Green Awakening Pictures

The Green Awakening Fashion Show was a huge success last night!  I mentored a senior who organized this event as an independent study project to incorporate her interest in fashion with her interest in environmental science.  The evening’s events consisted of the fashion show of eco-friendly clothing, speakers Rob and Corinne from the online show Threadbanger, and a silent auction of all the fashion show items.  We also had a cupcake bar (Ed’s sister Kate, mom Marie, and I made them all).  All of the proceeds will be donated to the Sierra Club.  All of the models were students, and other volunteers included students and parents (Including my mom backstage and Ed’s mom at the cupcake bar).  I am so proud of all of my students who participated.  

The New Haven Register ran an article the day before that talks a little bit more about the show.  Read about it here.  Since I worked backstage, I was unable to snap any photos of the actual fashion show.  However, the local paper was there, and once the story runs I’ll be sure to link it. 

So far, over $1500 has been raised, but donations are still coming in!

Here are some pictures from my mom, who also volunteered at the show.  I can’t post pictures of my students, so they’re kind of limited.

Corinne and Rob from Threadbanger.

                                  

One of the tables at the silent auction.

Another silent auction table.

Ed’s mom, Marie, setting up all of the cupcakes that she, Kate and I baked for the show.  The cupcakes were a HUGE hit! I have to say that the coconut was the best.  Nobody could believe they were vegan or organic.

   

Me and Ed at the auction.  He was ready to go home…

Cupcake Marathon

Ed’s sister Kate and I baked over 500 mini-cupcakes yesterday for the upcoming Green Awakening Fashion Show at my school on Earth Day, organized by one of my students.  We used recipes from the book: Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World.  Yes the cupcakes are vegan, meaning that they contain no animal products (milk, eggs, butter, etc.)  Although I personally would never consider becoming vegan, as I see nothing wrong with milking a cow or collecting eggs (or a big juicy steak for that matter), I have to say that the recipes are quite good.  And it’s nice to know that all people at the fashion show, no matter what their food preferences, will be able to enjoy the beautiful confections.  We used unbleached cupcake wrappers to be especially green.  We looked for recycled ones but couldn’t find them.  We made 8 types of cupcakes:

• banana cupcakes with chocolate glaze and banana chips on top
• vanilla bean cupcakes with vanilla bean frosting and sprinkles
• chocolate cupcakes with chocolate frosting
• mint-chocolate cupcakes with mint frosting
• blueberry cupcakes with vanilla frostin and a blueberry on top
• carrot cake cupcakes with cream cheese frosting
• coconut cupcakes with toasted coconut frosting
• chocolate cupcakes with vanilla frosting and an oreo on top

We didn’t finish decorating all of the cupcakes yesterday, but we did get them all baked.  We worked straight through from noon til almost 8 pm.  Here are some pictures of the cupcakes we did finish:

Note that I broke in my homemade apron.