Living the bento lifestyle...sort of
This week, I expect about 5 Lock & Lock lunch sets to land on my doorstep. I have posts, reviews, and lunches all planned around them. I’ve been talking about it for over a week on my Twitter feed. But before I do any of that here on the blog, I want to talk to [...]
Thanks to Trop50 for sponsoring my writing about fabulous bloggers. This year Trop50 is granting 50 Fabulous Wishes. Click here to enter for a chance to win $1,000 to celebrate a friend with a refreshing attitude about looking and feeling fabulous! What makes a blogger fabulous? Is it their content alone? Is it the way [...]
Not Exactly Bento’s 2nd birthday is just around the corner, along with the deadline for the 2nd Annual Bento Photo Contest. I’ve known for some while that NEB needed some work. A big upgrade to the site’s theme was in order, minor work on its looks was needed, and an update on a long-forgotten idea [...]
I’ve talked a good bit here on NEB about choosing backgrounds for your blog photos. If you’ve been watching this blog closely, you may have noticed that I’ve been using the above background. Don’t you love it? It’s a type of fabric called a batik. Batik is a form of dying and decorating fabric originally [...]
Ever wish you could just print something off a blog quickly and easily without using a huge amount of paper? Sometimes, things print out that you don’t necessarily need. I know I wish that all the time. It’s something that I’ve wanted for quite some time for my own blog, and I’m finally working towards [...]
For some time now, I’ve been frustrated with the layout of Not Exactly Bento. I didn’t feel like I could find the things I wanted to find, much less my visitors. Past posts felt virtually buried, my categories and tags where a virtual messpile of confusion, and older posts had lost images due to a [...]
I’m always on the lookout for great backgrounds for blog pictures. Lately, I’ve been scrounging around hard trying to find more “fall” backgrounds. Much of what I currently own has a very spring feel to it. The hunt began two weeks ago for a burnt orange background. However to my big dismay, i have been [...]
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