Fresh stickers added to my Written Wishes Sticker Pack for iMessage! Update to Version 1.1 to enjoy an additional 15 brush-lettered and hand-drawn phrases.

The latest Written Wishes update includes new greetings like cheer up, eat well, thank you, safe travels, and happy weekend. More fun ways to send wishes to your friends and loved ones! Available on the App Store for all iOS 10 users and above.

If you haven’t downloaded Written Wishes on your iPhone, simply click the button bellow, and start sending some fun expressions to your family and friends!

How to Use Written Wishes Stickers on iMessage:

• Once downloaded, tap the App Store icon in Messages.
• Tap the sticker that you want and send it straight into the message, or you can also drag and drop them on top of speech bubbles, photos or other stickers.

It’s that easy! Start having fun in your conversations, now!

You may also check out my other sticker packs for iMessage: Everyday Letters, Daily Doodles, Gulps & Noms and Easter Garden.

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Add some fun and color to your messages with Daily Doodles, my latest sticker pack for iMessage.

Express yourself with over 40 colorful doodle stickers! Featuring daily essentials like coffee, tea, plants, ice cream, and wine, as well as colorful gadgets like a camera, laptop, turntable, game controller, and so much more!

Daily Doodles is now available on the App Store for all iOS 10 users and above.

To download, simply click on the button bellow.

How to Use Daily Doodles Stickers on iMessage:

• Once downloaded, tap the App Store icon in Messages.
• Tap the sticker that you want and send it straight into the message, or you can also drag and drop them on top of speech bubbles, photos or other stickers.
• You can also scale and rotate stickers by using your second finger before dropping them into your messages.

It’s that easy! Start sending some fun to all your family and friends!

You may also check out my other sticker packs for iMessage: Everyday Letters, Easter Garden, Gulps & Noms, and Written Wishes.

**Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, and iPod touch are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. App Store is a service mark of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries.

My Everyday Letters Sticker Pack for iMessage is now packed with more fun phrases! Update to Version 1.2 to enjoy an additional twenty brush-lettered expressions.

With the latest Everyday Letters update, expressions like good vibes, stay safe, so good, awesome, and good night, can now be used to liven up your iMessage conversations. Available on the App Store for all iOS 10 users and above.

If you haven’t downloaded Everyday Letters on your iPhone, simply click the button bellow, and start sending some fun expressions to your family and friends!

How to Use Everyday Letters Stickers on iMessage:

• Once downloaded, tap the App Store icon in Messages.
• Tap the sticker that you want and send it straight into the message, or you can also drag and drop them on top of speech bubbles, photos or other stickers.

It’s that easy! Start having fun in your conversations, now!

You may also check out my other sticker packs for iMessage: Gulps & Noms and Easter Garden.

**Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, and iPod touch are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. App Store is a service mark of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries.

To celebrate, I made a quick bento for Zoë’s lunch at home today. Check it out!

To start off, I gave the girl’s face a light brown color by mixing white rice with a bit of adobo sauce. Her body is colored pink using white rice mixed with beets juice. I then used nori to make her hair and her face details. To make her Independence Day ready, I gave her a small Philippine flag attached to a food pick.

For protein, I added the Philippine’s unofficial national dish and Zoë’s favorite: pork adobo. To complete the meal, I filled the other yumbox compartments with broccoli and grapes. Yum!

For more of my food art and bento creations, check out #foodartbyannings on Instagram.

Check out how I made this colorful meal.

I always use natural food coloring in my food art to ensure Zoe’s meals are as healthy as possible. For this unicorn bento, I used turmeric and red cabbage to make yellow, blue and pink coloring. Making each color is pretty easy and takes very little time, too.

To Make Natural Food Coloring:

Yellow: Add a little bit of turmeric powder to warm water. Mix until you reach desired yellow color.

Blue: Slice and boil a bunch of red cabbage leaves in water until liquid turns reddish purple. Strain out the cabbage. Take the colored liquid and add a pinch or two of baking soda until it turns blue.

Pink: Using the same reddish purple liquid from the boiled red cabbage, add a few drops of lemon juice until color turns pink.

The unicorn’s head and ears were shaped using plain white rice. The colorful mane was made by mixing white rice with the natural pink food coloring and the blue food coloring, then shaped onto the head. For the horn, I mixed a little bit of the natural yellow food coloring with rice. To finish off the unicorn, I used nori for the eyes and mouth, and added a tiny pink marshmallow on the cheeks. 

To make a complete meal, I added chicken nuggets, slices of carrots, and kiwi. Healthy, colorful, and yummy! 

With this fun unicorn meal, eating the rainbow couldn’t be more magical!

For more of my food art and bento creations, check out #foodartbyannings on Instagram.

Check out what hopped inside the Yumbox!

The rabbit’s face, legs and ears are all shaped using white rice mixed with Adobo sauce. You may simply use brown rice, too. The cheeks are white rice formed into two tiny balls. I then cut ham for the nose and both ears, and used nori for the eyes and the whiskers. To finish off the bunny, I cut and shaped a tiny slice of carrot and attached it to a leaf-shaped food pick.

To make a complete meal, I added Pork Adobo below the rabbit, and filled the other compartments with ponkiat, cucumber slices, and edamame. Yum!

For more of my food art and bento creations, check out #foodartbyannings on Instagram.

Introducing Written Wishes, my latest sticker pack for iMessage.

Brighten up your conversations and let your loved ones know that your are thinking of them with a total of 20 brush-lettered and hand-drawn messages. Each sticker guarantees a fun and easy way to send your greetings. With messages like Good Luck, Best Wishes and Congrats, to Christmas wishes and greetings for Mother’s Day and Father’s Day, Written Wishes has you covered. Available on the App Store for all iOS 10 users.

To download, simply click on the button bellow.

How to Use Written Wishes Stickers on iMessage:

• Once downloaded, tap the App Store icon in Messages.
• Tap the sticker that you want and send it straight into the message, or you can also drag and drop them on top of speech bubbles, photos or other stickers.
• You can also scale and rotate stickers by using your second finger before dropping them into your messages.

It’s that easy! Start sending your wishes and greetings in style, now!

You may also check out my other sticker packs for iMessage: Everyday Letters, Easter Garden and Gulps & Noms.

**Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, and iPod touch are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. App Store is a service mark of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries.

My Everyday Letters Sticker Pack for iMessage is now better than ever! Update to Version 1.1 to enjoy an additional ten brush-lettered and hand-drawn phrases.

With the latest Everyday Letters update, expressions like cheers, have fun, have a great day! and time to wine down, can now be used to liven up your iMessage conversations. Available on the App Store for all iOS 10 users.

Haven’t downloaded Everyday Letters on your iPhone yet? Simply click the button bellow, and start sending some fun expressions to your family and friends!

How to Use Everyday Letters Stickers on iMessage:

• Once downloaded, tap the App Store icon in Messages.
• Tap the sticker that you want and send it straight into the message, or you can also drag and drop them on top of speech bubbles, photos or other stickers.

It’s that easy! Start having fun in your conversations, now!

You may also check out my other sticker packs for iMessage: Gulps & Noms and Easter Garden.

**Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, and iPod touch are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. App Store is a service mark of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries.

When she requested for a special bento lunch the other week, I knew I had to put together a special surprise in her lunchbox.

Make way! Make way! It’s Moana!

I prepared everything in Zoë’s new Yumbox lunchbox. We recently bought the Yumbox Panino from BrightBrands.ph (@brightbrands.ph on Instagram) in preparation for her starting Year 1 next month, and although she’s still on her summer break, we needed to test it out.

Check out the bento details below.

Moana’s face, arms and body, are all shaped using brown rice. I used nori for her hair and all the black details on her face. The white parts of her eyes are flattened white bread, cut to shape, while her nose is made of brown rice. For her top, I used a bit of tomato, and topped it off with white bread for the detail. Her skirt is also white bread, while her necklace consists of both brown and white bread to make the details. Then, to make the blue hue of her pendant, I brushed white bread with a tiny drop of natural food coloring, diluted in a bit of water. I finished off her look by cutting out her oar using brown bread.

To make a complete meal, I filled the other compartments with some chicken nuggets, broccoli and carrots, and a few orange slices.

It definitely was a sweet surprise for my little boss, and the lunchbox was emptied out in minutes! That sweet smile? That’s her way of saying “Thank you!” Ahh, what can I say except “You’re Welcome!”

To end, I also have to say that everything fit perfectly in her Yumbox Panino. I love the different compartments and how each space is big enough to fill with healthy goodies for my five-year-old’s growing appetite. I am a big believer of providing variety in meals, and the Yumbox definitely helps me control the portions.

For more of my food art and bento creations, check out #foodartbyannings on Instagram.

Since my five-year-old is currently on summer break, we’ve been spending most days hanging out at home. We’ve been reading, watching movies, making art, and listening to music like there’s no tomorrow. We’ve had Wicked the Musical‘s album on repeat for almost two weeks, so I figured it was time to insert a little art into our current musical obsession.

Yesterday, I rummaged through my pantry staples to whip up a quick food art. Say hello to Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West.

For Elphaba’s face, I cut a slice of bread to shape and popped it into the toaster for a few minutes. I mashed some avocados, sprinkled it with a bit of salt and squeezed some lemon juice to taste. Using enough  avocado mash, I made sure to create a smooth surface onto the toast, spreading and patting down evenly. I added nori details for the eyes and nose, and carved out her lips using the skin of a red apple.

The rest of the black details (her body, her hair and her hat) are all nori, cut freehand, piece by piece. To help hold their shape and prevent the nori from curling, I mounted the nori shapes on top of flattened bread slices using a little mayonnaise . This gives each piece a sturdy frame and makes it easier to layer the parts.

To finish off the look, I sliced a carrot thinly into strips (julienned) and tied them around a pretzel stick to make the broomstick.

And there she is! Elphaba’s ready to leap!

For more of my food art and bento creations, check out #foodartbyannings on Instagram.