First Bento ever!

Alright, alright, alright. I have a confession to make. I have an addiction that has been festering and brewing until this past trip to Vancouver. BENTOS!!! I love em, they're so pretty and cute. And if you ever meet me, you'd know I'm not the pretty and cute kinda girl. But all the posters on flickr got me intrigued and now I check several Bento blogs regularly.
So the highlight of my trip to Vancouver was my shopping foray into Daiso - $2 mecca for all things Japanese. I loaded my basket with cute pink bento boxes (I have little daughters), animal shaped sauce holders, soooo cute reusable food picks, and craft cutters to use on seaweed.
The next day, we had a family dinner where a mushroom mint stuffed crown roast of lamb was featured. That was completely devoured but here are some leftovers in my very first bento!
My sister, CC, was the lucky recipient. Actually, she bounced with glee when I offered to make her a bento. But first, we had to plead our case to my 3 year old dd to get her to lend CC her francais birdie bento. Belle agreed as long as CC promised to return the bento box.
The top layer features a layer of mushroom mint stuffing topped with sliced italian sausage a la angel and garlic broccoli and cauliflower sautee which was deconstructed for colour effect. A sweet pink and purple swirly pick was poked into a sausage. Made a nice colour focal point if I may say so.
The bottom layer contains thawed fresh blueberries that miraculously resembled fresh blueberries in texture, "tong gut" or sugar mandarins that are teeny tiny and delicious, apple bunnies, and a fresh baked blueberry muffin that was a 3 generation family effort. I didn't have any lemon juice so I dipped the apple bunnies into tonic water to stop discolouring. It worked great.
Not pictured was some chunked baked potates, shredded parmesan in a blue strawberry container, kewpie mayonnaise in a monkey mayo container, and dried cranberries in a green birdie container.
CC said the bento was thoroughly anticipated and enjoyed the next day. It truly did bring a smile to her lips when she opened the lid. I can't wait til my kids go to school so I can make bento for them!