I want one of these!

Mr Bento compartmentalized lunch box.




Amazon.com - Mr Bento

It is SO cool! The bottom two containers are microwavable and will stay hot inside the bottom compartment and the top two containers will stay at room temperature.

Look at what it can hold!



There is even a Flickr group for Mr Bento lunches.

Of course buying one of these would make more sense if I actually had a job to take it to - I will one day and then I will buy one.

The only problem is that I can't seem to find them in Canada so will have to order from Amazon.com.

Oh well - but they are SO cute - aren't they?

Works for me Wednesday - Laughter

At the end of a long and stressful day (or even on an unstressful one) nothing makes me feel better than a good belly laugh.

We have all heard how laughter is the best medicine.

Here are two of my favorite websites that make me laugh and that work for me!

I can has cheezeburger - great pics of cats with hilarious captions.

Cute Overload - If you love baby animals....

If you have any funny sites you recommend - please leave the URL in a comment.

For more great tips - head over to Shannon's place.

Sometimes, life is just like that.

see more crazy cat pics

Interesting Links

Some fun stuff :)

I just installed StumbleUpon - neat idea - install it, select the categories you like and then click the Stumble button to be taken to random websites that match those categories.

Here is one I got: List of unusual deaths.

This one I used to visit a lot when bored at work :) News of the Weird. Trust me it is weird!

Then there is The Darwin Awards - haven't we all known someone who should be listed here?

I can spend hours at Cute Overload :) if you like cute baby animals, so will you.

Always fun - top 15 strangest coincidences.

Amazing sidewalk chalk art - this guy blows me away!

One sentence stories - some are funny, some are sad, some are so true. I SO want to write one of these now :)

Hope you have as much fun checking these out as I did!

Latest quilt project

First a couple pics of my kid at the Science Centre on friday - he was in this thing that simulated a tornado - you can see it better in the 2nd pic.

Oh and next a lovely picture of how messy my sewing room gets while I am working on a project.
This was actually just after I picked up a couple bags of fabric from a person on Freecycle - so I was sorting :) although, most of that mess is of all my previously owned fabric.
Ok on to my new project - I mentioned buying some cloth napkins the other day right? well this is what they have become so far.

First I tacked a flannel receiving blanket to the wall to simulate a quilt design wall - works pretty well actually.

The first picture is just the squares on the wall - they all didn't fit - the bottom row is there, but the sides and top are not.
Then this next picture has the bottom rows sewed together.
And the last picture has all the rows sewed up but not yet sewed to each other- which should be nice and finicky - trying to get all the squares to match up - I see a bunch of seam ripping in my future :)

It is still missing the center square - I haven't decided what to put there as yet. My son thinks it should be something drastically different like a shocking red. Opinions?

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Wow I haven't posted for a few days. Last week was March Break here so my son was home and keeping me busy most days.

We took in a movie on Monday. Had a library visit and walk though our lil town on Wednesday and spent the day at the Ontario Science Centre on Friday. It was fun but it went by quickly.

A trip to Value Village yesterday scored me 3 sets of 4 cotton napkins which I have already cut into 5' squares to become a lap quilt. I should have taken pictures before I cut them up - oh well.

I also bought so blue fabric to edge the argyle quilt with and some green teal to use as the background for the new floral 9 patch quilt. I will post updated pictures hopefully later today or tomorrow.

I have finished my tote for the Tote swap I joined over at Down to Earth. I can't yet post a picture as my swap buddy might see it. I will once she has received it.

For those that asked, my brother is doing better, the blood thinners have started to work. He has to get his blood checked once a week to maintain proper levels. We are still waiting on more tests for my nephew to see if he can have the surgery.

Works for me Wednesday - Word Association

Whenever my son has to remember something we try to come up with a word association to help.

For instance – he is studying the human body. He told me that arteries and veins take the blood to and away from the heart, but he kept forgetting which did which. We looked and saw that is was the arteries that take the blood away from the heart, and the veins that take it to the heart. So I told him to remember that A goes with A – artery and away. The arteries take blood away. If he can remember that, he just needs to know that what is left go together. He finds it so easy to remember now.

Sometimes there aren’t words that start with the same letter and it is not so easy, then try having them in alphabetical order or with a rhyming word.

Another example – I always confuse stalactites and stalagmites (cave formations), one hangs down, one grows upwards. Now I remember the one with the double T (stalactite) is on the top/roof. So Double T=top, I now remember stalactites are the ones that hang down from the top.

Another – there are so many types of fat out there today and it is hard to remember which are really bad for us versus, those just kinda bad and then those that are ok for us.

So what I did, I read that monounsaturated fats are acceptable for us. As apposed to saturated which is bad for us. So my way of remembering is – m for monounsaturated, and M for Mother. Mother is good, so monounsaturated is good.

I know kind of weird – but it works for me and I never forget which is which once I set up word associations.

For more grewat ideas stop by Rocks in My Dryer.