Buttons and Bentos

Back in December, when it was Stephen's birthday, as usual I forgot to buy a card. Over the years, we have coined the term, "garage card". This refers to the birthday card you receive from someone which has obviously been bought in the local petrol station/corner shop, at the last minute.
 For men, they usually feature, yachts, old style racing cars, golf clubs etc.

So, I thought I would be very cheesy and I made him a homemade "garage card". Well he thought it was great of course.

Here is a photo:

I got lots of wool from one of Stephen's sisters for xmas. I knit up a quick slouchy style hat, following a pattern from ravelry.com. To finish the rather plain hat off, I used a beautiful green leather button, that Stephen bought me for xmas from Fairysteps.
 Stephen calls it my borrowers hat :)

I also received for gifts some very cute bento stuff. I got a 3 nested My Neighbour Totoro bento box, a cute monkey furikake dispenser and an adorable penguin mayo holder :)

Here is an example of them in use, with cod fish balls and spinach, with fish furikake and garlic mayo ;P