento box, if you must, although you should know it's like saying box box, but I find myself saying it, too, so I'm guilty.  I can't promise any fantastically crazy beautiful bentos, but it does make a lunch of all fruits and veggies go down better:

How cute is that? It doesn't hold an obscene amount of food, so, unless filled with butter and chocolate, keeps the possibility of overeating to a minimum . . . Stay tuned for lunches.

Comments

[Glenna]

I love this! Did you say at some point where you ordered it? I need a decent lunch box for work and that's the coolest one I've seen!

[Rae]

Okay little lady, it's bad enough that I'm now going to stalk your CSA farmer come season....but now, I'm suddenly obsessed with adorable little bento lunches with star shaped veggies and bunny shaped eggs. Check out http://www.cookingcute.com/bento_equipment.htm

[mac]

My guys are crazy for Totoro, we always have a Miyazaki film from the library. In the fourth grade my friend Kei would have his lunch in a little metal bento and I was always interested in what was inside. Mind you I never traded with him, but I liked looking at his "exotic" lunch usually consisiting of rice wrapped in nori and tomago.