And so it begins...

I've resisted blogging for some time now. Not because I don't like it. But because I didn't think I had the time. But lately, I've been making the time to do things I want to do.

So what's the blog about? Well....

I have a hobby I love. I make jewelry. I was even published once in BeadStyle Magazine. But not even that hobby was enough to make me start blogging.

Then, nearly 2 weeks ago (time flies) I was reading a blog by a jewelry artist I admire. And there was a picture of her son's lunch, and she described it as a bento. How cute I thought! I'd eat that! So, off I went in search of what exactly a bento was.

And what to my wondering eyes appeared? But a completely interesting way to pack lunch and make it fun. See, I can't cook. This is a running joke in my family. I look up the recipe (yes, there is one!) on how to boil an egg each time I need to. I'm always worried I'm going to mess it up. I spend alot of time and money, yikes!, on take out/fast food. We won't discuss in this post the health consequences of that...

But these bentos are just little portions of food, lots of variety, cute, and not intimidating if I don't try for the whole arranging/artistic aspect.

And so began an new obsession and this blog with some judicious prodding from a great friend of mine.

This first post will be broken up into several entries. I have some bento pictures to share. Maybe one day, I'll have some jewelry to share when I stop thinking of bentos!