To show their love on Valentine’s Day, the ladies of the costume shop baked up a whole feast of incredible baked goods for a bake sale to raise money for one of the guys who works in the costume shop and is hospitalized due to complications of diabetes with medical bills piling up. Now only was it a generous and loving gesture, but the carrot cake with ginger cream cheese frosting cupcake, red velvet cupcake, and pecan bar pictured above were literally three of the absolute best tasting things I have probably ever had…in my life. I’m serious. I will be jonesing for those recipes at work this week. Even better, the bake sale raised $930 for our friend! A little love can go a long way :)
In case you missed the awesomness that was the Google homepage on Valentine’s Day (shame on you!), it was an interactive Google Doodle in honor of the 154th birthday of George Ferris (father of the Ferris Wheel) and Valentine’s Day. Clicking the heart button caused two Ferris wheels at a nighttime carnival to spin. When they stopped spinning, the faces of two different animals would emerge. Clicking the heart again would send the two animals on a Valentine’s date. This was my favorite one. Ha!
I posted this picture on Valentine’s Day morning to drum up some votes for the Pear Weather Friend ice wine cocktail my friend Meg and I invented to win tickets to the NY State Ice Wine & Culinary Festival. It worked! Thanks for sharing the love and all those Valentine’s votes, friends! (Check back for a post about the Festival later this week!)
For Valentine’s night my friend Becca and I (and her roommates Priscilla and Raymond) had a girls’ (uh, plus Raymond) night where this fine masterpiece was the delicious outcome. Check back tomorrow for a post all about it! :)
And, as I do every Valentine’s Day, I thought about all the family and friends who have loved me and who I have loved throughout the years and felt extremely happy, blessed, and grateful to have been able to share a bit of the journey through life with you.
Hope you had a wonderful Valentine’s Day!
