Zalita from South Africa makes absolutely incredible cupcakes which are too beautiful to eat. When I first saw them in Flickr I couldn’t believe they were actually cupcakes, they look like mini sculptures.

Note the tiny toasts in the tea set in the photo below.

Please visit Zalita’s Flickr and blog for hundreds of fantastic photos. And you can see Fashionably Cute favorites in the thumbnail mosaic below.

Click the links below to see the larger versions of the pictures.

1. vintage tea set with cupcake, 2. a cuppie for swissy missy, 3. summers garden, 4. ruffled rose, 5. lilac and pink, 6. seasoned with love, 7. getting ready for the beach, 8. on display, 9. nostalgia

Fashionably Cute’s Flickr buddy Luckysundae from Japan creates absolutely stunning bentos for her kids and takes mouthwatering photos of these works of art. Her pictures have even been featured in an English-language book about bentos called “Face Food”.

Click here to view Luckysundae’s Flickr photostream with her bento photos.

Click the links below to see larger versions of bento photos.

1. Russian doll bento box, 2. hedgehog bento, 3. Gingerbread Man bento, 4. Marching mouses bento, 5. Russian nesting doll? bento, 6. car bento, 7. Piggy bento for the bento class, 8. Moo, 9. Octi gratin bento

Kyoto Foodie Blog that tells about the best places to eat in Kyoto talks about beautiful and delicious Japanese sweets wagashi sold at Ryuen. The sweets sold at that place come in a wonderful exotic flavor of green tea with candied chestnuts and red bean paste. Mmmm, delicious!

If you’re tired of the usual store bought ice cream flavors then try to make your own exotic ice cream, ice pop and sorbets. Click the links to read the recipes.

Rhubarb and raspberry yogurt ice pops

Candied Bacon Ice Cream

Sweet Corn Ice Cream

Coconut Curry Sorbet

Rose Petal Ice Cream

Grapefruit Ginger Sorbet

1 - Japanese chocolate - duck, 2 - wagashi, 3 - green tea mooncakes , 4 - cherry coconut snowskin mooncakes, 5 - sushi cake, 6 - momiji, 7 - rainbow snowskin mooncake, 8 - autumn sweet chestnut, 9 - tomato ice cream (wow, this is crazy!), 10 - Engrish stationery with Japanese sweets, 11 - celebration sweets, 12 - strawberry Pocky, 13 - moon rabbit, 14 - Valentine’s Day dora, 15 - persimmon shaped confectionery.

1 - vintage mug, 2 - Shinzi Katoh mug, 3 - half cup of coffee, 4 - bowl, mug and plate, 5 - Shinzi Katoh “Can you find the squirrel?” mug, 6 - coffee kittens, 7 - teddy bear coffee, 8 - tiramisu, 9 - Paris breakfast, 10 - cute face in a cup, 11 - vanilla bean and lemon curd, 12 - hazelnut tartlets. 13 - pastelin, 14 - coffee pup, 15 - lavender biscuits.

1 - thrifted teapot, 2 - Decole Boulangerie teapot, 3 - cake beads, 4 - kitschy kitchen, 5 - Japanese sugar bowl, 6 - cute plate, 7 - Moroccan mint tea, 8 - afternoon tea, the secret life of toys, 9 - walnut cookies, 10 - totally useless teapot, 11 - vintage cup, 12 - mid-Autumn setting, 13 - bear tea, 14 - green tea, 15 -  pumpkin and cardamon jam.

Here’s the cutest egg holder ever! Now poor naked eggs can proudly stand in tiny short pants. What a simple but great (and extremely cute) idea by Lizkin Design!

These  egg cups are made of flexible PVC so they can hold eggs of all sizes.

Via Lizkin Design and Cute Overload

Please welcome Fashionably Cute’s new contributing editor Wendy Brandes, who is an awesome jewelry designer (of Gigi Caron and Wendy Brandes Jewelry), journalist and blogger with a great sense of humour and a big passion for all things kawaii. This is the first guest post by her for Fashionably Cute, and I really hope our collaboration continues.

Carol of Paris Breakfasts found piggy petit fours in Provence.

Photo by Carol Gillot

Now I must have pigs on the brain, because the first thing I thought of
when I saw these button bobby pins was … pig snouts!

Pig-nose bobby pins from MyDogPepe via Etsy

And what could be cuter than a Pigorian chant?

Sandra Boynton gives good pig

That’s oink, folks!

Fashionably Cute’s friend, tremendous jewelry designer and scary fish shaped shoe lover Wendy Brandes has revealed herself as a huge kawaii fan. She has demonstrated a great ability of finding adorable stuff online, so I’m even going to offer her the ultra-prestigious position of contributing editor at Fashionably Cute! Just look at her recent discoveries:

Hamster pizza

Farm animal shaped cookies

Wendy has also designed a cute baby wolf necklace.

Well, of course, this necklace is supposed to look like a grown-up fang shaped wolf, but due to my kawaii loving nature I’d like to think it’s a tiny puppy swaddled in a blanket, such as this (even though it’s a baby wombat)…

…or this:

Image sources: wallpapers.pn9.net, Istockphoto, Wendy Brandes Jewelry, HamsterTracker, Cute Overload, Eleni’s