Make No Bones About It We're Vegan
After last week's jalopy hullabaloo I almost forgot to tell you something. I like to share the good stuff too, you know. Particularly when it comes to some shameless self promotion. There's always good if you look for it.
Veganville's PB Lover's Voopee romantically dubbed "PB and Chocolate Get Married" Voopee was chosen as one of Etsy's top five cookies of the week over at this delightful blog called Silverrose Designs. Holly Westfall promotes other Etsian artists as well as her own beautiful shop, but I made this ...She does not make voopees. Maybe she does, most people do these days.
Holly hand crafted these stunning earrings though. I did not. It's hard to make jewelry when I'm making voopees.
Here is the coolest thing about the above jewelry.You get to support a great animal organization! 100% of the purchase price on these earrings goes to benefit Forever Morgans. FM's mission statement:
ForeverMorgans is an organization of volunteers whose purpose is to be a resource for Morgans in need, whether they are surrendered, rescued from shelters, auctions, kill buyers, or simply removed from potentially dangerous situations. ForeverMorgans wishes to open our virtual barn doors to all Morgans in need of safe and loving homes. We focus on registered Morgans but will consider unregistered Morgans on a case-by-case basis.
So gallop on over to Holly's Shop. You'll be doing a good deed, indeed! I'm done horsing around (oh, boy- sorry). Thank you Holly!
I had a moment in the test kitchen yesterday. There is a reason they are called experiments. Do you know what an experiment is boys and girls? According to Webster an experiment is a method of testing - with the goal of explaining - the nature of reality. For reals. I'm working on Orange Uncrummy Muffins. Although delicious, (crazy Taurus man downed the whole tin), they are not ready to present to the world for some unexplainable reason. They need to be cosmetically tweaked- a little kitchen botox.
And now for some shameless self promotion... drumroll please. Check out the Veganville interview at Christine Murray's gorgeous blog called Kezia and Friends.
http://keziandfriends.blogspot.com/2011/05/veganville.html
While there take a gander at Michelle's handmade jewelry at her Etsy shop at http://www.etsy.com/shop/maryanny143
I Love these! Just in case anybody missed my birthday ^ mid- April .
And as if that special feature wasn't enough excitement for one week, a treasury Veganville's Assorted Chocolate Voopee box is in made the front page of Etsy. That's big stuff! It's like having a commercial run during the Super Bowl, whatever that is.
http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4dd685e1d7906d9108f52797/no-lame-ties-for-dad-here?page=2#comments
It was created by the talented and whimsical and villainous Sinister Soaps. Vincent Price would be proud.
Here's just a sampling of Sinister's wares. 
See you after the Rapture, my friend.
Bahahaha.
Greetings and Salutations from an undisclosed oven. Please don't confuse me with Sylvia Plath. Sorry, I'm getting a little punch drunk here. New goodies aboard. And in addition to our other nifty locations you can now find Veganville Muffins at Philz Coffee on Shattuck in Berkeley, and at Thyda's Thornhill Coffee House at 5772 Thornhill Drive in Oakland. Come check out our muffins and voopees. Yippekayay.
I had a special request from my buddy Hope (of the cool Blackbird and Peacock) for a "Chocolate Lover's Box" over at Etsy this week. Now why didn't I think of that before? We have a "PB Lover's Box" and a "Mint Lover's Box" and a "Sample Box" and a "Chocolate Voopee Assortment Box", but where was my head on that one? Yeah I know- probably in the oven. Sorry Sylvia. It includes Double Choc Choco Voppees, hunks of devil rich Sam Sam Loaf, Jumbo Chocolate Cupcakes and some Chocolate Mousse to boot. Or if you prefer some groovy Chocolate "Creme" Cheese frosting.
Did a vegan bakesale to raise funds for Animal Place this past weekend. Animal Place rescues abandoned and abused farm animals and does dynamic work.
The mastermind behind the sale is my pal, activist and jewelry and bath/body designer and (part-time bakesale baker) Roni Seabury from Daisywares. There were so many spectacular bakers. A big shout out to Yvonne Emanuel, Tiana Trutna, Dana Portnoy, Me, Raelene Coburn, Kelly Beth, Vanessa Morelan and Laura Etter for donating vegan baked goods to the Animal Place Bake Sale. And of course Roni for making those Mexican Wedding cookies that sold like vegan hotcakes!
People were generous and a big thanx goes out to Nature's Express for letting us use the space in front of their store. Mary Rose rocks. I got to sample their Salt Caramel frozen dessert. Freeze head prevailed but it's oh so good and worth every moment of my icy cerebrum! Everything sold out, well almost everything (there were a couple of lonesome carob muffins left). $602.00 was raised it would have been $604.00 but ahem ahem someone swiped a Chocolate Oatmeal Banana cookie and it ruled! I mean I heard it was quite good.
