Boy oh boy! Molly Moon’s Homemade Ice Cream is unveiling a brand new, super duper great, amazing like fireworks in your mouth ice cream sundae especially for the Cal Anderson 4th of July Party!!!!

This culinary creation will be called The Cal Andersundae. A very, very apt name, isn’t it?

The sundae will include:  the ice cream flavor of your choice adorned with balsamic strawberries, sprinkled  with fried basil leaves, lavished with candied walnuts, and drizzled with a delicious strawberry coulis! Mmm mm good is right.

Hurry in quick to try one for yourself starting this Friday to get pumped for the best Independence Day Celebration ever. We’re going to. But, really, we are. Because everyone knows that there’s no saying no to good ice cream.

We were proud to plan the 2009 Henry Art Gallery benefit, See Listen Taste Feel! We worked with a group of the most amazing people at The Henry and elsewhere, including Jeppe Hein, the Berlin-based visionary behind the event, to transform a light industrial space in South Lake Union into party central. The party was as delicious as it was beautiful, featuring incredible food by Johnathan Sundstrom from Lark and glam desserts from Bakery Nouveau’s chef/owner William Leaman, Champion De Monde de la Boulangerie. Jeppe Hein created a vision complete with burning barrels in the parking lot to 30 secret ping-pong tables and a large site specific installation entitled 360º Illusion to enchant all who wandered in from Chihuly to SHAG members (Student / Henry Advisory Group). Entertainment was a beautiful chaos including composer Zeke Keeble and bassist Evan Florey-Barnes, Orkestar Zirconium
, Mark Siano and The Freedom Dancers, Merce Cunnigham Duo, bacon suits, and a fabulous troop of fashionable volunteer table tennis enthusiasts.

Photos by Jenny Jimenez.

We created an awesome Aurora Borealis as witnessed from an Alaskan Lodge for PopCap Games’ annual holiday party. Every detail was authentic from the hundred Stansport red lanterns burning the midnight oil to the hand carved wooden sign. It was a green affair with 20 pairs of free-cycled skis, found deer antlers, family heirloom chainsaw carvings and several vintage toboggans. DJ Whatever spun some clever tunes while guests gambled the night away, sang to karaoke in the Northern Lights Karaoke den, took ice luge shots and blended boozy milkshakes on the bike-powered Adventure blender. All capped off by a midnight snack of good old fashioned grilled cheese sandwiches.

Grand Geometrician’s Ball by Patrick Wright .

We were quite pleased to plan Phoebe and Julian’s destination wedding! It was a beautiful time! The ceremony and reception took place at the Strawberry Music Festival at Camp Mather in Yosemite, California. The couple lives in Seattle but are both from California’s Bay Area.

About the wedding:

Style of Wedding: Phoebe and Julian got married at an eclectic bluegrass music festival in the forest at Yosemite that they had both been going to unbeknownst to each other as young children with their families. They also were really into continuing their regular practices of camping, living green and eating a vegetarian diet into their wedding festivities.

How They Met: At a Non Violent Communication Workshop in 2003

How They Got Engaged: Julian took Phoebe on a surprise 3rd anniversary trip to Orcas Island to look at wildlife, then he got down on one knee to nervously propose!

Other Details:
Bridal suite: Tent trailer rentals, Chico, CA
Rings: Greenlake Jewelery Works, Seattle, WA
Activities: Dancing at the festival’s mainstage aka the Strawberry Music Meadow, introduction games at the lake, rehearsal dinner at the campsite, breakfast at the Camp Mather camp kitchen/buffet
Traditions: largely pulled from Judaism including Shevah Brachot (seven blessings read by seven friends), a Chuppah and Yichud
Favors for guests: Strawberry name badges, personalized beer coozies and hand-embroidered napkins

All photos by Nikolay Misharev Photography, Bay Area, CA.

Over 80 people from the Shunpike community were present to mingle, drink and talk about their various projects. Many amazing artists, supporters, funders, and friends were on hand to gather around for some speeches from Shunpike board and staffers and kick off the fall arts season. Among the many attendees were representatives from Shunpike Partner Artists:

Crawl Space Gallery,

Manifold Motion,

Helsinki Syndrome,

Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival,

dirty girl productions and many more. The Sole Repair Shop venue was equal parts sophistication and coziness as people from all over the city and state got pumped to win free tickets to see The Snow Project : New dance/sound/performance by choreographer Allison Van Dyck with sound by Kamran Sadeghi.

Brad Benner welcomed in his thirties with a fabulous bash for all of his pals. With psychic Maria Lujan de Peralta on board amid a sea of metallic megaloons people partied the night away. His guests enjoyed fabulous vegan peanut butter and jelly cake by The Flying Apron and delicious drinks/eats by Vermillion Gallery. Charitable contributions were made by the party guests to three separate organizations close to Brad’s heart: PRIDE Foundation, Washington CASH and Cancer Lifeline.

Photo by Jenny Jimenez.

The PopCap Games Summer Picnic was held Saturday August 2nd at Magnuson Park. We created a Neu-Rave Circus atmosphere for the PopCap staff, family and friends. There were tons of kids enjoying the Italian Soda bar and cotton candy while watching a Circus show by
Circus Contraption. Folks were seated in the whimsical beer garden enjoying Choppers and Manny’s by the Georgetown Brewing Company, local draft cider and local wines, eating delicious pizza and salads by Veraci Pizza while big props like 12 six foot banners hung from the nearby amphitheatre. Kids and adults alike were wild for the pedal powered spin art machine conceived by The Adventure School and created by Haulin’ Colin and the tile painting garden. Dog wranglers, kid wranglers and delicious cooking by Skillet were enjoyed by all. The prizes for the Human/Pet Lookalike contest were distributed to a stunning man/dog combo and over 300 dollars was raised in one hour for the Chicken Soup Brigade at the Charity Dunk Tank populated by various PopCap staffers.