Happy Holidays!
December 26, 2009
Posted by AnnaTheRed in Everything else, stuffed stuff Tags: Christmas tree, fox squirrel, laputa, studio ghibli
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Sorry about the lack of blogging lately. My boyfriend and I are on a pretty long holiday vacation (we’re off until the beginning of the next year!), so I don’t have to make bento. But that doesn’t mean I’m going to stop making them! As soon as we finish watching DVDs & blu-rays and playing games we got for Christmas (maybe get some inspiration from them for my bento, who knows 
), I’m going to be making more bento!
We had a little early gift exchange party at our friend’s place. I got my boyfriend Beatles Rock Band for Xbox 360, Jet Li’s “Fearless” on blu-ray (we own the DVD, but blu-ray looks so pretty) and the 1st volume of Moyashimon in English. He got me an amazing statue of pure awesomeness.
He looks just like my bento!
Check out my Laputa robot bento HERE and HERE!
He's got a fox squirrel on his shoulder.
He's got a flower in his hand.
I n our place we have built-in book shelves, and one of them in the foyer is dedicated to Ghibli stuff. On there we keep all our Ghibli music boxes, Nausicaa & Ohmu statues, Ghibli desktop calendar, etc… He knows how much I love the Laputa robot and adding more Ghibli stuff to the collection. 
We didn’t do any Christmas decorations this year until the very last minute because, well, just like I mentioned, we’ve been busy enjoying our Christmas gifts. But after we came back from our Christmas night dinner at Minca (a ramen place in NYC), we decorated the Christmas tree pin cushion I made a very long time ago. The plush Christmas tree is not my original idea. I saw it on some site a long time ago but I couldn’t find it again. 
It’s very easy to make. In fact, I made bunch of them and gave them to my friends at work. I made a cone shape with fabric, sewed it, put glass marbles at the bottom so it’d stay upright, and sewed the bottom by hand. I wrapped some ribbons on it, and put some pins on it. Then I sewed stockings with felt, for my boyfriend, my cat and me. My boyfriend made bunch of snowflakes! A couple of pine cones we collected from Prospect Park on a dinner plate, and voila!
Here’s the “naked version.” (with a star on the top) I kind of like this version too.
Happy Holidays everyone!
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Happy Holidays! I like the look of the tree with only the star. It looks a little sad, but sweet.
Best wishes to you and yours! <3
Cute little tree! I might copy that idea for next year.
Interesting statue…looking forward to your bentos this year.
Happy New Year!