The title? Oh, well, imagine me squealing like a little girl. Not very diginified, I know, but my last package of bento box goodies that I’ve ordered arrived today. Ever since I first saw the “Ringo” (Apple) line by Shinzi Katoh, I just had to have it! Katoh is a zakka artist. (Zakka refers to super cute, often utilitarian, objects designed with an English or French vintage influence. Mushrooms and polka dots and adorable little animals. Decole. If that helps at all.) At any rate, neither the english version of his site nor the UK supplier site had the ringo line available. Digging everywhere online, I couldn’t seem to get my hands on anyone that still had the bits in stocks. I finally located one Japan-based Ebay store that actually had the mayo cups, sauce bottles, furikake shakers, picks and hard, reusable cups. They weren’t conveniently listed as ringo or shinzi katoh, but with much digging and searches for bento + apple + bottle and whatever combo I could think of, I stumbled on them! I ordered those and a couple other goodies, and they finally came. My haul:
- Ringo by Shinzi Katoh
I won’t link the store — turns out that her stock was rather limited. The only thing I could still find there today was the picks. Eek, just in time for me I guess!
I’m a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. ~Thomas Jefferson