{"id":220,"date":"2009-10-31T08:54:32","date_gmt":"2009-10-31T15:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/?p=220"},"modified":"2009-10-31T08:54:32","modified_gmt":"2009-10-31T15:54:32","slug":"photos-from-the-blessingway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/?p=220","title":{"rendered":"photos from the blessingway"},"content":{"rendered":"

i had a lovely time last night.\u00a0 as you know from the last post, we asked everyone to come to the event with a word in mind.\u00a0 If I had to choose a word for last night, my word would be “sated.”\u00a0 From the richness of the desserts to the richness of the beautiful words and their accompanying explanations, I went to bed feeling full.\u00a0 up to the brim.\u00a0 sated.\u00a0 here are a few photos for you to enjoy.<\/p>\n

first, the desserts:<\/p>\n

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my friends who were planning the party had generously stopped at my favorite bakery in town and purchased the yummy fruit tarts and jam cookies you see in the foreground, then a quick trip to Trader Joe’s landed the apricot almond tart and the “chocolate pringles.”\u00a0 The layer cake?\u00a0 well…… i got a hankering to make a fancy cake.\u00a0 ever since I read the book Eat Cake<\/em> by Jeanne Ray<\/a> I’d been wanting to make a really yummy, decadent cake.\u00a0 But there’s not often enough people around to justify baking a giant cake, so…. I’d put it on the bottom of my ever-growing “could do” list.\u00a0 But yesterday was the day.\u00a0 I’d been brainstorming myself through my baking mood (geez, this cake needs its own blog post, doesn’t it?\u00a0 bear with me….) and had a flash of inspiration–chocolate cake + pumpkin cake + cream cheese frosting = amaaaaaaazing.\u00a0 And so I baked two round pumpkin cakes the night before, two chocolate cakes that morning, then right before the party, i whipped up a big (but apparently not big enough!\u00a0 Look at those crumbs peeking through!) batch of cream cheese frosting.<\/p>\n

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apparently, my naughty kitty thought that the frosting was amazing too.\u00a0 oh well, we’re all good friends (and many are cat owners) so we all had a good laugh and cut that part off of the cake before slicing into it.<\/p>\n

\"\"oh. my. goodness.\u00a0 moist, delicious, and stripes too?\u00a0 yum.<\/p>\n

but enough about the cake (I was just so excited that it turned out!\u00a0 it’s not like I can really practice making a cake like that!).\u00a0 The really fantastic part of this event was the friends, and the words, so here are a few photos of some of the pendants and their beautiful words:<\/p>\n

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\"\"(in this shot you can also see a few of the many beautiful candles that were set up all over the room)<\/p>\n

\"\"here are all of the pendants, ready to be baked.\u00a0 aren’t they beautiful?<\/p>\n

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the words that everyone chose were so beautiful.\u00a0 In the invitations that went out, I consciously chose not to include “example” words because I didn’t want to influence their choice and everyone totally amazed me with the variety of words that they chose.\u00a0 There were no duplicates (which wouldn’t have been a big deal if there had–who couldn’t use an extra helping of peace or hope?) and everyone had such lovely words to say around their chosen word.\u00a0 they also wrote out these explanations on cards that were included in this lovely album (and a framed poem that they all signed) which i can read whenever i need to hear those words again and which i can also add to over time.<\/p>\n

\"\"all told, it was exactly what i’d hoped it would be–no, it was actually way better than i’d ever hoped it could be and i thank all of you (including those of you from afar who have already sent me more words to add to my book!) for this incredible gift of friendship, love, and support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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