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"An empty belly is the best cook."

greetings, earth! FOOD USED: RICE 2 QUAIL EGGS TOFU EGG SHEET  MINCED MEAT FISH TOFU SQUARES ASPARAGUS CARROT SEAWEED ASSORTED SESAME TOPPERS This piece was inspired by one of my favourite animated movies of all time (next to Spirited Away, Despicable Me, Wreck-it Ralph, Up, Finding Nemo... wow there's actually quite a few). But, it's not often you can find a modern post-apocalyptic movie... delightful :) ...or is Warm Bodies a close one? I haven't seen it to know. Wall-E is a simple empty robot at first glance, but fills you with wonder and love as he collects invaluable items the human world left aside, and of course, meets Eve. He's a hidden treasure! I wrapped minced meat in an egg sheet to form Wall-E's body and some remaining bits for his arms. Tofu is a different white from the rice so I shaped them into eyes and claws using a toothpick to imitate the screws in his binocular eyes. Eve's eyes were tricky because I wanted to imita

"I'm no Disney princess, yet he gave me a fairytale."

good day ~ world!  It took me a long time to muster up the confidence and start a blog.. even if I know only a few people will read it for the time being. I used to keep up blog writing back in the Xanga/AA days - but apparently blogger has the cool kid traffic nowadays. Well, as they say,  there are only so many tomorrows!  My passion is for all things creative - and for now it's been expressing itself through food, nails, accessories, and.. food :)  Here my story starts. For his gradball, I chose the theme of dancing in the moonlight. A romantic panoramic scene in the stars with a couple in their own moment, wishing on a shooting star. This base was the most opaque essie colour I've ever used. It applied very nicely, very smoothly and only required 2 coats.  I sponged a gradient on 3 fingers of my left hand and 1 on my right to portray the night sky (Gotta put the complicated stuff on the left hand (; ...I'm obviously a righty).  With NUBAR '