The first crafty post to usher in the new year is ironically
a project I made when I bid farewell to my colleagues when I moved to Japan last year. I wanted to leave the
portals of my former school in my usual artsy, crafty demeanor and give something
to my friends that they, hopefully, will look back with fondness to.
I had just been bitten by the bread-making bug back
then. At the prodding of my husband, I
had bought a cookbook from a gold mine of a secondhand bookstore and began my
love affair with floury baps and whatnot.
In between kneading this glorious hunk of dough, I thought of my student
days when my classmates and I would munch on peanut butter or cheese pimiento
or ham sandwiched between two slices of rainbow bread.
And so I thought, if I wanted to give a gift with an air of
delightful nostalgia, what can be better by taking my friends down a trip on
memory lane and gift them with rainbow bread?
And so I got to work.
I used a floury baps recipe and tinted batches of dough with
rainbow hues. They turned out
lovely. Baps has a chewy and somewhat
tough artisanal texture so it was nothing like the light and airy pan de sal we
are used to.
I packaged each rainbow bun with my virtual identity. Along with each bun was a card I designed and
a handwritten note (Can I just say that I looove writing notes by hand!) inside
next to what I’d like to think was a witty and clever typed message.
Everything went so well together beautifully. When saying goodbye is difficult,
doing it in an artful way somehow makes it so easy.
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