We're Back! Faces Bento and New Bento Schedule

Our vacation was rejuvenating! We had time to reflect, meditate and refresh our creative juices. These last two bento months were a blast, but as we continue, I think it's more important to present to our readers some bentos that can be easily duplicated. 

Each week we'll feature:

• one cute bento
• one adult bento
• our review on a bento product, technique, or website that we find inspiring, awesome, or helpful 

As always, please feel free to comment or provide suggestions on what you'd like to see or what you'd like to know. Thanks!

Today's bento features our fresh Southern California produce - we're hitting the beginning of stone fruit season and that means lots of peaches, plums, apricots, cherries, etc. at the farmer's market! It's difficult to cut up stone fruit, especially cherries, without totally damaging them, so I settled for making some cute faces, using my nori face punches, on the apricot and Rainier cherries (my favorite!). I also cut some "hair" out of a fruit roll up for the apricot. On the side, we have some sugar snap peas and some homemade jalapeno-spiced pickles to go with the ham, cheese and mustard sandwich. 

Close up of the apricot face:

I forgot to put lettuce in the sandwich, so to add some color I used my silicone grass. It ended up looking cute!