The Happy Food Series Continues!

I have been working tirelessly continuing the Happy Food series! Ok, so maybe not tirelessly, there have been way too many nights spent looming into the wee hours of the morning. Thank goodness my hubby is so supportive! 

I'm really proud of all of these. I feel like they are super unique to anything else out there. Even if someone else has made a fruit or vegetable design before, I am still able to take it to the next level, making it unique to me and my looming style. I'm really happy with how they have turned out! It's definitely not without it's work, that's for sure! 

I'm sorry I haven't updated here as often as I should. Between creating designs, filming, editing, rendering, uploading, socializing, answering comments on YouTube AND still making my family number one. I feel like I rarely have time left for anything else. I'm afraid that at some point in the near future I'm going to have to change answering all comments on YouTube to just answering the ones that request help. I get hundreds of comments a day and it takes a few hours to answer them all, which is time that could be spent designing. I don't know, so torn! 

Anyways, it's time to update the roster of Happy Foods! And there are quite a few! :)

We have the Happy Asparagus. It's not a favorite it appears, but I love it!

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Next we have the Happy Peas in a Pod. This one DEFINITELY is a favorite!

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Then we have the Happy Cherries! I so wish I would have thought to make them detachable like I did with the Happy Grapes, but I still love them! :)

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Then we have the fabulous Happy Strawberry! I love this so much! So adorable and my flower I made for the strawberry was so requested that I put a little tutorial at the end of my Happy Grapes video to make it. :)

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Now the Happy Grapes! I was stoked to figure out how to make the grapes detachable! This was a very band heavy design and I wanted to give kids the option to reduce the amount of bands needed. I figured detachable grapes was the perfect solution! Make as many as you want, then just pretend the others were eaten. Great idea I hope! 

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Then we have the Happy Pear! I love how it turned out. I did my best to try to make a nice fat bottom with a tapered neck on it. This design is a bit more complicated since it's a looming down design, but it's still workable for all looms. 

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And of course! The Happy Apple had to come along too! I am super proud of the shape. It took quite a bit of playing around to get to the finished result. I hope you like it too! 

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Then we have the Happy Pineapple! OMG! I love how it turned out! I think my suggestion to use mango bands from Rainbow Loom helped to sell them out! Cool! But I want more bands! I love the wrapped bands on it. A pain to make, sure, but SO worth it! 

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The Happy Watermelon had to come along too! I love how the shape turned out! It took me awhile to get the even triangle shape; the first few times it looked more like a piece of pizza, lol. I made it as a growing up design, but then I turned it inside out. Just seems to work better and makes it so anyone can make it regardless of whether or not they had a Rainbow Loom. 

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The Happy Banana! Oh my! This took forever to perfect, lol. I wanted it to look just right. I tried making several different versions and sizes. Tried doing a removable peel which I loved the peel, just not how they looked together when the banana was inside of it. I love how it turned out though. The construction of the banana with the peels did require me to remove the pin bar in the middle of the loom, which kind of was disappointing since I want my designs to be available to everyone regardless of the loom they have. I first had made it with cheap bands and it worked fine without removing the pin bar, but once I used good bands I could barely keep it on the loom or keep the loom from falling apart. I still love it though! :)

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And another highly asked for fruit, the Happy Mango! It took awhile to get the shape just right. The fat top, the curve and the little bottom, not so easy, lol. I have heard comments since that I made the little bump on the bottom too big, but I think it looks perfect; too much smaller and I don't think it would have been as obvious what it was. And contrary to what people might think, this is not my Happy Pear upside down, lol. I used mango bands to make it and of course the Rainbow Loom online store has been out of stock, lol. I'm hoping that they get more back in stock soon and that they will be the same color when they do. I had heard that they were a production error on the neon orange bands (hence why there were stickers that said mango on the back covering the neon orange name. Hopefully, they will come back soon; I actually like the color quite a bit. 

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So that's everything up until now! Whew! I'm still working on many things. Just time to make them is the barrier I face. But I'm doing my best! 

Thank you for stopping by and I hope that you enjoy your Happy Foods! :)