stuffed stuff: Bear Shaman from Castle Crashers
November 23, 2009
Posted by AnnaTheRed in stuffed stuff Tags: bear shaman, castle crashers, dan paladin, the behemoth
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Stuffed stuff: Bear Shaman from Castle Crashers
Created and stuffed: October 2009
When I was making birthday gifts for Dan Paladin, the creator and art director of Alien Hominid and Castle Crashers, I originally wanted to make four plushes. I was very ambitious and optimistic. But as I expected, I couldn’t finish them on time… I didn’t want to sent them too late (since they were birthday gifts) so I only sent him two plushes of the character from the new game that’s coming out 2010. (“Cube head guy” and “Golden whale”)
After I sent off the birthday gifts, I decided to finish them anyway. This was one of the birthday gifts, bear shaman (or Bipolar bear? Not sure of the official name) from Castle Crashers. Since I had a little more extra time to finish, I got the right doll eyes. I modified the patterns for the Dana doll I’ve made for my friend, and made the pattern for his head.
head bigger than the body = cute factor
Actually he's got a fluffy tail. If I ever make another one, I think I'll make it with yarn.
For his nose and mouth, I used black stitching thread.
Big eyes = cute factor
He’s got blood on his forehead, his body is mean looking… of course, in the absolutely cutest way possible. 
I thought about splashing red acrylic paint for the blood but I wasn’t sure how an acrylic paint would look on the fuzzy surface of fleece, so I decided to cut red felt and glued it on as the blood.
Blood on his forhead = cute factor
Huge eyes = cute factor
Blood everywhere = cute factor
Oh yeah, and he’s got a fish sword.
Dead fish as a weapon = cute factor
Everything together = uber cute
For more pictures of this plush, visit stuffed stuff: Bear Shaman from Castle Crashersset!
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stuffed stuff: Alien Hominid
November 23, 2009
Posted by AnnaTheRed in stuffed stuff Tags: alien hominid, dan paladin, the behemoth
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Stuffed stuff: Alien from Alien Hominid
Created and stuffed: October 2009
This is the alien from Alien Hominid, another birthday gift for Dan Paladin (the creator of Alien Hominid and Castle Crashers) which I couldn’t finish on time. (I was able to finish “Cube head guy” and “Golden Whale” though!) Alien Hominid started as an indie flash game on Newgrounds.com. The 2-D style art was designed by Dan Paladin, and the game was programed by Tom Fulp, the founder of Newgrounds. Basically, you’re an yellow alien and blast away FBI agents to get back the to spaceship they stole from you. It’s a very simple side-scrolling shooter game, but in contrast to the design of the big headed cute alien with huge eyes it’s unbearably hard. The game was later available for various consoles such as Xbox 360 (XBLA), Xbox, PS2, GameCube and Game Boy Advance.
To make his head I used a smaller pattern of a basic sphere I had.
He's got a HUGE head!
30mm doll eyes seem very nice on him, don’t they? (Pretty much the biggest doll eyes you can find)
He's got HUGE eyes!
I used gold/yellow pipe cleaners for his antenna and I made two yellow smaller spheres and sew them onto the antenna.
I put one pipe cleaner through inside his head.
I made the body, similar to the cube head guy from Game #3.
The red tag is for "AnnaTheRed" tag. This was before I stiched the kanji for "Red" (赤) in.
He also has HUGE feet!
I used a black stitching thread for his mouth, and that was supposed to be it!
Stitching the mouth was fun. 
But after I made him, he seemed a bit lonely without his weapon… So I made his ray gun for him. I didn’t even make a pattern for his gun. I just slapped some fleece together.
He has a HUGE gun!
A bit lumpy, but that's okay.
He's ready to attack!
For more pictures of this plush, visit stuffed stuff: Alien from Alien Hominidset!
Check out more stuffed stuff set set on my flickr page.
Bento #67: Keepon
November 17, 2009
Posted by AnnaTheRed in bento blog (all), bento blog - american Tags: BeatBots, Hideki Kozima, Keepon, Marek Michalowski
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I wrote before how much my boyfriend likes Keepon. He asked me to make Keepon bento many times so I finally gave in.
Bento #67: Keepon
Created and eaten on: 11/9/2009
I didn’t make Keepon kyaraben before because it would be hard to make a kyaraben with just one character. But then I remembered “Ano-niku” bento (manga meat) where I made an entire bento with one theme. So I decided to try that for Keepon bento. Well, actually I didn’t really plan on making it until that morning.
I woke up in the morning, and it was way too late for a kyaraben. But the Keepon bento I had in my mind was supposed to be very simple, so I started making it anyway.
As usual, I put lettuce at the bottom of bento with sauteed renkon on top. I realized that the homemade frozen meatballs I had were pretty small, and weren’t enough for him. So I thawed frozen ground beef and made bigger meatballs. If I had made the meatballs the night before, this bento would’ve been a breeze… Making 15 meatballs from scratch in the morning before going to work seemed like such a waste of time. T_T Anyway, I used four meat balls to make two Keepons and I froze the rest.
Freshly made meatball-pon!
I made a hard boiled egg and mixed the yolk with rice to make the rice yellow. I wrapped the rice with plastic wrap, made two rice balls and stuck them together.
He looks like he's about to bounce, doesn't he?
Keepon is a very curious robot
I made two more rice balls mixed with ground black sesame seed and salt.
Black sesame seed-pon
I also made two hard boiled quail eggs, and stuck them together to make a white Keepon.
Quail egg-pon
It didn’t look like there was enough green in bento, so I boiled broccoli to make green Keepon.
Green and fuzzy broccoli-pon
When all the Keepon bodies were in place, I realized that there was still some space at the bottom. So I put grape tomatos and edamame to fill the space. I thought the shape of the tomatoes and edamame would go well with Keepon, and also I thought the bento needed more colors. I think it worked out fine.
After everything was ready, I sliced kamaboko (fish cake), and cut it out with a small bottle cap, and cut out seaweed with a punch hole for the eyes, and nose. Always put the face (small seaweed parts) at the end, otherwise it’ll get wrinkly before the photo shoot.
Nothing that complicated about this bento and they didn’t dance to music like a real Keepon, but my boyfriend still loooved it.
Keepon:
- rice mixed with egg yolk, kamaboko, seaweed
- rice mixed with black sesame seed and salt, kamaboko, seaweed
- meat balls, kamaboko, seaweed
- broccoli, kamaboko, seaweed
- quail egg, kamaboko, seaweed
Other food:
- renkon
- lettuce
- grape tomato
- edamame
For more pictures of my bento, visit Bento! set and Bento details! set on my flickr page.
Bento #66: Noby Noby Boy
November 11, 2009
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I had a day off last Friday to get ready for a birthday party the following day. It was for an adorable 3 year-old boy of our close friends. I had a whole day to make Totoro cream puffs and chocolate covered Domo-kun marshmallows. I didn’t have to wake up early, but for some reason I got up very very early. So I decided to take this opportunity
to make a kyaraben! But I hadn’t made kyaraben in a while, so I wanted to ease myself into making kyaraben. I thought about making Totoro, but I wanted to try making something different… “Simple but different” gave me this idea.
Bento #66: Noby Noby Boy
Created and eaten on: 11/6/2009
Noby Noby Boy is a strange game created by Keita Takahashi for Playstation 3. He’s also the creator of Katamari Damacy, so you can kind of guess how weird this game is. “Noby” or nobi means “stretch” in Japanese. I’m not even sure if it’s considered a game. You control a colorful worm thing called “BOY” on a floating platform and you have to make him stretch. That’s pretty much it. There are various objects on the platform and you can make him eat too. The interesting thing is that the game is connected online, and it’ll keep track on how long your BOY stretches.
You get points from stretching and the points will be submitted online via a character called Sun to another character called “GIRL” who will grow as more people stretch. Within a couple of days from its release, GIRL reached the moon, and a couple of months later, she reached Mars! As long as people play Noby Noby boy she’ll continue stretching. We played it for awhile, but since there’s no real objective other than stretching, we just started trying different things, like jumping through the clouds, or trying to wrap BOY’s body around many objects. How you enjoy this game is totally up to you.
Look! He's stretching!
Anyway, I had bought an avocado a couple of days earlier that was ripe and soft. So I decided to make rolls with avocado. I made one roll with avocado, imitation crab meat, and scallions (almost like a California roll). I made another roll with avocado, crab meat mixed with mayonnaise and chili pepper, and scallion. I cut different foods into strips and wrapped it around the roll. I used ham, thin omelet, seaweed, the red part of imitation crab meat, and I sprinkled sesame seeds and green seaweed on some rolls.
Easy and delicious.
Not very interesting collection of photos for this bento, but here's another one!
For the head and the butt, I put a bit of rice on a roll, made it into a ball, and rolled it in sakura denbu. (sakura denbu is sweet fish powder) I cut out cheese for the face, and put it on the head. For the eyes, nose, arms and legs I cut seaweed, and tomato skin for his mouth.
He's adorable and very stretchy.
Oh by the way, he farts too.
I cut the rolls and placed them in the bento box, and put boiled & seasoned broccoli at the bottom and the top of the bento box. Then I cut fake sausage (fish cake) into flowers and put them between the broccoli. I had boiled quail eggs not really knowing what to do with it… I cut the tip of it off to make a star shape, which didn’t come out that good. So I just cut out cheese into star shape and put it on top of the egg.
My effort to brighten up the bento.
I tried to make it more colorful by sprinkling sesame seed donuts shaped cheese on broccoli, but it didn’t really work out. Since it was so simple, I should’ve put more thoughts into details. 
Anyway, even if you don’t know what Noby Noby Boy is, this is still a very easy and simple way to dress up any ordinary rolls!
Noby Noby Boy
- rice with sweet fish flake, cheese, seaweed and tomato skin (for his face)
- rice, seaweed, avocado, scallion, imitation crab meat (body)
- rice, seaweed, avocado, scallion, imitation crab meat mixed with mayonnaise and chili powder (body)
Wrapped with…
- seaweed, ham, egg, imitation crab meat, sesame seed, aonori
Other food:
- broccoli and sesame seed
- fake sausage (fish cake)
- quail egg and cheese
For more pictures of my bento, visit Bento! set and Bento details! set on my flickr page.
stuffed stuff: Keepon
November 8, 2009
Posted by AnnaTheRed in stuffed stuff Tags: BeatBots, Hideki Kozima, Keepon, Marek Michalowski
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I already have a bento to post next, but before that I want to post some non-bento related stuff I was meaning to blog a little while back. (before I got busy with Halloween madness)
October 10th was my boyfriend’s birthday! We went out with our co-workers to a shabu shabu place in the East Village in NYC. Everything tasted soooo good. His birthday presents were still on the way, so I decided to make something to give him at the dinner the day before.
There was one character he’s been asking me to make a bento of, and that’s Keepon. The first time I saw Keepon was on youtube. I thought it was just another cute toy from Japan. Then I saw it on WIRED and learned what it was.
“Keepon is a small yellow robot designed to study social development by interacting with children. Keepon was developed by Hideki Kozima while at the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) in Kyoto, Japan. Keepon has four motors, a rubber skin, two cameras in its eyes, and a microphone in its nose. Its simple appearance and behavior are intended to help children, even those with developmental disorders such as autism, to understand its attentive and emotive actions.” (from Wikipedia)
He may seem like a cute dancing toy, but he is a high-tech $30,000 robot. $30,000 was a little out of budget, besides BeatBots (where Keepon was created) only sells Keepon to professional institutional users.
So I decided to make it on my own. I used yellow fleece to make two small spheres and sewed them together. For his eyes and nose I cut felt out and glued them on. It wasn’t difficult at all, but I sewed the two sphere pieces wrong, so the seams on the sides ended up looking crooked. This is what happens if you don’t pay attention when you work on a simple project. T_T
Well, even though I messed it up a little bit, my boyfriend LOVED it. He couldn’t keep his hands off of Keepon. He’d make him move with his hands, like he does in the video. He has his Keepon on his desk and is always playing with him. I’ll probably make another one when I get more fabric. (Now I’ve got a cute little plastic nose that is perfect for Keepon too.) But until then his Keepon will keep him (and me) entertained.
I usually don’t put youtube videos on my blog, but I’ll make an exception for this little bouncy yellow fellow. The video is from Marek Michalowski’s youtube channel, he is the director of the video and also the founder of BeatBots where he created Keepon with Hideki Kozima. Check out more info on Keepon (where he’ll make an appearance, what he does for research, etc…) on BeatBots.
Without further ado, I give you Keepon dancing in the music video of “Don’t You Evah” by Spoon! (Please check out other videos he uploaded on his channel to see what Keepon’s up to!)
tricked or treated!
November 1, 2009
Posted by AnnaTheRed in Everything else Tags: BioShock, Dee Snider, Halloween, Mad Hatter, Splicer
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Tricked or treated!
I hope everyone had a great spooky Halloween. I realized that I haven’t updated my blog for more than 2 weeks now! No, I didn’t have a fight with my boyfriend. (Some people think that when I don’t update my bento blog it’s because we had some kind of fight) I’ve been just very busy with all that Halloween madness. I had to dress up in costumes 5 times for Halloween this year. I work for an online card game called Alteil, and my co-workers and I dressed up as characters from certain cards. I did three cards, and helped my boyfriend for one card. For about a week we took pictures and swapped the actual images in the game with the ones we dressed up for. Very silly. It was a lot of work, but users seem to enjoy the event, so it was very worth it!
On the 30th, my boyfriend and I decided to dress up at work. Even though I love Halloween, I don’t really like seeing myself in pictures so I usually don’t take pictures of myself dressed up. This year, we decided to dress up as characters that I don’t really have to show my face for. We picked the characters called “Splicers” from the video game “BioShock.” BioShock takes place in an alternate 1960, so we went to a thrift store in the city to get 60’s looking clothes. My boyfriend found a very nice pair of tweed pants by Ralph Lauren, and white button down shirt by Saks Fifth avenue, and I found a very classy Anne Taylor dress. (You can find very clean high-end clothes in NYC thrift shops for very very cheap.)
Splicers are people who have been driven mad by artificially altering (or splicing) their genetic makeup too much, and most of them wear masquerade masks to hide their deformed faces. I found paper craft patterns for the masks online, so I printed it out, laid it on a poster board, cut them out and followed the instructions to make the masks. The patterns already had blood printed on, but it would’ve been too boring to use it as is. Besides, it was not very sturdy, so I paper mached over it with newspaper and tissue paper. I was going to paint it white, but the grayish newspaper covered by very thin tissue paper gave the mask a very nice dingy tone, so I decided not to paint it.
EDIT: I’d post a link to the paper craft site, but ads pop up on the site. It’s not hard to find it. Just Google “Splicer” and “mask” and “paper craft”, or email me for the link!
Next was the fun part. We had to make the clothes aged and bloody! My boyfriend sand papered the shirt and pants to create the wear and tear. The dress was way too big on me, so I sewed the back in to fit my body, and ripped the dress. For fake blood, I mixed water, red food coloring and instant coffee. We splattered it onto the clothes and the masks using a paintbrush. The coffee gave the mix a good brownish tone and nice coffee aroma. After the first splatter was dry, I put a bit more red food coloring to make redder blood, and splattered it over the clothes and the masks.
I had so much fun doing paper mache.
Actually, I thought it was a bit too much, so I smeared the blood with wet crumpled paper.
Pretty bloddy, huh?
My boyfriend was dressing up as a thuggish splicer, who attacks with a blunt object, so he got a chrome pipe from a Home Depot, sanded it down to dull the shine, and sprayed it with red paint. The trick was to smear the paint with a crumpled piece of paper. I was dressing up as a spider slicer, who carries a meat hook in each hand. But I couldn’t really find a nice meat hook so I just made them out of cardboard.
Me as Spider splicer
My boyfriend as Thuggish splicer
Me and my boyfriend
At work, my friends and co-workers, Lupos and Buttercup Princess, were also dressed up. Lupos was Dee Snider, and Buttercup Princess was the Mad Hatter from Tim Burton’s upcoming Alice in Wonderland, and they look absolutely fabulous! Since I didn’t want to get my coat dirty, I didn’t paint my chest, so I looked very healthy for a Splicer. My boyfriend and I will probably take better photos later.
- Lupos as Dee Snider. He worked at work in this costume that day. It was so hilarious and bizarre, I just couldn’t take stop taking pictures of him.
- Buttercup Princess as the Mad Hatter. She made the hat and everything!! The details on her costume were so amazing.
Group shot!
After work, Dee Snider, the Mad Hatter and us went to the East Village in our costumes, because East Village is probably the perfect place for people in costume to blend in, even if it’s a day before Halloween. We took the subway down there fully dressed up. It was pretty funny that everyone around us pretended to act uninterested. A very young girl was very fascinated by our masks, and was telling her dad that she liked my “bunny mask.” I guess all the blood stains looked like pretty patterns for her.
Dee Snider and the Mad Hatter on a train. They blended in just fine in NYC.
A splicer at a subway station.
We didn’t go out on 31st though. We didn’t want to deal with the crowd, besides, I had to start making another costume!
The Behemoth, the game company that created Alien Hominid and Castle Crashers, were having a costume contest. I wasn’t really sure whether I’d participate it or not, because I’ve been very busy working on other costumes. But after taking pictures of us dressed up at the office on 30th, I had so much fun that I decided to go for it. The deadline was November 1st, but I wasn’t sure if it was the midnight of 31st or midnight of November 1st… Better be safe than sorry. I was going to submit my entry by the midnight of 31st.
It was madness! I was doing pretty fine until I decided to take a nap. I had 15~16 hours to start and finish (including the time to get materials) and I foolishly took a nap. T_T I scrambled to finish the costume, and I finally made it! But I wasn’t very happy with this one. Since I wasn’t planning on keeping the costume, it looked such a half-assed costume. My boyfriend took several pictures in our place, so the background looks cluttered too. Oh well. It’s always fun to support your favorite game company, right?
I almost want to re-do this one... T_T
I’d like to thank my boyfriend who cooked dinner and did the dishes while I worked on the costumes! I like cooking but he is an awesome cook, and I actually love his food more than my food. I’m so spoiled.
Anyway, after a two week hiatus, I’m finally back to bento-ing!
See more Halloween pictures on my flickr! -> Halloween 2009
How to make Max
October 17, 2009
Posted by AnnaTheRed in how-to (all), how-to - characters (Ghibli, video game, Wall-E) Tags: Maurice Sendak, Where The Wild Things Are
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[How to make Max] (without the crown)
- rice
- ham (or bologna, turkey, etc…)
- sliced cheddar cheese
- seaweed
– cupcake cup (I used foil cupcake cups, but if you need to microwave your food, use a paper cupcake cup instead. I’ve tried it, and the paper cup handled the moisture pretty well.)
– hole punch
– straw
– scissors
1. Make a rice ball and put it in the cupcake cup. (You can put stuff inside the rice ball if you want.)
2. Cut ham with a plastic cap (I used a cap from a can of hair mousse), and put it on the rice.
3. Use a straw to cut ham for his nose.
4. Slice radish (or sliced cheese, or kamaboko, or hard boiled egg white), and cut triangles for his ears.
I trimmed the top part of ham, but it's not necessary.
5. Cut strips of seaweed and for his hair and whiskers.
6-A. If you have a seaweed cutter for a smiling face like I do, use it to cut out seaweed.
Tips: If you put very thin paper under seaweed, it's easier to cut the seaweed out.
6-B. If you don’t have a special seaweed cutter, cut it freehand with scissors, an cut seaweed out with a hole punch, and put it for the eyes.
6-C. If you want to make smiling Max (like the one in the picture) use a hole punch to make a hole in the seaweed, then slide the punch a little bit and punched it again to make ” C ” shaped seaweed.
You can use the top " c " part or just the round part.
...his mother called him "WILD THING!"
*You can cut sliced cheddar cheese to add crown you if you want to make “Max the king of the wild things.”
For more pictures of my bento, visit Bento! set and Bento details! set on my flickr page.
If you have any questions about any of my how-to’s, please feel free to leave a comment or email me!
How to make Moishe
October 16, 2009
Posted by AnnaTheRed in how-to (all), how-to - characters (Ghibli, video game, Wall-E) Tags: Maurice Sendak, Where The Wild Things Are
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[How to make Moishe]
- rice
- ham (or bologna, turkey, etc…)
- sliced cheddar cheese
- seaweed
– cupcake cup (I used foil cupcake cups, but if you need to microwave your food, use a paper cupcake cup instead. I’ve tried it, and the paper cup handled the moisture pretty well.)
– hole punch
– straw
– scissors
1. Make a rice ball and put it in the cupcake cup. (You can put stuff inside the rice ball if you want.)
2. Cut ham with a plastic cap (I used a cap from a can of hair mousse), and put it on the rice.
3. Use a straw to cut ham for his nose.
4. Slice radish (or sliced cheese, or kamaboko, or hard boiled egg white), and use a plastic bottle cap to cut out a “C” shape for the horn. Stick it on the head.
5. Cut sliced cheddar cheese with a plastic cap or biｇ straw (I used a straw for bubble tea) for his terrible yellow eyes.
6-A.If you have a seaweed cutter for a smiling face like I do, use it to cut out seaweed.
6-B. If you don’t have a special seaweed cutter, cut it freehand with scissors, cut seaweed out with a hole punch, and put it for the eyes.
7. Cut strips of seaweed and fill it around the ham.
"...and Max said "I'LL EAT YOU UP!!"
This is something I came up with while making Moishe. I know that some people might not like seaweed that much, so I made a veggie version of Moishe.
"...and Max said "I'LL EAT YOU UP!!"
[Mashed potato and broccoli Moishe]
You put potato salad in the cup, put ham on top and surround it with boiled broccoli. Not sure if kids love it, but hey it’s a wild thing! (strange I never hated any veggies when I was little)
How to make Moishe on my flickr
For more pictures of my bento, visit Bento! set and Bento details! set on my flickr page.
If you have any questions about any of my how-to’s, please feel free to leave a comment or email me!
How to make Bernard
October 15, 2009
Posted by AnnaTheRed in how-to (all), how-to - characters (Ghibli, video game, Wall-E) Tags: Maurice Sendak, Where The Wild Things Are
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[How to make Bernard from Where the Wild Things Are]
- rice
- black sesame seed
- seaweed
- sliced cheese
- radish or white-ish sliced cheese or kamaboko (fish cake), or even left over hard boiled egg white from mashed potato. In other words, you can use any white food!
– cupcake cup (I used foil cupcake cups, but if you need to microwave your food, use a paper cupcake cup instead. I’ve tried it, and the paper cup handled the moisture pretty well.)
– hole punch
– straw
– scissors
– round plastic cap
1. Put plain rice in a bowl, and mix it with black sesame seed (I used ground sesame seed but non-grounded sesame seeds are also fine)
2. Make a small rice ball, and put it in a cupcake cup.
3. Make a smaller rice ball, and put it on top of the rice ball.
4. Slice radish (or sliced cheese, or kamaboko, or hard boiled egg whites), and use a plastic bottle cap to cut out “C” shape for the horn. Stick it on his head.
5. Cut sliced cheddar cheese with a plastic cap or biｇ straw (I used a bubble tea straw) for his terrible yellow eyes, and cut the top part off. If you don’t have any plastic cap to cut cheese, you can just use a spoon to trim it.
If you don't have any plastic cap to cut cheese, you can just use a spoon to trim it.
6. Cut seaweed into ” V ” and ” l ” shape with scissors. Also cut seaweed into a round shape and cut it in half for his ears. (forgot to take pictures >_<)
7. If you have a seaweed cutter for a smiling face like I do, use it to cut out seaweed.
Tips: If you put very thin paper under seaweed, it's easier to cut the seaweed out.
7. If you don’t have a special seaweed cutter, cut it freehand with scissors, an cut seaweed out with a hole punch, and put it for the eyes.
...and Max said "I'LL EAT YOU UP!!"
*For step 7, if you don’t have access to seaweed, you can use black sesame seeds for the pupils.
How to make Bernard on my flickr
For more pictures of my bento, visit Bento! set and Bento details! set on my flickr page.
If you have any questions about any of my how-to’s, please feel free to leave a comment or email me!
How to make Emil
October 15, 2009
Posted by AnnaTheRed in how-to (all), how-to - characters (Ghibli, video game, Wall-E) Tags: Maurice Sendak, Where The Wild Things Are
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[How to make Emil from Where the Wild Things Are]
- mashed yam
- seaweed
- sliced cheese
- radish or white-ish sliced cheese or kamaboko (fish cake), or even left over hard boiled egg white from mashed potato. In other words, you can use any white food!
– cupcake cup (I used foil cupcake cups, but if you need to microwave your food, use paper cupcake cup instead. I’ve tried it, and the paper cup handled the moisture pretty well.)
– hole punch
– straw
– round plastic cap
1. Make mashed potato with yam! (Mash boiled yam with butter)
2. Wrap it with plastic wrap, make a small ball, and put it in the cupcake cup.
3. This isn’t necessary, but you can use a fork to make wavy lines on the yam to make it look like feathers.
4. Slice radish (or sliced cheese, or kamaboko, or hard boiled egg whites), and use a plastic bottle cap to cut out “C” shape for the horn. Stick it on his head.
5. Slice carrot and use a plastic bottle cap to cut out “O” shape and cut it in half for the beak. Stick it on his face.
6. Cut sliced cheddar cheese with a plastic cap or biｇ straw (I used a bubble tea straw) for his terrible yellow eyes. And cut out a bigger circle on sliced American cheese.
If you don't have any plastic cap to cut cheese, you can just use a spoon to trim it.
7. Cut seaweed out with a hole punch and put it for the eyes.
...and Max said "I'LL EAT YOU UP!!"
For more pictures of my bento, visit Bento! set and Bento details! set on my flickr page.
If you have any questions about any of my how-to’s, please feel free to leave a comment or email me!
