Raw Fooding

I wanted to introduce some new friends to raw food. As a self-proclaimed "foodie", I am however still a novice with raw food. So, I made zucchini pasta with a spinach and lemon pesto, salad, and an attempt at a fancy cheesecake for desert. The zucchini pasta with pesto was okay, not the greatest thing ever as I did do it 100% raw, whereas before I would cheat and add real Parmesan cheese with the rest raw (I figured it was better than not doing raw at all), but since I was introducing people to raw, it had to be 100% so in went the nutritional yeast instead of Parmesan. The salad I thought was great, but obviously I like salad. The dessert turned out okay; the flavor was really good in general but I kind missed the mark on the texture. I am pretty sure as I was blending it that I let it get a bit too hot in the vita mix which made it more creamy, but also more liquefied. So, regardless of the 1 cup of coconut oil, when refrigerated, it was more the texture of caramel with a delicious cinnamon walnut crust. I am not sure I made raw food converts out of our new friends, although they were very polite. As you can see from the pics though, my husband and I are at least enjoying the "cheesecake" long after my guests had left. I did make-up a strawberry sauce to go on top too- thawed frozen strawberries, a bit of cinnamon, and some agave! Pretty simple and good. I think I may try this recipe next time: http://www.rawguru.com/recipe36.html

Crafty Invitations

I am helping to host a lingerie shower coming up for one of my highschool girlfriends and I was in charge of the invitations. I think they turned out pretty cute!

A Slumber Soiree

Jeni is a long-time friend of mine (and cousin to my bff since I was born - really, that is true). Jeni and I both toured with a dancing stage production that presented an allegory of the gospel, The Toymaker's Dream. Well, many of us that toured still live in the same city and Jeni is so good about getting us all together still. So, we recently had a grown girls (+ 1 baby) slumber party! It was a wonderful time had by all, along with an incredible root soup with creme' fraiche (working on getting the recipe), and the fanciest of home-made chocolates from Burdick Chocolates in California. Since it was Halloween night, our chocolates came in an equally fancy coffin shaped box, complete with hazelnut ganache white chocolate ghost shaped bon-bons. To top off all the fanci-ness, Jeni calls all her parties "soirees", and I think I love that word.

Fancy, the dog

So, I have some friends who named their dog "Fancy." I obviously think this is the best name ever for a dog. Here is Fancy, with the newest addition to their family, Ryder (the son), with Matt (the dad). Gotta love the Swags.
Do you know of anyone else or anything named "fancy"?

Blonde Make-up Ambition

So, I recently went back blond. I know, I change my hair on a monthly basis it seems. And Mathew did a great job on the color. Mathew is also an all things zealous Christian. So, while we were talking in the 3 hour process of my hair, he asked, "Why isn't there Christian make-up?" Is Christianity so commercialized that there is a need for Christian make-up? I would imagine, if the answer to that question is "yes", that we would see names like "son-shine tan foundation" or "raptured rouge blush" and "blood of Christ lipstick". Quite fancy if you ask me.

This did remind me of something I did in highschool with a few of my other deviant friends. When prom dress-code was getting a bit out of hand, and the principle said he personally would be doing cleavage check at the door we decided to make posters in the passive agressive. We copied pictures of 1920's era fancy dresses that had a turtleneck, long sleeves, and floor-length (basically no skin), and made posters displaying the new "prom dress uniform" available. You guessed it, we named the different colors available in this dress very similar names to those I would imagine Christian make-up names being. Well, I must be off to find some Holy-eye Liner.

The Start of All Things Fancy

So, lately I have been enjoying reading alot of blogs, thanks to google reader which my brother introduced me to. I also have been doing some pretty fun things so I thought I too would join the blog bandwagon and detail some of the fancy and not-so-fancy things I see around me. So, I hope you enjoy All Things Fancy!

Cheryl