Teddy Bear Celery Cuts

Today I washed and cut up all of my produce for the upcoming week, and stumbled upon something really cute. If you cut celery just right, you can make adorable bear shapes! These will make a great decoration for my bento lunches, and any other cute food dress up. These bears are really easy to make, but you can only make a few of them because you have to cut them out of the branch part near the top of each celery rib. If you pick a celery stalk with several ribs, you can make more bear cutouts than if you use a sparse celery stalk. Here's how to cut them out:

Place knife about 1/8" above the indented part of the celery and cut.

It should look like this. Or close to it.

Cut on the indentation.

Teddy bears!

Bow of Hair

I found this video on youtube that shows how to make hair look like a little bow, and I had to try it out on my little girl. It is really easy to do, and it stands out more than a regular hair bow. For my daughter, I added a hair tie that had a cute little doll on it, just to up the cuteness factor (which was added after the ponytail was bent in half and then split, so she had two hair ties in her hair). Here she is, all "dolled" up:

Her doll sits right in the center of the "bow".

From the back, it looks just like a little bow.

To learn how to make this, watch the video below.