Sunday, June 5, 2011

Food Scale...Complete!

Ah! The rest of the goodies I ordered for my scale has finally arrived! My scale is all finished!I was really torn between cheeseburgers with fries, or donuts with chocolate chip cookies...but after enough debating, the sweets won the battle:

I just realized if you've never read any of my earlier posts, then you'd be completely confused by my excitement. So, here's the original post regarding my scale and what I was wanting to do: Happy Fruit. I placed another order through Arts of the Heart and Jennifer (the owner) was able to whip up some awesome donuts as well as chocolate chip cookies for me! They look fantastic! When Eric got home from work, he thought they were real at a first glance and was really impressed! She actually made 'em a pretty good size, so they work in the scale trays nicely :)

So, here's the finished product!

I'm VERY happy with how it all turned out! Very very happy! I definitely have Arts of the Heart saved in my "favorites" on Etsy and I HIGHLY recommend her if you're wanting wooden play food for your little one (or for you!), or if you want some cute ways to use food as decoration in your kitchen!

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Happy Fruit

In March, I was trolling through one of my favorite websites, which is Etsy, to see if I could find some fake fruit for my kitchen. In case you don't know what Etsy is, it's a site where people can sell custom made things to other people. Kinda like a stepping stone for people who want to start selling to the public when it comes to trying a home business, in a sense. There have been stories about people whose Etsy stores have taken off so well, that they've expanded into very lucrative companies (how cool is that?). So, I figured that'd be a good place to look for some decorations since I wanted something cute in terms of fruit (ha) and not your typical plastic stuff.

When I originally set out on this mission, I was thinking about using the fruit in my Trog since that's what normally sits on my kitchen table. Yes, it should be filled with REAL fruit, but we go through ours so fast that I'd like to have something in there rather than a empty bowl. Makes sense, right? Well, I found this seller who makes these SUPER adorable pieces of fruit out of wood! The store is called "Arts of the Heart" . After trollin' through all of the different thing the she makes, I went ahead and contacted her to have a "grocery list" of things made: 4 bananas, 3 apples, 3 pears, 3 oranges and 2 eaten apples. She was totally up to the challenge with the oranges since I guess she never really made them before (Eric says they look like tangelos) , but I think she did an awesome job with everything!

All the pieces are made by hand, so they all have a unique look. Plus, they're small, which helps with their cuteness!

Remember when I got my scale a few weeks ago? Well, since the fruit are a cute small size, I figured they'd look better with the scale rather than the trog, otherwise, I'd have to order a small army of fruit to fill it up.